Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley og Jack Klugmen leder en gruppe svært særegene jurymedlemmer, der hvert medlem er perfekt portrettert. Den stjernespekkede filmen vant fire Oscars, blant annet for beste film. Elleve jurymedlemmer er overbevist om at den saksøkte er skyldig i drap. Det tolvte er helt sikker på at han er uskyldig. Hvordan kan én mann styre de andre mot samme konklusjon?

Mafiabrødre handler om den halvt irske, halvt sicilianske New York gutten Henry Hill. Hans store drøm er å bli gangster, og fjorten år gammel begynner han som læregutt for den lokale mafiaen. Sammen med sine kamerater blir han en såkalt "wise guy". Filmen skildrer hvordan Henry følger den paraniode Jimmy Conway og den psykotiske Tommy De Vito i deres klatring i mafia hirarkiet. Henrys liv med illegale aktiviteter ender 30 år senere som FBI's vitne under rettssaken mot sine tidligere kamerater.

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.

Svartedauen herjer i Europa på 1300-tallet. Ridderen Antonius Block og hans væpner Jöns er på hjemvei etter et langt og slitsomt korstog til det hellige landet. Et dagsritt hjemmefra møter ridderen Døden, men klarer å forhandle seg til en livsfrist gjennom et parti sjakk. Med døden til enhver tid i hælene, treffer Antonius på Jof og Maria og sønnen deres, Mikael, som er en del av en omreisende gjøglertrupp. De byr ham på markjordbær og melk i en skoghelling, og Antonius opplever en fredfylt tid. Han beslutter så å ofre sitt eget liv for å redde gjøglerfamilien.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

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.

A young couple who makes popular YouTube videos for children sets out to win an award, but an evil mastermind stands in the way of their success.

MARLON BRANDO yter en av de sterkeste skuespillerprestasjoner som noen sinne er sett på det hvite lerretet, en prestasjon som innbrakte ham en Oscar i 1954 for Beste Skuespiller, og filmen en for Beste Film. Den tidligere bokseren Terry Malloy (BRANDO) kunne vært en mester, men nå sliter han for bossen Johnny Friendly (LEE J. COBB) på den gangsterstyrte havnefronten. Terry begynner å bli plaget av dårlig samvittighet da han forårsaker en opprørsk arbeiders død. Men det krever Edie Doyles (EVA MARIE SAINT) kjærlighet, den døde arbeiderens søster, å få Terry til å innse hvor dypt han har falt. Da Terrys kriminelle bror Charley the Gent (ROD STEIGER) blir myrdet på brutalt vis, fordi han nekter å drepe ham, bestemmer Terry seg for å begynne sin egen kamp for å knuse Friendlys gangstervelde.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

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.

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.