September 1977. Maria Callas, a world-famous opera diva in early retirement, lives in a luxurious Parisian apartment with two poodles, a cook and a butler. The job of the first, in addition to cooking, is to give Maria compliments. The second moves a huge grand piano around the house for her from morning to night, counts her pills, picks her up from restaurants and tries to convince her to talk to a specialist instead of hallucinations.
What was Mark Whitaker thinking? As an up-and-coming employee of Archer Daniels Midland Agribusiness Corporation (ADM), Whitaker suddenly becomes a snitch. Despite the fact that Whitaker reports to the FBI that the multinational company he works for is artificially keeping prices too high, he considers himself a hero, looking out for the interests of ordinary citizens and worthy of promotion. But in order to make his dreams come true, the FBI needs evidence, which is why Whitaker happily agrees to put on a special listening device, and in a briefcase to hide a tape recorder, imagining himself a kind of special agent, performing a top-secret mission.
1879. The civil war has ended in the United States. Sheriff Earp gives up his job to start a new life with his family. Meanwhile, a silver deposit is found in Tombstone, and a silver rush begins in the town. Earp and his friend, Doc Holliday, are sent to Tombstone, along with a brutal gang of killers.
1183. During the Christmas festivities, the aging King Henry II of England must name an heir. The event is attended by the king's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, who spent ten years in prison for her part in a plot against the monarch, the king's mistress, the vain princess Alais, her brother, King Philip II Augustus of France, and Henry II's three sons, Richard the Lionheart, Geoffrey and John. All members of the family hate each other. They have only one thing in common - an exorbitant thirst for power and willingness to commit any treachery for its sake.
Ever since he was a kid, Robbie Williams has felt a little wild. In an effort to show his father what he's worth, Robbie decides to take a risk and embark on a music career. However, neither the luxurious life of a millionaire nor the stadiums of fans change the way he sees himself.
1965. At the Newport Music Festival, a performance by a young Bob Dylan causes a sensation.
Without a doubt the most famous movie about Chet Baker. This incredibly harmonious black-and-white movie tells about the creative path of the maestro from the 50s of the last century to the last days of his life. Interviews with friends, relatives, a lot of archival records, photos, and of course Chet Baker himself, who as a cruel idea of the director gives us an opportunity to compare him at the beginning of his musical career - when he was fabulously popular, driving women crazy - his fashionable appearance (James Dean style), manner of dressing (tight white T-shirt) and behaving as if embarrassed. When he played the trumpet in a way that made the ladies weep, and when he sang, the same ladies lost their senses. And he's at the end-after he has a heroin addict friend in his life, after he's already spent years in a world of drug-induced oblivion, ending up in police and prison, after his face was mangled in one of the fights. Maybe because the movie was made a few months before the musician's death, throughout the whole movie, one can't help feeling that the director, as if sensing Chet's close passing, gives him a chance to say goodbye.
Vienna, 1823. Antonio Salieri, once a respected court composer to Emperor Joseph II, is living out his days in a madhouse. In his confession, he recalls his life marked by his confrontation with the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who seemed to playfully create music like the voice of heaven. Salieri, torn by envy and admiration for the genius, vowed to God to destroy his rival at all costs.
