Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?

Martha與母親把自己的家經營成一間旅店，二人合謀殺害單獨來此住宿的外地旅客，好令自己有足夠的金錢搬到另一個國家的海邊居住。

Martha的哥哥Jan，在離家20年後，打算帶著財富回來，以給Martha和母親幸福的生活。Jan沒有理會太太Maria勸告直接表明自己的身份，卻又一心期望受到浪子回頭般的歡迎，誰知母親認不得他，Martha卻只想著要殺害他……

一名不甘受束缚的修女法拉维亚为了追求自由及男人与女人的平等而逃离修道院，突如其来的战争使她获得了爱情和权利，法拉维亚为此也付出了沉重的代价……

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.

The story of emigrants in New York, more precisely in poor part of Brooklyn, of Serb Baja and Spaniard Alfonso and their tragicomic efforts to fit so-called New World. Bajo works illegally by day, and by night helps Alfonso at the bar. He lives at Alfonso's place with a small rooster from Yugoslavia. The rooster's crowing at dawn awakens homesickness in Alfonso's blind moher, and Bajo's longing for his three children, taken care of by his mother, far away, somewhere on the Serbian-Montenegrian border, not realizing that they are already on their way for America. During that trip, Bajo's younger son loses his life in mythical river, Rio Grande. His older son fits new life conditions perfectly. Impractical ones, old mothers, middle-aged sons and lost love will vanish in unreal world of American illusions...

她复活了一项19世纪的传统：为人提供朗诵服务。瘫痪少年、瞎眼遗孀、离异商人、退休法官和缺少母爱的幼女，都是她的客户。他们不能或者不愿意自己看书，只用耳朵听。她为他们读托尔斯泰、莫泊桑，也读波德莱尔和杜拉斯，读《爱丽丝漫游仙境》，也读《所多玛120天》，甚至包括马克思、高尔基和列宁。她时而是现实中的康斯坦丝，时而是虚构人物玛丽。她马不停蹄地填补着别人生命中的破洞，简直又是80年……

1950 film by Alain Resnais

1945 film by Robert Bresson

1945 film by Marcel Carné

1950 film by Jean Cocteau