Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Povestea filmului Ran este o adaptare Regelui Lear, combinata cu o veche legenda japoneza despre trei sageti. Rezultatul este transformarea substantiala a tragediei shakespeariene - fiicele lui Lear sunt acum fii si accentul cade mai mult pe razbunare decat pe catharsis.
Acesta este ultimul film al trilogiei Bleu/Blanc/Rouge, care explorează cele trei mari teme ale democrației moderne: Libertate, Egalitate, Fraternitate. Acțiunea se desfășoară în mare parte în Elveția. O tânără de profesie manechin dă peste un câine cu mașina. Ea pornește împreună cu animalul în căutarea stăpânului. Îl găsește și constată că acesta e un domn în vârstă, un vechi magistrat, care încă mai spionează conversațiile telefonice ale vecinilor. Între cei doi se dezvoltă o prietenie, curiozitatea tinerei fiind alimentată de confesiunile pe care i le face fostul magistrat.
Un forțos care călătorește, Zampano, răsplătește moartea lui Rosa, asistenta sa, oferind același loc de muncă surorii mai mici Gelsomina, a cărei mamă primește despăgubiri în schimb.
"Roninul anonim, spirit independent si dornic de libertate deplina, impertinent vagabond este cel care descurca itele incalcite punand intr-o lumina istorica veridica tarele unei caste paralizate." - Romulus Vulpescu 1966 (Cinema)
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Un bărbat jefuiește o bancă pentru a plăti operația iubitei lui; se ajunge la o situație cu ostatici și un circ media.
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor finds evidence of a cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted... A thinly veiled account of the 1963 assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, Z captures the outrage about the US-backed military junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for all. His wife, living in New York, continues to pay for his treatment, but no longer contacts him directly. He intends to commit suicide, but first takes a ride to Paris to catch up with old friends.
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers before each segment.
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.