In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
In the middle of October 1998, Tomoe Enjou is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Shiki Ryougi. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days after the incident there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen.
American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.
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.
Tots tenim una quimera, una cosa que volem fer, tenir, però que mai no trobem. Per a la banda dels tombaroli, els lladres d'antigues tombes i de jaciments arqueològics, la quimera és somiar deixar de treballar i fer-se rics sense esforç. Per l'Arthur, la quimera s'assembla a la Benjamina, la dona que va perdre. Per tal de trobar-la, l'Arthur s'enfrontarà a l'invisible, indagarà per tot arreu, penetrarà a la terra, decidit a trobar la porta que porta al Més enllà que parlen els mites. En el seu agosarat recorregut entre vius i morts, boscos i ciutats, festes i soledats, els destins dels personatges es creuen, tots a la recerca de la quimera.
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
La història de Pat Garrett i Billy el Nen, els dos companys de fatigues i temuts forjats que al Vell Oest van prendre rumbs separats per a un d'ells, Pat, convertir-se en xèrif i l'altre, Billy, continuar vivint sense horitzons, cansat i sense direcció.
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
Tres amics de la infància, Martha, Walter i Sam, comparteixen un terrible secret. Ja adults, l'ambiciosa Martha i el pusil·lànime Walter es casen. Ella és una dona freda de negocis; ell és el fiscal del districte: una combinació perfecta per dominar la corrupta ciutat d'Iverstown segons la voluntat. Però la tornada inesperada de Sam, després d'anys d'absència, pertorba profundament la vida de l'estranya parella.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Golden Swallow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that their leader be released from prison in return for the captured son. After a brief encounter with the gang at a local restaurant, Golden Swallow is joined by an inebriated wanderer Drunken Cat who aids her in her mission.
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.