Les gens du Nord

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at tha...

Runtime

30m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Abel Jacquin, Francisco Rabal, Alexandre O'Neill

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast

Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Runtime

2h 39m

Director

Lars von Trier

Cast

Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge