A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Thomas és un pastor protestant que celebra els oficis religiosos amb església gairebé buida. És un home solitari que pateix una profunda crisi espiritual i la vida de la qual no té sentit. Fins i tot l'amor que li professa la mestra Marta s'ha tornat per a ell una càrrega insuportable. La seva situació s'agreuja en veure's incapaç d'oferir cap ajuda a una parella de pagesos que hi acudeixen per demanar-li consell. Quan, poc després, el pagès se suïcida, Thomas es troba a la vora de l'abisme i ja res no podrà omplir el seu buit interior.
Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) és un home afable, afectuós i sempre disposat a ajudar els altres. El seu únic problema és que va a tot arreu acompanyat per un imaginari conill gegant que anomena Harvey. La família d'Elwood no sap què fer i opta per portar-lo a un psiquiàtric.
Cleo, una cantant jove, espera impacient els resultats d'un examen mèdic. Quan una endevina que llegeix les cartes revela que té càncer i que pot morir, la seva inquietud augmenta. Tractant d'ocupar el seu temps en espera dels resultats, Cleo coneix un jove soldat, a punt de sortir per fer el servei militar a Algèria, a qui confia el seu temor a la mort.
Amb la meticulositat del documental, Olmi ens conta la història d'una família que haurà de deixar la casa dels amos on treballen per culpa d'un esclop i l'arbre que el va originar.
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
Segona Guerra Mundial. Lacombe, un jove camperol el pare del qual està presoner a Alemanya i la mare del qual es fica al llit amb el seu cap, intenta afiliar-se a la Resistència. Rebutjat pel capitost local, ingressa per atzar a la policia alemanya. Amb una capacitat sorprenent per adaptar-se al que li exigeix el nou lloc, la seva vida canvia quan s'enamora de France, la filla d'un sastre jueu.
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
La desintegració d'un matrimoni perfecte, tan modèlic que resulten insultants les seves vides tan còmodes com buides, es produeix quan l'esposa, la mare i la mestressa de casa perfecta, amb una eficaç i grassoneta serventa alemanya que completa el quadre familiar, cau al compte de que voleu alguna cosa més: recobrar la seva pròpia identitat.
De tornada a l'ancestral castell 25 anys després de la mort del monstre, el fill del doctor Frankenstein coneix a Ygor, un pastor boig que amaga la terrible criatura. Buscant netejar el nom de la família, reviu el monstre i ho intenta rehabilitar.
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Des de fa més de trenta anys, en una emissora de ràdio nord-americana s'emet el programa "A Prairie Home Companion", un xou de varietats per a tota la família que inclou música country en directe, anuncis ficticis i una sèrie protagonitzada pel detectiu Guy Noir. Un dia, de sobte, el presentador i els seus convidats s'assabenten que estan fent l'últim programa perquè el teatre on actuen serà enderrocat per convertir-lo en un aparcament.
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.
Ohad, the protagonist, is serving in the Israel Defense Forces as a Hesder student. He has not told anyone that he is gay. He tries various ways of dealing with the conflict between his religious beliefs and his sexual orientation, including Atzat Nefesh. He is told to spend forty days fasting and repenting to help rid him of his homosexual inclinations. He does this and believes himself to be cured. After this, his best friend, Nir, returns from leave. Ohed is torn between his homosexuality and his religion. The film deals with the struggles Ohed faces when it comes to loving God and loving Nir.
Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.
The gingerdead man travels back in time to 1976 and carries out an epic disco killing spree.
Recep Ivedik coaches the children football team in his neighborhood. For the training he uses the only free piece of land as football field on which he used to play football as a child. Recep notices sadly that this piece of land was sold to a businessman. So as not to loose this for the neighborhood and the children valuable piece of land he decides to re-buy it on his own. With his own methods he does not receive the money. The participation in a competition with a big price is the only solution of his problem ...