Films Directed by Women

马丽娅已经30岁了，她自觉有些怪异，很想做一个别人眼中的普通人。在把所有做普通人的要求列出来之后，她却发现自己一项都不符合。于是她下定决心开始转变自己，去努力做一个普通人。本片由女导演拉蒂西亚·多瑞拉自编自导自演，获马拉加电影节最佳新人编剧、摄影和剪辑奖以及戈雅奖三项提名。

The first movie of the "Berliner Schule" ("La Nouvelle Vague Allemande" Cahiers Du Cinema) that gained international recognition with it being screened in the "Un certain regard"-section of Cannes Film Festival 2004.
After the very sparse white on black of the opening credits we see the back of Sophie's head. She's in a car, she speaks awkward French, the woman who drives gets out, gets her a map, of Marseille. We learn, very soon, that they are exchanging apartments, the other woman, her name, we learn later, is Zelda, will go to Berlin and Sophie will stay, for a few weeks, in Marseille. Zelda says: Guten Tag, Auf Wiedersehen, Mein Freund, der Baum, ist tot - the latter phrase being a German song by a German singer who died young. Zelda disappears, Sophie stays. Zelda very literally disappears because there won't be a trace of her when Sophie will return to Berlin. The Marseille apartment, empty, unlived in as it is, will have been a gift, something inexplicably given in a film that ends with something - almost a life - taken.
Sophie, for the first third of the film, is in Marseille. She walks around, she takes pictures. She looks at the pictures, she moves without a direction, the camera is with her, sometimes distant, sometimes following her closely. Sophie is a stranger in a strange world, she sometimes seems cut off from her surroundings. We hear sounds, we see her face but the background is blurred. She does not seem unhappy, she does not seem happy. She does not talk much and she always thinks for a long time when she is asked. In the end she will be asked what it is she photographs. She will think for half a minute (or perhaps she does not think, but simply refuses to answer, to herself, to the policeman who asks) and then she says: The streets.
We do not know much of her and we do not learn much of her in these minutes we spend in Marseille, walking around with her. She meets a young man from a garage, who lends her his car, she drives around, which we don't see. There is a lot we don't see - although it takes some time to realize how much. She meets the young man in a bar, they drink, a friend arrives who insults Sophie, for no reason. Sophie and Pierre, the young man, walk up in a street that is lit in brownish golden light and they sleep with each other, which we don't see (and, really, don't know). The next night they dance.
One very sharp cut later Sophie is back in Berlin, she is approached by a young woman who returns a cap to her, a cap she has left in a McDonald's restaurant before she went to Marseille. There is more she has left, or rather: she has run away from. (At least this is what can - but does not have to be - inferred.) There is Ivan, a photographer she might be in love with. There is Hanna, an actress, Ivan's girl friend, their son Anton. We learn more about Ivan, we learn more about Hanna. We see Ivan taking pictures of women workers in a factory, without an explanation. We just see and watch. We watch the women from a sidewards angle, then we watch Ivan taking the pictures, then we watch the woman from Ivan's perspective. They talk, but not much. We just hear and see and watch. There is a lot we see - although it takes some time to realize how much. We are left with these images. They remain unexplained and they don't explain what we see. "Marseille" has a bewildering structure, switching from the elliptical cut (shocking, really) to the insistent gaze (frustrating first, but amazing after all).
For ten minutes, at least, we watch a rehearsal. Hanna plays a minor role in a Strindberg play. The same scene is rehearsed three times. We watch the man talking to the woman in an aggressive Strindberg way and we see Hanna entering the stage. Then the camera moves to the left and we watch the woman answering to the man in an aggressive Strindberg way. This time we don't see Hanna entering the stage. When leaving she makes a mistake, she adds a word that does not belong in her line. We see her then off stage, cowering. Hanna is not happy. She is not happy with David, she suffers from unexplainable pain. We do not learn much more about her. Sophie is out of sight for quite some time. We start doubting if this is really her story we are told. Oh yes, it is, but Schanelec refuses to follow her and her story in linear fashion. Ivan's taking of pictures, Hanna's rehearsal become important, not so much as explanations for their behaviour, just as the parts of their lives Schanelec has decided to follow.
Sophie then returns to Marseille and after the most daring ellipsis we see her at a police station, in a yellow dress. She sits, then she talks, then she does not talk for half a minute. She is asked what it is she photographs. The streets, she says after what seems a very long time. She cries. We see her on a sidewalk, the camera moving parallel to her. She crosses the street, the camera remains on the sidewalk, Sophie is moving away from it. Then she stops and the camera stops. She enters the German consulate. In Schanelec's (and cinematographer Reinhold Vorschneider's) films you see the most intelligent and subtle travellings imaginable - and even mor effective as they starkly contrast with a lot of very long, very static takes that just make you watch and see.
"Marseille" ends with a series of takes on the beach. It is getting dark, the streetlamps are switched on. We see Sophie in her yellow dress, distant, moving, we see the sea and there is a strange kind of consolation in this image of the dress, Sophie, the sea.

戈塔姆(Gautham)受伤住院，女友茜姆瑞安(Simran)移情别恋，爱上帅气医生阿南德(Anand)，很快宣布结婚……

施瓦辛格 老片子

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.

在那个动荡的四、五十年代，爱情绝对得来不易——一件订情信物、一首情歌、一个约定都足以令恋人魂牵梦萦。
身份复杂的警察房道龙（刘青云 饰）遇上具有传奇色彩的女子陈月荣（汤唯 饰），他们的爱情故事横越了三个城市：他们在安徽相爱，在上海分离，彼此仍坚守一个约定——在香港等候重聚。那夜，房道龙在港岛岸边等待接载月容的小船靠岸，却不料小船发生变故，月荣最后能否顺利抵港，与道龙开展新生活？
影片取材自真实故事，讲述一段父辈的爱情故事。

Fausto and Elena, two deaf teenagers from different backgrounds, meet and fall in love. As they push back against prejudice and silence – both societal and familial – their bond becomes a source of strength. Together, they navigate a world that misunderstands them and find the will to dream beyond imposed limits.

一家人，一整年，没有性。那么还能干什么？购物，唱歌，运动，存储东西，圣诞老人，炒股票，甚至还有精神上的追求。本片就这样记录了这一家人12个月极为诡异的生活方式。

1985 年秋天，一群美洲狮威胁着整个社区，三位五年级的好朋友克里斯、乔和特德的故事在帕洛阿尔托的郊区天堂展开。

导演屠忠训在筹拍《某年某月的某一天》期间不幸遭遇车祸身亡，张艾嘉毛遂自荐，续拍影片，并改名为《旧梦不须记》。

Like many Black and Latino teenagers in his neighborhood, Gerald Hart finds adventure and relief from the pressure of poverty and disappointment by leaping from the roof of an abandoned building known throughout his community as the “Club House”. There, in spite of obvious dangers, he imitates Superman and finds happiness.., but the unhappy side of Gerald is gaining ground. He contemplates suicide and, thereby, encounters a strange spiritual phenomenon. “Sky Captain” showcases Reggae, Rap music and Breakdance. “Sky Captain” is original drama Written and Directed by Neema Barnette. Based on the impact of her observations as a former New York City school teacher.

温迪（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）是个生活在纽约、38岁的剧作家，她的工作只能勉强维持生活，没有婚姻，与一个有妇之夫维持着不正当关系，生活堪称一团混乱；她有个生活得很潇洒的哥哥乔恩（菲利普· 塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰），在水牛城做大学教授，看上去春风得意，但也有自己的烦恼——女友即将离开他回东欧，他很伤心，但因不愿结婚没有挽留。一日，获悉父亲（菲利普·鲍斯科 Philip Bosco 饰）得了老年痴呆，许久未联系的兄妹二人重聚在一起，将父亲安顿到疗养院，尽到轮换照料他的责任。在这个麻烦和争吵不断过程中，两兄妹回忆起儿时父亲专制、不负责任的往事，对照二人现今各自的孤独，重新思考了“家庭”的意义，而父亲的死亡也终要到来……

Mirja must find her place after serving jail time. When she gets a job as a hotel cleaner she starts living a double life. She's torn between her sick mother and her old group of friends, who have always been her real family.

法兰基（杰克•麦克艾尔 饰）随母亲莉兹（艾米莉•莫迪默 饰）与外婆搬到了苏格兰。九岁的他是个失聪儿童，聪明懂事，对父亲充满期待。他经常给船员父亲写信，还挂着父亲所在的船的航海图。可是他不知道，一切都是母亲的善意的谎言，虚构了父亲的一切，事实上他们到处搬家就是想要摆脱父亲残酷的家庭暴力。而每一封“父亲的回信”都是莉兹所写的，为了就是不让儿子难过。
法兰基得知父亲的船即将靠岸了，想见父亲一面。莉兹没想到真的有这样的一艘船存在又不忍心告诉儿子所有真相，只好在朋友的帮助下找了一名陌生男子（杰拉德•巴特勒 饰）假扮父亲，可爱的法兰基很讨他的喜欢。
他们三人相处愉快，正当“丈夫”要离开，莉兹告诉了他法兰基的失聪是因为真正丈夫的施暴。而他们之间也似乎有着若有似无的感情。
莉兹拒绝了即将逝世的丈夫戴维要见儿子的要求，不久她便告诉法兰基，父亲已经逝世了。莉兹又取得了儿子的信，原来聪明的法兰基已洞悉一切……

衣笠幸夫（本木雅弘 饰）是一位小有名气的作家，和妻子夏子（深津绘里 饰）结婚多年，感情早已经由最初的炙热走向了平淡。尽管夏子一直以自己的温柔和坦诚包容着幸夫，但幸夫不仅不为所动，甚至以冷漠和粗暴回应，只因为幸夫的心里已经有了另外一个女人福永（黑木华 饰）。
某日，夏子和 好友（堀内敬子 饰）结伴出游，哪知道乘坐的大巴半路上遭遇了车祸，两人不幸遇难。得知了妻子死去的消息，幸夫虽然内心里没有一丝波动，却还是在表面上装作悲痛的模样。之后，幸夫的生活陷入了混乱之中，负责他的编辑唾弃他，福永也离开了他，直到有一天，夏子好友的丈夫找到了幸夫，拜托他帮忙照顾自己的两个孩子，在此过程中，幸夫渐渐学会了正视自己的软弱和不堪，重新找到了人生的意义。

Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.

在某老人护理机构供职的山岸佐和（安藤樱 饰）长久以来一直照顾生活不能自理的老人昭三（织本顺吉 饰）。某天昭三的女儿向其提出一个匪夷所思的要求，虽然有些勉强，佐和还是应承了下来，谁曾想这一决定竟彻底改变了她的命运。突如其来的灾难让佐和丢掉了工作，进而流落街头。在四处闲逛的时候，她先后邂逅了康夫（井上龙夫 饰）、阿茂（坂田利夫 饰）、义男（津川雅彦 饰）等有着各种各样怪癖和坏毛病的老年人。佐和就像恶意满满的魔女，不由分说闯入老人们的生活。她霸道地纠正老人们的恶习，却也为他们带来了久违的关怀……
本片根据导演安藤桃子依据自身护理经验撰写的小说改编。

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine's mother Elisabeth. She then kidnaps Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up North.

16岁的珍妮是一个聪明开朗的小姑娘，就读于英国伦敦乡下一所女子学校的预科班，她的成绩很好，是众所期待考上牛津大学的“种子选手”。某天，她遇见了成熟时髦、风趣迷人的男人大卫，并闪电般地与他陷入爱河不可自拔。大卫带她见识了大都市的灯红酒绿和浮华奢靡，这一直是她非常向往的生活。在此之前她从来未曾想过，这种生活如此轻易就能得到。很快她就沉迷其中不可自拔，备考牛津的念头也被抛诸到九霄云外。　　与大卫一起的日子看起来是如此美妙，但是某一天，真相却如一记砖头重重地敲在珍妮头上。她从一个天真活泼的女学生变成了一个世故圆滑的女人，她开始反思这种生活是否真的是她想要的……