Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Feodaalisessa Japanissa, verisen taistelun aikana, kaksi pelkurimaista ja ahnetta talonpoikaa, jotka ovat hävityn armeijan pelinappuloita, törmäävät salaperäiseen mieheen, joka johdattaa heidät vuorilla sijaitsevaan piilotettuun linnoitukseen.
Vuonna 1953 Korea jaettiin kommunistiseen pohjoiseen ja kapitalistiseen etelään. Maiden välinen raja on erittäin tiukasti vartioitu. Rajalla tapahtuu välikohtaus, jossa kaksi pohjoiskorealaista sotilasta kuolee ja eteläkorealainen haavoittuu. Molempien maiden suostumuksella korealais-sveitsiläinen Sophie alkaa tutkia tapausta. Rikospaikalta löytynyt eteläkorealainen kersantti ilmoittautuu syylliseksi verilöylyyn. Mutta mitä hän oikeastaan oli tekemässä rajavyöhykkeellä? Huumorilla höystetty thrilleri herätti Etelä-Koreassa poliittista keskustelua ja tekijät joutuivat aluksi vaikeuksiin.
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Mies saapuu junalla Helsinkiin ja joutuu väkivaltaisen ryöstön kohteeksi. Hän selviää hengissä, mutta menettää muistinsa ja henkilökohtaiset tavaransa. Ilman nimeä ja rahaa hän alkaa rakentaa uutta elämäänsä.
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
Kadotetut (ital. Caduta degli dei) on Luchino Viscontin ohjaama elokuva vuodelta 1969. Se on italialais-saksalais-sveitsiläistä yhteistuotantoa. Se kertoo varakkaasta Essenbeckin perheestä, joka on harjoittanut liiketoimintaa natsipuolueen kanssa. Elokuva sijoittuu kolmannen valtakunnan alkuvuosiin.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
A mysterious woman on the run, and the resourceful fixer assigned to bring her in. Their two unique stories inextricably link, as the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions.
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with woman so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.