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.
Jeff Bailey este un angajat al unei benzinării dintr-un mic oraș, al cărui trecut misterios este pe cale să-l ajungă din urmă. Într-o zi i se ordonă să se întâlnească cu Whit Sterling, renumit pentru jocurile de noroc la care participă. În drum spre întâlnire, Jeff îi destăinuie prietenei sale trecutul. Cândva el a fost un detectiv particular angajat de Sterling pentru a-i găsi amanta, pe Kathie, ce l-a împușcat și a reușit să fugă cu 40.000 de dolari. Jeff îi găsește urma în Acapulco, unde atrăgătoarea Kathie îl face să uite de Sterling. Acum Jeff știe că Whit îi pregătește o capcană, însă toate precauțiile sale îl vor face să pice în plasă și mai ușor...
Crucișătorul Potemkin atinge un țel la care poate ajunge numai o operă de artă desăvârșită și care e inaccesibilă unei descrieri narative sau științifice. - Lion Feuchtwanger -1989
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
O bancnotă falsă de 500 de franci trece de la o persoană la alta, de la un magazin la altul, până când ajunge în mâinile unui nevinovat care nu își dă seama ce este, iar asta va avea consecințe devastatoare asupra vieții lui.
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get acquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo can't cope with the pressure of becoming a father, leading to trouble with his pregnant wife and especially her brother.
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Un om obsedat de teoriile conspirației devine o țintă după ce una dintre teoriile sale se dovedește a fi adevărată. Din păcate, pentru a se salva, trebuie să-și dea seama care teorie este.
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where Casper the Ghost is vacationing with his uncles. Although Casper and Wendy are told ghosts and witches don't get along, the two are kindred spirits! This spooky family-friendly adventure finds Casper and Wendy bridging the ghost-witch divide to battle the warlock who is intent on destroying Wendy.
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
Americanca de succes Alice trăiește fericită la Londra cu iubitul ei Jake. Dar această viață liniștită este zguduită atunci când întâlnește un bărbat misterios și atrăgător în mijlocul Londrei. Ei fac dragoste în curând, mai extaziați decât a cunoscut-o Alice vreodată. Nu este posibil ca ea să uite această întâlnire cu străinul Adam și renunță la viața anterioară pentru a fi alături de el, despre al cărui trecut nu știe nimic. Fericirea pare perfectă, iar sora lui Adam o primește și ea cu brațele deschise. Dar apoi Alice primește scrisori anonime prin care o avertizează despre soțul ei. Treptat, își dă seama că nu știe absolut nimic despre Adam, care arată și o latură din ce în ce mai sadică. Alice începe să sape în trecutul soțului ei și în curând viața ei este în pericol...
Jake Kimble, the sole survivor of the Chicago massacre, is killed while in solitary confinement. His doctor begins investigating the claims he made about a long-haired woman in white, as a mysterious Japanese woman arrives at his old apartment building to help them get rid of the curse.