Wives (1975) Anja Breien, Anne Marie Ottersen, Katja Medbøe, Frøydis Armand, Comedy, Drama

(Comedy Drama) IGBY goes down [DVDrip] 2002 BivX
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USA 2002
Director Burr STEERS

Cast/Avec Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum…

Jason "Igby" Slocumb, Jr. (Kieran Culkin) is a misanthropic 17-year-old boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast "old money" family. His schizophrenic father, Jason (Bill Pullman), has been committed to an institution; Igby fears he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his father. His mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon), is self-absorbed and distant. Igby mockingly describes his ambitious older brother Ollie (Ryan Phillippe) as a fascist or alternatively a Young Republican, and that he studies neo-fascism (economics) at Columbia University…

Igby Slocumb, un adolescent de 17 ans intelligent et rebelle, veut changer de vie. Il en a assez de sa famille monoparentale et assez d'être ignoré par ses parents au profit d'Oliver, son frère aîné. Expulsé de son lycée, Igby décide de tout abandonner et part se cacher à New York chez D.H., son beau-père, et Rachel, sa jeune fiancée. Au cours de ses pérégrinations, il tombe amoureux d'une jeune fille excentrique et marginale se prénommant Sookie. Entre ces personnalités hautes en couleurs, Igby tente de reprendre goût à la vie et d'apprendre l'amour.

(Comedy Drama) Left Luggage [DVDrip] 1998
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USA_NL 30 Mar 1998
Director Jeroen KRABBE

Cast/Avec Laura Fraser, Adam Monty, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, Maximilian Schell, David Bradley

Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe's first feature film is a touching look at the connected lives of two Jewish families in early 1970s Belgium. Laura Fraser stars as Chaja, the 20 year-old daughter of two Holocaust survivors who eschews her faith and goes to Antwerp to study philosophy and live a bohemian life. However, when she takes a job as a nanny for the Kalmans, a Hasidic family, she begins a friendship with the devout Mrs. Kalman (Rossellini) and her four year-old son, Simcha that forces her to reevaluate the Jewish faith. An affecting and clear eyed look at Hasidic faith, which is so often glossed over and generalized in movies, LEFT LUGGAGE is a moving film, aided immeasurably by Ms. Rossellini's and Ms. Fraser's standout performances.

Antwerp, au début des années 70. Chaja est une jeune fille juive 'libérée', étudiante en philosophie. Sa relation avec ses parents, qui ont survécu aux camps de concentration, est complexe. Lorsque, de petit boulot en petit boulot, elle accepte de servir de nurse à Simcha (5 ans), sa vie et ses valeurs se trouvent soudain bouleversées…

[Comedy Drama] The Visitor (DVDrip) 2008
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USA 18 April 2008
Director Thomas McCARTHY

Grand Prix du Jury DEAUVILLE 2008
SUNDANCE, TORONTO & MIAMI Festival Selection 2008

Cast Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes, Maggie Moore, Michael Cumpsty, Bill McHenry, Richard Kind, Tzahi Moskovitz ..

In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek, a Syrian man, and Zainab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum. The instrument's exuberant rhythms revitalize Walter's faltering spirit and open his eyes to a vibrant world of local jazz clubs and Central Park drum circles. As the friendship between the two men deepens, the differences in culture, age and temperament fall away. After being stopped by police in the subway, Tarek is arrested as an undocumented citizen and held for deportation. As his situation turns desperate, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friend with a passion he thought he had long ago lost. When Tarek's beautiful mother Mouna arrives unexpectedly in search of her son, the professor's personal commitment develops into an unlikely romance. And it's through these new found connections with these virtual strangers that Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life.

Professeur d'économie dans une université du Connecticut, Walter Vale, la soixantaine, a perdu le goût de l'enseignement et mène désormais une vie routinière. Il tente de combler le vide de son existence en apprenant le piano, mais sans grand succès… Lorsque l'Université l'envoie à Manhattan pour assister à une conférence sa vie va basculer. Il rencontre Tarek, d'origine syrienne, et sa petite amie sénégalaise Zainab (jeune couple qui s'est installé dans l'appartement qu'il possède là-bas : victimes d'une escroquerie immobilière, Tarek et Zainab n'ont nulle part ailleurs où aller ; d'abord un rien réticent, Walter accepte de laisser les deux jeunes gens habiter avec lui). Tarek musicien doué, insiste pour lui apprendre à jouer du djembé. Tandis que les deux hommes deviennent amis, les différences d'âge, de culture et de caractère s'estompent. Lorsque Tarek, immigré clandestin, est arrêté par la police dans le métro, puis menacé d'expulsion, Walter va tout mettre en œuvre pour venir en aide à son ami…

(Comedy drama) Rough Magic (Miss Shumway jette un sort) DVDrip 1995
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USA 1995
Director Clare PEPLOE

Cast Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, D.W. Moffett, Paul Rodriguez

Director Clare Peploe (wife of Bernardo Bertolucci) adapted this blend of noir mystery and magical realism from the story Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase. Bridget Fonda stars as Myra Shumway, an apprentice to a magician (Kenneth Mars) in 1952 Los Angeles. Myra is unhappily engaged to Cliff Wyatt (D.W. Moffett), a sleazy, Howard Hughes-like uranium heir who wants to run for president. After her fiancée accidentally kills her boss, Myra flees to Mexico in search of a renowned female shaman who may be able to teach her the secrets of magic. Wyatt sends an investigator, Alex Ross (Russell Crowe), to find Myra and bring her back. A former photojournalist traumatized by the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Ross finds Myra but falls for her and joins her on the quest to find the medicine woman, as does Doc Ansell (Jim Broadbent), an eccentric patent medicine salesman seeking an ancient Mayan cure for constipation. During the journey, a series of mystical events occur, including levitation during sex, a dog with the power of speech, a human being laying a blue egg, and the transformation of an assailant into a sausage.

Dans les années cinquante, Myra Shumway, la jolie assistante d'un illusionniste est sur le point de se marier avec le richissime et odieux Cliff Wyatt. Ce dernier tue accidentellement le magicien et se lance à la poursuite de MYra qui s'est enfuie avec une pellicule compromettante pour lui … Arrivée à Mexico, la jeune femme rencontre un charlatan et un séduisant reporter americain …

(Comedy drama) Il est plus facile pour un Chameau … [DVDrip] 2003
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France 16 April 2003
Réalisation Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI

Avec/Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Emmanuelle Devos, Denis Podalydès, Marysa Bruni Tedeschi, Roberto Herlitzka, Lambert Wilson …

Federica est… trop riche. Ce privilège l'emprisonne et l'empêche de faire sa vie d'adulte, et d'assumer entre son fiancé, un ancien amant, et une famille destabilisée par la mort annoncée du père. Accablée par un héritage à venir, par ses rapports avec son entourage et par le poids de la culpabilité, Federica se réfugie dans l'imaginaire…

After a life of aimless drifting, Federica, the daughter of a wealthy Italian businessman, finally begins to feel guilty about her extraordinary wealth. With her father dying from a terminal illness, she struggles to find meaning in her life, with little success. She is torn between her current fiancé Pierre and her ex-boyfriend Philippe; no one appears to be interested in the plays she is writing; and tensions with her moody sister and self-centred brother torment her. Confused and unable to cope with the real world, she retreats to the world of her imagination and her memories of childhood…

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(Comedy Drama) SMOKE [DVDrip] 1995 BivX
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USA 09 June 1995
Director Wayne WANG

Cast/Avec Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Jared Harris, Harold Perrineau, Victor Argo, Forest Whitaker, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd, Michelle Hurst, Erica Gimpel…

A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured family relationships in common. Harvey Keitel is Auggie Wren, poetic owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the world – a place where all of humanity eventually parades through. One of his regular customers is Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a writer and a broken shell of a man whose pregnant wife was shot and killed near the store. When Paul's life is saved one day by a young black man named Rashid (Harold Perrineau, Jr., the writer and his rescuer strike up a friendship and begin searching for Rashid's long-lost father (Forest Whitaker). At the store, Auggie is surprised by the appearance of Ruby (Stockard Channing), an ex-girlfriend who informs him that her pregnant, drug-addicted daughter Felicity (Ashley Judd) may also be his – and is in dire need of help. Screenwriter Paul Auster based the script for Smoke on a 1990 short story he wrote for "The New York Times." He also wrote and directed the film's sequel (of sorts), Blue in the Face (1995). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi LESS

L'écrivain Paul Benjamin vient chaque jour acheter ses cigares chez Auggie qui tient un bureau de tabac au coeur de Brooklyn. Un jour, Paul est sauvé de la mort par un jeune noir. Pour le remercier, il propose au garçon de l'héberger quelques jours. Mais celui-ci lui cache sa réelle identité et finit par partir en laissant chez Paul une importante somme d'argent… Auggie et Paul décident de le retrouver.

(Comedy drama) Being There [Bienvenue Mr Chance] 1979
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USA 19 Dec 1979
Director Hal ASHBY

Cast/Avec Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden

Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged gardener who lives in the townhouse of a wealthy man in Washington D.C. Chance seems very simple-minded and has lived in the house his whole life, tending the garden, with virtually no contact with the outside world. His cultural and social education is derived entirely from what he watches on the television sets provided by the "Old Man," who raised him. The only other person in his life is Louise, the maid who cooks his meals and looks upon him as nothing more than a child who has failed to grow up. When his benefactor dies, Chance is visited by attorneys handling the estate. They force him to leave his sheltered existence and discover the outside world for the first time.

Un jardinier quinquagénaire prénommé Chance, homme naïf et simple, passe des jours heureux dans le calme d'une propriété préservée de Washington. Il passe ses journées à soigner fleurs, fruits et légumes et vit quasiment retiré du monde. Mais le monde vient à lui par l'intermédiaire de l'écran de télévision, qu'il contemple avec assiduité et fascination. Mr. Chance est tellement naturel que chacune de ses phrases va être prise pour un véritable oracle et qu'il va devenir ainsi la coqueluche du pouvoir.

(Comedy Drama ) The Bonfire of the Vanities [DVDrip] 1990 BivX
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USA 21 Dec 1990
Director Brian DE PALMA

Cast/Avec Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Morgan Freeman

Sherman McCoy is a Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin, a Southern belle gold digger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from JFK airport when they take a wrong turn on the expressway and the two find themselves in the "war-zone" of the South Bronx. When they are approached by two black youths, Maria guns the engine, running over one of the teenagers and putting him in a coma. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police.

A la suite d'un banal fait divers, Sherman McCoy, élite de la haute finance new-yorkaise, devient la proie des politiciens, des médias et de la justice qui ont besoin de redorer leur blason…

(Comedy drama) Amos & Andrew [DVDrip] 1993 BivX
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USA 03 Mar 1993
Director E. Max Frye

Cast/Avec Samuel L. Jackson (Andrew Sterling), Nicolas Cage (Amos Odell), Margaret Colin (Judy Gillman), Michael Lerner (Phil Gillman), Dabney Coleman (Chief Police Cecil Tolliver), Brad Dourif (Officer Donnie Donaldson), Chelcie Ross (Earl), I.M. Hobson (Waldo Lake), Jeff Blumenkrantz (Ernie)

When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) a deal.

Lorsqu'un écrivain noir, Andrew Sterling, loue une maison de vacances en Nouvelle Angleterre, les forces de l'ordre le prennent immédiatement pour un voleur. Pour éviter une mauvaise publicité suite à ce malentendu, le chef de police s'arrange pour que l'un de ses prisonniers, Amos Odell, prétende prendre Andrew en otage.

(Comedy drama) Fatherland 1986 BivX
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UK, West Germany, France 1986
Director Ken LOACH

Cast/Avec Robert Dietl, Sigfrit Steiner, Cristine Rose, Fabienne Babe, Gerulf Pannach

A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.

Klauss Dritteman, jeune chanteur de RDA, est invité à quitter son pays parce que les chansons qu'il écrit ne plaisent pas aux autorités. Avant de partir, sa mère lui confie la clé d'un coffre-fort de banque, en Allemagne de l'Ouest où son père, qui avait subi le même sort pour des raisons différentes, a déposé des papiers personnels. Au grand dam de la presse occidentale, Klauss est aussi critique envers son pays qu'envers l'Occident. Habité par l'obsession de son père, il part à sa recherche aidé par une jeune journaliste.