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.
Den kolde krig raser mellem USA og Rusland. Som udfald af en teknisk fejl beordres en atom-udstyret bombeeskadrille fra det amerikanske forsvar at bombe Moskva. Med alle midler forsøger amerikanerne selv at få standset missionen og dermed undgå startskuddet til en verdensudslettende atomkrig. Den amerikanske præsident tvinges til at træffe en chokerende, men nødvendig beslutning af umenneskelig kaliber.
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.
From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.
The Children's Hour (1934, da. Sladder, 1953), viser de vidtrækkende konsekvenser, da en skolepige beskylder to lærerinder for lesbianisme.
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Tyskland efter sammenbruddet i 1945. Til det totalt ødelagte land ankommer amerikaneren Leo Kessler, hvis forældre var tyskere. Hans onkel har skaffet ham ansættelse ved jernbanerne. På togrejser gennem landet bliver han vidne til opløsningen. Han møder Katharina. Hun er datter af jernbaneselskabets direktør, som er tvunget til at samarbejde med de allierede, men begår selvmord. Katharina er i høj grad interesseret i Leo. Det viser sig imidlertid, at hun har tilknytning til de såkaldte varulve, en gruppe fanatiske nazister, der gennemfører terroraktioner mod de allieredes besættelsestropper og bl.a. bruger små børn ved aktionerne. Da Leo og Katharina er blevet gift, vil varulvegruppens leder Siggy presse Leo til at hjælpe med en sabotageaktion.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.
When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That's when Ninjababy, an animated character who makes Rakel's life a living hell, turns up.
Da journalisten Phil Green (Gregory Peck) skal til at skrive en dybdeborende artikel om den paradoksale antisemitisme i efterkrigstiden, beslutter han sig for at opleve den på sin egen krop, hvordan det er at være jødisk i midten af fyrrernes USA. Men det, der begyndte som en del af hans arbejde, leder pludselig til, at han oplever at blive afvist, negligeret, set ned på og selv i sit privatliv venter der ubehagelige overraskelser. Mesterinstruktøren Elia Kazan oplevede en af sit livs store triumfer, da hans idealistiske film i 1947 blev nomineret til hele 8 Oscars, hvoraf han selv fik én for bedste instruktion, én for bedste film og én til Celeste Holm for bedste birolle.
Greer Garson ("Madame Curie") vandt en Oscar som en engelsk husmor, hvis familie kæmper for at overleve 2. verdenskrig. Et stærkt krigstidsdrama som blev nomineret til 11 Oscars og vandt syv, deriblandt bedste film, instruktør og manuskript. Teresa Wright ("The Best Years of Our Lives") vandt en Oscar for bedste kvindelige birolle. Medstjernerne Walter Pigeon ("How Green Was My Valley"), Dame May Whitty ("Gaslight"), og Henry Travers ("It's a Wonderful Life") blev alle Oscar nominerede. Blev for nyligt udvalgt af det prestigefyldte amerikanske filminstitut som en af de 400 bedste amerikanske film nogensinde.
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.
The life and crimes of boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. The film tracks his life from discovering NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, to his perpetration of one of the largest ponzi schemes in US history.