Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde), un jove escriptor, coneix en un tren Ellen (Gene Tierney), una bellíssima dona amb qui es casa pocs dies després. La vida sembla somriure'ls, però Ellen és tan possessiva, la seva gelosia és tan malaltissa que no està disposada a compartir Richard amb ningú; tant amics com familiars representen per a ella una amenaça de la qual intentarà lliurar-se.
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
El 1945, un home amb un sol braç arriba al desolat poble de Black Rock. És John MacReedy (Spencer Tracy) i busca Joe Komaco, un granger japonès el fill del qual li va salvar la vida a la guerra. El comportament dels veïns és estranyament hostil i groller, i les preguntes de MacReedy sobre Komaco no reben resposta. És evident que amaguen alguna cosa, cosa que desperta la curiositat del foraster, que no està disposat a anar-se'n abans d'esbrinar el terrible secret que amaga Black Rock.
En plena Guerra Freda, se sospita que un enigmàtic general pretén enderrocar el president dels EUA per mitjà d'un cop d'estat. El president disposa només de set dies per trobar proves que li permetin avortar el cop.
Un jueu que treballa en una modesta casa de préstecs de Nova York es veu assetjat pels seus records traumàtics de les experiències viscudes en un camp de concentració nazi que li van canviar la seva manera de ser i el van fer esdevenir desconfiat, dur i implacable.
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Gairebé tots els habitants d'una petita ciutat de Texas pensen que el comissari és una simple marioneta del totpoderós petrolier Val Rogers. Però tot canvia quan el jove Bubber Reeves s'escapa de la presó. I és que mentre l'agent vol entregar viu al fugitiu, Rogers desitja que el mati, ja que tem per la vida del seu fill, que ha tingut una aventura amb la dona del fugitiu.
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Imperi Romà, segle II dC. Marc Aureli (160-181), l'emperador filòsof, va ser l'últim governant de l'Edat d'Or romana. Molt a desgrat seu, va haver de lluitar contra diversos pobles per defensar les fronteres de l'Imperi. En política interior, el seu somni era restaurar les institucions republicanes, raó per la qual va nomenar successor el seu protegit Livio, en detriment del seu ambiciós i corrupte fill Còmode. Però aquest no va acceptar la decisió del seu pare i es va apoderar del tron.
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
In Memphis, a middle-class white teenager and a black Vietnamese immigrant meet in a gay cruising spot and discover what they don't have in common.
William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.