In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
El 1965, en uns dies que està sola perquè té el marit i els nens en una fira, Francesca Johnson veu alterada la seva pacífica vida de mestressa de casa a causa de l'aparició de Robert Kincaid, un fotògraf de la revista National Geographic, que prepara un reportatge sobre els ponts del comtat de Madison. Durant quatre dies ella l'acompanya a localitzar els ponts i viu amb ell un idil·li agredolç que necessita recollir en el seu diari. Un cop morta, els fills el troben i són conscients de les il·lusions i la soledat que havia experimentat Francesca.
Recull de curtmetratges, escrits i dirigits pel realitzador Akira Kurosawa, que apleguen les seves principals obsessions a través de vuit somnis al·legòrics en què repassa la pròpia trajectòria vital i la del Japó modern. Temes tan diversos com el despertar de la infància, la pèrdua de la innocència, les tradicions japoneses, la desesperació, el sentit de la culpabilitat, l'antibel·licisme, el procés de creació artística, el progrés material, el perill nuclear i el gust per la natura i la vida senzilla són tractats en cada segment en un to que alterna la fantasia intimista i un amarg esperit crític contra la nostra societat.
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
En un barri modern i anodí, on tot està excessivament organitzat, hi viuen Monsieur Arpel, la seva dona i el seu fill Gérard, que s'avorreix sobiranament. L'arribada del seu oncle, Monsieur Hulot, un personatge somiador i ple de fantasia, alterarà aquest món tan asèptic, sobretot perquè no triga a convertir-se en el millor amic del nebot.
Adaptació cinematogràfica de la novel·la "Profesor Unrath" de Heinrich Mann. Narra la tragèdia de un sever professor que una nit va a "L'Ángel Blau", un cabaret de mala fama, para endur-se d'allí als seus alumnes, que van al local seduïts pels encants de la cantant Lola-Lola (Dietrich). No obstant, el professor Rath, un solter de 50 anys, acaba caient a les xarxes de la cabaretera. A partir de llavors, la seva vida serà un descens als inferns de la humiliació i de la degradació moral.
Tensions arise when Jack Chan, a spineless constable who regards his work as a job but not a career, is partnered with an energetic and conscientious policewoman, Man Liu. When a serial killer emerges in Hong Kong, Man Liu swears to catch him. Jack is impressed by her bravery and decides to secretly protect her.
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Retirat de l'ofici, en Tucker (Robert Redford) viu en una llar de jubilats i ha trobat en la Jewel (Sissy Spacek) a l'amor de la seva vida. Quan un dia veu al detectiu John Hunt (Casey Affleck) per televisió, l'ex-atracador sent la necessitat de donar un últim cop i demostrar que encara pot portar de cap els policies més competents.
A mockumentary about Doctor Kurz, the inventor of the BioK-2: a rejuvenating drug extracted from ñandús (rheas).
A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .