The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Akbar, 18, has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A’la, a friend of Akbar, tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar’s plaintiff so as to stop the execution.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
Iivana Julma (ven. Иван Грозный, Ivan Groznyi) on Sergei Eisensteinin ohjaama kaksiosainen elokuva, jonka ensimmäinen osa on vuodelta 1944, toinen vuodelta 1946. Eisensteinin teos on neuvostoelokuvan klassikoita. Elokuva sukeltaa 1500-luvulla eläneen Venäjän tyrannimaisen tsaarin Iivana Julman mielenliikkeisiin. Tsaari kokoaa vallan itselleen, ja papit ja pajarit ryhtyvät juonittelemaan häntä vastaan.
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Drownig by Numbers – Kohtalokkaat numerot kertoo saman perheen kolmen eri sukupolven naisista, joiden kaikkien nimi on Cissie Colpitts. Vanhin Cissie on lopen kyllästynyt jatkuvasti uskottomaan ja alkoholisoituneeseen mieheensä – niinpä eräänä yönä hän päättää hukuttaa tämän kylpyammeeseen. Rikoksen salaamiseksi hän tarvitsee apua kaupungin oikeuslääkäriltä Madgettilta. Cissien tukena ovat kuitenkin myös hänen tyttärensä ja tyttärentyttärensä. Heidän lisäkseen mukana hääräilee Madgettin omalaatuinen poika Smut, joka muun muassa merkitsee ja laskee kuolemantapauksia. Joukko saa lavastettua murhan onnettomuudeksi – mutta miten käykään, kun myös muut Cissie Colpittsit alkavat löytää miehistään epämiellyttäviä piirteitä?
Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.
Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
When an up-and-coming stylist is found stabbed to death in his home, a young detective is given 20 days to solve the case. Inspired by true events.
The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.
A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to mundane activities.