Rotten Society

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers ...

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Lars von Trier

Cast

Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast

David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Mark Pellington

Cast

Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and fal...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Carol Reed

Cast

Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard