Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Noriko és una dona soltera de 27 anys que viu feliç amb el seu pare vidu, cuidant d’ell i encarregant-se de les feines de casa. L’home creu que ha arribat el moment que la seva filla es casi, encara que això signifiqui quedar-se definitivament sol. Noriko no està molt convençuda d’abandonar-lo, però acaba per acceptar la idea. No obstant això, el candidat ideal per contreure matrimoni s’acaba comprometent amb la millor amiga de Noriko.
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), un pistoler d'origen italià, ignorant i sense escrúpols, és el lloctinent de Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins), l'hampon més poderós del South End de Chicago. Ambiciós i cruel, Camonte, que per una cicatriu que li travessa el rostre rep l'apel·latiu de Cara tallada, elimina a poc a poc els rivals del seu cap fins que, amb l'ajuda del seu amic Gino Rinaldo (George Raft), el pren el poder també a ell i es converteix en l'amo de la ciutat. Després d'un mes de vacances a Florida, descobreix que la seva germana Cesca (Ann Dvorak), per la qual sent un amor confús i arrabassat, és l'amant de Gino.
Un hotel internacional acull i empresona, com una gran naturalesa morta, uns éssers que es mouen entre l’elegància i l’encantament. Un d’ells ofereix a una dona un impossible: un passat, un present i un futur.
En els anys 1930 als Estats Units, durant la Gran depressió, una jove cambrera de cerveseria, Cecilia, té un marit aturat i camanduler. Es consola passant les seves vesprades en el cinema, la seva gran passió. Un dia en què ha anat a veure, per cinquena vegada, la mateixa pel·lícula al Jewel Palace, un incident extraordinari es produeix: un dels personatges de La Rosa porpra del Caire, Tom Baxter, l'interpel·la a la sala. Surt de la pantalla, passa de la pel·lícula en blanc i negre al món en colors i la fica en una aventura imprevista.
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
La Lise, de setze anys, està acusada d'haver assassinat a la seva millor amiga. Durant el judici, els seus pares la defensen aferrissadament. Tot i això, a mesura que la vida desconeguda de la seva filla comença a revelar-se els i apareix l'ombra del dubte.