Minuscule: The Private Life of Insects / 20068.01 voti

Minuscule è una collezione di corti realizzata con animazioni 3D su ambientazioni reali e con un audio studiato per mescolare i suoni naturali con effetti tipo macchine, elicotteri e motori di aerei. Narra le vicende di alcuni insetti alle prese con i problemi di vita quotidiana visti in chiave volutamente comica.

The Private Life of a Masterpiece / 2001

Private Life of a Masterpiece is a BBC arts documentary series that tells the stories behind great works of art reaching from the Renaissance to modern art. David by Michelangelo, The Scream by Edvard Munch, The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya, The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn, Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo...

The Private Life of Plants / 1995

Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sort, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events.The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked eye, they are constantly on the move: developing,...

Vita privata di Sherlock Holmes / 19707.234 voti

A casa di Holmes si presenta una sera una donna disperata per la scomparsa di suo marito, un ingegnere belga. Insieme al fido Watson, il celebre investigatore parte per la Scozia e va a finire in una locanda sulle rive del lago di Loch Ness. È a quel punto che Watson crede di vedere un mostro, che in realtà è un sottomarino. Così come la donna affranta che li ha "ingaggiati" si rivela poi una spia tedesca.

Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII / 19337.85 voti

La vita privata di uno dei monarchi inglesi più noti, un re che ha cambiato la Storia proprio a seguito dei suoi desideri privati. Enrico VIII, per sposare le donne di cui man mano si innamorava (magari eliminando fisicamente quelle di cui si stancava) provocò lo scisma religioso d'Inghilterra.

Hidden Howie: The Private Life of a Public Nuisance / 2005

Her Private Life / 20198.01 voti

Sung Duk Mi, curatrice di galleria d'arte, nasconde un segreto al suo capo: è una fan girl di k-pop idol.

The Private Life of... / 2010

Jimmy Doherty embarks on a quest to reveal the hidden lives of farmyard animals.

The Private Life of Plants / 199510.01 voti

David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.

La vita privata di Don Giovanni / 1934

Don Giovanni, ormai vecchio, giunge in incognito a Siviglia. trapela la notizia del suo arrivo e ne approfitta un "Don Giovanni" locale per gabbarsi dell'autentico e cercare nuove avventure. Ma, sorpreso, viene ucciso in un duello e le donne di tutta Siviglia accorrono ai funerali di colui che credono il vero Don Giovanni. Questo decide di approfittare della circostanza per vivere in campagna in piena tranquillità. Ma quando vuol rivelare il suo vero essere, è dileggiato dalle stesse donne che fino a ieri lo idolatravano. capisce che la sua "carriera" è finita e ritorna all'amore della moglie che, con molta pazienza, lo ha atteso.

The Private Life of Samuel Pepys / 2003

The Private Life of Samuel Pepys is a 2003 British comedy television film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon and Nathaniel Parker. It portrayed the historical diarist Samuel Pepys. It was aired on BBC2 on 16 December 2003, drawing an audience of 2.9 million viewers.

The Private Life of a Cat / 19466.34 voti

An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.

The Private Life of the Gannets / 1934

A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best fisherman in the world), that inhabits a small rocky island off the coast of Wales. The film won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One- Reel).

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim / 2015

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receives an unexpected offer: to travel through France selling toothbrushes that will "revolutionize oral-dental hygiene." He takes advantage of the job to catch up with people from his childhood, to meet the first big love of his life, along with his daughter, and to make amazing discoveries and, in so doing, rediscover himself.

The Private Life of Fenfen / 2013

The Private Life of Fenfen is a documentary film experiment that tells its tragic love story as a video installation. In 2007, the filmmaker gave Fenfen—a feisty young migrant worker in southern China—a video camera with which to start filming her epic video diary. In the film, however, fragments of Fenfen's video life—constructed out of over 100 hours of footage—are broadcast "live" on TV in various migrant worker locations across China. Inside cheap restaurants, hole-in-the-wall cigarette shops, and alley hair salons, everyone is watching Fenfen and consuming her real life as would-be entertainment.

The Private Life of Deer / 2013

Just a century ago, there were an estimated 1 million deer living on the North American continent; now their numbers exceed 30 million.

Private Life of the Ford Cortina / 1982

A ski run in Italy, a supermarket manager in Luton, a sandwich bar in London EC2, Arena opens the bonnet of the Ford Cortina, Britain's most popular, most stolen, and most misunderstood car. 'Dagenham dustbin'? 'Poor man's Rolls-Royce'? In the year that may well see the end of a legend, some of the motoring public, including Sir John Betjeman, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Sir Terence Beckett and Magnus Magnusson take apart the Ford Cortina: Life and Works 1962-1982.

The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe / 2013

Marilyn Monroe, as a young, unknown actress struggles to obtain an audition, while coping with feelings of despair as she prepares for a dinner date with the Hollywood agent, Johnny Hyde. Years later, following the New York premiere of Bus Stop, she is visited by her acting coach, Paula Strasberg, who reads aloud Marilyn's reviews from the early morning newspapers. Finally, the actress is depicted on the last night of her life in Brentwood, listening to records and drinking champagne as she awaits a mysterious telephone call.

The Private Life of Helen of Troy / 1927

Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.

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