The Glass Room

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rif...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

George Sluizer

Cast

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert

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

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Michael Anderson

Cast

Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom

On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, as well as her father years before. With the police unwilling to investigate any f...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Guy Green

Cast

Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller