În 1916, în timpul Primului Război Mondial, generalul francez Broulard i-a ordonat generalului Mireau să lanseze o ofensivă sinucigașă împotriva unei poziții germane inexpugnabile, poreclită „furnicarul”. În momentul atacului, soldații au căzut cu zecile și tovarășii lor, epuizați, au refuzat să înainteze...
Un fost detectiv din San Francisco este căutat de o veche cunoștință care îl roagă să îi facă o favoare: aceea de a-i urmări soția care pare a suferi de niște tulburări psihice. Povestea reală, însă, este mult mai complexă. Detectivul nu știe nimic despre asta, ci își face doar datoria. O datorie foarte plăcută, de altfel, fiindcă se îndrăgostește de soția prietenului său și ar face orice să o ajute. Orice - în limitele omenescului...
La cei 78 de ani ai săi, profesorul Isak Borg este chemat la universitatea din Lund, în sudul Suediei, unde va primi un doctorat onorific pentru contribuțiile sale științifice. Călătorește cu nora sa, care îi poartă pică pentru soțul ei, fiul profesorului, dă dovadă de un egoism similar cu cel al bătrânului și, mai mult, refuză să aibă copii. Pe drum dau peste trei autostopiști pe care îi invită în mașină spre Lund. După ce vizitează vechea casă de vară a familiei, Borg este asaltat de coșmaruri în care i se reproșează toate greșelile din trecut.
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Un tanar este fortat sa semneze o declaratie prin care recunoaste a fi autorul unui atentat cu bomba in care au murit multi oameni nevinovati, si ca este membru IRA. Din acel moment familia lui este intemnitata si blamata, tatal lui devenindu-i coleg de celula. Vor lupta amandoi din rasputeri pentru a-si dovedi nevinovatia, iar tatal lui isi va pierde viata in inchisoare luptand pentru dreptate.
Film științifico-fantastic inspirat din romanul omonim al lui Stanislaw Lem. Patru savanți aflați la bordul unei stații orbitale unde cercetările au fost abandonate, se confruntă cu stranii și inexplicabile fenomene, determinate de curioasa planetă Solaris, alcătuită dintr-o substanță înzestrată cu proprietățile creierului omenesc.
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them. Leo Strakosch is among the exiled. He is engaged to Counsellor's Linder's daughter. He gets into the Republic, in a clandestine way, to show to the society the wrongness of their anti-semitic prejudice. Bettauer's novel differs essentially from the film version. "Vienna" was named "Utopia". Even a happy ending was provided.
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok Wah works with Ho Lung's partner Mother (Kent Cheng) to unveil the enemy. Kwok Wah saves Hung during an operation and Hung starts to like Kwok Wah. Kwok Wah and Mother follow their plan to capture Dick, but it ends in vain and both of them get into a gunfight. Hung is killed for saving Kwok Wah during the gunfight. Though heart-broken, Kwok Wah and Mother go on fighting the villain...
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.