Allan Stewart Königsberg is an American Actor, Director, Writer and Comedian. He has won an Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and four David di Donatello Awards. He's known for Midnight in Paris (2011), Annie Hall (1977) and Blue Jasmine (2013).
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet-set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
A drama set in New York City in the late 1950s. 'Wonder Wheel' tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotion...
LA, in the 30s. Young Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood looking to get a job in the office of his uncle, Phil (Steve Carell), a veteran and powerful agent. Bobby is the youngest son of a Jewish family in 1930s N...
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Set in the south of France in the 1920s during the glamorous Jazz Age, it’s a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake.. What follows is a series of events th...
Ingmar Bergman's home on Fårö island occupies something of a mythical status among legendary filmmakers as Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tomas Alfredson, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Takeshi ...
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents
Housewife Jasmine was once wealthy and famous in New York society, but now she is broke and even homeless. She is forced to move to San Francisco to live with Ginger, her working-class sister, in a small apartment with her boyfrie...
This documentary focuses on the role of the casting director in movie making and particularly on Marion Dougherty. She began work in the late 1940s sending up and coming young actors to be cast in the then new medium of television...
It will consist of four vignettes, in one of which a husband (Woody Allen) and his wife (Judy Davis) travel to Rome and meet the family of the Italian man their daughter is going to marry. Another of the vignettes will feature Rob...
A slightly bohemian american writer (Owen Wilson) arrives with his fiancee (Rachel McAdams) and her parents to Paris. As he wanders the streets dreaming of the 1920s, he falls under one spell, and then the magic happens: at midnig...
A little romance, some sex, some treachery and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into assorted troubles that run the gamut from ludicrous to danger...
Woody Allen returns to New York with an offbeat comedy about a crotchety misanthrope (Larry David) and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south (Evan Rachel Wood). When her uptight parents, arrive to rescue her, they ...
Two young American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, ...
Cassandra’s Dream is the story of two brothers, their problems (blind ambition and compulsive gambling), their family, their women, their romance, passion and their chasing of dreams which end in terrible tragedy. It is a movie ...
In Woody Allen’s new contemporary comedy, a student journalist (Scarlett Johansson) for a college paper visiting friends in London happens upon the scoop of a lifetime. Along the investigative trail, she finds magic, murder, mys...
Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, "When Will I Be Loved" -- a movie made without a script or distribution deal. The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time...
Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women and finding no way out, resorts to extreme action. The actors are all English and ...
Melinda and Melinda combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of crises that give great reign to the funny and serio...
American film historian and author Richard Schickel directs the documentary Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin. Schickel offers an exploration into Chaplin's life, from his childhood in London until his death in 1977. Th...
Young, aspiring writer Jerry Falk theoretically has his whole life before him. But he’s been attending psychoanalysis for some time, his career is going nowhere and his girlfriend no longer feels sexually attracted to him. David...
A neurotic film director gets a chance to make a come-back movie but finds the people producing it and allowing him this golden opportunity are his ex-wife whom he has bad relations with and the man who stole her away who now head...
Narrated by Tom Cruise, "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures" goes through each one of his movies and talks to various participants about their memories of working with Kubrick. For those who know very little about Kubrick, the do...
In 1940, CW Briggs is the top insurance investigator in New York--or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald. Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the ...
Finding out that his wife has been cheating on him, a butcher named Tex murders his wife in a fit of fury. To get rid of the body, he decides to cut it into pieces and bury it in the desert, but loses one of her hands on the way. ...
Sick of washing dishes, Ray Winkler unites a gang of robbers for the job of their lives. The front: a cookie store next to the bank in which his wife will be working while they dig an underground tunnel into the strongroom. The he...
Master guitar-playing jazz genius of the 30s, Emmet Ray is only rivalled by the man with whom he is obsessed: the legendary Django Reinhardt. The off-stage Emmet is an arrogant, uncouth womanizer who drinks too much and gets off s...
At 40, Lee Simon feels that he’s not made the most of life. He writes travel features and interviews people from the world of showbiz, but dreams of selling a book or a screenplay to boost his social prestige. Since his divorce,...
Harry Block (Woody Allen), despite the onset of middle age, has never really grown up. He has established a reputation as a novelist but has already spent his latest advance from his publisher without writing a word of his latest ...
Woody Allen and Peter Falk star as the former comedy partners who, after years of animosity, agree to reunite for a big-budget movie, only to have their long-simmering feud boil over again. Sarah Jessica Parker, Edie Falco, Liev S...
Steffi and Bob are married, rich, liberal and socially committed. Steffi was married to Joe, a guy unlucky with women, with whom she had a slightly unstable daughter. Bob has a conservative son, a daughter who has endangered her m...
In New York, Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter) convinces his husband Lenny (Woody Allen) to adopt a child. Years later, after he proves to be extremely intelligent, the adoptive father sets out to find the biological mother who, he be...
Mid-Cold War. An American family on holiday in the Eastern Europe of the 60s, the Hollanders find themselves in deep water when Walter, the father, takes a photograph of a sunset beside a restricted military area. They are obliged...
The 20s. David Shayne, a down-and-out playwright, has finally obtained funding for one of his plays. On one condition: one of the parts is to be played by Olive, useless girlfriend of the producer, gangster Nick Valenti. Olive tur...
Carol Lipton (Diane Keaton) suspects that her aged neighbour Paul House (Jerry Adler) has murdered his wife, found dead seemingly due to a heart attack. Her husband Larry (Woody Allen), thinks she’s paranoid and tries to get the...
The announcement that Jack (Sydney Pollack) and Sally (Judy Davis), two of their best friends, are separating, sparks off a crisis between Gabe (Woody Allen) and his wife, Judy (Mia Farrow) similarly gradually realising that thei...
A strangler is sowing panic in the city, cloaked in a dense fog. The insignificant Kleinman is wakened in the middle of the night to participate in a plan ending with the criminal’s arrest. But his specific role in this plan is ...
Married to a man who underestimates her, Alice lives an empty, comfortable life between exclusive boutiques, massage parlours and gossip at the hairdresser’s. She’d like to write and get more familiar with a man she met at her...
A brilliant, selfish painter has a difficult relationship with an aspiring artist (Martin Scorsese’s Life Lessons). A millionnaire child is determined to bring her always absent parents back together again (Francis Ford Coppola...
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Judah and Clifford are each faced with their own dilemma and its gravity. Judah, a reputed eye specialist, plans to end his relationship with his mistress Dolores, who threatens to tell all and ruin his life if he leaves her. His ...
Brilliant philosophy lecturer Marion Post has asked for sabbatical leave to write a book. One day she discovers that while working in her studio she can hear the psychoanalysis sessions taking place in the next door surgery. A pat...
In the last days of August, Diane, a former filmstar full of life, and her companion visit her daughter Lane at her country house. Lane is a depressive woman, marked by the murder, when she was a child, of the lover of the mother ...
These are the 40s, the golden age of radio, when the peculiar members of a working-class New York family live with the set on all day long. The music, tear-jerking dramas, stories about super-heroes, competitions, reports on high ...
Hannah seems to have a balanced, perfect life. A successful actress, exemplary wife and mother, she has become the centre of gravity and reference for her entire family. Her sisters, a lot less lucky, turn to her when they need ad...
It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she returns time and again to escape from reality and dream of a w...
In a Broadway restaurant a group of comedians exchange old stories about the world of showbiz. As the conversation progresses, they recall Danny Rose, an agent who took on some of the most disastrous artists in the trade and whom ...
Mock documentary on the figure of Leonard Zelig, a chameleon of a man who astounded the American society of the “jazz era”. His story starts the day he tells a lie on claiming to have read Moby Dick simply not to feel out of t...
Early 20th century. Three couples meet for a weekend in the country: an inventor who has created a “spirit-catching ball” and his wife, who has sex problems; a rationalist and pompous philosophy lecturer and his fiancée, much...
A movie director specializing in comedies, Sandy Bates attends a retrospective on his work in a coastal hotel. While everyone around him wants to meet him and shower praise upon him, Bates withdraws into himself to take a look at ...
Isaac’s sentimental life isn’t perfect. His ex-wife is writing a book revealing the couple’s intimacies. Although he’s dating Tracy, a student much younger than himself, he has started to really like his best friend’s mi...
Eve, whose husband Arthur has walked out on her, joins her three daughters to try and deal with the situation. Although she’s having a hard time, her daughters have their problems too, a number of which arise from Eve’s stilte...
Allen's masterpiece is still perhaps his sharpest and wittiest work to date (though some would argue that belongs to Manhattan). In this ultimate of crowd pleasers, Allen adroitly puts his finger on the social milieu of the '70s a...
During the years of the “witch hunt”, TV scriptwriter Alfred Miller is one of the writers condemned to ostracism for his left-wing ideals. In order to be able to continue working, he offers money to Howard Prince, an ex-fellow...
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