Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.

Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.

Kathleen Madigan drops in on Detroit to deliver material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, and her love of John Denver and the Lunesta butterfly.

Aquesta obra cabdal del cinema negre relata la planificació i l’atracament a una joieria amb una precisió i un estudi dels personatges exemplar.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Una companyia de teatre itinerant arriba a una ciutat costanera del sud del Japó. El seu propietari i actor principal, Komajuro, visita la seva antiga amant, Oyoshi, que regenta un petit restaurant a la població, i el seu fill il·legítim, Kiyoshi, que treballa a l’oficina de correus amb la idea d’estalviar per als seus estudis universitaris. Kiyoshi creu que Komajuro és el seu oncle. A l’actual núvia de Komajuro, l’actriu principal de la companyia, no li fa gens de gràcia la seva trobada amb Oyoshi.

Després de veure morir el seu marit a mans d'un despietat caça-recompenses, una dona contracta un mercenari, anomenat Silenci, perquè acabi amb l'assassí del seu marit.

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.

Paul Javal, un dramaturg francès, accepta reescriure algunes escenes per a "L'Odissea", una pel·lícula que es rodarà a Capri sota la direcció del reconegut director alemany Fritz Lang. En una primera trobada amb el productor nord-americà, l'arrogant Prokosch, l'escriptor deixa que la seva dona, la bella Camille, se'n vagi al cotxe amb el productor a la finca d'aquest. Aquest fet donarà peu a un greu malentès entre el Javal i la seva dona, que creu que l'ha ofert com a moneda de canvi per obtenir un millor sou. Com a conseqüència d'aquesta situació, l'escriptor es veurà immers en una dolorosa crisi matrimonial.

In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), el nou director del prestigiós Huxley U, contracta dos ineptes, Baravelli i Pinky, per ajudar la seva escola a guanyar un partit de futbol davant del rival Darwin U.

Roger decideix casar-se amb la seva nòvia abans de viatjar al Japó, país on l'envia el diari on treballa. En un terratrèmol perden el fill que esperaven i es queden sense la possibilitat de tenir-ne més. Quan tornen, decideixen portar una vida més tranquil·la i es traslladen a un poblet on es fan càrrec del diari local.

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

When Marty's car is stolen, he sets out on a mission to find it; however, he soon realizes that the person who stole it is much more dangerous than he thinks.