To Die in Paris / 1968

To See Paris and Die / 1992

In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.

Quei temerari sulle macchine volanti / 19657.02 voti

Patricia Rawnsley e Richard Mays, uniti da reciproco affetto e dal comune amore per il volo, convincono Lord Rawnsley ad organizzare la trasvolata della Manica, da Londra a Parigi; il primo arrivato avrà 50.000 dollari in premio. Allettati alcuni dalla cospicua somma, spinti dalla passione per il nuovo sport aviatorio, da ogni parte del mondo convengono i concorrenti e le loro pionieristiche "macchine volanti". Le prove della trasvolata sono movimentate da una quantità di incidenti e comiche situazioni...

The Woman on the Rack / 1928

a silent movie by Robert Wiene