A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library. The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
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Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Four single college mates try their luck in love by taking a stab at dating, leading them to humilia...
Everyone is addicted to Lulu. As a symbol of the seductress, she drags everyone around her into the ...
A melancholic weather broadcaster rediscovers her past at her familial home on her 28th birthday; th...
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
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Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in It...
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other...
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in w...