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A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. Director: Terry Gilliam. Writer: Richard LaGravenese. Stars: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant . Plot Jack Lucas, a narcissistic, misanthropic shock jock, becomes suicidal and despondent after his insensitive on-air comments inadvertently prompt an unstable caller to commit a mass murder-suicide at a Manhattan restaurant. Three years later, Jack is working for his girlfriend Anne in a video store in a mostly drunken, depressed state. One night, while on a bender, he contemplates suicide. However, he is attacked and nearly set on fire by thugs who mistake him for a homeless person. He is rescued by Parry, a deluded homeless man who claims his mission is to find the Holy Grail. Parry tries to enlist Jack's help in getting the grail, explaining that the Fisher King was charged by God with finding the Holy Grail, but incurred an incapacitating wound for his sin of pride. 'A Fool asks the King why he suffers, and when the King says he is thirsty, the Fool gives him a cup of water to drink. The King realizes the cup is the Grail and asks, "How did you find what my brightest and bravest could not?" The Fool said "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."' Jack is initially reluctant but feels acquiesces after learning that he is partially responsible for Parry's current condition. Parry, whose real name is Henry Sagan, had been a teacher at Hunter College. After witnessing his wife's gruesome death at the same mass shooting Jack had provoked, Henry had a psychotic break and became catatonic. When he woke, he had taken the persona of Parry and became obsessed with the legend of the Fisher King. With Parry as his shielding persona, mentions of reality panic him and he is continually haunted by a terrifying, hallucinatory Red Knight.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00377 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A psychotic socialite attempts to force a professional tennis star to prove a theory that two complete strangers can get away with murder. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writers: Raymond Chandler (screen play), Czenzi Ormonde (screen play). Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman. Plot Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) wants to divorce his vulgar, promiscuous wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) so he can marry the elegant Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a senator, and hopefully have a career in politics. On a train, Haines accidentally meets Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), who recognizes Guy from the sports pages and knows about his situation from the gossip pages. Bruno tells Guy about his idea for the perfect murder scheme: the two should "swap murders". Bruno will kill Miriam; in exchange, Guy will kill Bruno's hated father. Each murderer will kill a total stranger with no identifiable motive, so neither will be suspected. Guy does not take Bruno's suggestion seriously; he humors Bruno by pretending to find it amusing, but Bruno interprets Guy's response as agreement to the scheme. Guy lets Bruno light a cigarette with his (Guy's) monogrammed lighter; eager to get away from Bruno, Guy forgets to take the lighter when he leaves the train, and Bruno keeps it. Guy meets with Miriam, who is pregnant by someone else, at her workplace. She tells him that she is no longer willing to agree to a divorce. She threatens to follow Guy to Washington, D.C. and cause a scandal, saying that the baby is his. They argue loudly in front of Miriam's co-workers before Guy leaves. Guy calls Anne with the bad news and, speaking figuratively, tells her he would like to "break [Miriam's] neck" … that he could "strangle her." Meanwhile, Bruno follows Miriam and her new beau to an amusement park, stalks her through various rides, and strangles her to death on the "Magic Isle". While this is happening, Guy is on a train; the only other person in his car is an inebriated university professor. When Guy arrives home, Bruno arrives and they talk across the street in the shadows. Bruno tells a horrified Guy that Miriam is dead and that Guy must honor his part of the deal and kill Bruno's father. During this conversation the police arrive to talk to Guy, but they leave when he doesn't answer his door.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00378 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Writer: Ernest Lehman. Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Plot It is 1958. At a New York City hotel bar, two thugs looking for "George Kaplan" see a waiter calling his name; at the same time advertising executive Roger Thornhill summons a waiter (to help send a telegram to his mother). Thornhill is then mistaken for "George Kaplan" and is kidnapped. Thornhill is brought to the Long Island estate of Lester Townsend and is interrogated by spy Phillip Vandamm. Despite Thornhill denying he is George Kaplan, Vandamm thinks he is lying and has his henchman Leonard arrange Thornhill's death in a staged drunken driving accident. Thornhill miraculously manages to steer away from danger but is soon arrested for driving under the influence and is taken to the Glen Cove, New York police station. The next morning, Thornhill tries but fails to convince his mother and the police that he had been kidnapped and forcibly inebriated. Journeying to the scene of the crime with police, a woman at Townsend's home, presumed to be Mrs. Townsend, says he showed up drunk at her dinner party. She also informs them that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat. While searching Kaplan's hotel room with his mother, Thornhill answers a phone call from the thugs who are in the hotel lobby. He escapes and visits the U.N. General Assembly building to meet Townsend. He discovers that Townsend is not the man he met on Long Island, and that Townsend is a widower. As Thornhill questions Townsend, one of the thugs throws a knife, hitting Townsend in the back, killing him. Thornhill catches Townsend as he falls and grabs the knife, giving the appearance that he murdered Townsend. A nearby photographer captures the crime and Thornhill flees. Thornhill attempts to find the real Kaplan.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00379 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Two sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday. Director: Catherine Breillat. Writer: Catherine Breillat. Stars: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo. Plot Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) and her older sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida) are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginity. Although the highly attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving herself for someone who loves her, while heavy-set, overweight Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with. They meet an Italian law student, Fernando (Libero De Rienzo), at a cafe. While Elena flirts with him, Anaïs orders a banana split. Later, Fernando sneaks into the girls' bedroom for a liaison with Elena. Anaïs is awake and watches their entire interaction. After a conversation about Fernando's previous relationships with other women, Elena consents to have sex with him, but backs out at the last minute. Frustrated, Fernando pressures her through various means, including threatening to sleep with some other woman just to alleviate himself. Finally, Elena is coerced into anal sex as a "proof of love", although it is obviously a painful experience for her. In the morning, Fernando asks for oral sex from Elena before he leaves, but Anaïs has had enough and tells them to let her sleep in peace. The next day, the girls and Fernando go to the beach. Anaïs sits in the ocean in her new dress and sings to herself while Elena and Fernando go off alone together. Later, as the girls are reminiscing about their childhood together back at the house, Elena reveals that Fernando has given her a mauve opal engagement ring while at the beach. That night, Elena gives up her virginity to Fernando as Anaïs silently cries on the other side of the room.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00381 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again. Director: Michael Tolkin. Writer: Michael Tolkin. Stars: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson. Plot Sharon, a young Los Angeles woman, engages in a swinging, libidinous lifestyle. She comes into contact with a sect that advises her that the Rapture is imminent. In time, she comes to accept this belief herself and becomes a born-again Christian. She then starts living a pious life, eventually marrying and having a daughter, Mary. When her husband Randy is killed in a senseless murder, however, she begins to question the benevolence of God. She believes God has called her to go to the desert to wait for the Rapture, and instead of leaving her daughter safely with friends, she decides Mary must come with her. Foster, a police officer, is concerned for their well-being after they are reduced to stealing food while they wait, but Sharon is insistent that the end is near. Sharon begins to despair after a period of time and, at her daughter's urging, decides to hasten their ascendance to heaven. She kills Mary with a gunshot but is unable to take her own life afterwards, afraid she will be condemned as having killed herself. She confesses to Foster what she had done and is jailed.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00382 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is a 1986 American psychological horror crime film directed and co-written by John McNaughton about the random crime spree of a serial killer who seemingly operates with impunity. It stars Michael Rooker as the nomadic killer Henry, Tom Towles as Otis, a prison buddy with whom Henry is living, and Tracy Arnold as Becky, Otis's sister. The characters of Henry and Otis are loosely based on real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Plot Henry is a drifter who murders scores of people – men, women, and children – as he travels through America. He migrates to Chicago, where he stops at a diner, eats dinner, and kills two waitresses. Otis, a drug dealer and prison friend of Henry's, picks up his sister Becky, who left her abusive husband, at the airport. Otis brings Becky back to the apartment he shares with Henry. Later that night, as Henry and Becky play cards, Becky asks Henry about the murder of his mother, the crime that landed him in prison. He tells her he stabbed his mother because she abused and humiliated him as a child, though he later claims he shot her. Becky reveals that her father raped her as a teenager. The next day, Becky gets a job in a hair salon. That evening, Henry kills two prostitutes in front of Otis. Otis, though shocked, feels no remorse. He does, however, worry that the police might catch them. Henry assures him that everything will work out. Back at their apartment, Henry explains his philosophy: the world is "them or us". Henry and Otis go on a killing spree together. Henry says that every murder should have a different modus operandi so the police will not connect various murders to one perpetrator. He also explains that it is important never to stay in the same place for too long; by the time police know they are looking for a serial killer, he can be long gone. Henry tells Otis that he will have to leave Chicago soon. The pair then slaughter a family, while recording the whole incident on their video camera, then watch it back at their apartment.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00375 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. Director: Anthony Minghella. Writers: Michael Ondaatje (novel), Anthony Minghella (screenplay). Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe. Plot In the final days of the Italian Campaign of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, obtains permission from her unit to move into a bombed-out Italian monastery, to look after a dying, critically burned man who speaks English but cannot remember his name. The patient's only possession is a copy of Herodotus' Histories with notes, pictures and mementos contained inside. They are soon joined by Kip, a Sikh sapper in the British Army posted with his sergeant to clear mines and unexploded bombs in the local area, including one in the monastery where Hana and the English Patient are residing. David Caravaggio, a Canadian Intelligence Corps operative who has no thumbs as a result of torture during a German interrogation, also arrives to stay at the monastery. Caravaggio questions the patient, who gradually reveals his past to him, Hana and Kip through a series of flashbacks. The patient tells Hana and Caravaggio that, in the late 1930s, he was exploring a region of the Sahara Desert near the Egyptian-Libyan border. He is revealed to be Hungarian cartographer Count László de Almásy, who was mapping the Sahara as part of a Royal Geographical Society archeological and surveying expedition in Egypt and Libya with a group including his good friend, Englishman Peter Madox. Their expedition is joined by a British couple, Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton, who own a new plane and are to contribute to the aerial survey efforts. Almásy is given clues by a local Bedouin man which help the group to discover the location of the Cave of Swimmers, an ancient site of cave paintings in the Gilf Kebir. The group begin to document their find, during which time Almásy falls in love with Katharine. He writes about her in notes folded into his book, which Katharine discovers when Almásy awkwardly accepts her offer of two watercolours she has painted of the cave imagery, and asks her to paste them into the book. The two begin an affair on their return to Cairo, while the group arranges for more detailed archaeological surveys of the cave and the surrounding area. Almásy buys a silver thimble in the market as a gift to Katharine. Some months later, Katharine abruptly ends their affair from fear her husband Geoffrey will discover it. Shortly afterwards the archaeological projects are halted due to the onset of the war. Madox leaves his Tiger Moth aeroplane at Kufra Oasis before his intended return to Britain.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00373 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

La historia de Wyatt Earp cuando interactúa y lucha contra otras figuras famosas de la época del salvaje oeste. Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Escritores: Dan Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan. Estrellas: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman. Argumento La película presenta una mirada más a la vida de Wyatt Earp, su labor para restablecer la ley en Tombstone, y el famoso Tiroteo en el O.K. Corral, entre la familia Earp y los Clanton. La trama comienza con la juventud de Earp en California y sus vivencias en un mundo de brutalidad propia del Oeste. Earp desarrolla la capacidad de reaccionar efectivamente ante agresiones de matones e ilegales y esto le vale ser nombrado alguacil en un pueblo donde impera sólo la ley del más fuerte. Earp con su gestión gana fama de ser un sheriff duro, enérgico e intransigente con quienes no respetan la ley colocando el pueblo de Dodge City en orden, y su fama trasciende las fronteras estatales. Además se gana muchos enemigos. Sólo tiene además de sus hermanos un solo amigo, Doc Holliday, un ex-médico aquejado de una tuberculosis en progreso y quien lo secunda y apoya en sus acciones. Earp además está casado con Urilla Sutherland, una mujer a la que no ama y su relación con ella es tormentosa debido a sus exigencias de amor, por lo que se mantiene alejado de ella. Sus hermanos obtienen empleos de policía en el pequeño poblado de Tombstone, Arizona, donde el desorden, las bandas de desalmados como los Clanton y otras, provocan a gusto desórdenes callejeros.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00371 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal. Director: Wim Wenders. Writers: Wim Wenders (screenplay by), Peter Handke (screenplay by). Stars: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander. Plot In a Berlin divided by the Berlin Wall, two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants. They observe and listen to the thoughts of Berliners, including a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a young prostitute standing by a busy road, and a broken man who feels betrayed by his wife. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they were in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were any humans. Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who dreams of an "epic of peace". Cassiel follows the old man as he looks for the then-demolished Potsdamer Platz in an open field, and finds only the graffiti-covered Wall. Although Damiel and Cassiel are pure observers, visible only to children, and incapable of any interaction with the physical world, Damiel begins to fall in love with a profoundly lonely circus trapeze artist named Marion. She lives by herself in a caravan in West Berlin, until she receives the news that her group, the Circus Alekan, will be closing down. Depressed, she dances alone to the music of Crime & the City Solution, and drifts through the city. Meanwhile, actor Peter Falk arrives in West Berlin to make a film about the city's Nazi past. Falk was once an angel, who, having grown tired of always observing and never experiencing, renounced his immortality to become a participant in the world. Also growing weary of infinity, Damiel's longing is for the genuineness and limits of human existence. He meets Marion in a dream, and is surprised when Falk senses his presence and tells him about the pleasures of human life.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00370 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate. Director: Robert Fuest. Writers: Emily Brontë (novel) (as Emily Bronte), Patrick Tilley (screenplay). Stars: Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews. Wuthering Heights is a 1970 film directed by Robert Fuest. It is based on the classic Emily Brontë novel of the same name. Like the 1939 version, this film depicts only the first sixteen chapters concluding with Catherine Earnshaw Linton's death and omits the trials of her daughter, Hindley's son, and Heathcliff's son. Hindley Earnshaw This film version differs from the book in several ways, and most of the differences involve Hindley Earnshaw. First it takes a more sympathetic look at Hindley. Usually portrayed as being a cruel oppressor of Heathcliff, in this version he is persecuted by his father and lives in Heathcliff's shadow. Also in this version, Nelly Dean, the narrator, is shown as being in love with Hindley and unable to express her feelings due to their class difference. After his wife's death, Hindley goes through a hedonistic stage but finally pulls himself out of it. At the end of the film, perhaps the most controversial of all the differences, Hindley succeeds in fatally shooting Heathcliff and remains the owner of Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff and Cathy's ghosts are then reunited.[citation needed] When first introducing Heathcliff, the film also suggests that Heathcliff might be Mr Earnshaw's illegitimate son and hence Cathy's half-brother.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00369 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)