After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Maj 1945. På den første dag efter afslutningen af Anden Verdenskrig får den unge modstandsmand Maciek til opgave at dræbe en ny kommunistisk distriktsleder. Han overnatter i en sønderbombet landsby, hvor han møder en smuk ung kvinde. Men snart overrumples den ellers så koldblodige Maciek af sine følelser for hende. Efter årevis med missioner i dødens tjeneste øjner han muligheden for et nyt liv, og tvivlen omkring hans forestående opgaver begynder at vokse i ham. Aske og diamanter blev det internationale gennembrud for instruktøren Andrzej Wajda og skuespilleren Zbigniew Cybulski, der blev kaldt "Polens James Dean" på grund af sin evne til at gengive den sårbare følsomhed, der gemmer sig under det hårde ydre. Ligesom James Dean døde han i en alt for tidlig alder i en ulykke.
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Jordbundne og stærke Antonia ser tilbage på de sidste halvtreds år af sit liv på den mødrende gård. Vi følger datteren Danielle, en lesbisk maler, hendes datter Therese, en matematiker og komponist og hendes datter Sarah, en lille digterspire. Rundt omkring dem finder vi landsbyens excentriske beboere og de fire kvinders samlevere, samt ondskabsfulde landmand Daan og hans militærsøn Pitte.
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Kaori is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba. Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Jean Renoir's directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and happiness.
Mathieu is a marine biologist. He spends his time on his microscope, cutting tiny marine organisms corpses. He’s unhappy. His true wish would have been being on the sea. But an event will abruptly change his life : Christine, his mother in law, runs away. Attracted by this impulsion, and curious to understand her, Mathieu starts looking for her. He’s going to find her in a house by the sea and will share the same desire of regaining control of his life.
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.
Director Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking - a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker. His thoughts and observations about the traditions, history, and banalities of everyday life in Peking are woven together in elegant fashion.
A single forty-something, with a well-regulated life, sees a heavy secret poisoning her budding relationship with a man she fell in love with.
Deadpan, small-time Kosher Nostra mobster Harry Plotnick goes meshugga when he gets into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law.
Journey to Mars (Viaje a Marte) is an animated stop motion short film. This independent production, which was made in Argentina, is the result of two years hard work. Since then, it has won 50 awards in different festivals around the world, competing in many cases against real action productions. The short tells the story of Antonio, a boy from the 60s, who is a great fan of science fiction tv serials and space trips. In view of the child's passion, his grandfather decides to take him to Mars in his tow truck.
A 1975 recording of the Bolshoi Ballet's performance of Yuri Grigorovich's production of "Spartacus".
Menahem Lang, an actor with an extraordinary singing voice, returns to Bnei Brak, the city in Israel where he grew up and a center of ultra-orthodox Judaism. Now in his 30s, Lang left the city at 20, following years of rape and sexual abuse by elder, devout family men in the community. Yet, Lang was far from being an isolated case: his conversations with other abused young men document a cycle of sexual predators and tormented lives.
Revolves around Castro, who was once a very famous TV host, but as he grows old, his popularity is dwindling.