On a 1980s evening, the topmost clown-actor of the 20th century Sichuan opera, Qiu Fu passes away in an accident and half-unwillingly sets off for the Ghost City under the escort of two underworld officials. Along the way, he meets old friends. As they recall the past, a history of the living is conjured up.
Denne Oscarbelønnede dokumentar fortæller den grufulde historie om fem ungarske jøder, der gennemgik Holocausts rædsler og Hitler's styre.
Den erfarne og prisvindende filmskaber Patricio Guzmáns visuelle mesterværk LYSETS NOSTALGI viser en nations smerte, glæder og hemmeligheder. I Chiles Atacama-ørken ser astronomer dybt ind i kosmos i deres søgen efter svar om oprindelsen af liv. Ikke langt derfra leder en gruppe kvinder i sandet efter ligdele af deres kære, efterladt af Pinochets regime...
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is dependent on his overbearing family. In the summer of 1923, he met Dora Diamant in the seaside resort Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea coast, where he is convalescing and she is working in a Jewish Volksheim. He is a man of world, the 14 years younger woman is from the deep East, he can write, she can dance. She has both feet firmly on the ground, he is always hovering a little above it. She embraces the indicative, he gets tangled up in the conjunctive. But the worldly wise Dora accepts him as he is. And he accepts her. Together they go to Berlin and when Franz's health deteriorates rapidly, to a sanatorium in Austria. They are granted a single year together until Franz Kafka's health deteriorates incurable. However their year together allows them to feel the glory of life.
An organization races against time to uncover the mastermind behind the placement of 13 bombs in Jakarta before the city falls into chaos.
Enzo Jannacci navigated between several genres because he was a "genre" in his own.
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Mathew Devassy, a retired bank manager decides to enter local panchayat elections. Unexpectedly, his wife Omana, shocks everyone by filing for divorce, claiming that Mathew is a homosexual.
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
Året er 1963. Stedet: Hamburg, Tyskland. En ældre jødisk mand begår selvmord og efterlader en dagbog, der falder i hænderne på en freelance journalist, Peter Miller. Dagbogen dokumenterer de ubeskrivelige grusomheder, tortur og massemord, der er blevet begået af SS kaptajn Eduard Roschmann, som under krigen var kommandør i den berygtede udryddelseslejr i Riga, Letland. Miller påbegynder en personlig menneskejagt for at opspore Roschmann, en jagt, som fører ham direkte ind i hjertet af ODESSA, en magtfuld og hemmelig organisation, som blev dannet af SS for at beskytte og genetablere dens skjulte medlemmer overalt i verden. Da Miller finder frem til Roschmann, opdager han, at den tidligere nazist nu er leder af et våbenfirma, hvis produktion har uhyggelige internationale konsekvenser.
A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Getting engaged. Getting iced. Getting a mind-blowing butt massage. Fortune Feimster shares uproarious stories from her life in this stand-up special.
Efter ordre fra en hensynsløs kriminel chef skal en flugtchauffør kæmpe mod sin samvittighed og køre et intetanende besætningsmedlem til henrettelse i et baghold. Der er en lang køretur forude.
Emily Young, a senior, wants to be elected as her sorority's president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win, until a string of fatalities implicate the sloth as the main suspect in the murders.
Til møder med sin terapeut fortæller Yvan historier om antisemitisme, og hvad det vil sige at leve som jøde i Frankrig i dag.