A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
L'impulsiu Luke Jackson ha estat condemnat a dos anys de treballs forçats. El delicte va ser trencar en plena borratxera un pal d'aparcament. La vida al penal és duríssima: ha de conviure amb presos condemnats per delictes molt greus i, a més, la violència tant dels presos com dels carcellers ha esdevingut un hàbit impossible d'eradicar. Luke és un veterà de guerra que no està disposat a cedir, però haurà de pagar un alt preu per continuar sent qui és.
L'any 2035, el condemnat James Cole es proposa de mala gana per ser enviat en el temps per descobrir l'origen d'un virus mortal que va acabar amb gairebé tota la població de la terra i va obligar els supervivents a entrar en comunitats subterrànies. Però quan Cole és enviat per error al 1990 en lloc del 1996, és arrestat i tancat en un hospital psiquiàtric. Allà coneix la psiquiatra Dra. Kathryn Railly i el pacient Jeffrey Goines, fill d'un famós expert en virus, que pot tenir la clau del misteriós grup canalla, l'Exèrcit dels 12 Micos, que es creu que és el responsable de desencadenar la malaltia assassina.
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
L'univers personal de Serguei Paradjànov troba la seva font d'inspiració en l'obra de Sayat Nova. El cineasta s'endinsa en la ment i la poesia d’aquest trobador armeni del segle XVIII per plasmar en imatges eternes la seva biografia d'una manera tan lliure com el pensament.
Tot i que John Robie 'El Gat' és un lladre de joies reformat, es converteix en el principal sospitós d'una sèrie de robatoris de pedres precioses als més luxosos hotels de la Riviera francesa, així que no tindrà més remei que demostrar la seva innocència. Quan coneix la capritxosa hereva Frances, veu l'oportunitat de desemmascarar el misteriós lladre utilitzant com a esquer les fabuloses joies de la mare de la jove.
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
Diversos clans yakuza s'enfronten en una lluita implacable per aconseguir el poder i la protecció del Padrí. Durant molts anys, Otomo ha vist com progressaven els seus col·legues dels tatuatges elaborats, i les falanges seccionades han passat a les altes finances. Dins d'un món on regnen la corrupció, la traïció i la venjança, els seus esforços per arribar al cim, o almenys sobreviure, no s'acaben mai, perquè en aquest món no existeixen els herois.
Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang.
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Un venedor de begudes alcohòliques és víctima d'un atracament durant el qual maten un policia i prenen com a ostatges dues persones. Arriben l'inspector Harry Callahan i el seu col·lega Di Georgio, i solucionen el problema, però el tiroteig ha causat estralls per valor de 15.000 dòlars. L'endemà traslladen Harry al servei de personal, on s'avorreix molt malgrat la presència de Kate Moore, que es prepara per ser inspector. A la nit roben uns quants llançagranades en un dipòsit d'armes. Di Georgio i el seu nou company sorprenen els lladres, però fugen després de matar els dos policies. Harry torna a la brigada després que Bressler, el seu superior, ha rebut un missatge d'un grup terrorista que li demana un milió de dòlars per no fer una sèrie d'atemptats.
After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She asks her best friend Philippe to get her pregnant, and he reluctantly agrees, on the condition that they conceive somewhere in a desert, so they leave Montréal on a 24-hour round-trip to Salt Lake City to find a suitable spot.
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Després de la mort del científic Seth Brundle a conseqüència dels seus experiments sobre la transmissió de la matèria, una empresa de recerca genètica, que estava al corrent dels seus descobriments, aconsegueix que la seva companya sentimental tingui el nadó que esperava. El petit, a causa dels gens del seu pare, pateix una alteració cromosomàtica que accelera de manera vertiginosa el creixement.