„Un muncitor nu are niciun ban. I se oferă o slujbă: să lipească afișe. Îi trebuie o bicicletă. Nevasta lui își vinde perdelele. El cumpără bicicleta, dar i se fură. Suntem în fața unei scriituri vizuale, a unui aparat de filmat care înregistrează un mecanism sufletesc comparabil celui întâlnit la Gogol, când acesta construiește o întreagă dramă în jurul unei anecdote neînsemnate.” - Jean Cocteau - 1949
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
„Detectivul Nishi afla ca sotia sa e bolnava de leucemie, iar partenerul sau e condamnat pe viata la paralizie. El decide sa le faca viata mai suportabila. Dupa ce a spart o banca, ii ofera o alta viata sotiei sale si o ajuta pe nevasta colegului sau. Subtil film politist, cocktail de tensiune, violenta, umor si tandrete.”
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Un dedectiv privat e însărcinat de un general muribund să-l debaraseze de un individ care-i șantajează fiica nimfomană. Tot investigând misterul, se trezește obiect al rivalității sentimentale dintre două surori, bogatele moștenitoare ale clientului său.
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
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.
În timpul unei croaziere pe Nill, Linnet este ucisă, moment în care îşi face apariţia renumitul detectiv Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), pregătit să investigheze crima. El este nevoit să rezolve cazul înainte ca ambarcaţiunea să ajungă la destinaţie.
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
Johnny Jones, jurnalist american pentru New York Globe, este trimis în Europa în 1939 pentru a evalua posibilitatea izbucnirii unui al doilea război mondial. La Londra, îl întâlnește pe Van Meer, un bătrân politician olandez, singurul care cunoaște clauza secretă a unui posibil tratat de alianță. După un atac simulat, Van Meer este răpit de spioni naziști, iar Jones pornește să-l găsească în Olanda, ajutat în asta de Carol, o tânără fată al cărei tată conduce o societate pacifistă...
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.
Părinții lui Vic se înțeleg mai bine ca niciodată, familia nu are nici un fel de probleme, numai Vic are impresia că nu se va mai îndrăgosti niciodată... Dar în timpul unei excursii cu bunica Popette, destinul i-l scoate în cale pe Philippe... Idila lor, încurajată din nou de bunica Popette și de cea mai bună prietenă a lui Vic, pare a fi cât se poate de serioasă. Asta până când părinții lui Vic dezaprobă comportamentul acesteia și gelozia le dă de furcă amândurora...
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.