Gertrud er gift med politikeren Gustav og har et forhold til den unge musiker Erland. Før ægteskabet havde hun et forhold til digteren Gabriel. Alle tre er mænd for hvem arbejdet har højeste prioritet, mens det for hende er kærligheden. Derfor bryder hun med dem alle og vælger selvstændigheden. Mange år senere ser den gamle Gertrud sammen med vennen Axel tilbage på sit liv.

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress his beastly urge to kill her.

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be Mary, the Mother of God.

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the green light. Female driver Sonoshee, with whom he is secretly in love, is also on the starting line. She will stop at nothing to get on to that podium. In this race, not only is anything possible, but also anything is allowed. In fact, their adversaries have modified their vehicles to equip them with highly destructive weapons; with such participants, it is hardly surprising that Redline is forbidden by the authorities, who will try anything to halt the proceedings.

Kate får ikke noget sex hos sin mand, så hun tager med en lækker fremmed hjem. Desværre bliver hun efterfølgende skåret i strimler i elevatoren af en lyshåret fremmed. Eneste vidne til det brutale mord er luderen Liz, der hurtigt bliver politiets hovedmistænkte. Liz og Kate søn Peter beslutter selv at finde morderen.

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Jeanne d'Arcs Lidelse og Død er baseret på protokollerne fra den rettergang, som i 1431 førte til Jeanne d’Arcs domfældelse for kætteri og henrettelse på bålet. Den månedlange proces er i filmen trængt sammen til et langt kortere forløb. Jeanne står alene mod en hel skare af præster og munke, der med en byge af spørgsmål prøver at presse hende til at indrømme, at hendes visioner ikke er sendt af Gud; men selv under trussel om tortur står hun fast. Hun er for syg til, at dommerne tør pine hende, men ved at true hende med at blive brændt på bålet får de hende til at skrive under på, at hendes visioner var falske. Hun fortryder dog snart, og hun bliver brændt levende. På tilskuerne virker hendes død som et martyrium, og folkemængden rejser sig til oprør mod undertrykkerne.

En flyvende tallerken lander, og ud træder et væsen, som fortæller jorden at hvis jordens beboere ikke lærer at leve i fred, så vil planeten blive erklæret en trussel mod universet, og destrueret.

En lille by på grænsen til Mexico styres af den forbryderiske landejer Nathan Burdette. Da Nathans bror Joe begår et mord, bures han inde af sheriffen Chance, indtil en politichef udefra kan se på sagen. Chance forventer, at Nathan og hans slæng vil forsøge at befri Joe. Til at hjælpe sig har han den unge mesterskytte Colorado, den tørlagte alkoholiker og vicesherif Dude og den halte og tandløse Stumpy.

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Med en kønt ansigt og pæn udbetaling er det ikke svært for frk. Wonderly af få detektiverne Spade & Archer til at beskytte sig. Men Archer bliver dræbt samme aften, og nu er det op til hårdkogte Sam Spade at redde trådene ud. Inden længe er Spade draget ind i et dødsensfarligt spil, hvor en gruppe forbrydere vil gøre alt for at få fat i en figur af en ridderfalk.

Den 73-årige Alvin Straight, lever en rolig pensionisttilværelse i lillebyen Laurens i Iowa sammen med sin datter. Da han hører, at hans bror, som han ikke har talt med i årevis, har fået en blodprop, beslutter Alvin sig for at han vil se ham en sidste gang. Desværre har Alvin hverken kørekort eller bil, og han kender ingen, der kan køre ham. Men han har en lille græsslåmaskine-traktor, og i den begiver han sig af sted, på den 500 km lange færd til brorens bolig.

Skandalejournalisten Marcello på jagt i Roms gader efter sladderhistorier eller et amourøst eventyr.