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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)

A struggling dentist's life is turned upside down when a famous gangster moves in next door, and his wife convinces him to inform a notorious mob boss about the gangster's whereabouts. Director: Jonathan Lynn. Writer: Mitchell Kapner. Stars: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette. Plot Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a Quebec dentist from Chicago, who happens to be genuinely likable to almost everyone who knows him. However, he is trapped in a miserable marriage to the daughter of his late business partner. His wife Sophie (Rosanna Arquette) and mother-in-law (Carmen Ferland) hate him, and his deceased father-in-law has saddled him with a lot of debt. He can't divorce his wife because her father embezzled from the dental practice, and he has nothing but debt if they separate. As the movie opens, Sophie tells Oz she needs $5000, but won't say what for. At the office, Oz and his assistant, Jill (Amanda Peet) have lunch and she tells him that his wife isn't a good person. They joke about the fact that, due to his insurance, he's worth more dead than alive, and discuss having her taken out of the picture, and Jill playfully tells him to name a price. When Oz gets home, he meets his new neighbor, "Jimmy Jones." After recognizing a tattoo on Jimmy's forearm, realizes that he's Jimmy "the Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis). Tudeski is an infamous contract killer from Chicago who was given a shorter sentence after ratting out Laszlo Gogolak and other members of the Gogolak gang. Oz runs home in a panic and explains to Sophie that their new neighour is a hitman on whom there is a contract. Sophie shows interest in the contract and in Jimmy. Later, while Jimmy asks Oz to join him for a sudden trip to the city in order to get to know each other. Oz befriends Jimmy and reveals his marriage problem: his father-in-law got involved with an underage boy, whose family blackmailed him.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00368 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial. Director: Peter Weir. Writers: William Kelley (story by), Pamela Wallace (story by). Stars: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas . Plot In 1984, an Amish community attends the funeral of Jacob Lapp, who leaves behind his wife Rachel and eight-year-old son Samuel. Later, Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, which takes them into Philadelphia. While waiting for a connecting train, Samuel goes into the men's room and witnesses two men attack and murder a third, narrowly escaping detection as he hides in the stalls. Detective John Book is assigned to the case, and he and his partner, Sergeant Elton Carter, question Samuel. It turns out the victim was an undercover police officer. Samuel is unable to identify the perpetrator from mug shots or a lineup. However, at the police station, Samuel sees a newspaper clipping of narcotics officer James McFee and points him out to John. John remembers that McFee was previously responsible for a seizure of expensive chemicals used to make black-market amphetamines, but the evidence had disappeared; John surmises that McFee sold the chemicals himself to drug-dealers, and that the murdered detective had been investigating the theft. John confides his suspicions to Chief Paul Schaeffer, who advises John to keep the case secret so they can work out how to move forward. But John is later ambushed in a parking garage and badly wounded by McFee. Since only Schaeffer knew of John's suspicions, John realizes Schaeffer is also corrupt and tipped off McFee. John calls Carter and orders him to remove the Lapp file from the records. He then hides his car and uses his sister's car to return Rachel and Samuel to Lancaster County. While attempting to return to the city, John passes out in the vehicle in front of their farm.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00367 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

En 1969, dos actores desempleados y abusadores de sustancias se retiran al campo para unas vacaciones que resultan ser desastrosas. Director: Bruce Robinson. Escritor: Bruce Robinson. Estrellas: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths. Argumento La película describe las vidas y desventuras de dos jóvenes actores sin empleo en el Londres de los últimos años 60. Son el extravagante y alcohólico Withnail, y "Yo" (llamado "Marwood" en el guion pero no en los créditos) como su relativamente más atemperado amigo y narrador de la película. Withnail viene de un entorno privilegiado y marca el tono de la amistad. Ambos viven en un sucio piso de estilo georgiano en Camden Town. Su única compañía en el piso es la del camello local, Danny. Los compañeros de piso discuten sobre el cuidado de la casa y se van a dar un paseo. En Regent's Park, discuten sobre el estado de sus carreras en la actuación y unas posibles vacaciones en el campo, decidiendo visitar al tío de Withnall, Monty, que tiene una pequeña cabaña cerca de Penrith. Tras una pelea contra un irlandés enorme y beligerante, vuelven a casa para prepararse para su viaje. Visitan a Monty esa noche en su lujosa casa de Chelsea. Monty es un esteta melodramático y Marwood se da cuenta de que es homosexual. Los tres beben brevemente juntos mientras Withnail miente casualmente a Monty sobre su carrera artística y sobre una ficticia estancia de Marwood en Eton. Antes de irse, Withnail consigue las llaves de la cabaña. El paisaje del campo es precioso, pero el clima es frío y a menudo inclemente, la cabaña no tiene agua corriente o luz, no tienen comida y los habitantes locales son desagradables (en particular un cazador furtivo, Jake, al que Withnail ofende). Ven a Jake merodeando por la cabaña. Marwood sugiere volver a Londres al día siguiente. Withnail, por otro lado, pide que compartan una cama para la seguridad de ambos, pero Marwood se niega. Durante la noche, Withnail se vuelve paranoico, pensando que el cazador va tras ellos, y se mete bajo la manta con Marwood, quien, furioso, se va a dormir a otra cama. Oyendo los ruidos de un intruso irrumpiendo en la cabaña, Withnail se une de nuevo a Marwood en la cama. El intruso resulta ser Monty, a quien se le ha pinchado una rueda del coche.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00366 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)