A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Et japansk filmstudie har planer om at rive sine store gamle studiebygninger ned. I den forbindelse har journalisten Genya Tachiban besluttet sig for at lave en dokumentar om den gamle stjerne Chiyoko Fujiwara, der trak sig tilbage, da hendes karriere var på det højeste og ikke har vist sig for offentligheden siden. Chiyoko fortæller Tachiban og hans kameramand sin historie, og hendes fortælling er så levende, at de to bliver transporteret tilbage i tiden og optræder i hendes minder, mens vi ser dem.

Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death.

Bick Benedict fra Texas tager til Maryland for at købe en præmie-hingst. Der møder han rancherens smukke unge datter Leslie, og de forelsker sig øjeblikkeligt. De bliver gift kort efter og vender tilbage til hans gård. Historien om dem, deres familie og deres fjendskab med cowboy Jett Rink udfolder sig over de følgende generationer.

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

Der bliver vendt op og ned på den midaldrende radiojournalist Johnny's tilværelse, da hans søster får brug for ham til at tage sig af hendes lille søn, Jesse. Det er første gang i Johnny's liv, han skal tage hånd om et barn. Pludselig bliver han kastet ud i den dybt udfordrende forældrerolle med alle dens vanskeligheder og undere.

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

En ny bataljonschef ankommer fra Vest- til Østfronten under den tyske tilbagetrækning for at erstatte en officer, der er død i kamp. Kommandør Stransky har aldrig før stået ansigt til ansigt med krigens rædsler, men er fast besluttet på at vinde sig selv en smule hæder, inden han vender hjem igen. Han vil have et jernkors, og hans hensynsløse stræben efter den eftertragtede tapperhedsmedalje danner baggrund for denne gribende historie. Jernkorset er den eneste krigsfilm, som mesterinstruktøren Sam Peckinpah har instrueret. Peckinpah giver os en fascinerende og voldsom fortælling om mænd i krig og gør det med samme spænding og stil som i klassikerne ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘Straw Dogs’ og ‘The Getaway’.

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.

Joe Kidd er en ensom cowboy med sikker evne til at anbringe sine kugler, hvor de hører hjemme. Han vil helst holde sig udenfor, da mexicanske landejere og hvide kvægbaroner tørner sammen i det storslåede western-landskab. Men da en af hans venner får en ilde medfart, indvilger Kidd i at lede kvægejeren Frank og hans skydeglade mænd til den mexicanske leders tilholdssted. Det skulle han aldrig have gjort.

Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family.

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

7-dobbelte Oscarvinder Richard Burton (Where Eagles Dare, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) spiller den britiske efterretningsofficer Alex Foster, der i Raid on Rommel skal lede et farefuldt angreb på de tyske forsvarsværker i den vigtige havnebyen Tobruk. Foster erfarer, at de tropper, han havde håbet at slå sig sammen med, er blevet næsten fuldstændig udryddet. Men Foster lader sig ikke sådan slå ud i denne spændende andenverdenskrigsfilm.