Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners. A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining. Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey's young nephew John.
Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.
This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few). Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).
Six unused scenes from WHERE LIES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE One of the more priceless of the bagatelles in this collection features a lounging Jean-Marie Straub who gives a non-stop disquisition on liberty and filmmaking while Danièle Huillet busies herself with laundry, and their dog Melchior frisks in and out of frame.
一次偶然中,雷吉纳(桑迪·牛顿 Thandie Newton 饰)邂逅了名为查理(斯蒂芬·迪兰 Stephen Dillane 饰)的男子,两人很快就坠入了爱河,并且决定携手步入婚姻的殿堂。可新婚的甜蜜劲过去之后,雷吉纳发现查理是一个背负了许多秘密的男人,这个整天躺在自己身边的男人,自己或许对他毫不了解。于是,雷吉纳决定去旅行散心,顺便思考一下自己的这段草率的婚姻。 可是,当雷吉纳返回巴黎住所后,等待着她的并非查理,而是空空如也的房间,以及自称是查理同伴的三个陌生人。三人告诉雷吉纳,查理手上拿着本该和他们平分的一大笔钱,如今查理失踪了,身为他的妻子,雷吉纳有责任供出这笔钱的下落。
故事发生在1880年的澳大利亚,警察和黑帮之间的关系已经降到了冰点,所有人都知道,事态再照这样发展下去,一场恶斗在所难免。土匪阿瑟(丹尼·休斯顿 Danny Huston 饰)的举动让事件向更糟的方向发展而去,他在小镇居民霍普金斯家展开了一场血腥残暴的大屠杀后逃之夭夭。 看到兄弟已然丧失了理智,查尔斯(盖·皮尔斯 Guy Pearce 饰)决定带着麦克(理查德·威尔森 Richard Wilson 饰)远走高飞。在关键时刻,斯坦利警长(雷·温斯顿 Ray Winstone 饰)制服了查尔斯,绑架了麦克,他以麦克的性命为筹码,要求查尔斯杀掉丧心病狂的阿瑟。两边都是手足情深的兄弟,查尔斯陷入了艰难的抉择之中。