Feud – Die Feindschaft zwischen Bette und Joan

Die Leinwandlegenden Joan Crawford und Bette Davis, von Hollywood ins Abseits geschoben, kämpfen gegen den Jugendwahn, Sexismus und einander, als sie für den Film "Was geschah wirklich mit Baby Jane" unterschreiben.

Die Karte meiner Träume

Der Zwölfjährige T.S. Spivet lebt in einer exzentrischen Familie auf einer Ranch in Montana. Seine Mutter ist besessen von ihrer Käfersammlung, sein Vater ist ein 100 Jahre zu spät geborener Cowboy und seine 14-jährige Schwester träumt davon, die nächste Miss America zu werden. Der kleine T.S. jedoch ist ein begeisterter Kartograf und Wissenschaftler. Als er vom Smithsonian Institut eingeladen wird, reist er auf eigene Faust als blinder Passagier an Bord eines Güterzuges von Montana nach ...

Nitram

Nitram lives with his mother and father in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen. However when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram's loneliness and anger grow, he begins a slow descent that leads to disaster.

FEUD

Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an Oscar vendetta.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Dark Blood

Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire ...

The Eye of the Storm

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.

Marie Antoinette

Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts wird die 14-jährige Marie Antoinette von ihrer Mutter, der österreichischen Kaiserin, mit dem französischen Thronerben Ludwig XVI. verheiratet. Ein großer Druck lastet auf dem jungen Paar, denn sie müssen nicht nur repräsentieren, sondern für einen Erben sorgen. Doch Ludwig verweigert sich allnächtlich, seinen ehelichen Pflichten nachzukommen. Marie langweilt das Leben zu Hofe und so beginnt sie jeden Tag zu einem Fest zu machen. Sie lebt ein pompöses und ...

Swimming Upstream

A young man aspiring for recognition of his talents battles against his estranged father's sentiment towards him as the father deals with his own demons.

Gaudi Afternoon

Cassandra is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating books into English. However, Cassandra's limited translating skills are not bringing home the bacon, so when she encounters a strange woman named Frankie, she's willing to help her find a missing friend for a price.

The Man Who Sued God

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

A Cooler Climate

Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.

Celebrity – Schön, reich, berühmt

Als ein Reporter der Starszene zugeteilt wird, erwartet er schon einiges an Aufregung. Doch es geht schneller als er denkt, denn schon bald befindet er sich auf Kollisionskurs mit vier der exzentrischsten Persönlichkeiten, die er je getroffen hat.

Deconstructing Harry

This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

Children of the Revolution

A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be discharged for being a lesbian. With the support of her partner Diane (Judy Davis), Cammermeyer undertakes an against-all-odds battle against the Army's policy. But ...

The New Age

Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions

No Panic – Gute Geiseln sind selten

Der Einbrecher Gus bricht am Heiligen Abend in ein Haus ein und wird dabei von den Bewohnern überrascht, die er kurzerhand zur Geisel nimmt. Leider stellt sich heraus, dass sie sich im Ehestreit befindet, was die ganze Angelegenheit verkompliziert.

Naked Making Lunch

Husbands and Wives

When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.

One Against the Wind

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.

Impromptu

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Naked Lunch

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Barton Fink

Als zu Beginn der Vierziger Jahre der naiv-idealistische Barton Fink mit einem Theaterstück über „den kleinen Mann“ seinen Durchbruch am Broadway erlebt hat, folgt er zögerlich einem Ruf nach Hollywood, wo er vom Filmtycoon Jack Lipnick als Drehbuchautor engagiert wird. Sprach- und ratlos entnimmt der Bühnenautor (der offenbar noch kein Kino von innen gesehen hat) dem Redeschwall des Produzenten, dass er das Buch zu einem profanem Ringerfilm zu schreiben habe.