Tag: black and white

  • Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

    Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of…

  • Woman in the Dunes

    A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

  • The Elephant Man

    A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

  • Raging Bull

    The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

  • Al-Kashash

    The play is about a simple, poor man who decides to steal a million pounds from a wealthy businessman, and go to jail to hide from him.

  • Down by Law

    A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

  • The Accusation

    Ahmed, the son of a senior doctor, grows up with his colleague Ibrahim, the only son of a senior businessman. The two young men succeed. Ibrahim’s father established a top-level hospital, and assigned Ahmed the task of managing the hospital administratively and Ibrahim the task of managing the medical aspect. Ibrahim gets to know Maha…

  • Wings of Desire

    Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of…

  • Al Shahhateen

    The play is distinguished and deals with several major issues … It starts when Sa’id Saleh works in several exhausting jobs and in the end he does not benefit from cheating and harassment. He sees the beggars and the large sums of money that he thinks of this work and brings together several people to…

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman…

  • Schindler’s List

    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  • Satantango

    Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town’s source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and,…

  • Clerks

    Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

  • Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad

    Justino was working in a bull-ring but now he is retired. For him it is very difficult to adapt to the new situation although he will find soon a hobby without forgetting his profession.

  • Ed Wood

    The mostly true story of the legendary “worst director of all time”, who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

  • Cloaks over Barbed Wire

    A film about the Italian troops leaving Vlora and Albanian partisans finally entering the enemy camp.

  • Pleasantville

    Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called “Pleasantville,” and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer’s modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville’s peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

  • In the Bleak Midwinter

    Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister’s local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a ‘profit sharing’…

  • Dead Man

    William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.

  • La Haine

    After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

  • Pitch Black Heist

    Liam and Michael are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist.