Master Gardener

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

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bi...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Tom Gries

Cast

Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Michael Haneke, Rudolf Melichar

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slo...

Runtime

2h 38m

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor