Un fost detectiv din San Francisco este căutat de o veche cunoștință care îl roagă să îi facă o favoare: aceea de a-i urmări soția care pare a suferi de niște tulburări psihice. Povestea reală, însă, este mult mai complexă. Detectivul nu știe nimic despre asta, ci își face doar datoria. O datorie foarte plăcută, de altfel, fiindcă se îndrăgostește de soția prietenului său și ar face orice să o ajute. Orice - în limitele omenescului...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Film științifico-fantastic inspirat din romanul omonim al lui Stanislaw Lem. Patru savanți aflați la bordul unei stații orbitale unde cercetările au fost abandonate, se confruntă cu stranii și inexplicabile fenomene, determinate de curioasa planetă Solaris, alcătuită dintr-o substanță înzestrată cu proprietățile creierului omenesc.
Întrebările apar atunci când senatorul Stoddard participă la înmormântarea unui localnic pe nume Tom Doniphon într-un mic oraș din vest. În retrospectivă, aflăm că Doniphon l-a salvat pe Stoddard, pe atunci avocat, când a fost lovit de un grup de haiduci care terorizau orașul, conduși de Liberty Valance. Pe măsură ce siguranța teritoriului era în echilibru, Doniphon și Stoddard, doi dintre singurii oameni care i-au înfruntat, s-au dovedit a fi inamici foarte importanți, dar diferiți pentru Valance.
Pe o insulă de la Marea Baltică patru membri ai unei familii își petrec vacanța împreună: un scriitor mediocru, fiul său de 17 ani, confruntat cu problemele adolescenței, fiica sa, care tocmai a ieșit dintr-un spital de psihiatrie și ginerele, care, deși e doctor, nu o poate ajuta. Aceasta are o nouă criză în fața căreia fiecare reacționează și gândește altfel, subliniind drama personajelor ce nu pot comunica între ele.
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
When an office full of Chicago real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up. Shelley Levene, who has a sick daughter, does everything in his power to get better leads from his boss, John Williamson, but to no avail. When his coworker Dave Moss comes up with a plan to steal the leads, things get complicated for the tough-talking salesmen.
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
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.