A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

Sara and Nicola are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The birth of their second child, which disrupts the family balance, leads to tragicomic scenarios.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.

Den charmerende og dovne svindler, Joe Thanks - også kaldet Nobody, rejser fra by til by og optræder som en anden gøgler med mere eller mindre realistiske revolverdueller. En dag beslutter han sig for at kaste sig ud i det helt store svindelnummer, der ikke alene skal gøre ham rig, men også gøre kål på det æreløse amerikanske kavaleri og dermed hjælpe nogle flinke og groft udnyttede indianere til at genvinde det land, regeringen har stjålet fra dem.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

The film tells a story speaks of "Yusuf ", a plumbing Man, who is exposed to many pranks by his friends.

Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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...

Da Mahatma Gandhi i 1948 bliver skudt ned af en attentatmand, mister det forrige århundrede en af sine største personligheder. Livet igennem kæmper Gandhi mod undertrykkelse og for Indiens selvstændighed, og hans kampmidler er utraditionelle og frem for alt uvoldelige. 'Gandhi' blev belønnet med hele otte Oscars - bl.a. som årets bedste film. Ben Kingsley modtog en statuette for sin præstation som Gandhi.

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.

Anden del af Kieslowskis film-trilogi, hvor hver film har sit udgangspunkt i de tre farver i tricoloren. Dominique - en ung smuk pariserinde - kræver i al dødsens alvor skilsmisse fra sin polske ægtemand, Karol. At han ikke længere kan tilfredsstille sin kone seksuelt, er noget den høje, franske dommer forstår. Parret bliver skilt på stedet. Totalt ydmyget, ribbet for alt han ejer - selv sit pas - lykkes det alligevel Karol at vende illegalt tilbage til Polen. Efter kommunismens fald er stemningen en god blanding af det totale anarki og nye muligheder efter kapitalismens rå lov. Det sorte marked er et eldorado for frygtløse og dristige mænd som Karol. Han tjener en formue og begynder at lægge udspekulerede planer.

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Efter at have reddet den smukke Rosalie fra et overfald bliver sømanden Michael O’Hara hyret til en yacht, der tilhører hendes rige, men delvis invalide mand, Arthur Banister. Under turen fra New York til San Francisco bliver O’Hara forelsket i Rosalie. Samtidig får han et usædvanligt tilbud af Bannisters kompagnon George Grisby, men bliver snart anklaget for mord og befinder sig midt i et dødeligt og kompliceret drama af svindel og bedrag.

Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy og de andre havner i et helvede af en træningslejr, hvor de bliver tværet flade af den skrigende eksercits-instruktør, der betragter de vordende dræbermaskiner som padder, mider eller noget endnu lavere. Handlingen er grum, historien er nådesløs, dialogen er krydret med ætsende humor. Fra basistræningens helvede til mareridtet i Hue i Vietnam står Full Metal Jacket som et filmhistorisk hovedværk.

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.

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…

Jacques Lantier, en plaget jernbanemand, vender tilbage med toget til den franske havneby Le Havre og møder ved et tilfælde den impulsive stationsforstander Roubard og Séverine, hans kone.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?