I en gudsforladt del af Syd-Amerika findes 4 desperate mænd. De går med til en ren selvmordsopgave, da de under hårdt tidspres skal køre lastbiler fyldt med nitroglycerin gennem et farefuldt bjerglandskab. På vej mod målet med den stødfølsomme og højeksplosive last sættes både nerver, venskab og mod på prøve.
Den franske modstandsaktivist Fontaine dømmes til døden af nazisterne og bruger al sin vågne tid på at planlægge sin flugt ud af fængslet. En dødsdømt flygter af Robert Bresson vandt instruktørprisen i Cannes. Hans minimalistiske og nervepirrende dramathriller er baseret på virkelige hændelser i nazifængslet i Lyon under Anden Verdenskrig.
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
De tre amerikanske soldater Fred, Homer og Al vender hjem efter mange års krig. De står over for en række vanskeligheder ved at tilpasse sig samfundet og leve et almindeligt liv. Fred tjente som kaptajn i flyvevåbnet og er plaget af mareridt, og hans kone har mistet interessen, Homer var i flåden, hvor han mistede begge hænder, da hans hangarskib sank, og han frygter at ingen forstår hvad han går igennem, og Al var en sergent i infanteriet og kæmpede i Stillehavet, og må se i øjnene at livet er gået videre for hans kone og børn.
With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to receive a promotion soon. There, Domenico meets Antonietta, a young woman in a similar situation as himself. The two form a tentative relationship, but the soulless nature of their jobs threatens to keep them apart.
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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.
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of outrageous punk friends.
Clint Eastwood spiller den geniale og dybt engagerede filmskaber John Wilson, som er fast besluttet på at gøre sit nye projekt i Afrika til et personligt eventyr, hvor han skal jage en vild elefant. Det er en barsk og medrivende fortælling baseret på en roman af manuskriptforfatteren Peter Viertel, som i 1950 arbejdede sammen med instruktøren John Huston i Afrika for at lave ’Afrikas dronning’.
An old Finnish athlete travels alone through eastern Europe with his van.
George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. At the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the “Chivers” a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.