This is the first feature film about the life of a hand (named Handy). After a lifetime spent with its owner (a bad writer) Handy decides to detach from the human body in order to prove that a stand alone hand can be the best writer ever...but the consequences of this action are going to affect all the other hands in the world...
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.
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
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!
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 English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Kanelia ja lihapullia -elokuvan sydämessä on elämän kestävä rakkaustarina ja aistillinen ruokakulttuuri. Istanbulissa asuva kreikkalaisen Fanis-pojan perhe karkotetaan Kreikkaan. Taakse jäävät maustekauppaa pitävä isoisä ja ihana Saime-tyttö. Nuori mies kasvaa aikuiseksi, muttei lakkaa ikävöimästä isoisää ja tyttöään. Yksinäinen poika ilmaisee itseään laittamalla ruokaa isoisän mausteoppien mukaisesti.
Rooman valtakunta on saavuttanut huippunsa. Keisari Marcus Aurelius haluaa seuraajakseen uskollisen kenraalinsa Liviuksen, mutta hänen poikansa Commodus anastaa kruunun väkivalloin. Hän hävittää vihollisensa väkivalloin ja ostaa kansansuosion kullalla ja verisillä gladiaattorinäytöksillä. Uutta keisaria voivat vastustaa vain kenraali Livius ja Marcus Aureliuksen tytär. Rooman valtakunnan tuho on suurin puittein toteutettu eepos rakkaudesta ja vihasta, julmuudesta ja vallasta, mutta myös tarina rohkeudesta ja uhrautuvaisuudesta.
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.
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Left by her fiancé for another woman, Ava joins the circus to reclaim her forgotten wildness.
A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
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.