Eletään toisen maailmansodan lopun aikaa Japanissa. Liittoutuneiden joukot pommittavat jo raskaasti keisarikunnan pääsaarten suurkaupunkeja - ilmahälytykset, tuho, ahdinko ja kuolema ovat jatkuvasti läsnä. Teini-ikäiselle Seitalle ja hänen neljän vuoden ikäiselle pikkusiskolleen, Setsukolle, sodan tuulet kylvävät armottomat kortit, kun heidän äitinsä saa surmansa pommituksissa.Orvoksi jääneet Seita ja Setsuko joutuvat kohtaamaan aikuisten kylmän ja välinpitämättömän maailman, jossa paikkansa menettäneille lapsille ei tunnu löytyvän sijaa eikä sympatiaa. Muun maailman keskittyessä sotaan ja sen hävityksen aalloista selviämiseen, yrittää Seita suojata siskoaan rakkaudella ja huolettomuuden illuusiolla.
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Uuden vuosisadan alkaessa Japanin talous romahti, työttömyys kasvoi, ja samaan aikaan kun aikuiset menettivät tulevaisuudenuskonsa, lapsissa alkoi kasvaa halveksunta heitä kohtaan. Vanhempi sukupolvi alkoi pelätä nuorisoa ja kykenemättömänä ymmärtämään sen motiiveja enää lainkaan otti käyttöön todella radikaalin keinon: hallitus perusti taistelupeli Battle Royalen, jossa kerran vuodessa satunnaisesti valitun koululuokan oppilaat pakotetaan tappamaan toisensa siten, että vain yksi jää henkiin ja pääsee vapauteen. Kilpailuun joutuu 42-henkinen yhdeksäs luokka, joka lähetetään autiolle saarelle. Siellä oppilaat saavat ruokaa, juomaa, kartan, kompassin ja sattumanvaraisen aseen, minkä jälkeen he lähtevät yksitellen ulos oppilasnumeron mukaisessa järjestyksessä. Jos kolmen vuorokauden kuluttua useampi kuin yksi oppilas on hengissä, heidät kaikki tapetaan.
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
On vuosi 1837, ja vasta 18-vuotias prinsessa Victoria nousee Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan valtaistuimelle. Victoria on kuninkaallisen valtataistelun ja juonittelun kohde. Kaikilla on omat motiivinsa olla hänen suosiossaan. Victoria rakastuu Belgian kuningas Leopoldin veljenpoikaan Albertiin, mutta itsenäisyytensä vihdoin saavuttanut Victoria haluaa ystävän ja rakastajan, ei kontrolloivaa aviomiestä.
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.
A feature documentary about the life of Lenny McLean, as seen through the eyes of his only son, Jamie.
A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.
A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.