Le capital (2012)

Actors: Marie-Christine Adam (actress), Costa-Gavras (writer), Eric Naggar (actor), Daniel Martin (actor), Yvonne Gradelet (actress), Claire Nadeau (actress), Philippe Duclos (actor), Gad Elmaleh (actor), Gabriel Byrne (actor), Dominic Gould (actor), Daniel Mesguich (actor), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Bernard Le Coq (actor), Armand Amar (composer), Jean-Claude Grumberg (writer),

Plot: When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule, erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim, and adversaries with an agenda for destruction.

Keywords: bank, banker, banking, capital, capitalism, capitalist, critique-of-capitalism, extravagance, finance, financial-plot
Genres: Drama,

À la recherche du temps perdu (2011)

Actors: Nina Companeez (writer), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Catherine Samie (actress), Corinne Devaux (miscellaneous crew), Françoise Bertin (actress), Véronique Hallu (miscellaneous crew), Bernard Farcy (actor), Vincent Solignac (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Nina Companeez (director), Jean-Claude Drouot (actor), Didier Sandre (actor), François Sauvagnargues (miscellaneous crew), Anne-Marie Garcia (miscellaneous crew), Hervé Pierre (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Two Point Five Billion (2008)

Actors: Ion Caramitru (actor), Brian Fortune (actor), Laura Way (actress), Eamon Rohan (actor), Charlotte Bradley (actress), Frank Reid (editor), Mark O'Halloran (actor), Shirley Weir (producer), Shirley Weir (writer), Noel Aungier (actor), Jamie Hannigan (writer), Jamie Hannigan (director), Clodagh Reid (actress), Alex Leonard (composer), Paul Connaughton (actor),

Genres: Short,
Taglines: What if you could experience your whole life at the same time?

Gekijô-ban hagane no renkinjutsushi: Shanbara wo yuku mono (2005)

Actors: Shun Oguri (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Vic Mignogna (actor), Mike McFarland (actor), Christopher Sabat (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Scott McNeil (actor), Kyle Hebert (actor), John Gremillion (actor), Jason Douglas (actor), Greg Ayres (actor), Keiji Fujiwara (actor), Toshio Furukawa (actor), John Swasey (actor), Yasunori Matsumoto (actor),

Plot: Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, is on the other side of the gate. He has befriended someone who resembles his brother, Al, and has met a gypsy resembling Rose. He finds out that the Germans are planning on opening the gate, and attack the other side, which is Ed and Al's home. Although Al has learned a lot, he cannot stop all of them, and Ed cannot use Alchemy while in the other side. Ed tries to stop them, and Al just tries to be able to talk to his brother again, who everyone else thinks is gone.

Keywords: alchemy, anime, based-on-comic, based-on-manga, biplane, brother-brother-relationship, cult-film, dragon, ethnic-slur, hitler
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama,
Taglines: The final battle lies in the hands of two brothers! On their promised day, the world moves...

Quotes:

Dietlinde Eckart: This place isn't like where I come from. It's a brave new world.::Edward Elric: It's exactly the same; people still live, cry, laugh, and die.

Alphonse Elric: You've changed, Brother! You've gotten taller!::Edward Elric: [indignant] WHAT'D YOU THINK, THAT I'D STILL BE A RUNT AT EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD?

Edward Elric: This whole place is about to blow.::Alphonse Elric: WHAT? Why?::Edward Elric: [matter of factly] 'Cause, I don't like it!

Edward Elric: I never said I wanted to go!::Alphonse Heidrich: [calmly] I'm not giving you a choice, Ed.

Noa: [Edward is leaving for his world] Edward!::Edward Elric: ...I'm sorry...::Noa: Take me with you! EDWARD! PLEASE!::Edward Elric: [passes through the gate]::Noa: NOOOOOOO! [falls to her knees]

Dietlinde Eckart: [to Edward] I look at you and I see a beast!

Mabuse: Motion pictures... and weapons of war. Science has created them both. So while others point their guns, I'll have my camera... Offering fantastic dreams of other worlds, just beyond our reach.

Envy: Still just a puppet, aren't you pipsqueak?

Shiezka: [watching ships come through the gate] Now do you believe in space aliens?

Envy: Edward Elric.::Edward Elric: Who said that?::Envy: I've been looking for you!

Der Leibwächter (1989)

Actors: Adolf Winkelmann (director), Petra Zieser (actress), Norbert Sauer (producer), Hans Zander (actor), Christian Doermer (actor), Ursula Höf (editor), Hanns Zischler (actor), Heinz Hoenig (actor), Andreas Schmidt (actor), Raymond Pellegrin (actor), Siegfried Kernen (actor), Heinrich Schafmeister (actor), Jophi Ries (actor), Jochen Kolenda (actor), Manfred Günther (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,

The Devil's Agent (1962)

Actors: Christopher Lee (actor), Peter Vaughan (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Albert Lieven (actor), Jeremy Bulloch (actor), Peter van Eyck (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), Colin Gordon (actor), Marius Goring (actor), Walter Gotell (actor), Paul Hubschmid (actor), Eric Pohlmann (actor), Marianne Koch (actress),

Genres: Drama, Mystery,

Le procès (1962)

Actors: Maurice Teynac (actor), Akim Tamiroff (actor), Thomas Holtzmann (actor), Guy Grosso (actor), Jess Hahn (actor), Raoul Delfosse (actor), Arnoldo Foà (actor), Billy Kearns (actor), Fernand Ledoux (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Anthony Perkins (actor), Wolfgang Reichmann (actor), Max Haufler (actor), Peter Sallis (actor), Orson Welles (actor),

Plot: Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the facade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

Keywords: ambiguity, arrest, bank-clerk, based-on-novel, based-on-unfinished-work, big-brother, bureaucrat, claustrophobic-setting, confusion, courtroom
Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller,

Quotes:

Joseph K.: I'm sorry.::Miss Burstner: You're sorry, you're sorry, you're sorry. You always keep saying that. Who gives a damn?::Joseph K.: I know. I'm s...::[Joseph K. catches himself and then laughs]::Miss Burstner: What's the big joke?::Joseph K.: I almost said it again. You're right, of course. You're perfectly right.::Miss Burstner: Yeah?::Joseph K.: Nobody gives a damn. I know you don't.

Uncle Max: All these fancy electronics, they're all right in their place, but not for anything practical.

Bloch: You're supposed to be able to tell from a man's face and from the line of his lips, especially, how his case is going to turn out.::Joseph K.: So?::Bloch: So the people are saying that from the expression on your lips, they could tell that you'll be found guilty, yes, in the very near future.

Hastler: It's true, you know. Accused men are attractive. Not that being accused makes any immediate change in a man's personal appearance. But if you've got the right eye for these things, you can pick out an accused man in the largest crowd. It's just something about them, something attractive.

Hastler: To be in chains is sometimes safer than to be free.

Titorelli: You see, in definite acquittal, all the documents are annulled. But with ostensible acquittal, your whole dossier continues to circulate. Up to the higher courts, down to the lower ones, up again, down. These oscillations and peregrinations, you just can't figure 'em.::Joseph K.: No use in trying either, I suppose.::Titorelli: Not a hope. Why, I've known cases of an acquitted man coming home from the court and finding the cops waiting there to arrest him all over again. But then, of course, theoretically it's always possible to get another ostensible acquittal.::Joseph K.: The second acquittal wouldn't be final either.::Titorelli: It's automatically followed by the third arrest. The third acquittal, by the fourth arrest. The fourth...::Joseph K.: I think what surprises me most is how ignorant I am about everything concerning this court of yours. For an accused man, that's a mistake. He should never let himself be caught napping, never for a minute let his eye stray to the left, when for all he knows, a judge or somebody like that can be lurking somewhere to the right.

Joseph K.: I don't pretend to be a martyr, no.::Hastler: Not even a victim of society?::Joseph K.: I am a member of society.::Hastler: Do you think you can persuade the court that you're not responsible by reason of lunacy?::Joseph K.: I think that's what the court wants me to believe. Yes, that's the conspiracy: to persuade us all that the whole world is crazy, formless, meaningless, absurd. That's the dirty game. So I've lost my case. What of it? You, you're losing too. It's all lost, lost. So what? Does that sentence the entire universe to lunacy?

Uncle Max: You're not going to try and tell me you think you can diddle your way out of a criminal charge with an adding machine!

[first lines]::Narrator: Before the law, there stands a guard. A man comes from the country, begging admittance to the law. But the guard cannot admit him. May he hope to enter at a later time? That is possible, said the guard. The man tries to peer through the entrance. He'd been taught that the law was to be accessible to every man. "Do not attempt to enter without my permission", says the guard. I am very powerful. Yet I am the least of all the guards. From hall to hall, door after door, each guard is more powerful than the last. By the guard's permission, the man sits by the side of the door, and there he waits. For years, he waits. Everything he has, he gives away in the hope of bribing the guard, who never fails to say to him "I take what you give me only so that you will not feel that you left something undone." Keeping his watch during the long years, the man has come to know even the fleas on the guard's fur collar. Growing childish in old age, he begs the fleas to persuade the guard to change his mind and allow him to enter. His sight has dimmed, but in the darkness he perceives a radiance streaming immortally from the door of the law. And now, before he dies, all he's experienced condenses into one question, a question he's never asked. He beckons the guard. Says the guard, "You are insatiable! What is it now?" Says the man, "Every man strives to attain the law. How is it then that in all these years, no one else has ever come here, seeking admittance?" His hearing has failed, so the guard yells into his ear. "Nobody else but you could ever have obtained admittance. No one else could enter this door! This door was intended only for you! And now, I'm going to close it." This tale is told during the story called "The Trial". It's been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream... a nightmare.

Joseph K.: You...! I make you very uncomfortable, don't I? It distresses you to find me in your company? Yes, I've been told about that! Before I thought you, you took me for a judge, or at least some official of the court! I even thought you were afraid of me, but what you're feeling is PAIN! You don't like what you see, do you? It's my mouth! You think you can tell from my mouth, that I'm condemned! That I'm gonna be found guilty! GUILTY!

La tragédie impériale (1938)

Actors: Georges Vitray (actor), Georges Paulais (actor), Alexandre Rignault (actor), Robert Moor (actor), Albert Malbert (actor), Palau (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Lucien Nat (actor), Roger Blin (actor), Paul Escoffier (actor), André Gabriello (actor), Harry Baur (actor), Alexandre Mihalesco (actor), Mady Berry (actress), Léon Larive (actor),

Genres: Biography, Drama, History,

Dactylo se marie (1934)

Actors: Joe May (writer), Armand Bernard (actor), René Pujol (director), Léon Larive (actor), Marcel Maupi (actor), Jean Murat (actor), Palau (actor), Joe May (director), Rognoni (actor), Mady Berry (actress), Paul Abraham (composer), Franz Schulz (writer), Marie Glory (actress), René Pujol (writer), André Berley (actor),

Genres: ,

Baleydier (1932)

Actors: Max Dalban (actor), Robert Gaillard (actor), Michel Simon (actor), Maria Fromet (actress), Jacques Prévert (writer), Josseline Gaël (actress), Pierre Prévert (actor), Jean Gehret (actor), Jean Mamy (director), Pierre Pradier (actor), Géo Lecomte (actor), Yvonne Scheffer (actress), George André Martin (actor), André Girard (writer), Blanche Peyrens (actress),

Genres: Comedy,