Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It’s just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor’s heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away from her demanding boyfriend, Jeff. Victor’s terrible loneliness overwhelms him when he has to face losing what he loves the most.
Category: Drama
Felix Krull loves the women and the women love him. The charming and good looking young man from a respected but bankrupt family is not only using his charm to win the women’s heart. His acting talents allow him to cheat everyone. Thanks to his erotic affairs and his intelligent frauds he soon becomes a member of high society and climbs up the stairs to honor and wealth. As a wrong Marquis he starts on a journey around the world which bring s him back to the ground. But Felix Krull will start a new adventure right again.
When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe’s chief. The young boy and the chief’s son Nikitu grow up to become close friends and skilled hunters. When a drought threatens the tribe’s existence, Boru and Nikitu traverse the countryside looking for a water source, only to get caught in the open when a lightning storm sets the tribe’s homeland on fire.
Josefin is a six-year-old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener they make up fun things to do.
A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a teenaged boy. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.
Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna, a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower asks a cleaning woman to strip for him. A divorced man and woman who still live together try to make each other miserable. A teacher suffers violence at the hands of her boyfriend. These different people live out unfulfilled existences, attempting to muffle their isolation.
The first feature film by young fashion photographer Massimo Mazzucco is a charming and fragile work of atmosphere and sincerity. Made on a shoestring budget, the film takes us on a trip to New York City with Italian tourist Marco, who tries to find his way through the jungle of a giant foreign city.