În prima parte a filmului Kobayashi arată drama tânărului Kaji (Tatsuza Nakadai), un tânăr ambițios care lucrează ca supervizor într-o închisoare din Manchuria și lupta sa cu societatea japoneză, aflată la acele vremuri sub influența nefastă a fascismului. Dacă în prima parte Kaji este învins de sistem, ideologii, preconcepții și este trimis pe front, în partea a doua regizorul urmărește drama acestuia pe timpului serviciului militar și în războiul la care ia parte direct. Kaji, cu aceeași determinare, încearcă să îndrepte din interior concepțiile și practicile inumane din armata niponă. Cu mari sacrificii personale reușește să reporteze mici victorii în lupta cu autismul armatei japoneze.
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.
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Irlandezul Sean Thornton a făcut o carieră ca boxer în Statele Unite. Acum se întoarce în satul natal. Sătenii îl primesc cu bucurie – cu excepția unuia: Red Wil Danaher. Sean i-a smuls o casă de sub nas. Din fericire, Red este fratele marii iubiri a lui Sean, Mary Kate. Conform tradiției irlandeze, Sean o cere în căsătorie fratelui ei. El este insultat constant de Red Will. Dar Sean evită o luptă. Lui Mary Kate îi este rușine de asta. Ea îi cere soțului ei - presupus laș - să-l oblige pe Red Will să predea zestrea. Numai când Sean îi arată ei și fratelui ei care este stăpânul casei, le câștigă respectul.
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Filmul „49th Parallel” este produs în 1942 și a fost făcut pentru a sprijini eforturile britanicilor din cel de Al Doilea Război Mondial. Este o dramă creată în scop patriotic. Acțiunea care se desfășoară în anul 1941 și prezintă povestea unui mic echipaj german de pe o navă eșuată în Canada la Hudsons Bay. Germanii încearcă să traverseze Canada căutând un culoar spre Statele Unite. Pelicula prezintă peisajele încântătoare ale Canadei iar Emeric Pressbenger a luat Prmiul Oscar pentru scenariu.
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs with them. Meanwhile, their four female guests, Louise (Remy's wife of 15 years), Dominique (a spinster), Diane (a divorcée) and Danielle (Pierre's girlfriend) are spending the time at a downtown health gym. They also discuss sex, the female body and, naturally, men. Later in the evening, they finally meet at the country house and have dinner. A ninth guest, named Mario, who used to know Diane, drops in on the group for some talk and has a surprise of his own.
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.
În secolul al XV-lea, Franța este o națiune învinsă și ruinată după Războiul de o sută de ani împotriva Angliei. Fata de paisprezece ani Ioana d'Arc pretinde că aude voci din Rai care îi cer să conducă Armata lui Dumnezeu împotriva Orleansului și îl încoronează pe Carol al VII-lea ca rege al Franței. Ioana d'Arc adună oamenii cu credința ei, formează o armată și cucerește Orleans.
Bullet, a female triad member, is recently released from prison. Bullet hooks up with her old gang rather quickly, although she is being closely watched by her policeman father and his gritty female partner Big Aunt . Bullet steals some jewels belonging to triad gangster Chin Bo while helping her friend May, who has been forced into prostitution. Chin Bo, also known as Brother Mad, kidnaps May and another of Bullet's friends to secure the return of his fortune, but the exchange goes wrong and a furious gun battle erupts.
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, begin to act strangely.
In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.
With the victory against "The Beastly Beasts", "The Wild Soccer Bunch" showed it to everyone and then won every single game. Only one victory now separates them from the "Pott", the Freestyle Soccer Cup. For this they have to compete against the "Wolves of Ragnarök". But the wolves are not normal opponents! They have a dark secret - and behind them lurks a power stronger than all of them: the girl Horizon and the "Silver Lights" from the fog...