A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
20-årige Willie McKay er vokset op i New York uden forbindelse til sit fødested i Kentucky. Da han modtager et brev om, at han har arvet sin fars ejendom, beslutter han sig for at tage det første og bedste tog for at besøge sin oprindelige hjemby. På toget møder han en yderst tiltalende kvinde: Virginia Canfield. Hvad de to ikke kender til, er deres slægters familiefejde, og at Canfields hader McKays overalt på jorden.
Under 2. Verdenskrig er en gruppe uregerlige britiske soldater sat i en af de allieredes fangelejre i mellemøsten. Den brutale Bert Wilson kører lejren med jernhånd, og fanger bliver sat til den ene meningsløse opgave efter den anden. Da fangernes talsmand Joe Roberts brokker sig, bliver han mål for yderligere straffearbejde. Men Joe er ikke sådan lige at knække og modstanden i lejren vokser.
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
I 1994 findes et tvillingepar brutalt myrdet i et sommerhus. Politiets efterforskning peger i retning af en gruppe rigmandsbørn fra en nærliggende kostskole, men sagen lukkes, da en lokal outsider erklærer sig skyldig og dømmes for mordene. 20 år senere ender sagen på vicekriminalkommissær Carl Mørcks skrivebord, og han indser hurtigt, at noget er galt. Carl og hans assistent Assad genoptager sagen og finder frem til et gammelt nødopkald fra en desperat pige, der tilsyneladende kender til mordene. Snart bliver de to kastet ud i en intens søgen efter pigen, Kimmie, der har været forsvundet siden mordene fandt sted. Men Carl og Assad er ikke de eneste, der jagter Kimmie, da hendes viden er til stor fare for en gruppe indflydelsesrige mænd i toppen af samfundet, og de vil gøre alt hvad de kan for at forhindre fortiden i at indhente dem.
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Efter at være flygtet fra fængsel gemmer tre mænd sig i et hus i Indianapolis' forstader, hvor en helt almindelig familie bor. De planlægger at være der indtil midnat, men da deres lift væk ikke ankommer må mareridtet strække sig langt længere.
A recently widowed, now single father struggles to raise his sixth-grade son with autism. The pressure of his job and coping with the loss of his wife proves to push him nearly to the breaking point.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, high upon the rooftops framed by the Ilva steel factory, we meet Tonino a.k.a. “Barboncino” (poodle). Tonino has just committed a robbery and, in a moment of foolishness, fled from his accomplices, taking the entire loot for himself. He escapes upward, clambering from roof to roof, until he can go no further and must take refuge in an old water tank. Here he finds Renato, a strange and eccentric man who believes he is an American Indian from the Sioux tribe. Trapped with no other choice, Tonino is forced to team up with Renato. A strange and crazy friendship is formed, and Tonino learns to see things from a very different perspective.
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
The Imjin War reaches its seventh year in December of 1598. Admiral Yi Sun-shin learns that the Wa invaders in Joseon are preparing for a swift withdrawal following the deathbed orders of their leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Determined to destroy the enemy once and for all, Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to mount a blockade and annihilate the Wa army. However, once Ming commander Chen Lin is bribed into lifting the blockade, Wa lord Shimazu Yoshihiro and his Satsuma army sail to the Wa army’s rescue at Noryang Strait.
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.