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.
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.
A young college student is given a disturbing ultimatum when a dark secret from his past is resurrected.
“Re-Existence” is a documentary about migration stories of individuals from the Brazilian queer community.
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
A recently widowed, now single father struggles to raise his sixth-grade son with autism. The pressure of his job and coping with the loss of his wife proves to push him nearly to the breaking point.
Sosialisti, filosofianörtti ja kyyninen keikari – he kaikki ovat osa niin kutsuttua ”urbaania haute bourgeoisia”, ja vaikka kutakin heistä viehättää eri ideologia, ovat kaikki heistä yhtä vakuuttuneita siitä, että heillä on vastaukset kaikkeen. Ollaan ensimmäisellä joululomalla korkeakoulusta, ja nämä nuoret aikuiset tapaavat juhlissa ja päivällisillä keskustellakseen loputtomasti.
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive, she feels as though she's met a hero from one of her novels.
January 1999: Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou, Mikiya's younger sister, has been ordered by her mentor, Touko Aozaki, to investigate a certain incident in which fairies steal the memories of students at Azaka's school, Reien Academy. Azaka launches an investigation with the help of Shiki.
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
A short, graphically dynamic work contrasting contradictory views of perception and interpretation, by way of society's assumptions vis-a-vis phallocentrism and fetishism.
The story of an abused young man who decides to take matters into his own hands, but...
Jack Murphy on moniongelmainen ja kovaotteinen etsivä, joka ei tule toimeen kenenkään kanssa. Tilanteet kärjistyvät erityisesti poliisikollegoiden ja esimiesten seurassa. Murphyn suosikkiharrastuksia ovat ryyppääminen ja vaatteitaan riisuvan ex-vaimo-stripparin stalkkaaminen paikallisella klubilla. Murphyn ongelmat vain kärjistyvät, kun hanen vankilaan toimittama psykopaattirouva Joan Freeman vapautuu vankilasta. Freemannilla on mielessään vain yksi ajatus: Kosto. Ja varsin inhottava ja ovela sellainen. Murphy onkin yllättäen etsintäkuulutettu ex-vaimonsa murhasta, jota ei ole tehnyt. Kun omat työtoverit pidättävät Murphyn, ei hänellä ole muita vaihtoehtoja kuin paeta ja napata itse hänet ansaan lavastanut murhaaja. Pian on Murphylla perässä sekä järjestelmällisesti ja kylmästi murhaava nainen, mafia ja omat virkaveljet.
Jura is 23 years old - and Lena is 23. They live in Budennovsk, play computer games, walk and learn. They live in a city where Shamil Basayev entered 23 years ago with militants, and know almost nothing about the events of that time.
An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.
Under the border leading into Mexico, within a labyrinth of caves, a deadly presence haunts all who enter. For four friends on an expedition, the caverns become an underground graveyard as the tortured ghosts prey upon them, one by one.