The story centers on a secret society that plots to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and resume the Ming monarchy. The organization gains the support of numerous righteous martial clans, but the Qing government has its own plans of squashing the rebellion. The scheming prince of Qing poisons the rebels' central figure, Chi Zi Qiang (Jimmy Wang), and uses the antidote to force him to surrender. Being the hero that he is, Chi would rather cut off one of his own arms to save his life than submit to the prince. He then, single-armedly, defeats all the Manchurian minions...

In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.

Buster is falsely accused of breaking a window by a woman and is taken into a courtroom. Thinking that Buster and the woman are engaged, the judge mistakenly marries them and Buster is quickly taken home by the woman to meet her family. At first unwelcoming, the family begins to treat Buster nice when they come to believe that he is going to inherit a large sum of money.

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...

Selv efter at være blevet indespærret på et sindssygehospital kontrollerer mesterhjernen, Dr. Mabuse, den kriminelle underverden uden for murene. Denne film af den verdenskendte, østrigske instruktør, Fritz Lang, er nummer to i rækken af Dr. Mabuse-film, udsendt 11 år efter den første og 27 år før den sidste! Filmen var ment som en direkte salut til Hitler og den voksende nazisme, omend den præsenteres som en gedigen god kriminalhistorie.

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Da den respekterede professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) dræber en mand i selvforsvar, skiller han sig af med liget af frygt for, at episoden skal skade hans omdømme. Men den forhastede plan, han lægger sammen med den smukke Alice (Joan Bennett), viser sig snart at være barnemad for både politi og pengeafpressere.

Året er 1882. Wyatt Earp er sammen med sine tre brødre James, Virgil og Morg i færd med at drive en flok kvæg over prærien. En aften tager Wyatt, Virgil og Morg til den nærliggende by Tombstone for at få sig et glas øl og en barbering. Tombstone viser sig imidlertid at være en by, hvor lovløsheden hersker, og Wyatt bliver tilbudt jobbet som Tombstones sherif.

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

Den aldrende revolvermand Cole Thornton og den fordrukne sherif J.P. Harrah tager kampen op med den lokale kvægkonge og dennes håndgangne mænd.

Filmen handler om den dæmoniske teltholder Dr. Caligari, der fremviser søvngængeren Cesare på markedspladser, og om, hvordan det afsløres, at han får Cesare til at myrde for sig. Dr. Caligari blev det igangsættende hovedværk i den tyske filmekspressionisme med sit tyran-tema og sine malede kulisser, grotesk forvrængede scenerier og stærkt stiliserede spil.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Jean-René ejer en lille chokoladefabrik. Angelique er en ung og talentfuld chokolademager. Det perfekte match skulle man tro, men så enkelt er det ikke. De er nemlig begge så generte, at de dårligt tør kigge hinanden i øjnene, og jo mere følelserne vokser, desto stærkere bliver angsten for intimitet. Hollywood har sat sig tungt på den romantiske komedie, men det er ikke mindst franskmændene, som puster nyt liv i genren - i det aktuelle tilfælde ved at tage fordomsfrit afsæt i noget så ufashionabelt som sociale fobier, lavt selvværd og det i udgangspunktet lidet glorværdige hverdagsliv.

Med en ussel pension lever Umberto på et lille værelse sammen med sin hund. Som tidligere statsansat har han stadig sin værdighed, men da han ikke kan betale huslejen står han på gaden