Erland Josephson

Andrei Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

A veteran theater director, Henrik (Erland Josephson), is staging a production of Strindberg's "Dream Play." Dozing after rehearsal, he's woken by Anna (Lena Olin), his lead actress, who seems out to seduce him. Anna's mother was Rakel (Ingrid Thulin), a deceased alcoholic actress and Henrik's former mistress. The presence of Anna makes Henrik think about his past with Rakel, as well as the mistakes he has made in his life, while he also imagines a possible future with Anna.

Over a ten-year period, a divorced couple work through their tormented relationship.

In Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. Shot in intense, intimate close-ups by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist and featuring flawless performances, Ingmar Bergman’s emotional x-ray reveals the intense joys and pains of a complex relationship.

Leo is a man who is unhappy in his job. But there's an even bigger problem...Leo is the Pope! When Leo XIV accidentally locks himself out of the Vatican, he embarks upon an adventure that will reconnect him with his people, his faith and himself.

Everything is set for the rehearsal. Nothing can go wrong. Then, in the grandest of entrances, she walks in - international star Karin Anderson.

In Peter Greenaway's creative retelling of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Prospero (John Gielgud), a former Duke of Milan, has been exiled to an island far from Europe. By studying the 24 books he was allowed to take with him, he has transformed the island into a civilized kingdom. But Prospero also has magic powers with which he hopes to wreak revenge on the enemies who banished him.

A man confesses to killing his master’s ox to feed his starving wife and infant daughter yet receives a brutal jail sentence from a conniving deputy.

When Andreas (Max von Sydow) meets Anna (Liv Ullmann) he is a man struggling with the collapse of both his marriage and his emotional state. Subsequently, Anna is grieving the recent loss of her husband and son, and the two enter into a relationship. As things continue to deteriorate around them so do both of their mental states.

Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy.

Johan Borg (Max Von Sydow), an artist battling repressed desires, starts to lose his grip on reality while vacationing on a remote Scandinavian island with his wife Alma (Liv Ulmann).

1968. Men are in charge and the world is burning. A travelling theatre company takes a production of Lysistrata on tour and it’s not long before the cast start seeing their own lives and relationships through fresh eyes. Zetterling’s riff on Aristophanes’ play revealed that little had changed in society since it was written. Simone de Beauvoir loved it.

Tomas (oscar-winner daniel day-lewis -- "gangs of new york," "my left foot") is a doctor and a lady's man in czechoslovakia during the late 1960s. although he already has a sophisticated lover, sabina (oscar-nominee lina olin -- "chocolat," "hollywood homicide"), he becomes smitten with a bookish country girl named tereza (oscar-winner juliette binoche -- "the english patient," "chocolat"), and...

The circus seen as a gaudy and glorious mirror of life. Director Anders Refn fills his cinemascope format to the brim with all the action and all the people that make an old-style, grand-style big top go round: the bold, the brave, the beautiful, the bad, and the love, lust, hate, hope, high skills and low schemings of them all. All this and an aerialist's dream: the quadruple flying somersault!