The Overworked 1958
A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Lou is seventeen and thinks she has her life under control. On her prom night, she decides to run away from her father and her stable life. She seems to be keeping it together, until she comes head to head with a strange woman that has been stalking her through the halls of the school. Losing her composure, Lou spirals and starts to question everything.
In their transparent house facing the ocean, Georges draws boats and Aline sculpts debris. A violent argument at sea. She wakes up in the hospital, convinced she has killed him. Meanwhile, more dead than alive, he takes in a Japanese woman and her son who are fleeing the man who is tormenting them. Soon, it is Georges who must face the furious and mysterious Japanese man... Back home, Aline finds a body washed up by the sea. Has Georges turned into a Japanese man? A story of love and ghosts.
It's not violence, it's protection, Mr. Walter.
Adam is 25 years old and his scarfs are signs of his skateboarding adventures. His friends mean everything to him. One afternoon he has to take care for his 4-year-old son Felix. He takes him to his friends to spent the afternoon skating at the fountain. In a moment of inattention, Felix disappears close to the waterfront. Adam panics and looks for the little boy everywhere. Finally, he realizes that Felix means more to him than his skateboard.
Harry is a television journalist crossing Canada by train to a family event in Newfoundland. While travelling, the journalist is making a documentary about Canada and reassessing his life in response to a friend’s suicide. - http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/william-d-macgillivray
To win the heart of a rather simple minded young man who doesn't seem to care much for women, a young foreign lady takes a job as the chambermaid to the man's sister in law.
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
Hosted by Kyan Khojandi, in sixty minutes, sixty artists follow one another on stage. Which means they have sixty seconds, and not one more, to hold the spectators' attention and draw them into their world. The witticisms fuse, forming a veritable fireworks display of witticisms and funny situations, to the delight of viewers, but also of guest comedians.
Nedjma, an 18-year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War keep her from experiencing a normal life. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to put on a fashion show.
Jean Bogossian has set up a reorientation center in a small village, his ambition being to save young petty criminals from ending up like he did, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll do all he can to get them back on the right path.
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle or fall apart.
A woman disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover fifteen years ago. She is the last living member of a wealthy Vienna family, and has spent the years after the murder traveling Europe with her female servant. Her travels provide her with an anonymous cloak that allows her freedom of movement but little peace of mind. Nearing middle age, the guilt and weariness of an empty life has her contemplating suicide as the only way out of her dilemma.
Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.