Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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.
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.
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Vihreä oli laaksoni (How Green Was My Valley) on yhdysvaltalainen elokuva vuodelta 1941. Se kertoo Etelä-Walesissa pienessä kaivoskaupungissa elävän perheen tarinaa poikien aikuistuessa ja perheyhteisön hajotessa. Elokuvan tarina pohjautuu Richard Llewellynin romaaniin Vihreä oli laaksoni.Elokuva oli kymmenen Oscarin ehdokkaana ja sai parhaan elokuvan palkinnon, vaikka muina ehdokkaina olivat muun muassa Citizen Kane ja Maltan haukka.
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Ystävykset Holden ja Banky nauttivat menestyksestä suositun kulttisarjakuvan luojina. Eräänä päivänä he tutustuvat sarjakuvataiteilija Alyssa Jonesiin ja Holden ihastuu välittömästi kaunottareen. Alyssan kiinnostuksen kohde on kuitenkin aivan toisaalla - hänellä on nimittäin tyttöystävä! Kun Holden selviää alkujärkytyksestä, hänen ja Alyssan välit lämpenevät ja heistä tulee rakastavaisia. Alyssan menneisyys kuitenkin vaivaa Holdenia ja vähitellen taivaalle kertyy tummia pilviä...
John Fordin hienon ratsuväki-trilogian toisessa osassa nähdään tavallista herkempi John Wayne. "Duke" on melankolisen länkkärin kapteeni Nathan Brittles, joka lähtee viimeiselle partioretkelleen. Vanhassa sotaratsussa tiivistyvät Fordin elokuvista tutut yksinäisyyden, kunnian ja kuolevaisuuden teemat. Oscarilla palkittu kuvaus haki vaikutteensa Frederic Remingtonin ja Charles M. Russellin kuuluisista 1800-luvun lännen maalauksista.
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
A documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter.