Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

L’obra mestra de Victor Sjöström és aquesta adaptació de la novel·la de Selma Lagerlöf, un relat dur de pobresa i degradació en què es descriu una societat freda i implacable que empeny les seves víctimes cap a la brutalitat i la bogeria.

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.

A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

El detectiu Philip Marlowe investiga què ha passat amb un cadàver que ha estat rescatat al moll Lido. La família que l'ha contractat per resoldre el cas té una filla molt atractiva de què Marlowe s'enamora sense remissió.

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Regne d'Escòcia, segle XI. Els nobles escocesos Macbeth i Banquo tornen a casa després d'una campanya victoriosa. Enmig d'un paratge llòbrec troben tres bruixes que els profetitzen honors desmesurats. Macbeth serà senyor de Cawdor i en el futur arribarà a ser rei. En canvi, Banquo serà l'origen d'una nissaga reial, encara que ell mateix mai no serà coronat. Tots dos cavallers jutgen inversemblants aquests auguris. Tanmateix, quan la primera predicció esdevé real, foscos pensaments assetgen Macbeth. Durant una visita del rei Duncan, l'ambiciosa Lady Macbeth encoratjarà el seu espòs a cometre un horrible crim.

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.

Un excèntric milionari convida cinc persones a la seva mansió, on es diu que s'han comès crims en el passat. Els ofereix 10.000 dòlars si hi passen una nit sencera, incomunicats, fins que tornin els criats. Els convidats no es coneixen entre ells ni tampoc l'amfitrió, però necessiten diners. Així, els cinc estranys, l'amo i la seva dona romanen a la casa, on comencen a passar successos estranys.

Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), un cantant negre ple de deutes a causa de la seva compulsiva afició a les apostes, Earl Slater (Robert Ryan), un ex-presidiari racista que viu a costa d'una dona, i Dave Burke (Ed Begley), un expolicia corrupte i jugador, s'uneixen per atracar un banc de Nova York. Tot i que el pla sembla perfecte, aviat sorgeixen entre ells tensions que poden fer-ho fracassar.

Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own ambitions and relationships against a tragic lie.

An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a stone that changes iron to gold on touch. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

Mr. Jones és un home impulsiu i fascinant que atrau la gent amb el seu encant i la seva exagerada energia vital. De vegades, però, passa bruscament d'aquest estat d'eufòria a enfonsar-se en la desesperació i l'apatia. És un maníac depressiu. El seu psiquiatre, la doctora Elizabeth Bowen, està decidida a ajudar-lo. Abans d'adonar-se'n, se n'haurà enamorat perdudament.

A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle.

A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.