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- At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
- The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
- A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.
- A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.
- the film covers the last few days of fragile Chopin's professional life.
- The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- The story of a young geisha who falls madly in love with an american captain that travels all around the world collecting hearts.
- The film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.
- In 1988, the Figaro magazine asked to a few famous directors a series of short movies, to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The thematic : The French seen by - The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary.
- Historical drownings in the Seine are catalogued, dissected and elaborated, with multilayered visuals and 'documentary' asides.
- French man in Florida, Dodo has a purpose in life : Don't work. Difficult to implement without the help of some women. Betty is one of them, and a gypsy's bride, who suddenly disappears, changing Dodo's life.
- Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.
- Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on.This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation.He has fallen in love with with Odette.
- "Waati" is the story of Nandi, a black child from South Africa, in the still triumphant days of apartheid.
- This is 1920: Sophia and Trofim Ivanytch have been living on Vassilievski Island, which is part of Petrograd, for thirteen years. In their house, which looks like a ship wreck, the atmosphere is gloomy. Sophia cannot have children and she is aware that, because of that, she is likely to lose her husband. That is why, when their neighbor dies, she asks Trofim to take in Ganka, his orphaned thirteen-year-old daughter. Trofim agrees and their new life begins...
- Four brothers converge around an ailing father.
- A young resistance fighter tries to deal with the harsh reality of post-war Poland, where Communists have come to power.
- Miss Lotte has her residence in a big hangar near a port. She seems to be having nice time with five clients but the arrival of a policeman disturbs their lives.
- Paris, 1910. On Christmas Eve, a young woman knocks on her neighbor's door to borrow some lamp oil. A touching romance is ignited even as the young woman becomes very sick.
- An adaption of Claudio Monteverdis opera.
- Raissa, Henriette and Theresa have completed several years of their long prison sentences. On their first 24 hours vacation the traffic employees are on strike. So the three meet and spend the time together. They talk about memories, their offences and fears. They become friends.
- Prof Amedeo is irritated by a dream full of naked women including his mother, wife and daughter. Awake, he is enervated by his elderly mother, and he becomes really uneasy when his daughter Gloria openly asks him to teach her how to kiss.
- Jacques asks a public writer to write for him love letters intended to a beautiful stranger.
- La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone.