Skandalejournalisten Marcello på jagt i Roms gader efter sladderhistorier eller et amourøst eventyr.

Jeanne d'Arcs Lidelse og Død er baseret på protokollerne fra den rettergang, som i 1431 førte til Jeanne d’Arcs domfældelse for kætteri og henrettelse på bålet. Den månedlange proces er i filmen trængt sammen til et langt kortere forløb. Jeanne står alene mod en hel skare af præster og munke, der med en byge af spørgsmål prøver at presse hende til at indrømme, at hendes visioner ikke er sendt af Gud; men selv under trussel om tortur står hun fast. Hun er for syg til, at dommerne tør pine hende, men ved at true hende med at blive brændt på bålet får de hende til at skrive under på, at hendes visioner var falske. Hun fortryder dog snart, og hun bliver brændt levende. På tilskuerne virker hendes død som et martyrium, og folkemængden rejser sig til oprør mod undertrykkerne.

I et vestjysk sogn er grundtvigianeren Morten Borgen den største gårdejer. Den mellemste af hans tre sønner, Johannes, er blevet sindssyg og tror, han er Jesus. Den yngste søn kan ikke få lov at ægte datteren af den lokale indremissionske leder, Peter Skrædder. Da den ældste søns kone, Inger, dør i barselsseng, beder hendes otteårige datter Johannes, om ikke han vil vække moderen til live igen. Barnets enfoldige tro får ham til at udvirke det mirakel, der gør de interne kirkelige modsætninger ligegyldige.

I Hiroshima mødes en fransk skuespillerinde og en japansk arkitekt. I løbet af en enkelt nat udlever de en lidenskabelig kærlighed og betror hinanden deres livshistorier.

Den 73-årige Alvin Straight, lever en rolig pensionisttilværelse i lillebyen Laurens i Iowa sammen med sin datter. Da han hører, at hans bror, som han ikke har talt med i årevis, har fået en blodprop, beslutter Alvin sig for at han vil se ham en sidste gang. Desværre har Alvin hverken kørekort eller bil, og han kender ingen, der kan køre ham. Men han har en lille græsslåmaskine-traktor, og i den begiver han sig af sted, på den 500 km lange færd til brorens bolig.

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

En stakkels jazzmusiker plages af tanken om, at hans kone er ham utro. Bedre bliver det ikke, da han senere bliver anklaget for at have myrdet hende. En ung bilmekaniker bliver af en fristende smuk kvinde draget ind i et net af løgne og bedrag. Deres skæbner bliver knyttet sammen ved det, at de personer der gør deres liv så besværligt, måske er én og samme person. Og gennem en række mystiske og utrolige hændelser - som faktisk sætter spørgsmål ved deres egen identitet - knyttes de endnu tættere sammen. De kastes ud i en mental rejse fyldt med visuelle og lydmæssige oplevelser. Hvem er hvem, og hvem har gjort hvad?

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.

Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.

Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.

DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.

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