An Imperial Message

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Gérard Brach

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Jade, John McEnery

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Ridi...

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Michael Winterbottom

Cast

Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Sean Harris

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast

Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Orson Welles

Cast

Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Claude Sautet

Cast

Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari