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.
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
Un dels grans clàssics de Jean Pierre Melville, història de traïcions i secrets protagonitzada per un jugador fracassat encarnat per Roger Duchesne. Bob Montagné (Roger Duchesne), un jugador fracassat d'elegant abric i honor de cavaller, s'obre camí a través del elegant submón parisenc. La seva recerca de l'estafa definitiva el porta des de la basílica del Sacré Coeur a Montmartre i Pigalle. Trobant al seu pas traïció, secrets i una perillosa i jove seductora, Bob busca dur a terme el seu cop final, tot i els avisos del comissari Ledru (Guy Decomble).
Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.
Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if just for a few days, but the country he dreams of is far from reality; Furio travels to Rome with his family, but his niggling attitude threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo is also going to Rome, but the trip is repeatedly interrupted by worries about his grandma's health.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.
Segona Guerra Mundial. Lacombe, un jove camperol el pare del qual està presoner a Alemanya i la mare del qual es fica al llit amb el seu cap, intenta afiliar-se a la Resistència. Rebutjat pel capitost local, ingressa per atzar a la policia alemanya. Amb una capacitat sorprenent per adaptar-se al que li exigeix el nou lloc, la seva vida canvia quan s'enamora de France, la filla d'un sastre jueu.
The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her heritage.
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Charlie Croker, un lladregot dels baixos fons londinencs, ha complit condemna i surt de la presó. Creu que farà fortuna amb un espectacular robatori a Itàlia meticulosament planificat. Malauradament, descobreix que el seu company Beckermann, cervell del pla, ha estat assassinat per la màfia italiana. A més, encara que en Charlie se n’assabenta de tots els detalls per mitjà de la vídua d’en Beckermann, necessita un finançament extraordinari i reclutar una nombrosa banda. Haurà de tornar a la presó per convèncer el totpoderós Bridger, que des de la seva cel·la dirigeix un imperi criminal.
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Quatre homes duen a terme un atracament a una sucursal bancària d’una localitat costanera. Encara que el cop s’executa amb èxit, un d’ells és greument ferit. Mentrestant, a París l’implacable comissari Coleman combina les seves obligacions amb les visites regulars a un conegut club nocturn. Coleman manté una relació amb la Cathy, que al mateix temps és companya d’en Simon, propietari del club i cervell de l’atracament. Aquest fràgil triangle esclatarà quan en Simon i els seus companys emprenguin una altra operació molt més agosarada: l’assalt al tren nocturn París-Lisboa per apropiar-se d’una important partida d’heroïna.
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.