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Twenty years after Birds, Orphans & Madmen, Jakubisko essentially reworked the same material into a wonderful narrative about ordinary people surviving within the sea of Eastern European history. But here the gratuitous ugliness of the earlier film is replaced by a fable-like wonder and deep affection for the characters. Two men fight to make a life for themselves – and eventually for the damaged woman they come to love – as the devastation of WWII is replaced by the oppression of communism. The mix of humour, romance and tragedy is reminiscent of Kusturica.

Gustavo Godendo è un cuoco che lavora in una trattoria "molto" romana, ma sogna di diventare un grande chef internazionale. Con lui: un lavapiatti toscano, Cecco, in cerca di avventure con donne sopra i settanta, Rocky, un cameriere romano dai trascorsi come pugile, e la mascotte Gualtiero, un simpatico porcellino d’India…

Isabel is an actress recent in her 40 years old, unable to get new roles for movies or theaters, since then directors looking for younger women. She is married with the neurotic Ángel, a screenwriter who is working in his next cinema project with Susana, his producer and ex wife. After Isabel, Ángel, Susana and Carlos, Isabel's first husband, send away to them respective child to a school excursion, Isabel accepts to organize in her house a business dinner for Diego, an important Argentinian actor to negotiate his participation in the movie……

Pedro Almodóvar directed this story of a woman and her circle of friends who find themselves suffering a variety of emotional crises. Manuela is a single mother who has raised her son, Esteban to adulthood on her own and has come to emotionally depend on him. One night, Manuela and Esteban take in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire; after the show, Esteban is struck and killed by a passing motorist as he dashes into the street to get an autograph from Huma Rojo, who played Blanche. Emotionally devastated, Manuela relocates to Barcelona in hopes of finding her ex-husband (and Esteban's father), who is now working as a female impersonator.

La trentacinquenne Alice vive in una bella villetta di Roma nord, ha un marito, un figlio di 9 anni e tre domestici extra-comunitari. La sua vita sembra un sogno dorato ma si rivelerà ben presto un incubo. Suo marito, imprenditore nel ramo dei sanitari, muore in un incidente e il suo avvocato le spiega che è rimasta sul lastrico. A questo punto deve

Melodrama de hacer llorar, »Todo sobre mi madre« narra el autoexilio de una madre (Cecilia Roth) que, tras 17 años viviendo en Madrid, regresa a Barcelona para buscar al padre de su hijo (Lola, un travestido interpretado por Toni Cantó) y decirle que éste (Eloy Azorín) ha muerto. En Barcelona, Manuela intentará buscar de nuevo sentido a su vida a través de una serie de mujeres que irá encontrando.

Take a trip into the world of deception and espionage that is MI5. Spooks… They do not exist, you will never know their names, and they are all that stand between you and those who would do your country harm.

The show airs as MI-5 on BBC America.