Tämä Macbeth-versio on ensimmäinen ja varmaankin paras Kurosawan japanilaiseen ympäristöön siirtämistä kolmesta Shakespeare-tulkinnasta. Macbethin synkkä taru kertoo karusti ihmisluonnosta, vallanhimosta ja kateudesta. Elokuvan tapahtuma-aika on 1300-1400-luku - Japanin feodaalisotien aika.
Kioskikirjailija Holly Martens saapuu Wieniin tapaamaan vanhaa ystäväänsä Harry Limea. Järkytys on suuri, kun Holly kuulee ystävänsä kuolleen. Suru vaihtuu tuohtumukseksi, kun viranomaiset vihjaavat Harryn olleen rikollinen. Holly päättää puhdistaa ystävänsä maineen. Graham Greenen kirjoittama jännäri rakentaa kiehtovasti sodanjälkeisen Wienin tunnelmaa. Oudot kuvakulmat ja Anton Karasin sitra-tunnari jäävät mieleen.
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
Nainen Shanghaista on Orson Wellesin ohjaama film noir -elokuva vuodelta 1947. Hän näyttelee elokuvassa itse pääosaa Rita Hayworthin rinnalla. Elokuva perustuu Sherwood Kingin romaaniin If I Die Before I Wake.
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Punainen virta (engl. Red River) on Howard Hawksin ohjaama yhdysvaltalainen lännenelokuvan klassikko vuodelta 1948. Elokuva kertoo suuresta karjanajosta Texasista Kansasiin asti. Päähenkilöinä on karjanajon suunnitellut vanha karjatilallinen Tom Dunson (John Wayne) ja hänen aikuinen adoptiopoikansa Matthew (Montgomery Clift).
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Jack Benteen työskentelee rajavartijana Teksasissa. Hänen tehtävänään on pitää huolta siitä, ettei Yhdysvaltoihin pääse huumeita. Cash Baileyllä on pitkä rikosrekisteri. Hän elättää itsensä pitämällä huolta siitä, että huumeita viedään Yhdysvaltoihin juuri sen rajan yli, jota Jack vartioi. Jack ja Cash ovat lain vastakkaisilla puolilla, mutta niin ei ole aina ollut. Kerran he olivat parhaat ystävykset. Ja kerran kaunis Sarita oli Cashin tyttöystävä. Nyt hän on Jackin. Parantaakseen mahdollisuuksiaan tuoda huumeita USA:han Cash houkuttelee entisen tyttöystävänsä Saritan palaamaan luokseen. Tämä on hänen panttivankinsa Jackia vastaan. Samaan aikaan alueelle ilmestyy suuri joukko sotilaita. Mitä he tekevät siellä? Miksei Jackille ole ilmoitettu?
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.
Courtney is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.