Agnieszka Holland

biography:
Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948) is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.

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Ekipa

overview: Ekipa is a Polish political drama TV series created and directed by Agnieszka Holland, aired from 13 September 2007 until 6 December 2007 on Polsat. Ekipa is the second Polish political fiction series after the 1980s miniseries The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma.

character: uczestniczka pogrzebu Szczęsnego

original_name: Ekipa

original_language: pl

Absolute Beginners

overview: Two childhood best friends enjoying their final seaside summer as they prepare for film school meet an aspiring athlete who ignites unfamiliar desires.

original_name: Absolutni debiutanci

Cold Case

job: Director

overview: The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.

department: Directing

original_name: Cold Case

The Wire

overview: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

original_name: The Wire

Fallen Angels

overview: A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.

original_name: Fallen Angels

The Killing

overview: The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.

original_name: The Killing

Treme

overview: Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

original_name: Treme

Rosemary's Baby

overview: Young Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy move in with a rich couple, who soon take an unusual interest in the Woodhouses' attempts to have a second baby after Rosemary miscarried the first one. Guy soon has unusual success and Rosemary becomes pregnant, but it becomes clear that the two are connected and that the pregnancy may not be all that Rosemary hoped for...

original_name: Rosemary's Baby

House of Cards

overview: Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

original_name: House of Cards

Burning Bush

overview: Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Burešová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonour Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.

original_name: Hořící keř

original_language: cs

The First

overview: Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

original_name: The First

In Treatment

overview: Bez tajemnic is HBO Europe’s Polish adaptation of the Israeli award-winning TV drama series BeTipul (In Treatment), part of a series of adaptations that also includes Romanian, Czech and Hungarian versions. It explores one of the defining features of modern society, therapy, as seen through the eyes of a psychiatrist whose professional and personal life is on the verge of collapse.

original_name: Bez tajemnic

overview: Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

job: Executive Producer

department: Production

The Affair

overview: The emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah, a New York City schoolteacher and budding novelist with a wife of twenty years and four children and Alison, a young waitress and wife from Montauk at the end of Long Island, trying to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragedy.

original_name: The Affair

The First

job: Co-Executive Producer

Screen Two

job: Writer

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

department: Writing

Burning Bush

job: Creator

department: Creator

twitter_id: blogholland

Polski

Agnieszka Holland

biography: Agnieszka Holland ukończyła wydział reżyserii w Pradze. Karierę rozpoczęła w Polsce. Pierwsze kroki stawiała u boku Krzysztofa Zanussiego jako jego asystentka przy "Iluminacji". Zanim wyreżyserowała własny film pracowała jako scenarzystka przy filmach A. Wajdy, J. Bogajewicza, A. Zajączkowskiego. Jej obrazy zdobywały wiele nagród na prestiżowych festiwalach m.in. w Cannes, Berlinie, czy Montrealu. Wielki talent Agnieszki Holland, jej zdolność obserwacji i trafnej analizy ludzkich charakterów, wejrzenie w ich odczucia i przeżycia, a także ogromna inwencja reżyserska sprawiają, że każdy jej film jest wyjątkowy. Od 1981 r. artystka mieszka i pracuje na Zachodzie. Jest członkiem Europejskiej Akademii Filmowej przyznającej Felixy. W 1998 r. na ulicy Piotrkowskiej w Łodzi odsłonięto jej gwiazdę w Alei Gwiazd. Oprócz robienia filmów Agnieszka Holland zajmuje się tłumaczeniem literatury czeskiej na język polski. Do jej największych osiągnięć w tej dziedzinie należy przełożenie "Nieznośnej lekkości bytu" M. Kundery.

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Deutsch

Agnieszka Holland

biography:
Agnieszka Holland ist eine polnische Filmregisseurin und Drehbuchautorin. Ihre Filme zeichnen sich durch die Fokussierung auf individuelle Erfahrungen vor dem Hintergrund politischer Ereignisse aus und kritisieren oft sowohl nazistische als auch kommunistische Verbrechen.

Holland studierte Filmregie an der Prager Filmfakultät. Ihre Karriere begann sie als Regieassistentin von Krzysztof Zanussi und Andrzej Wajda. Für Wajda schrieb sie einige Drehbücher, unter anderem nach der gleichnamigen Novelle von Rolf Hochhuth für Eine Liebe in Deutschland, und arbeitete mit Jean-Claude Carrière an Wajdas Film Danton.

Kurz vor der Verhängung des Kriegsrechts in Polen 1981 emigrierte Agnieszka Holland nach Paris. Ihre erste Regiearbeit nach der Emigration, die deutsche Produktion Bittere Ernte mit Armin Mueller-Stahl in der Hauptrolle, war 1986 als bester fremdsprachiger Film für einen Oscar nominiert. Ihr in Deutschland wohl bekanntester Film ist Hitlerjunge Salomon, der ihr einen Golden Globe als bester fremdsprachiger Film sowie eine Oscar-Nominierung für das beste Drehbuch einbrachte.

1993 gelang Holland der Sprung in die USA, als Francis Ford Coppola ihren Film Der geheime Garten nach dem gleichnamigen Kinderbuch von Frances Hodgson Burnett produzierte.

Ihr 2023 veröffentlichter Film Green Border, der das verhärtete polnische Grenzregime gegenüber Migranten darstellt, führte in Polen zu einer politischen Kampagne gegen Film und Regisseurin.

普通话

iso_3166_1: SG

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Talking Heads 2021

overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

character: Self

title: Jánošík (Vykrádaný superhrdina)

title: Interrogation

overview: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

title: Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem

overview: Reminiscences from the life of the tragically deceased poet named And, based on the memoirs of his friend Stanisław Czycz.

original_title: Pozwólcie nam do woli fruwać nad ogrodem

title: Screen Tests

overview: Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

title: Man of Marble

overview: A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.

character: Woman talking with Birkut on a Recording (voice) (uncredited)

title: The Scar

overview: When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.

title: Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

overview: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.

original_title: Still Alive: film o Krzysztofie Kieślowskim

title: Wave vs. Shore

overview: Martin Štrba’s inventive documentary tells the remarkable story of a group of Slovak photographers whose groundbreaking work challenged Communist orthodoxy in the 1980ss.

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

overview: French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.

title: Illumination

overview: Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.

title: The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

overview: August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...

original_title: The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

title: The Return of Agnieszka H.

overview: Documentary about the famous Polish director Agnieszka Holland and her relationship to Czechoslovakia, based on two storylines: one depicting the life of Agnieszka Holland during her studies in Prague towards the end of the 1960’s, her friends, her participation in a student strike and her arrest for supporting the dissident movement and anti-state tendencies, and the second one - following her return there.

title: Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

overview: Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

original_title: Solidarnosc – Der Mauerfall begann in Polen

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

overview: An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.

title: Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

overview: From his juvenile, tormented, heroic roles, which made him a global phenomenon, to his darker mature roles, a portrait of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a consummate performer and probably the most successful film star of his generation.

title: In the Shadow of Hollywood

overview: In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film industry.

title: Art-House America: Austin Film Society

overview: Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its edgy, eclectic roots.

title: Notes on Life. Edward Zebrowski

overview: A biographical documentary on Edward Zebrowski, a director, screenwriter, and educator. The film draws from his notes, revealing his thoughts on illness and history as human fate. Friends from the Film School in Lodz and the TOR Film Group, including Wojciech Marczewski and Agnieszka Holland, discuss his legendary status as a scandalmonger and thinker. His wives, Barbara Lisowska and Magdalena Jaworska, share intimate details of his life. Students Agnieszka Smoczynska and Adrian Panek speak respectfully of him. Zebrowski’s biography is complemented by excerpts from his school works and original films, with scenes featuring him in Zanussi’s films like “The Illumination.” Directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, the documentary captures a reflective and nostalgic atmosphere, reflecting Zebrowski’s mature life and sense of lost opportunities.

title: (Dis)appearance

overview: In the documentary Magdalena Łazarkiewicz used a lot of archive material with her husband, who talks about his professional path and his true fascination with cinema.

title: Igor and After

overview: This year’s gallery of artistically inspiring portraits of uncompromising eccentrics (among them The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, Robert Richardson: The White Devil and A Pint of Ink) features another unobtrusive stand-out in the shape of Igor Luther, a key figure of Slovak and European cinematography. Ivan Ostrochovský’s perspective is rare, dynamic and also meditative, while Luther himself co-authored the project during the last few months of his life. Works such as Juraj Jakubisko’s Birds, Orphans and Fools, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum and Andrzej Wajda’s Danton, in the persuasive words of their creators, wouldn't have the same timeless energy today if it weren't for Luther's visionary endeavours.

title: Copying Beethoven

overview: A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.

title: A Love in Germany

overview: In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.

title: Danton

overview: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.

title: A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

overview: The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.

title: The Secret Garden

overview: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

title: Europa Europa

overview: A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

title: Europa Europa

title: The Possessed

overview: Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.

title: Mężczyzna niepotrzebny!

overview: Małgosia, a medical student, is expecting a child with Paweł, a doctor at the clinic. She is unsure whether to terminate the pregnancy. Her older sister, Ewa, urges her to do so. Ewa was once Paweł's lover. She terminated her pregnancy and is now unable to have children.

title: Janosik

overview: The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he becomes the troop's leader and is recognized as a brave and honorable commander, he never kills anyone he robs. Along with the fame he starts enjoying popularity among women. But Janosik's success raises jealousy in one of the troop's members, greedy and brutal Huncaga.

title: Angry Harvest

overview: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.

title: The Third Miracle

overview: The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

title: Total Eclipse

overview: Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

title: A Woman Alone

overview: Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by her single mother status. She meets a crippled pensioner Jacek, who appears to be the key to her happiness, but tragedy continues to strike.

title: God's Sin

overview: Hrích boha (God's Sin) is Agnieszka Holland's poetic vision of the world as a trap, based on the novel by Isaak Babel.

title: God's Sin

title: Washington Square

overview: In 1870s New York, spinster heiress Catherine Sloper is courted by the much younger, penniless Morris Townsend, much to the chagrin of her overprotective father. Catherine must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man interested in her solely for her inheritence.

title: Julie Walking Home

overview: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart.  She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands.  Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.

title: To Kill a Priest

overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

title: In Darkness

overview: A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).

title: Olivier, Olivier

overview: Olivier, the nine-year-old son of Elisabeth and Serge, a country veterinarian, vanishes one afternoon on the way to his grandmother's house. The emotional aftermath of his disappearance sends his father packing and nearly destroys his mother.

title: Shot in the Heart

overview: The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.

title: Green Border

overview: In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia, a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan, a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine.

title: Provincial Actors

overview: The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.

title: The Trial

overview: An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

title: The Trial

title: Charlatan

overview: Born in the early 20th century, herbalist Jan Mikolasek became rich and famous after curing countless diseases with unorthodox means. A true emblem of Czechoslovakia before World War II, the healer became even more appreciated during the Nazi occupation and the communist regime. Each regime appreciates his skill and protects him. But how much will it cost him to maintain his status in a new political change?

title: Fever

overview: In 1905 partitioned Poland, a bomb moves through the anarchist underground as revolutionaries prepare to strike against Tsarist rule.

title: Evening at Abdon's

overview: In love with the pharmacist's wife, the intellectual Abdon decides to deal with her young lover.

title: Screen Tests

title: Something for Something

overview: A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

title: Something for Something

title: Three Colors: White

overview: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

title: Winter of the Crow

overview: Warsaw, December 13, 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target.

title: Winners

overview: Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin.

title: The Rabbit Garden

overview: Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unravel after having the authenticity of his work called into question by two reporters from The Village Voice.

title: Spoor

overview: A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (or what) is the murderer, but nobody believes her.

title: Olivier, Olivier

title: Julie Walking Home

title: Golden Dreams

overview: Califia, the Queen and spirit of California, gives the audience a quick and somewhat romanticized look at history of California, as well as trials and tribulations, but also hopes and dreams of its various ethnicites and cultures.

title: Dybuk

overview: In a Polish-Jewish village, pious student Chanan, captivated by Kabbalah, falls in love with Leah, the rabbi’s daughter, but is forbidden to wed her and dies invoking the Ineffable Name - returning as a dybbuk (possessing spirit) at her wedding. Only after a mystical “trial” reveals a centuries-old vow binding their souls does the revered Rabbi Azriel exorcise the dybbuk, freeing both Leah and the restless spirit.

title: To Kill a Priest

title: To Kill a Priest

title: Three Colors: Blue

overview: The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

title: Three Colors: Red

overview: Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.

title: The Offsiders

overview: Under the leadership of an ex-footballer, a bunch of homeless men set up a football team and train hard to take part in the world championship.

title: Film for Aliens

overview: Fourteen-year-old Jeremi is a YouTuber. His father works in a space agency and promised to show him a rocket launch, but plans changed at the eleventh hour, and he called off the trip. Instead, the teenager is sent to his grandpa in the countryside. To drag Jeremi away from the Internet, his dad gives him a special mission.

title: The Offsiders

title: Green Border

title: Wild Roses

overview: A young mother returns to her village after a hospital stay and is forced to deal with an emotionally distant husband and her own simmering guilt.

title: In the Name of...

overview: The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

title: In the Shadow of Hollywood

title: Wajda by Wajda

overview: A few months before his death, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) revisited his work in an assembly room of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, established in Warsaw in 2002.

title: Nina

overview: Nina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that together with her husband she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman, who could have given birth to her child.

title: The Silent Twins

overview: June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

title: Ida

overview: In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

title: The Lure

overview: Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

title: My Name Is Ki

overview: Ki is a young woman who no longer wants to live with the father of her child. She moves into a house in which lives Miko, a serious man who does not care for distractions. The responsibility of raising a child on her own comes up against the need to work and the wish to live a carefree life.

title: Strange Heaven

overview: Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?

title: Pollock

overview: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

title: Mr. Jones

overview: In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

title: Red Wind

overview: In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pearl necklace. He must also deal with a racist cop that's investigating the murders.

title: Franz

overview: Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna.

title: Screen Tests

title: Illumination

title: Sunday Children

overview: A young couple who are unable to have children make a deal with a poor woman to buy her illegitimate child rather than wait through the time-consuming process of legal adoption.

title: The Girlfriend

overview: Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentine military coup of 1976, Maria's oldest son Carlos is abducted. Desperate, Maria turns to her prominent friend for help. Yet the more Raquel gets involved in the search for Carlos, the more she becomes herself a target of the junta. Finally, she flees from Argentina to Berlin. Meanwhile Maria joins a group of women who investigate the fate of their disappeared relatives. In 1983, after the fall of the dictatorship, the two friends meet again.

title: Angry Harvest

title: Anna

overview: Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.

title: Anna

title: Without Anesthesia

overview: A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.

title: Pictures from Life

overview: Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.

title: Spoor

title: Travel Essentials

overview: Ada is an American journalist of Polish origin. She has just moved to Hamburg with her partner and is struggling to find her way in the new reality. One day, a mysterious package arrives at the editorial office where she works.

title: Listy naszych czytelników

overview: A television short by director and actor Stanisław Latałło.

title: Franz

title: Korczak

overview: The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

title: Green Border

title: A Woman Alone

title: A Girl and “Akwarius”

overview: Teenager Bożena decides to run away from home in search of freedom. Agnieszka Holland's film is a study of generational conflict. The paralysis of communication between young people and adults is a metaphor for the throes of social bonds.

title: Marek Edelman… And There Was Love in the Ghetto

overview: Shortly before his death, Marek Edelman (1919-2009), former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) against the Nazi occupation, wonders about several basic themes of human existence in relation to the Shoah: how was it possible to enjoy love, tenderness, passion and lust while the whole world was crumbling and burning around.

title: Provincial Actors

title: Franz

title: Berlinweh: Yearning for a Home

overview: Follows German-American actress Marlene Dietrich across four decisive days in four different decades, portraying her in shifting cultural and political contexts: Paris in 1937, Bergen-Belsen in 1945, Tel Aviv in 1960, and once again Paris in 1983.

title: Talking Heads 2021

title: Jánošík (Vykrádaný superhrdina)

title: Interrogation

title: Screen Tests

title: Man of Marble

title: The Scar

title: Wave vs. Shore

title: French Cinema Mon Amour

title: Illumination

title: The Return of Agnieszka H.

title: CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel

title: Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

title: In the Shadow of Hollywood

title: Art-House America: Austin Film Society

title: Notes on Life. Edward Zebrowski

title: (Dis)appearance

title: Igor and After

title: Copying Beethoven

title: A Love in Germany

title: Danton

title: A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

title: The Secret Garden

title: Europa Europa

title: Europa Europa

title: The Possessed

title: Mężczyzna niepotrzebny!

title: Janosik

title: Angry Harvest

title: The Third Miracle

title: Total Eclipse

title: A Woman Alone

title: God's Sin

title: God's Sin

title: Washington Square

title: Julie Walking Home

title: To Kill a Priest

title: In Darkness

title: Olivier, Olivier

title: Shot in the Heart

title: Green Border

title: Provincial Actors

title: The Trial

title: The Trial

title: Charlatan

title: Fever

title: Evening at Abdon's

title: Screen Tests

title: Something for Something

title: Something for Something

title: Three Colors: White

title: Winter of the Crow

title: Winners

title: The Rabbit Garden

title: Spoor

title: Olivier, Olivier

title: Julie Walking Home

title: Golden Dreams

title: Dybuk

title: To Kill a Priest

title: To Kill a Priest

title: Three Colors: Blue

title: Three Colors: Red

title: Film for Aliens

title: The Offsiders

title: The Offsiders

title: Green Border

title: Wild Roses

title: In the Name of...

title: The Silent Twins

title: Strange Heaven

title: Ida

title: In the Shadow of Hollywood

title: Wajda by Wajda

title: Pollock

title: Nina

title: My Name Is Ki

title: The Lure

title: Mr. Jones

title: Red Wind

title: Franz

title: Screen Tests

title: Illumination

title: Sunday Children

title: The Girlfriend

title: Angry Harvest

title: Anna

title: Anna

title: Without Anesthesia

title: Pictures from Life

title: Spoor

title: Travel Essentials

title: Listy naszych czytelników

title: Franz

title: Korczak

title: Green Border

title: A Woman Alone

title: A Girl and “Akwarius”

title: Provincial Actors

title: Franz

title: Berlinweh: Yearning for a Home


Brian De Palma

biography: Brian Russell De Palma is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors. His direction often makes use of quotations from other films or cinematic styles, and bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michelangelo Antonioni. His work has been criticized for its violence and sexual content, but has also been championed by American critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael.

Leçon de Cinéma

original_name: Leçon de Cinéma

original_language: fr

Scene by Scene

overview: Mark Cousins invites film actors and directors to watch major scenes in their career to date, and to talk us through them.

original_name: Scene by Scene

original_language: en

Kulturplatz

original_name: Kulturplatz

original_language: de

Mr. Scorsese

overview: Explore the many lives of Martin Scorsese through intimate interviews with the man himself, access to his private archives, plus conversations with Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, and more.

original_name: Mr. Scorsese

English

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Deutsch

biography:
Brian Russell De Palma, dessen Familie italienische Wurzeln hat, wuchs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania und New Hampshire auf. Er begann an der Columbia-Universität in New York, an der er bald Mitglied einer Studententheatergruppe wurde, ein Studium der Physik. Dort begann er, sich mit Film zu beschäftigen und erste Kurzfilme zu drehen. Er brach das Physikstudium ab und wechselte als einer der ersten männlichen Studenten an das Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, welches einen Schwerpunkt in darstellender Kunst hatte. Ein Stipendium verschaffte ihm der 16-mm-Film Wotan’s Wake (1962). Mitte der 1960er Jahre entstand sein erster Spielfilm The Wedding Party, der aber erst 1969 veröffentlicht wurde.

In seinen Filmen geht es um Spannung, Mord, Besessenheit und psychische Störungen. Immer wiederkehrende Themen und Motive in seinen Filmen sind Voyeurismus und Überwachung, Doppelgänger, multiple Persönlichkeiten und Gewalt.

Filmtechnisch ist De Palma vor allem durch den ausgiebigen Einsatz der Steadicam bekannt. Der sog. „Establishing Shot“ in Spiel auf Zeit führt beispielsweise mit nur einer, sehr elaborierten Kamerafahrt das gesamte Ensemble der Akteure ein. Eine ähnlich lange Kamerafahrt sieht man auch in seinem Film Mein Bruder Kain. De Palma hat als Erster den Split Screen als spannungserzeugendes filmtechnisches Mittel konsequent benutzt und auf diese Technik immer wieder zurückgegriffen (vgl. z. B. Sisters und Femme Fatale).

Seinen ersten großen Erfolg feierte de Palma 1976 mit dem Horrorthriller Carrie – Des Satans jüngste Tochter, der auf dem Buch Carrie von Stephen King basiert. In den folgenden Jahren drehte er eine Reihe von weiteren Thrillern. Große Erfolge bei Kritik und Publikum feierte er vor allem mit den zwei Gangsterfilmen Scarface und The Untouchables – Die Unbestechlichen Mitte der 1980er Jahre und 1996 mit Mission: Impossible. De Palma wurde zwischen 1981 und 2001 allerdings auch fünfmal für die Goldene Himbeere als schlechtester Regisseur des Jahres nominiert. Nach der Verfilmung des James-Ellroy-Romans Die schwarze Dahlie im Jahr 2006 machte De Palma mit Redacted (2007) wieder auf sich aufmerksam. Die Geschichte vom Alltag eines amerikanischen Grenzpostens im Irak, der mit der Vergewaltigung und Ermordung eines irakischen Mädchens und dessen Familie konfrontiert wird, füllte der Filmemacher mit Material aus Videobildern, Überwachungskameras und Material aus YouTube und iChat auf. Redacted feierte seine Welturaufführung auf den 64. Filmfestspiele von Venedig, wo er im Wettbewerb um den Goldenen Löwen vertreten war und als Mitfavorit gehandelt wurde. Zwar ging der Hauptpreis an Ang Lee (Gefahr und Begierde), doch wurde De Palma mit dem Silbernen Löwen für die beste Regie bedacht.

2012 stellte De Palma die Arbeit an Passion fertig, ein Remake des französischen Thrillers Liebe und Intrigen. Der Film mit Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Paul Anderson und Karoline Herfurth erhielt im selben Jahr eine Einladung für den Wettbewerb der 69. Filmfestspiele von Venedig und kam am 2. Mai 2013 in die deutschen Kinos.

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english_name: German

한국어/조선말

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english_name: Korean

Português

biography: Brian Russell De Palma (Newark, 11 de Setembro de 1940) é um cineasta norte-americano. Os seus trabalhos exploram principalmente temas de suspense, assassinato, e desordem psíquica, entre outros. Seu estilo é influenciado pelas obras do diretor inglês Alfred Hitchcock. Trágica Obsessão (1976) e Vestida para Matar (1980) são obras de De Palma claramente inspiradas em Hitchcock. Depois de se formar na Universidade de Columbia, em Nova York (1962), ele aceitou uma bolsa de teatro no Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, Nova York (1964). Foi casado, de 1979 a 1984, com a atriz Nancy Allen, que estrelou alguns de seus filmes do período, como Vestida para Matar e Blow Out.

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普通话

布莱恩·德·帕尔玛

biography: 布莱恩·拉塞尔·德·帕尔马（Brian Russell De Palma，1940年9月11日-），美国电影导演、编剧。在 40 多年的职业生涯中，他最出名的可能是他的悬疑和犯罪惊悚电影。德·帕尔马是新好莱坞一代电影导演的主要成员。他的导演经常引用其他电影或电影风格，并受到阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克、让-吕克·戈达尔和米开朗基罗·安东尼奥尼等电影制作人的影响。他的作品因其暴力和性内容而受到批评，但也得到了罗杰·艾伯特（Roger Ebert）和宝琳·凯尔（Pauline Kael）等美国评论家的拥护。

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日本語

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english_name: Japanese

Français

biography: Brian Russell De Palma est un réalisateur et scénariste américain. Au cours de sa carrière de plus de quarante ans, il est probablement surtout connu pour ses films à suspense et ses thrillers policiers. De Palma était l'un des principaux membres de la génération des réalisateurs du Nouvel Hollywood. Sa mise en scène utilise souvent des citations d'autres films ou styles cinématographiques et porte l'influence de cinéastes tels qu'Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard et Michelangelo Antonioni. Son travail a été critiqué pour sa violence et son contenu sexuel, mais a également été défendu par des critiques américains tels que Roger Ebert et Pauline Kael.

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iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

Pусский

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iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

普通话

布萊恩·德·帕爾瑪

biography: 布萊恩·拉塞爾·德·帕爾馬（布萊恩·德·帕爾瑪，1940 年 9 月 11 日-），美國電影導演、編劇。在 40 多年的職業生涯中，他最出名的可能是他的懸疑和犯罪驚悚電影。德·帕爾馬是新好萊塢一代電影導演的主要成員。他的導演經常引用其他電影或電影風格，並受到阿爾弗雷德·希區柯克、讓 - 呂克·戈達爾和米開朗基羅·安東尼奧尼等電影製作人的影響。他的作品因其暴力和性內容而受到批評，但也得到了羅傑·艾伯特（Roger Ebert）和寶琳·凱爾（Pauline Kael）等美國評論家的擁護。

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Español

biography: Brian Russell De Palma es un director y guionista de cine estadounidense. Con una carrera que abarca más de cuarenta años, es probablemente más conocido por sus películas de suspenso y thriller criminal. De Palma fue un miembro destacado de la generación de directores del Nuevo Hollywood. Su dirección a menudo utiliza citas de otras películas o estilos cinematográficos, y está influenciada por cineastas como Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard y Michelangelo Antonioni. Su trabajo ha sido criticado por su violencia y contenido sexual, pero también ha sido defendido por críticos estadounidenses como Roger Ebert y Pauline Kael.

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iso_3166_1: MX

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iso_3166_1: ES

Український

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title: Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

overview: Exploring the edits to receive an R rating from the MPAA.

original_title: Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

title: Acting 'Carrie'

overview: In this documentary, director Brian De Palma and the stars from his film "Carrie" (such as Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, William Katt, Nancy Allen and others) share stories about the making of the classic horror film 25 years after its release.

original_title: Acting 'Carrie'

title: Visualizing 'Carrie'

overview: The making of "Carrie" (1976) is presented on the film's 25th anniversary with interviews with director Brian De Palma, editor Paul Hirsch, art director Jack Fisk and writer Laurence D. Cohen. The special talks about the book transition to film and the editorial process during filming.

original_title: Visualizing 'Carrie'

title: Ennio

overview: A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.

original_title: Ennio

original_language: it

title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Brian De Palma’s "Carlito’s Way," featuring interviews with the filmmakers and key creative figures behind the 1993 crime drama.

original_title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

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title: The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre

overview: Cast and crew members from The Untouchables recall the production.

original_title: The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre

title: The Untouchables: Production Stories

overview: Cast and crew from "The Untouchables" share production stories.

original_title: The Untouchables: Production Stories

title: The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

overview: Brian DePalma and Art Linson discuss how the 1987 film "The Untouchables" came together.

original_title: The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

title: The Untouchables: The Classic

overview: Brian DePalma, Art Linson, Charles Martin Smith discussing "The Untouchables."

original_title: The Untouchables: The Classic

title: Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

overview: "Bullets Over Hollywood" delves into America's fascination with gangsters and features historical perspective, analysis, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and details about the connection between real-life hoods and their cinematic alter egos. The documentary chronicles films such as the _American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]_ film _Musketeers of Pig Alley, The (1912)_ (the 1912 film directed by D.W. Griffith that began it all), 1930's and '40s classics including "Little Caesar," "The Public Enemy," "The Roaring Twenties," "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra," to such modern tales as "The Godfather," "Scarface," "Goodfellas," "Donnie Brasco," "Casino," "A Bronx Tale," "Carlito's Way," "Once Upon a Time in America" and many more. The special takes a look at television with shows such as "The Sopranos" and "Growing Up Gotti," all part of America's parallel fascination with fictional and real-life gangsters.

original_title: Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

title: Rotwang Must Go!

overview: Business tycoon Rotwang has been murdered. In a series of intertwined, loosely connected flashbacks, the film recounts the ludicrous events leading up to the bloody deed, while also pursuing some bizarre side plots. There are many possible perpetrators because everyone agreed on one thing: Rotwang had to go! Whether it was his wife Clarissa, the former RAF terrorist and current fashion guru Arthur Eigenrauch, or the rustic snack bar owner Udo Ringeltaub—they all had a personal or professional reason to eliminate Rotwang.

character: Famous American Movie Director

original_title: Rotwang muß weg!

title: The Black Dahlia

overview: In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer of an aspiring young actress.

character: Elizabeth's Screen Test Director (voice) (uncredited)

original_title: The Black Dahlia

title: Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

overview: A documentary about Brian de Palma's "Femme Fatale."

original_title: Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

title: Brian De Palma par Brian De Palma Leçon de cinéma

character: Brian De Palma

original_title: Brian De Palma par Brian De Palma Leçon de cinéma

title: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

overview: This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

original_title: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

title: The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

overview: This documentary presents "Scarface" as a unique phenomenon in cinema history. It explores how a film plagued by controversy leading up to its release has become a Hollywood classic, influencing a whole new generation of filmmakers and leaving a lasting imprint on popular culture.

original_title: The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

title: De Palma

overview: An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.

original_title: De Palma

title: Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

overview: A documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC's "Omnibus" strand in 1994 to coincide with "Pulp Fiction" hitting UK cinemas.

original_title: Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

title: Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

overview: This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Psycho" and "The Birds". The movie also covers his television years and neatly examines the Hitchcock signature touches, from his inevitable brief cameo to his famous MacGuffin.

title: The Making of 'Scarface'

overview: A 52-minute documentary on "Scarface," both the making of the film and its reception.

title: Movies Are My Life

overview: The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived by his colleagues, and himself, in 1977. Catching Scorsese while he was in post-production on New York, New York and editing The Last Waltz, British filmmaker Peter Hayden gets the manically hyper Scorsese to comment on his youth, his relation to his lead characters, the making of Mean Streets and most importantly, his approach to direction. The doc doesn’t quite move at the pace of Scorsese’s revved-up speed-talking, but it does offer some real insight into his productivity in the 1970s, thanks to an impressive array of talking heads. Included are Scorsese’s collaborators Jay Cocks, Mardik Martin, Brian De Palma, Steven Prince (who co-produced this doc), and his mentor John Cassavetes. Also the performers, who discuss his working methods in detail — Jodie Foster, Liza Minnelli, and, of course, Robert De Niro.

title: 'Obsession' Revisited

overview: A documentary about the making of 1976's "Obsession" featuring interviews with director Brian De Palma, stars Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold and more.

title: The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

overview: Produced as part of the DVD release for 'Dressed to Kill', this documentary gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this thrilling murder mystery. Includes interviews with director Brian De Palma and star Angie Dickenson, as well as other members of the cast and crew, who relate their experiences of working on the film.

title: The Scorsese Machine

overview: Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films in the 80s, he reunited with Robert DeNiro for "Goodfellas" and later that year shot a segment for "New York Stories", an anthology film of three shorts by Scorsese, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola. During the editing, the French documentary series "Cinéma, de notre temps" filmed a documentary on the director, and it's a fascinating glimpse into his life, personality, and working habits as he edits his short with long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker.

title: Spielberg

overview: A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

title: Brian De Palma : Les Années 60

overview: Documentary about Brian De Palma's films in the 60's.

title: Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'

overview: A 50-minute documentary on the making of the film featuring director Brian De Palma, producer Edward R. Pressman, the late star William Finley, star and composer Paul Williams, co-stars Jessica Harper and Gerrit Graham and more!

original_title: Paradise Regained: Brian de Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise'

title: The Autopsy

overview: A documentary about the making of Brian De Palma's 1973 film "Sisters" including interviews with the cast and crew.

title: Ennio Morricone

overview: From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986 drama The Mission, film composer Ennio Morricone has crafted more than 500 scores over the course of his enduring career in film. Now fans can take a look back at the life and career of one of cinema's most prolific composers through interviews with both the composer himself and many of his longtime collaborators. From his Italian efforts to his work in America, this documentary covers every aspect of Morricone's career as few have, offering insight into his childhood, his longtime association with Leone, and his ultimate disenchantment with the American studio system.

title: Godard Made in USA

overview: Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.

title: The Making of 'Casualties of War'

overview: Documentary made for the film's 2001 DVD release.

title: Black Dahlia Confidential

overview: The murder of a young Hollywood actress Elizabeth Short in 1947 is the oldest unsolved murder case in Los Angeles. New information and clues may help solve this case. "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

title: Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible

overview: A short documentary tracing Mission: Impossible from TV series to film franchise, featuring clips and interviews with producer Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise, screenwriter Robert Towne, directors Brian De Palma, John Woo, and J.J. Abrams, and actor Jon Voight. It covers the TV show's influence on the first film, the plot and production challenges, casting and locations, the sequel's development, and beyond.

original_title: Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible

title: The Untouchables

overview: Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

title: Scarface

overview: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

title: Mission: Impossible

overview: When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

title: Mission to Mars

overview: When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

title: Casualties of War

overview: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

title: The Responsive Eye

overview: A documentary short directed by Brian De Palma, The Responsive Eye documents the 1965 exhibition of optical art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Curated by William C. Seitz, the exhibition was the first major museum show dedicated to Op Art. The film captures both the artworks and the reactions of attendees, offering a snapshot of a pivotal moment in the relationship between contemporary art and public perception.

title: Obsession

overview: A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

title: Dressed to Kill

overview: After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

title: Body Double

overview: After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

title: Body Double

title: Body Double

title: Carlito's Way

overview: Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

title: Sisters

overview: Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

title: Sisters

title: Redacted

overview: A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

title: Redacted

title: Wise Guys

overview: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.

title: Blow Out

overview: While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

title: Home Movies

overview: A cult guru urges a shy disciple to make life a movie and be its star.

title: Carrie

overview: Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

title: Femme Fatale

overview: A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.

title: Femme Fatale

title: Snake Eyes

overview: All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.

title: Snake Eyes

title: Snake Eyes

title: The Black Dahlia

title: The Fury

overview: When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.

title: Phantom of the Paradise

overview: Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of Swan's new rock palace, the Paradise.

title: Phantom of the Paradise

title: The Bonfire of the Vanities

overview: After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

title: The Bonfire of the Vanities

title: Blow Out

title: Raising Cain

overview: Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.

title: Raising Cain

title: Hi, Mom!

overview: Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

title: Hi, Mom!

title: Murder à la Mod

overview: Naive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho-prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.

title: Murder à la Mod

title: Murder à la Mod

title: The Wedding Party

overview: Young Charlie begins to develop cold feet as his wedding looms nearer. Desperate to throw the plans off-track, he tries a variety of tactics, including attempting to rekindle the relationship between his fiancée, Josephine, and her former boyfriend.

title: The Wedding Party

title: Dionysus in '69

overview: Filmed stageplay based on the ancient greek play The Bacchae written by Euripides. This play is performed by members of The Performance Group, an NYC experimental theater group who has made their own personal adaptation of this ancient text.

title: Get to Know Your Rabbit

overview: A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?

title: Passion

overview: The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

title: Woton's Wake

overview: Woton Wretchichevsky has a disfigured face, dresses in a cloak and mask, and stalks couples to burn them with a blowtorch. He is also a sculptor of steel and garbage installations. One day, one of his creations comes to life in the form of a young woman. She flees from him when he tries to express his love by pointing his blowtorch at her.

title: The Responsive Eye

title: Sisters

title: Jennifer

overview: A short film about the actress Jennifer Salt, directed by Brian De Palma and written by Bruce Joel Rubin.  Note: As of now, the film is considered lost and no known copies are publicly available.

title: 660124: The Story of an IBM Card

overview: Known as a 5081, what was its role in the industry? Note: As of now, the film is considered lost and no known copies are publicly available.

title: To Bridge This Gap

overview: This documentary highlights the state-sponsored discrimination faced by African Americans in the 1960s and the relentless work by Legal Defence Fund's staff and cooperating attorneys to establish legal and social precedent while bridging the gap between hard-earned legal victories and implementation of the law by public authorities.

title: Icarus

overview: A story about the god Pan arriving in New York that pokes fun at the very programmed dimension of modern life.  Note: As of now, the film is considered lost and no known copies are publicly available.

title: Sweet Vengeance

overview: A murder mystery inspired by two real-life murders. Plot TBA.

title: Sweet Vengeance

title: Dressed to Kill

title: Domino

overview: Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

title: Obsession

title: Hi, Mom!

title: Home Movies

title: Home Movies

title: Stir of Echoes

overview: After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.

title: The Wedding Party

title: The Wedding Party

title: Body Double

title: Show Me a Strong Town and I'll Show You a Strong Bank

overview: Commissioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, the film follows an inspector conducting surprise inspections.  Note: As of now, the film is considered lost and no known copies are publicly available.

original_title: Show Me a Strong Town and I'll Show You a Strong Bank

title: Woton's Wake

title: Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000

overview: The video kicks off from a 1978 performance of 'Rosalita' with a 29 year old Bruce wailing away with chicks jumpin' on the stage grabbing him! Lucky guy! The other songs featured include all the popular tunes like 'Born To Run', 'Born In The USA', 'I'm On Fire' and 'Glory Days'. Even some lesser known songs such as 'Spare Parts' (from 'Tunnel Of Love' album) and 'Tougher than the rest' from 'Tunnel Of Love' also which are both live. I like Bruce Springsteen a lot. He has the edge as a showman and musical innovator without losing the plot onstage. Fans will love this video for it's authentic live performances, music videos and classic Springsteen songs. Great

original_title: Bruce Springsteen: The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000

title: Dionysus in '69

title: Catch and Kill

overview: Described as a horror film set in Hollywood and featuring a predatory movie mogul. Further details TBA.

title: Sisters

overview: A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins.

title: Sisters

title: Walk of Fame

overview: Jake Taylor, frustrated with Hollywood and trying to make it, caves into his demons.

title: Catch and Kill

title: Stalkings

title: Passion

title: Dionysus in '69

title: A Boy And His Car

overview: Playing hooky from school, Tony, a student/chorister at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, spends the afternoon at Central Park's Sailboat lake and retrieves a remote control device left behind by a pair of sailboat racers. Back in the schoolyard, Tony pretends that he has a car to go with the remote control. When another boy tries to take the control from him, it falls on the ground and a red remote-control sports car miraculously appears. The car "dances" to rap music and even brings Tony a can of soda. One day, a sinister-looking man with a briefcase steals the car and flees into the subway. Tony and his classmates pursue the thief to the Wall Street area and ask to inspect the briefcases of passing businessmen. Eluding the students, the crook hails a taxi and hurls the briefcase from the window. Next morning, Tony hears the sound of a sports car during a church service. Returning to its rightful owner, the magical car mysteriously reappears at the end of the processional.

title: Greetings

overview: Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.

title: Greetings

title: Pehla Nasha

overview: A down and out actor,Deepak Bakshi,sees a woman getting attacked. He lands himself into trouble with the police as he is now a suspect for murder.

title: The Responsive Eye

title: The Godfather Part II

overview: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

title: Short Cuts : Scarface de Brian de Palma

title: Phantom of the Paradise

title: Acting 'Carrie'

title: Slashing 'Dressed to Kill'

title: Visualizing 'Carrie'

title: Ennio

title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

title: The Untouchables: Production Stories

title: The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

title: The Untouchables: The Classic

title: Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

title: Rotwang Must Go!

title: The Black Dahlia

title: Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream

title: The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

title: De Palma

title: Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

title: The Making of 'Scarface'

title: Movies Are My Life

title: 'Obsession' Revisited

title: The Making of 'Dressed to Kill'

title: The Scorsese Machine

title: Spielberg

title: Brian De Palma : Les Années 60

title: The Autopsy

title: Ennio Morricone

title: Godard Made in USA

title: The Making of 'Casualties of War'

title: Black Dahlia Confidential

title: Scarface

title: The Untouchables

title: Mission: Impossible

title: Mission to Mars

title: Casualties of War

title: The Responsive Eye

title: Obsession

title: Dressed to Kill

title: Body Double

title: Body Double

title: Body Double

title: Carlito's Way

title: Sisters

title: Sisters

title: Redacted

title: Redacted

title: Wise Guys

title: Home Movies

title: Blow Out

title: Carrie

title: Femme Fatale

title: Femme Fatale

title: Snake Eyes

title: Snake Eyes

title: Snake Eyes

title: The Black Dahlia

title: The Fury

title: Phantom of the Paradise

title: Phantom of the Paradise

title: The Bonfire of the Vanities

title: The Bonfire of the Vanities

title: Blow Out

title: Raising Cain

title: Raising Cain

title: Hi, Mom!

title: Hi, Mom!

title: Murder à la Mod

title: Murder à la Mod

title: Murder à la Mod

title: The Wedding Party

title: The Wedding Party

title: Dionysus in '69

title: Get to Know Your Rabbit

title: Passion

title: Woton's Wake

title: The Responsive Eye

title: Sisters

title: Icarus

title: 660124: The Story of an IBM Card

title: Jennifer

title: To Bridge This Gap

title: Sweet Vengeance

title: Sweet Vengeance

title: Dressed to Kill

title: Domino

title: Obsession

title: Hi, Mom!

title: Home Movies

title: Home Movies

title: Stir of Echoes

title: The Wedding Party

title: The Wedding Party

title: Body Double

title: Woton's Wake

title: Dionysus in '69

title: Catch and Kill

title: Sisters

title: Sisters

title: Walk of Fame

title: Catch and Kill

title: Stalkings

title: Passion

title: Dionysus in '69

title: A Boy And His Car

title: Greetings

title: Greetings

title: Pehla Nasha

title: The Responsive Eye

title: The Godfather Part II

title: Short Cuts : Scarface de Brian de Palma


Martin Bregman

biography:
Martin Leon "Marty" Bregman (May 18, 1926 – June 16, 2018) was an American film producer and personal manager. He produced many films, including Scarface, Sea of Love, Venom, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Four Seasons, Betsy's Wedding, Carlito's Way, Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, The Bone Collector, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

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also_known_as:
Martin Leon Bregman
Marty Bregman

title: Inside 'Serpico'

overview: In this documentary about the classic film "Serpico," Sidney Lumet and Martin Bregman discuss the logistics of production and post-production, as well as Pacino's approach to the role.

original_title: Inside 'Serpico'

title: Serpico: From Real to Reel

overview: In separate interviews about the classic film "Serpico," director Sidney Lumet and producer Martin Bregman discuss the genesis of the project, the evolution of the script and the early involvement of John Avildsen.

original_title: Serpico: From Real to Reel

title: Hollywood Gangster

overview: Documentary about American gangster movies.

original_title: Hollywood Gangster

title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Brian De Palma’s "Carlito’s Way," featuring interviews with the filmmakers and key creative figures behind the 1993 crime drama.

original_title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

title: The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

overview: This documentary presents "Scarface" as a unique phenomenon in cinema history. It explores how a film plagued by controversy leading up to its release has become a Hollywood classic, influencing a whole new generation of filmmakers and leaving a lasting imprint on popular culture.

title: The Making of 'Scarface'

overview: A 52-minute documentary on "Scarface," both the making of the film and its reception.

original_title: The Making of 'Scarface'

title: The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

overview: A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."

original_title: The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

title: The Next Man

overview: Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?

character: (uncredited)

original_title: The Next Man

job: Producer

title: Scarface

overview: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

original_title: Scarface

title: Dog Day Afternoon

overview: Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

original_title: Dog Day Afternoon

title: Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

overview: Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way.

title: The Real McCoy

overview: Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

original_title: The Real McCoy

title: Carlito's Way

overview: Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

original_title: Carlito's Way

title: Nothing to Lose

overview: Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.

original_title: Nothing to Lose

title: The Adventures of Pluto Nash

overview: The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.

original_title: The Adventures of Pluto Nash

title: Serpico

overview: New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

original_title: Serpico

title: Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

overview: Seduced by the brutal New York underworld, future gangster legend Carlito Brigante enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street.

original_title: Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

title: Sea of Love

overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

original_title: Sea of Love

title: The Shadow

overview: Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.

original_title: The Shadow

title: The Bone Collector

overview: Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

original_title: The Bone Collector

title: The Next Man

title: One Tough Cop

overview: A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.

original_title: One Tough Cop

title: Betsy's Wedding

overview: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.

original_title: Betsy's Wedding

title: Carolina

overview: A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.

original_title: Carolina

title: A New Life

overview: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.

original_title: A New Life

title: Eddie Macon's Run

overview: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.

original_title: Eddie Macon's Run

title: S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

overview: Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

title: Real Men

overview: A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

title: Listen to Me

overview: It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family.

title: The Four Seasons

overview: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

title: Simon

overview: A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living being from another planet.

title: Venom

overview: International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.

title: Matilda

overview: Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.

title: Sweet Liberty

overview: Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.

title: The Seduction of Joe Tynan

overview: Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.

title: Blue Ice

overview: An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.

title: Whispers in the Dark

overview: Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.

title: Inside 'Serpico'

title: Serpico: From Real to Reel

title: Hollywood Gangster

title: The Making of 'Carlito's Way'

title: The 'Scarface' Phenomenon

title: The Making of 'Scarface'

title: The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'

title: The Next Man

title: Scarface

title: Dog Day Afternoon

title: The Real McCoy

title: Carlito's Way

title: Nothing to Lose

title: The Adventures of Pluto Nash

title: Serpico

title: Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

title: Sea of Love

title: The Shadow

title: The Bone Collector

title: The Next Man

title: One Tough Cop

title: Betsy's Wedding

title: Carolina

title: A New Life

title: Eddie Macon's Run

title: S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

title: Real Men

title: Listen to Me

title: The Four Seasons

title: Simon

title: Venom

title: Matilda

title: Sweet Liberty

title: The Seduction of Joe Tynan

title: Blue Ice

title: Whispers in the Dark