Screenshots
No screenshots available for this title yet.
Cinema Discovery Archive
Cinephilecentral
Curated movie catalog and metadata explorer
Continue to the security-verification page to unlock your download.
A short ad flow runs before your download starts.
IMDB ID: tt0113429
Loading TMDb metadata...

No screenshots available for this title yet.
Synopsis
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
Alice Krige
Cast
Mark Rylance
Cast
Gottfried John
Cast
Daniel Smith
Cast
Joseph Alessi
Cast
Jonathan Stone
Cast
César Saratxu
Cast
Peter Lovstrom
Cast
Uri Roodner
Cast
Peter Whitfield
Cast
Stephen Quay
Director
Timothy Quay
Director
Timothy Quay
Writer
Stephen Quay
Writer
Alan Passes
Writer
Robert Walser
Writer

Ang TV Movie: The Adarna Adventure
1996A fantasy story about a group of kids who are fond of listening to fairy tales, their favorite being "Ang Ibong Adarna", which they are able to live when they are mysteriously transported to the magic bird's home, the enchanting world of Berbanya. There they meet Prinsipe Juan and help him with his mission to save the land and cure his father, the King. This can only be accomplished if they can get hold of the magical and elusive bird, the Ibong Adarna, who is actually a princess under a curse.
Popularity: 9.8

Tropical Fish
1995Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.
Popularity: 8.0

In the Heat of the Sun
1995Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
Popularity: 7.8

Underground
1995Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Popularity: 7.7

Maborosi
1995A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Popularity: 7.4

Dead Man
1995On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Popularity: 7.3

Ang TV Movie: The Adarna Adventure
1996A fantasy story about a group of kids who are fond of listening to fairy tales, their favorite being "Ang Ibong Adarna", which they are able to live when they are mysteriously transported to the magic bird's home, the enchanting world of Berbanya. There they meet Prinsipe Juan and help him with his mission to save the land and cure his father, the King. This can only be accomplished if they can get hold of the magical and elusive bird, the Ibong Adarna, who is actually a princess under a curse.
Popularity: 9.8

Tropical Fish
1995Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.
Popularity: 8.0

In the Heat of the Sun
1995Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
Popularity: 7.8

Underground
1995Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
Popularity: 7.7

Maborosi
1995A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Popularity: 7.4

Dead Man
1995On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Popularity: 7.3
Cardiogram
1995A 12-year-old boy from the isolated steppes in Kazakhstan has first encounter with the outside world when he is sent to a children's clinic with a treatable heart condition. It is here that he gets his first taste of the pain and pleasure of love when he falls for a kindly young nurse. His crush becomes a bit of an obsession, he spies on her frequently and experiences his first moments of sexual awakening. Also at the institution everyone speaks Russian and soon Jasulan will face exclusion in his own country.
Popularity: 7.3

La Cérémonie
1995Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Popularity: 7.3

Vive L'Amour
1995Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Popularity: 7.2