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.
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Filmi tegevus leiab aset Los Angeleses 1970. aastatel. Edutu eradetektiiv Holland March ja löömamees Jackson Healy peavad üheskoos lahendama kadunud tüdruku juhtumi ja pealtnäha sellest eraldiseisva pornotähe surmaloo. Juurdluse käigus paljastavad nad šokeeriva vandenõu, mis viib võimuladvikuni välja.
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
A chain of mysterious events forces a lone security guard to descend down the dark hallways of an old factory.
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.
Esimene film lõppes vägeva musta võluri Gellert Grindelwaldi (Johnny Depp) vahistamisega MACUSA (Ameerika Ühendriikide võlurikongressi) poolt, tänu Newt Scamanderi (Eddy Redmayne) kaasabile. Kuid nüüd on Grindelwald viinud oma ähvarduse täide ja põgenenud vanglast, et asuda koguma endale järgijaid, kes ei aimagi ta tegelikku plaani: viia läbi puhtavereliste võlurite ülestõus ning asuda kõigi lihtsurelike üle valitsema. Selleks, et Grindelwaldi takistada, palub Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) abi oma endiselt õpilaselt Newt Scamanderilt. Too annabki nõusoleku, aimamata, millised ohud ees varitsemas on. Üha enam lõhenevas võlurite maailmas kehtestatakse piire ning pannakse proovile ka lähimate sõprade ning pereliikmete ustavussidemed.
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan's business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.