Before the Corpse of a Leader

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

Bernardo is fifty years old and feels overwhelmed, confused, almost devastated; surrounded by the violence typical of a society that is slowly collapsing. With relationship problems, difficulties in conceiving a child and a woman who cannot - and does not care - dive into his deepest conflicts. Bernardo finds no rest anywhere. His head is about to explode when he decides to take a little vacation with Diana at their house in Tigre. They will not go alone: ​​Nancy, an islander and house cleaner, will be part of a key night for Bernardo.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

A fatal surgical mistake involving the wrong blood type splits the lives of twin brothers. One, the guilt-ridden surgeon, embraces anonymity as a kerosene salesman, while his sibling ascends to become the powerful Chairman of the City Council. When a government investigation into bribery begins, the brothers are finally forced to confront the dark secret that binds them.

The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.