"Paris, Paris, you know, I would eat it..." wrote André Sauvage. An artist close to the avant-gardes, André Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris. Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries, on the music composed by Jeff Mills, the changing rhythm of the Belle Époque. Contemporary of the dizzying explorations of Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann, Sauvage is less fascinated by speed than by the repertoire of urban mobility, attentive to the neighborhoods he crosses, always curious about their furtive inhabitants. He draws a portrait of Paris in five studies: Paris-Port, North-South, the islands of Paris, the Little Belt and from the Saint-Jacques tower to the Sainte-Geneviève mountain.

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort.

The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.

A samurai purchases a new sword only to find it is already dull. When he returns to the dull looking merchant to complain, something quite unexpected happens.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.

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.

1500-tallets Japan hærges af borgerkrig, men keramikeren Genjuro og hans svoger Tobe er kun optaget af at få opfyldt deres personlige ambitioner. Genjuro ønsker at tjene store penge på sit lertøj, mens Tobe tragter efter at blive samurai. Begge lader sig forføre af deres drømme, og det fører de to mænd væk fra deres trofaste hustruer. Kenji Mizoguchis poetiske fabel var med til at sætte japansk film på landkortet og regnes som en af verdens bedste film.

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Den forkælede Ellie Andrewsstikker af fra sin millionærfar, der vil gøre alt for at forhindre hende i at gifte sig med en uduelig playboy. På vej til New York støder Ellie på den arbejdsløse journalist Peter Warne. Da deres bus bryder sammen, drager det brokkende par ud på et vanvittigt eventyr på tommelfinger. Peter håber på at kunne forvandle den fortrolige historie om deres vanvittige rejse til et reporterjob. Men problemerne vokser, da den flygtede arving og journalisten forelsker sig!

Ming er en koldblodig morder, der er begyndt at bekymre sig om de risici, jobbet medfører, og vil gerne holde op. Hans agent, hende som både booker hans opgaver og som bliver forelsket i ham, overtaler ham til et udføre en sidste opgave.

Kramer vs. Kramer, der vandt 5 Oscars, er et nyskabende drama om den sorg, der følger med en skilsmisse, og kampen for både at passe et arbejde og en familie. Den unge familiefar Ted Kramer elsker sin familie og sit arbejde, hvor han tilbringer det meste af sin tid. En sen aften, da han kommer hjem fra arbejde, har han et skænderi med sin kone Joanna om dette, og hun ender med at forlade ham, så han selv kan tage sig af deres 6-årige søn Billy. Nu skal Ted selv finde ud af at være en far samtidig med, at han skal håndtere presset fra en hektisk karriere. Men netop som Ted begynder at få styr på sin nye rolle og faktisk føler sig som en ansvarsfuld far, vender Joanna tilbage. Og nu vil hun have sin søn igen.

15-årige Max Fischer går i 10. klasse på privatskolen Rushmore. Han er kreativ og energisk, når det gælder fritidsaktiviteter, men har så svært ved at leve op til skolens boglige krav, at han jævnligt trues med udsmidning. En dag bliver Max kær i lærerinden Miss Cross, men det samme gør Max’ midaldrende ven, millionæren Mr. Blume. Konflikten får Max til at tage sit liv op til overvejelse og se nogle ubehagelige sandheder i øjnene.