In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Det episke og ærefrygtindgydende storværk Andrei Rublev med den danske titel Den yderste dom er Andrei Tarkovskijs anden spillefilm. Den tre timer lange film var klar til premiere i 1966, men grundet problemer med den russiske censur fik den først officiel premiere i 1969 i begrænset distribution. Værkets samlende karakter er den russiske ikonmaler Andrei Rublev. Filmen kredser om Rublevs såvel fysiske som mentale rejse gennem middelalderens Rusland. Den gennemgribende tematik i filmen er mennesket i relation til og som konsekvens af dets omverden - en tematik, der genfindes i flere af Tarkovskijs senere film.

Solaris er et filosofisk foruroligende portræt af menneskets destruktive interaktion med omverdenen. Filmen er en visuel tour de force, der tematisk kredser om kærlighed, bevidsthed, personlig identitet, erindring og ikke mindst forsoning og nostalgi. En fremmed entitet, selvmordstraumer og store filosofiske spørgsmål skaber en foruroligende ubalance, der i samspil med tempoet og filmens lange spilletid tvinger seeren næsten fysisk ind i karakterernes ulidelige mentale trængsler.

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Andrei Tarkovskys mesterværk Vandringsmanden fra 1979 er en af Ruslands allerstørste science fiction-film. Den er blevet kaldt Tarkovskijs mest pessimistiske vision af verden, men det er også hans måske mest tilgængelige film, åben for allehånde fortolkninger. Løst baseret på en roman af forfatterne Arkady og Boris Strugatsky er det en filosofisk fabel om en videnskabsmand og forfatter, der følger en såkaldt stalker ind i det forbudte territorium kaldet Zonen, som staten har afspærret, og hvor rygtet vil vide, at mennesker kan få deres inderste ønsker opfyldt. Turen gennem militære kontrolposter og obskure farer bliver en rejse ind i en anden verden, hvor Tarkovsky lader virkeligheden vige for abstrakte billeder og livsanskuelser med en overrumplende originalitet.

Rainer Werner Fassbinders film om tre kvinders samliv og forhold er efter sigende modelleret efter den klassiske Hollywood produktion The Women, som imidlertid i sammenligning forekommer temmelig konventionel. Fassbinder fortæller sin historie næsten udelukkende fra soveværelset hos den succesrige designer Petra (Margit Carstensen), hvor hun hundser med sin sekretær (Irm Hermann), og tiltrækkes af den unge Karin (Hanna Schygulla).

En ny bataljonschef ankommer fra Vest- til Østfronten under den tyske tilbagetrækning for at erstatte en officer, der er død i kamp. Kommandør Stransky har aldrig før stået ansigt til ansigt med krigens rædsler, men er fast besluttet på at vinde sig selv en smule hæder, inden han vender hjem igen. Han vil have et jernkors, og hans hensynsløse stræben efter den eftertragtede tapperhedsmedalje danner baggrund for denne gribende historie. Jernkorset er den eneste krigsfilm, som mesterinstruktøren Sam Peckinpah har instrueret. Peckinpah giver os en fascinerende og voldsom fortælling om mænd i krig og gør det med samme spænding og stil som i klassikerne ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘Straw Dogs’ og ‘The Getaway’.

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.

Mladen and Marija are an ordinary and happy married couple of the "middle class" of the society in which they live as tenants. Mladen works as a civil engineer in a state company, and Marija is an English teacher in primary school. The couple finds joy in their only son, Nemanja. They discover that Nemanja has a rare heart disease and healing is possible with an operation in a foreign medical center, which costs €26,000.

Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the country. From that day and for a year, Vitaly Mansky's camera documented Putin's rise to power. The story of a privileged witness. The harsh explanation of the reason why politics is the art of possibility of achieving the best with the support of many, but also of giving the worst in return.

For the past 150 years, humanity’s two greatest nations have been deadlocked in a meaningless war. In what is hoped to be a miraculous victory, the Alliance embarks on a battle to break through the Empire’s frontline. Like many other “decisive” battles, this can only end in disaster; a sentiment shared by Imperial nobleman Reinhard von Lohengramm and Alliance Commodore Yang Wen Li, both of whom realize how to turn the fight in their favor. And while the tides of war may never change, these two men must rise to the occasion, solidifying their place in history as heroes.

A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.

While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.