As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather for this celebration. There were eight of them - all-powerful and influential representatives of the ancient Rurikovich family - and among them the beautiful Ekaterina, the daughter of the huntsman Alexei.

Da skolelæreren og hobby-entomologen Niki Junpei besøger afsidesliggende sandklitter for at samle ukendte insekter til sit arbejde, når han ikke den sidste bus hjem. En flok landsbybeboere guider ham ned ad en stige til en lille hytte i en sandgrav, hvor han kan overnatte. Men da han vågner, opdager han, at stigen er væk, og han må blive i sandgraven for at hjælpe kvinden, som bor i huset, med at skovle sand væk, før de begge to bliver begravet.

Ingmar Bergmans hudflettende blotlægning af forholdet mellem en følelseskold mor og hendes kærlighedshungrende datter holdes oppe af et fremragende spil mellem Liv Ullmann (datteren) og, ikke mindst, Ingrid Bergman (moderen) i sin sidste store rolle. Sidstnævnte spiller en berømt pianist, der kommer på et af sine sjældne besøg hos datteren, som i virkeligheden bærer på mange års opsparede bebrejdelser. Under en natlig samtale kommer de store følelser på bordet.

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Michelangelo Antonionis Guldbjørn-vindende drama om ægteparret Giovanni og Lidia, som husker tilbage til da de først mødtes, for senere ved en fest at møde nye mennesker, som gør deres nat til en følelsesmæssigt begivenhedsrig rejse.

Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

To betjente bliver hver især svigtet af deres kærester og lukker sig inde med et nærmest rituelt vemod. Betjent #223 køber al den dåseananas (ekskærestens yndlingsfrugt), der har sidste salgsdato den 1. maj (hendes fødselsdag). Betjent #663 henter hver aften en bestemt salat til sin stewardesse-kæreste, indtil ejeren af fastfood-restauranten overtaler ham til at variere menuen. To dage senere afleverer hun afskedsbrev ved serveringsdisken. Hvad nu? 'Chungking Express' er en sørgmodig, skæv, vittig og varm fortælling om tilfældighed og mønstre i en storby.

Esen, a young man who has been expelled from his village, escapes with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the village. Whilst being pursued, he is forced to fight for her hand in a battle that results in the destruction of a sacred totem tree. This puts the whole village in jeopardy, and it is up to Esen to redeem himself and save them all.

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

Anført af deres viljestærke mor flytter Rocco (Alain Delon) og hans fire brødre fra et landdistrikt i det sydlige Italien til Milano i nord i håbet om at opnå forbedrede livsvilkår. Det bliver en hård kamp for dem alle i den upersonlige storby. Handlingen udspiller sig især omkring den prostituerede Nadia (Annie Girardot), som både Rocco og hans bror Simone har et godt øje til. Luchino Visconti, en af ophavsmændene til den italienske neorealisme, har instrueret.

1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a conservative newspaper, tries to derail the official police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his boss to win the elections.

Antonio 'Tony' Camonte starter fra bunden og arbejder sig op gennem gangsterverdenen. Til at starte med er han blot håndlanger for gangsterbossen Johnny Lovo, men så går Tony efter Johnnys kæreste og sidenhen også hans job. Snart har Tony alt, hvad han kunne ønske sig, men korthuset begynder at falde sammen, da hans højre hånd, Guino, indleder en affære med Tonys søster.

It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime - Everyone in the building has turned into zombies. After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity. In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.

Filmen handler om en mand, der flygter fra Frankrig, efter nazisterne invaderer landet, og han tager en død forfatters identitet. Da han ankommer til Marseille møder han en ung kvinde, der forsøger at finde sin forsvundne ægtemand.