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.

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.

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.

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

Amazonjoella fossiileja etsivä tutkimusretkikunta löytää esihistoriallisen hirviön legendaariselta Mustalta laguunilta. Tutkijat vangitsevat mystisen olennon, mutta se pääsee pakenemaan. Hirviö rakastuu ja palaa kidnappaamaan kauniin Kayn, joka on kihlautunut yhden retkikunnan tutkijan kanssa. (Owla)

Ensimmäisessä amerikkalaiswesternissään Clint Eastwood kaivertaa nimimerkkinsä lähtemättömällä tavalla kovanaaman perikuvaksi – kylmäpäisenä, lujatahtoisena ja taipumattomana kostajana. Clint Eastwood esittää ankarassa kostolänkkärissä karjankasvattaja Jed Cooperia, joka joutuu syyttömänä hirttosilmukan jatkoksi. Cooper pelastuu ja värväytyy kovaotteisen tuomari Fentonin (loistava Pat Hingle) johtamiin lainvartijoihin löytääkseen ja tappaakseen lynkkaajansa. Maailmankatsomukseltaan synkkä ja nihilistinen kostolänkkäri resonoi spagettiwesternien brutaalia henkeä. Se on myös kiehtova tutkielma julkisen ja yksityisen oikeusjärjestelmän vioista ja yhtäläisyyksistä.

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

After thirteen years of engagement, the boring sex life of Rui and Vani is limited to one intercourse every other week. They decide to seek excitement with a threesome and they decide to invite Vani's cousin Silvinha to participate late night, but an accident interrupts their game. Rui and Vani unsuccessfully spend the night searching for for companion of a bisexual woman.

Los Angelesissa toimiva etsivä, kovaotteinen Nick Pulovski, toimii usein vastoin esimiestensä käskyjä ja ylittää välillä toimioikeutensa, mutta Nick ei noista asioista lannistu, vaan pääasia että saa rikolliset kiinni. Hän luottaa kokemuksen voimaan ja 45-kaliiperisen kollegansa kaunopuheisuuteen. Nick joutuu tutkimaan autovarkauksien sarjaa, jonka takana on häikäilemätön rikollisliiga. Liiga tappaa Nickin parin, ja Nick siirretään syrjään tutkinnasta. Hän ei voi kuitenkaan antaa tapauksen olla, vaan jatkaa omia tutkimuksiaan ja hän saa vaivoikseen nuoren keltanokan, joka tuntee syyllisyyttä veljensä kuolemasta. Parivaljakon on opittava luottamaan toisiinsa, jotta häikäilemätön autovarasliiga saadaan viimein pysäytettyä.

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.