When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Handlingen foregår i San Francisco, James Stewart spiller en agorafobisk detektiv som er ansatt for å spore en kvinne som er suicidal. Etter at han vellykket redder henne fra å begå selvmord, begynner han etterhvert å bli besatt av den vakre, men forstyrrede kvinnen. Filmen er av mange, betraktet til å være Alfred Hitchcocks største prestasjon som regissør.

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Fjerde og siste gang Cary grant jobbet med Alfred Hitchcock var nettopp i North By Northwest, denne gnistrende gode spionthrilleren fra 1959. Grant spiller en reklamemann på Manhattan som plutselig blir kastet ut i en verden hvor spion står mot spion og ingen helt vet hvem som er fiende eller venn. Han blir selv kidnappet, anklaget for mord, jaktet på og - i en av filmhistoriens mest ikoniske scener - sprøytet ned av et småfly mens han er i fullt sprang over et jorde. North By Northwest er enkelt og greit et ekte mesterverk.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

En Oscarbelønnt skrekk-klassiker der et ungt ektepar, Rosemary og Guy, flytter inn i en leilighet i en bygård i New York. Guy er en arbeidsledig skuespiller som sliter med å få karrieren på skinner. Rosemary mistenker ham etter hvert for å ha inngått en pakt med djevelen.

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin). As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

The Russian version of the movie "Fight Club" is not just a Russian version of a well-known cult film, it is the result and of the hard work of two young men and their love for cinema, Alexander Kukhar (GOLOBON-TV) and Dmitry Ivanov (GRIZLIK FILM) , who are responsible for this project, from the development of its idea and the selection of the cast, to the organization of filming and financial support. Filming lasted a whole year. Everyday work, constant trips, searching for suitable film sets and an exhausting schedule - all this was not in vain and resulted in an unusually amazing and original project - the film "Fight Club", created in the very heart of southern Russia, in the city of Krasnodar, by two young people

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

En imponerende tropp skuespillere, deriblant George Clooney, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte og Woody Harrelson kastes ut i krigens inferno i denne intenst realistiske skildringen av militært og moralt kaos i stillehavsområdet i Andre Verdenskrig. Filmen som er nominert til syv Oscar i 1998, for bl.a. beste film og beste regissør (Terrence Malick), er et enestående mesterverk, og Gene Siskel omtalte den som "Briljant... En ypperlig prestasjon... Våre dagers beste krigsfilm"

A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.

"60 MINUTES" produsent, Lowell Bergmann, vil lage en sak om tobakksindustrien. Han treffer Wigand, en tidligere sjef hos tobakksprodusentene Brown & Williamson som egentlig fikk sparken. Han hadde meninger man ikke skulle ha. Wigand er redd for å fortelle hva han vet til TV; at tobakkprodusentene tilsetter avhengighetsstoffer i sigarettene. Han frykter for seg selv og sin familie for de som lever av at sannheten ikke kommer frem. Og de er mange og mektige.

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.