Nakon presude kojom je proglašen krivim za ubojstvo vlastite žene i njenog ljubavnika, Andy Dufresne 1947. stiže u zloglasni zatvor Shawshank kako bi odslužio doživotnu kaznu. Inače bankovni stručnjak i ugledni gospodin, Andy je ubačen u sredinu o kakvoj nije mogao niti sanjati. Okružen kriminalcima i sadističkim čuvarima, vrlo se brzo suočava s brutalnošću zatvorskog života. Drži se povučeno i rijetko komunicira, osim s utjecajnim i dobronamjernim zatvorenikom Redom. Do promjene će doći jednoga dana kada Andy počne nuditi čuvarima financijske usluge i savjete. Tad počinje uživati poseban status među zatvorenicima i čuvarima, pa ga čak i sam upravitelj vrbuje za zatvorskog knjigovođu. Svoj povlašteni položaj Andy koristi kako bi unaprijedio zatvorsku knjižnicu i time barem donekle uljepšao tamošnji turoban život...
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.
Američki turisti David i Jack napadnuti su od strane neidentificirane zvijeri dok su šetali Yorkshire Moorsom. Sklonivši se u dom atraktivne medicinske sestre radi oporavka, David ubrzo prolazi kroz uznemirujuće promjene uma i tijela.
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
An adaptation of one of the greatest greek novellas ('The Murderess' by Alexandros Papadiamantis). Fragkogiannou (Maria Alkaiou), a hard-done by, deranged woman after a life full of hardship, recalls the past by her newborn girl grandchild’s crib. Her mother was a wicked woman and one of her sons was a criminal. Lost in a haze, she strangles the baby as she is concvinced that girls can cause their family only trouble. Later, she lets a little girl drown in a well, while she drowns three other little girls, one of whom is a newborn baby. This is her way of sparing children and parents of the inevitable suffering in life.
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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.
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he falls in love with Anna, a 19-year-old goddess.
Tenzije između oca i sina porastu kad se antipatični otac odluči useliti kod sina i njegove zaručnice netom prije njihova vjenčanja.
Heidi, a radio DJ, is sent a box containing a record - a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?
A clerk has his own duty. A clerk does his own work. This is what a clerk should do.