Luminile orașului este primul film mut pe care Charlie Chaplin l-a regizat după înființarea filmelor acompaniate de sunet. Filmul este despre un om fără bani care se îndrăgostește de o florăreasă. Filmul a fost un mare succes și astăzi este considerat un clasic de excepție.
Antoine, un puști de 13, locuiește cu părinții într-un apartament înghesuit din Paris. Neglijat de mamă și neînțeles de tată, el începe să se răzvrătească împotriva autorităților. După ce are probleme la școală, el alege să fugă de acasă.
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
Rupert Pupkin e un comedian tulburat, care e dispus să facă orice ca să ajungă în lumina reflectoarelor. El face echipă cu o femeie la fel de dezechilibrată și își răpește idolul, pe Jerry Langford, prezentatorul unei emisiuni.
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.
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
Anders își va termina în curând tratamentul într-un centru de reabilitare izolat. Unul din pașii din program este să meargă în oraș pentru un interviu legat de obținerea unui loc de muncă. Dar Anders profită de ocazie și rămâne în oraș, rătăcind pe străzi și întâlnindu-se cu prieteni vechi. La 34 de ani, Anders este deștept, frumos și de familie bună, dar bântuit de toate oportunitățile pe care le-a irosit. E încă tânăr, dar simte că din multe puncte de vedere viața i s-a terminat. Până la sfârșitul zilei și târziu în noapte, fantomele greșelilor din trecut se vor lupta cu șansa dragostei și posibilitatea unei noi vieți.
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
Scott Mary, un tânăr modest, face munca de jos în Clifton fără a se plânge: ridică gunoiul, curăță toaletele, mătură străzile. Asta până când un pistolar sosește în oraș și începe să îl învețe și să îl ghideze. Sub tutela sa, Scott se maturizează și se schimbă într-atât, încât curând începe să încline altfel balanța puterii în oraș.
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.
A portrait of those trying to survive in the war-torn Middle East.
Chow Sing-Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.
A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.