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.
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Hamlet v osobitej režijnej aj hereckej interpretácií Laurence Olivera, považovaného v divadelnom svete za zásadnú autoritu na shakespeara, nesie ocenenie za prvý britský film ocenený Oscarom.
Ide o posledný film z Antonioniho slávnej „tetralógie citov“ a zároveň jeho prvý farebný film. Režisér sa vo filme venuje veľkým modernistickým témam úzkosti a odcudzenia v modernom svete. Hlavnú ženskú úlohu stvárnila Monica Vitti, vtedajšia Antonioniho partnerka.
Maurice Faugel si po prepustení z väzenia vyrovnáva účty a zároveň plánuje ďalšiu lúpež so svojím priateľom Silienom. Ten je však v prostredí, v ktorom sa pohybuje, považovaný za udavača... V tomto filme Melville adaptoval rovnomenný román Pierra Lesoua vydaný v edícii Série Noire.
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Do nápravného zařízení Wakefield přivážejí nového trestance Roberta Redforda. Brzy se však ukáže, že nejde jen o obyčejného vězně.
Short animation film about the fear of singing in public
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, Festival of the Nations, focused on the international aspects of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, part two, The Festival of Beauty, concentrates on individual athletes such as equestrians, gymnasts, and swimmers, climaxing with American Glenn Morris' performance in the decathalon and the games' majestic closing ceremonies.
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.
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.