Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.

Harrison Ford spiller en amerikansk læge, hvis kone pludselig forsvinder i Paris. I sin søgen efter hende må han sno sig gennem en forvirrende labyrint af sprog, scenarier, ligeglade politimænd, papirnussende bureaukrater - og en mystisk pige, som ved mere, end hun giver udtryk for.

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.

An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.

Mystery Inc. is summoned to investigate occurrences in a haunted villa, where a black knight terrorizes anybody who tries to get close to treasure hidden by the former owner of the building.

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Will Lockhart ankommer til Coronado, en afsidesliggende by i midten af ingenting. Snart bliver han viklet ind i komplicerede familiedramaer og gamle rivalrier, og ender i sigtekornet hos den lokale kvægbaron og hans farlige søn.

Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.

Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...

James Stewart har hovedrollen og spiller sammen med Farley Granger og John Dall i denne stærktladede gyser, der er inspireret af virkelighedens Leopold-Loeb mordsag. Granger og Dall giver fængslende skildringer af to venner, der kvæler en klassekammerat ud fra en intellektuel hypotese - og derefter holder en fest for offerets familie og venner med liget proppet ned i en kuffert, som de bruger som anretterbord. Da morderne begynder at tale om muligheden for at udføre det "perfekte mord", bliver deres tidligere lærer (Stewart) mere og mere mistænksom. Før natten er omme, vil professoren opdage, hvor brutalt hans studerende har omdannet hans akademiske teorier til skrækindjagende realitet i denne film, hvor Hitchock har begivet sig ind i det makabre på en højst fascinerende måde.

En kvinder står anklaget for et drab hun begik i selvforsvar, men pludseligt bliver hun afpresset med at brev der kan sende hende direkte i fængsel.

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

He is a civil servant in the bland state office. His whole life changes when his reports get mixed up in the hospital and he gets news that he's going to die very soon.

The odd-couple courtship saga continues of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao. After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers — her youth and beauty, his cynical, childish sense of humor — by entering into a trial marriage while on a trip to the country's tropical southeast.

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Et biluheld efterlader læreren Justin McLeod stærkt skamferet. For at slikke sårene trækker han sig tilbage til et liv som eneboer i Maine. En dag banker den lokale dreng Charles på døren og beder om undervisning, og efterhånden bliver de to venner. Både forældrene og det politi er stærkt mistænksomme over for den mærkelige mand, og skumle rygter kommer i omløb

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.

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.