I was somewhere between the beggining and the end of life. After winter became spring, and summer became fall, and fall winter again. I always knew change would be constant.
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Fanny ja Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) on Ingmar Bergmanin ohjaama elokuva vuodelta 1982. Bergman leikkasi samasta aineistosta myös laajemman neliosaisen televisiosarjan, ja työsti sen käsikirjoituksesta kirjan. Elokuva kertoo hyvin toimeentulevan Ekdahlin teatterisuvun elämästä 1900-luvun alun Ruotsissa kahden lapsen, Fannyn ja Alexanderin kautta.Elokuva sai neljä Oscar-palkintoa: paras vieraskielinen elokuva (palkinnon vastaanotti Ingmar Bergmanin puolesta Jörn Donner), Sven Nykvist kuvauksesta, Anna Asp ja Sisanne Lingheim parhaasta lavastuksesta ja Marik Vos Lungh pukusuunnittelusta. Se palkittiin myös Golden Globe -palkinnolla parhaana ulkomaalaisena elokuvana.Suomalaisista näyttelijöistä elokuvassa olivat mukana Nils Brandt ja Stina Ekblad.
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison's death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA's film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.
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?
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror.
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Billy Wilderin viimeinen elokuva on toiminnantäyteinen trillerikomedia, jonka pääosassa on Walter Matthau mafiamurhaajana. Hän saa viimeiseksi tehtäväkseen ennen eläkkeelle siirtymistään raivata tieltä kolme ilmiantajaa.
Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails finally starts opening up. Dumping his body at the local hospital, dropping by church to say a few prayers and trading in the cow for a pet goat, she slowly eliminates all trace of his former hold on her, searching out a new life in the freedom that emerges.
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.