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.
În timpul celui de-al II-lea război mondial, Cesira și fiica ei de 13 ani, Rosetta, părăsesc Roma de teama bombardamentelor aliaților. În drum spre satul natal al Cesirei, ele sunt violate de către un grup de soldați marocani. După ce își revin din această traumatizantă experiență, cele două sunt conduse la Roma de un șofer de camion aparent prietenos, dar care nu se sfiește să cumpere cu o pereche de ciorapi, favorurile Rosettei. Aflarea adevărului de către Cesira compromite grav relația mamă-fiică.
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.
Povestea adevărată a unui om nevinovat confundat cu un criminal.
Clint Eastwood joaca rolul lui Hogan, un cowboy dur al carui destin se schimba dupa ce salveaza o femeie, pe nume Sara, din ghearele unor violatori. Hogan va constata cu surprindere ca Sara este o calugarita de o frumusete neobisnuita pentru aceasta casta. Ei vor porni la drum impreuna prin Mexic, facand popas intr-un orasel transformat intr-o garnizoana militara unde sunt cantonati revolutionari anti-francezi. Odata ajunsi in acest loc, amandoi isi vor dezvalui adevaratele lor identitati. Hogan este o iscoada inamica aflat in interes de serviciu pentru a planui un viitor atac. Sora Sara este, de fapt, o prostituata de lux deghizata in calugarita. Realizand ca au cam aceleasi obiceiuri ... proaste, ca de pilda tabacul, whisky-ul, petrecerile si aventura, ei isi vor uni fortele. Impreuna cu o factiunea juarista ei vor pregati lovitura de gratie orasului-cazemata.
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.