Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
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 weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
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.
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose members seem to have a lot to hide.
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
Emotivni Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero zvan Manny (H. Fonda) miran je i povučen obiteljski čovjek, koji za život zarađuje sviranjem u jazz-sastavu njujorškog noćnog kluba. Manny i Rose jedva financijski spajaju kraj s krajem, a u skrbi o sinovima pomaže im i Roseina majka (E. Minciotti). Toga 14. siječnja 1953. godine, na dan kada je zbog visokog računa Roseina stomatologa odlučio podići zajam u osiguravateljskom društvu, Mannyjev se život iz temelja promijenio. Čim je ušao u ured tri službenice su se počele došaptavati. Ne znajući o čemu je riječ, Manny je nakon nekoliko dužih razgovora uspio podići traženi novac i odnijeti ga Rose. Ubrzo na vrata mu je pokucalo nekoliko policajaca predvođenih detektivom Bowersom (H. J. Stone), koji su zbunjenog Mannyja priveli u 110. policijsku postaju. Ondje je konačno doznao da je osumnjičen za niz pljački u svojoj četvrti, jer prema riječima očevidaca, među kojima je i gospođica Constance Willis (L. Barrett), odgovara opisu pljačkaša.
Hogan se dvije godine borio u američkom građanskom ratu, a sad mu je samo do novca. U meksičkoj pustoši naiđe na tri muškarca koji pokušavaju silovati polugolu ženu. On ih ubije, uzme njihovo oružje i novac, a onda se upozna sa ženom koju je spasio. Ona je časna sestra po imenu Sara. Hogan i Sara kreću zajedno kroz pustoš i on joj predloži da je dalje otprate francuski vojnici koji su se upravo pojavili na horizontu. Ona to uplašeno odbije, jer će je oni uhititi budući da skuplja novac za pomoć meksičkim revolucionarima koji se bore protiv francuskih kolonizatora. Hogan i ona im pobjegnu. Hogan želi napasti francusku tvrđavu u Chichuahui za račun meksičkih pobunjenika. Kako je Sara živjela nekoliko godina u samostanu u tom mjestu i čak učila neke Francuze španjolski, to mu ona može dati dragocjene informacije.
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.