La versió que Murnau va fer del mite de Faust –inspirant-se en les obres de Goethe i Marlowe i en les velles llegendes alemanyes– ha restat, per sempre més, com un dels films pictòrics més bells mai realitzats. La pel·lícula més costosa i de rodatge més llarg de la seva etapa alemanya també assoleix la plenitud en l’art del cinema mut.

A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future.

Un reservat jove de port galant és transferit com a nou estudiant a ingressar a la prestigiosa Acadèmia Ohtori. Aviat es revela la seva veritable identitat com Utena Tenjo, la noia que vesteix de príncep en honor a les seves més elevades aspiracions degudes a cert esdeveniment del passat. Però una vegada a l'escola es troba ni més ni menys que amb el seu antic amant, el misteriós president del Consell d'Estudiants Touga Kiryuu, i obté així el mateix Emblema de la Rosa que porta ell, un singular anell que autoritza i eleva a títol de Duelista al seu portador. Tan aviat Utena és desafiada a batre's en duel contra el vicepresident Kyouichi Saionji, actual duelista campió, es veurà estretament involucrada amb Anthy Himemiya, la Núvia de la Rosa, trofeu dels duels que tanca en el seu cos el tan cobejat secret del "Poder per revolucionar el Món ". Adaptació reformulada de la sèrie de televisió Revolutionary Girl Utena.

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.

"Un chien andalou" és un clàssic del cinema d'avantguarda surrealista, resultat de la cooperació entre el director Luis Buñuel i Salvador Dalí. La pel·lícula va canviar la manera com es rodaven les pel·lícules. L'escena més famosa és la d'un home a qui estan tallant l'ull amb un ganivet.

La filla d'un, aparentment, respectable farmacèutic, viu des de l'adolescència un seguit d'experiències --seduïda, mare soltera, expulsada del si familiar, internada en un reformatori, prostituïda-- fins arribar a la seva peculiar redempció personal.

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.

Adaptació cinematogràfica de la novel·la "Profesor Unrath" de Heinrich Mann. Narra la tragèdia de un sever professor que una nit va a "L'Ángel Blau", un cabaret de mala fama, para endur-se d'allí als seus alumnes, que van al local seduïts pels encants de la cantant Lola-Lola (Dietrich). No obstant, el professor Rath, un solter de 50 anys, acaba caient a les xarxes de la cabaretera. A partir de llavors, la seva vida serà un descens als inferns de la humiliació i de la degradació moral.

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

Ruka is a young girl whose parents are separated and whose father works in an aquarium. When two boys, Umi and Sora, who were raised in the sea by dugongs, are brought to the aquarium, Ruka feels drawn to them and begins to realize that she has the same sort of supernatural connection to the ocean that they do. Umi and Sora's special power seems to be connected to strange events that have been occurring more and more frequently, such as the appearance of sea creatures far from their home territory and the disappearance of aquarium animals around the world. However, the exact nature of the boys' power and of the abnormal events is unknown, and Ruka gets drawn into investigating the mystery that surrounds her new friends.

Un grup de dones passen la major part del dia entre salons de bellesa i botigues de roba, sempre murmurant, amb xafarderies i rumors. De cop, una descobreix que el seu marit es veu d'amagat amb una dependenta. Aquesta situació provoca un escàndol entre les seves amigues, produint diverses situacions de gelosia, enveges i rumors.

Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

Humble officials, friends Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias become the great attraction of the circus Bartolo, thanks to its incredible ability to make the public laugh. But success has a price: the opposition of the magician Assis Satan and the greed of the Baron, the owner of the circus. Together, the four friends will have to fight them.

There was once a very rich count, a slave owner, who had three daughters by his slave Olímpia: the three Marias. The count, who didn't want to dirty his feet in the mud, made the slaves build a path: The Stone Path.

In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.