Le Pendu / 2007

Attempted Suicide / 1906

Suffering from unrequited love, Max hangs himself from a tree, and ends up hanging for hours while local townspeople squabble over whose responsibility it is to rescue him.

The Pit and the Pendulum / 1964

A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...

Le Pendule de Costel / 2013

Costel and his family move around from the squats of Marseille to the centre of Lausanne passing through the village of Manarade, Romania, trying to find a way to earn their living. The woman making the film uses black and white Super 8. Costel films his family in colour video. They swap images and sounds, and are both witnesses and actors of a daily life made up of stratagems for getting by, beliefs and survival.

The Pit and the Pendulum / 1909

French adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”.

Le reel du pendu / 1972

Feature-length documentary filmed in three locations as far apart as possible: Louisiana, Acadia and Quebec, but where Le reel du pendu is played – a musical piece performed on the violin, harmonica and guitar or the accordion for over two hundred years. Through this improvised music of a death row inmate, the spectator is invited to discover for himself “the sound of the French in America”.

Pendulum / 1969

On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.

Il pozzo e il pendolo / 19914.06 voti

Il famigerato inquisitore Torquemada si innamora non corrisposto di una giovane. Per vendicarsi, prima accusa lei di stregoneria e la perseguita, poi, sotto i suoi occhi, tortura orribilmente il marito. Alla fine, però, mal gliene incoglie.

Furiko: Pendulum / 20127.01 voti

An intense short movie showing a turbulent marriage. The wife is always smiling. The man gets angry time and again.

Sfida nella città morta / 19586.52 voti

Jake Wade abbandona la banda di Clint Hollister portandosi via il bottino di un colpo in banca. Trasferitosi in una cittadina del Nuovo Messico, Jake ne diventa sceriffo e si fidanza con Peggy Carter, una ragazza del luogo. Essendo venuto a conoscenza che Clint è detenuto in una città vicina alla sua e che sta aspettando di essere impiccato, si reca da lui per sdebitarsi. Evaso dal carcere, Clint rapisce Peggy e costringe Wade a condurlo nella città abbandonata, dove ha seppellito il tesoro.

La tredicesima vergine / 19676.01 voti

In passato un vampiro aveva cercato di diventare immortale uccidendo tredici vergini, ma riuscì a ucciderne solo dodici e quella che sarebbe stata la tredicesima riuscì a farlo giustiziare. Il vampiro adesso è tornato in vita e invita i discendenti della tredicesima vergine al suo castello per ucciderli.

La luna sorge / 1948

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Een Jongmensch heeft zich opgehangen aan een boom in 't Muiderwoud / 1907