The Dance of Reality (
2013) | IMDb:
7.5
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Starring:
Brontis Jodorowsky
,
Pamela Flores
,
Jeremias Herskovits
,
Alejandro Jodorowsky
,
Bastián Bodenhöfer
,
Andrés Cox
Leaving (
2009) | IMDb:
6.3
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Starring:
Kristin Scott Thomas
,
Sergi López
,
Yvan Attal
,
Bernard Blancan
,
Daisy Broom
,
Aladin Reibel
Directed by:
Catherine Corsini
The Barber of Siberia (
1998) | IMDb:
7.7
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Oleg Menshikov
,
Aleksey Petrenko
,
Richard Harris
,
Vladimir Ilin
,
Marat Basharov
Burnt by the Sun (
1994) | IMDb:
7.8
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Don Giovanni (
1979) | IMDb:
7.6
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!
Starring:
Ruggero Raimondi
,
José van Dam
,
Kiri Te Kanawa
,
Edda Moser
,
Teresa Berganza
,
Kenneth Riegel