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.
Andrei Tarkovskin mestariteoksessa ohjaajan omat lapsuudenmuistot kietoutuvat uniin, historiallisiin dokumentteihin ja hänen sen aikaiseen nykyhetkeensä muodostaen poeettisen ja eteerisen kokonaisuuden, jossa ajan merkitys lakkaa.
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
Tämä Macbeth-versio on ensimmäinen ja varmaankin paras Kurosawan japanilaiseen ympäristöön siirtämistä kolmesta Shakespeare-tulkinnasta. Macbethin synkkä taru kertoo karusti ihmisluonnosta, vallanhimosta ja kateudesta. Elokuvan tapahtuma-aika on 1300-1400-luku - Japanin feodaalisotien aika.
Lakko (Стачка, Statška) on Sergei Eisensteinin ohjaama neuvostoliittolainen mykkäelokuva, joka valmistui vuonna 1925. Elokuvan valmisteluissa Eisenstein keräsi tarkkoja tietoja vuoden 1912 lakon tapahtumista ja perehtyi sekä sen taustoihin että seurauksiin. Lisäksi hän suunnitteli etukäteen kuvauksia, jotta kuvausten alkaessa kaikki olisi mahdollisimman valmista. Eisenstein hylkäsi tyypillisen, henkilöhahmoihin keskittyvän kerronnan ja kuvasi sen sijaan suuria massoja.
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
Miehitetyssä Pariisissa vuonna 1942 juutalainen teatteriohjaaja piileskelee teatterin kellarissa kun hänen vaimonsa ohjaa uutta näytelmää.
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
The film tells a story speaks of "Yusuf ", a plumbing Man, who is exposed to many pranks by his friends.
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceives them and spends the money in gambling. They force him to sign a waiver of his workshop but he wants to get it back.
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
Nyt hän on tullut takaisin, Anthony Perkins Norman Batesin osassa - mielenvikaisena, joka on aina valmis täyttämään murhanhimoisen äitinsä tahdon. Nyt näyttää kuitenkin siltä, että rauha on lopultakin palannut syrjäiseen motelliin, jossa on vuosien aikana tapahtunut niin monia kauhistuttavia väkivaltaisuuksia. Jos vain nuori, hämärää menneisyyttään pakeneva, nainen ei olisi ilmestynyt Batesin Motelliin. Hänen vaaleat hiuksensa ja viaton olemuksensa saavat Normanin muistamaan jotakin mitä tapahtui menneisyydessä - jotakin, josta silloin tuli hänen uhrinsa...
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.
Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.