Pesquisa avançada

A esposa de um criminoso abusivo encontra consolo nos braços de um gentil hóspede regular do restaurante de seu marido.

Relata a corrupção em todos os níveis da sociedade. Um bebê nasce de uma mulher supostamente virgem, portanto há uma cadeia de histeria sobre a intervenção divina no parto.

The magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.

Marty (Alfred Molina) is a down-and-out jazz musician with colorful dreams of making it big, but right now he's living on the edge and making small money by giving music lessons to people who don't seem to want them.

An American in Holland teaching a film class falls for a young Dutch student/athlete.

A woman and her sisters face exile after their husbands' deaths, mirroring the Jewish Golem legend. Set in 1990s Paris, it explores migration and displacement themes through their experiences.

A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books (1991)'. As Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library Greenaway comments on the 100 historical, mythological, biblical & fictional characters occupying the library.

American agents intent on wiping out Bolsheviks are after Roberto--an Argentine expatriate writer, inventor and Communist in Rotterdam in 1941. He runs from them with his briefcase full of his invention-- non-running silk stockings--and money he has received from the Japanese for his invention. He accidentally tumbles down a stairwell and into a whorehouse. He gives the Madame a large portion of his money and goes upstairs with Luba, one of the prostitutes, to wait out the Americans. By the time the night is over, he has fallen in love with her.

Miguel has the habit of stealing a used book every day. On one occasion he learns from them a magic trick with which he makes objects and people disappear. Thus he gets a trip to Europe, where the trick is very successful.

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the guy, who left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her.

A commissioned project, made for TV in honor the the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death, this is a highly avant-garde piece of music, theater and dance, set to an original score by the controversial Dutch composer Louis Andriessen (who would later collaborate with Greenaway on the operas "Rosa" and "Writing to Vermeer"). Four nude, powder-white dancers (representing the Gods) appear on a stage designed in the style of an 18th century anatomy theater. A woman sings a list of objects beginning with various letters of the alphabet up to "M"; the Gods then decide to create Man, assembling him from body parts listed as onscreen text. Having created Man, the Gods then give him Movement; so as to give him a reason to move, they create Music; finally, so as to have Perfect Music, they create Mozart.

Nine-year-old Vinaya has no-one but his horse Victor and his grandma, who fills his head with dreams about Sensei, who crossed the mountains to the land of fabled animals.

Existential tale of a woman in search of herself and meaning in her life. Belle's lifelong commitment to her lover, Marthe, is the emotional lynchpin of her life. But when Belle's desperate desire for independence mutates into an obsession with power and control, she pushes Marthe out of her life. Still, though she marries to gain independence, her repressed love for Marthe continues to influence her life.

Hilde earns just enough to support herself and her son, but when his father returns the troubles begin.

Anton is the son of a Dutch magician and his German assistant. He was born on a Sunday in Germany at the end of the war and grew up in the Netherlands. He never feels completely at home in either country.

Ernst, a man in his thirties has lost his memory after an accident. His parents see this situation as another chance to raise Ernst into a perfect son, and enlist the help of a psychiatrist, a priest and an ideal daughter-in-law to be.

Marcel and Jim, two friends, appear to be plagued by a midlife crisis which is ruining both their artistic and emotional lives.