Alfred Kralik er en nydelig ung mand der arbejder i den lille gavebutik rundt om hjørnet. Han er forelsket i en kvinde han aldrig har mødt eller set eller talt med. De har i stedet gennem en periode skrevet romantiske breve til hinanden. En dag bliver Klara Novak ansat i butikken og de to kan fra starten ikke fordrage hinanden. Ikke overraskende viser Klara sig netop at være Alfreds drømmekvinde fra korrespondancen men hvad nu?
En filminstruktør (Marcello Mastroianni) kæmper for at finde den kreativitet, det kræver, for at han kan færdiggøre sin næste film, men han bliver konstant forstyrret af producenter, sin kone og sin elskerinde. For at flygte fra sine plageånder trækker instruktøren sig tilbage i en verden af minder, drømme og fantasier. Resultatet er en række fantastiske temaer og drømme, der gør 8½ til den ultimative Fellini-film. Den afspejler også Fellinis egne problemer, før han fik dette filmprojekt sat i gang.
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
Selv efter at være blevet indespærret på et sindssygehospital kontrollerer mesterhjernen, Dr. Mabuse, den kriminelle underverden uden for murene. Denne film af den verdenskendte, østrigske instruktør, Fritz Lang, er nummer to i rækken af Dr. Mabuse-film, udsendt 11 år efter den første og 27 år før den sidste! Filmen var ment som en direkte salut til Hitler og den voksende nazisme, omend den præsenteres som en gedigen god kriminalhistorie.
Kathleen Madigan drops in on Detroit to deliver material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, and her love of John Denver and the Lunesta butterfly.
Werner Herzogs film om Kasper Hauser er baseret på en sand historie. Året er 1828, en ung mand kommer vaklende ind af den tyske by Nürnbergs byport i tøj der er alt for stor til ham. Hvor kommer han fra, hvem er han? Ingen i Nürnberg har set ham før. Han kunne ikke svare sammenhængende da de spurgte efter hans navn, hans gang var mærkelig foroverbøjet. Det lille samfund tager ham til sig, og langsomt får de lært ham at tale. Kasper Hauser fortæller en grusom historie, om at han har været indespæret i en kælder hele hans liv, han havde aldrig før set et andet menneske, et træ eller et hus... Kasper Hauser bliver med tiden en jaget mand... Nogen vil ikke have at han lever...
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
Folkets forsvarer og helt Wong Fei Hung ankommer i Peking med sit selskab, da kejseren bekendtgør det prestigefulde Løvebal. En kampsportsturnering, hvor stolthed og ære betyder mere end noget andet. Under turneringen afslører Wong både en rival og et mordkomplot, og han må endnu engang træde i karakter som retfærdighedens beskytter ved hjælp af list og hårde spark.
John Cusack spiller hovedrollen i denne film, instrueret af Savage Steve Holland, der også lavede den vanvittige Better Off Dead.... Historien følger fyren Hoops McCann, der gerne vil skrive og tegne en kærlighedshistorie. Han bliver derfor inviteret på en vild sommerferie af en ven, så han kan få inspiration. Hoops får mere inspiration, end han nogensinde turde drømme om! Specielt da han møder vennens fuldstændig vanvittige søster Cassandra (Demi Moore).
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
A sudden tragedy hits a wealthy middle-class family from North-East Italy. Tensions, hidden secrets and small hypocrisies emerge.
When a stuntman is mistaken for a police officer, he begins fighting crime.
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village...