Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Overview
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $3,193.00 |
| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 10.799 |
Directed By
Alain Resnais
Crew
Alain Resnais
Anatole Dauman
Samy Halfon
Michio Takahashi
Sacha Vierny
Jasmine Chasney
Anne Sarraute
Marguerite Duras
Alexandre Marcus
Henri Colpi
Giovanni Fusco
Georges Delerue
Minoru Esaka
Mayo
Petri
Lucilla Mussini
Gerard Collery
Sacha Kamenka
Takeo Shirakawa
TOP CAST
Emmanuelle Riva
Elle
Eiji Okada
Lui
Stella Dassas
Mother
Pierre Barbaud
Father
Bernard Fresson
German Lover
Similar Movies
The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Paris
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Summer Hours
After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
The Unfaithful Wife
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.
No Man's Land
Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?
Badland
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
The Bucket
What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end? A film about the taste of home shot on iPhone XS.
Rear Window
Jason Kemp is a quadriplegic who passes the time spying on his neighbors from his window. By chance he catches one of them, Julian Thorpe, beating his wife and reports it to the police. He becomes certain that Julian has killed her, but fails to convince his nurse or his friends of any foul play.
Blast from the Past
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Vanity Fair
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
From Here to Eternity
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Life as a House
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Pretty in Pink
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
The Fourth Door
After a party, Valeria wakes up with signs of rape. Her main suspect is her friend, although evidence rules him out. The lack of proofs will mess Valeria's mind in the search for answers. Who was it?
El medallón de La Llorona
The lives of two young families who lived in the same house, starts turning upside down when they find the amulet that La Llorona uses to try to pull her children from the waters and bring them to life. While the authorities investigate what appears to be abused children, the spirit of La Llorona intensifies her attacks on those families.
Blue Jay
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
recueillement
Tom is a grossly engineered man who is getting a bit old now. Despite his age, he wants to learn to play the piano. However, his music teacher Tina is search desperate for his talent. And so Tom has to find his own language and access to music.
101 Reykjavik
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.