Echec & Mat

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospit...

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Cast

Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Napoleone the Dog

Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Cast

Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was kil...

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Yasujirō Ozu

Cast

Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara

Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Marina de Van

Cast

Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, Brigitte Catillon

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Ferzan Özpetek

Cast

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Raoul Bova, Massimo Girotti