Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Peter Bogdanovich

Cast

Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she a...

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Peter Greenaway

Cast

Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Takeshi Kitano

Cast

Kotomi Kyōno, Kayoko Kishimoto

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Leos Carax

Cast

Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve

Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gen...

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Stephen Wallace

Cast

Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving