Lone Star (1996)

Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

After the discovery of a skeleton in an ancient shooting range in a little town in Texas. The sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) embarks on an investigation that will make him revive the past of his father (Matthew McConaughey), also a sheriff of the town and his predecessor (Kris Kristofferson). Also intertwined are Otis (Ron Canada) as the owner of the African-American bar of the town, the colonel of the almost closed military base (Joe Morton) and Sam’s old flame Pilar (Elisabeth Pena) and her mother Mercedes (Miriam Colon).

The Passenger (Professione: reporter)

The Passenger (Professione : reporter) (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)

David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a television journalist making a documentary film on post-colonial Africa. To finish the film, he is in the Sahara desert seeking to meet with and interview rebel fighters involved in Chad's civil war. Struggling to find rebels to interview, his frustrations reach a climax when his Land Rover gets hopelessly stuck on a sand dune. After a long walk through the desert back to his hotel a thoroughly glum Locke finds that an Englishman by the name of Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), who has also been staying there and with whom he had struck up a friendship, has died overnight in his hotel room.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970)

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.