The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death.

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Maurice Faugel si po prepustení z väzenia vyrovnáva účty a zároveň plánuje ďalšiu lúpež so svojím priateľom Silienom. Ten je však v prostredí, v ktorom sa pohybuje, považovaný za udavača... V tomto filme Melville adaptoval rovnomenný román Pierra Lesoua vydaný v edícii Série Noire.

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.

Vodič kamiónu sa zastaví v malom rodinnom obchode s rezancami a rozhodne sa pomôcť jeho začínajúcemu biznisu. Príbeh je poprepletaný rôznymi vinetami o vzťahu lásky a jedla.

Zámožný Texasan Bick Benedict sa ožení s krásnou, cieľavedomou a húževnatou Leslie z Marylandu. Ich život na ranči nie je vôbec jednotvárny. Musia denne riešiť problémy s pastiermi dobytka, pomocnými robotníkmi z Mexika aj s ich mladým predákom, z ktorého sa nakoniec stane mocný ropný magnát.

Počas prvej svetovej vojny padnú dvaja francúzski dôstojníci, kapitán de Boeldieu a poručík Maréchal, do zajatia. Prvý z nich je aristokrat, zatiaľ čo druhý bol pred vojnou mechanikom. Tesne pred plánovaným útekom sú však prevezení do pevnosti, ktorej velí kapitán von Rauffenstein. Medzi de Boeldieuom a von Rauffensteinom sa rozvíja priateľstvo založené na triednej príslušnosti...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

Rozhlasový reportér Johnny cestuje spolu s kolegami po Spojených štátoch. Navštevujú veľké mestá a pýtajú sa detí rôzneho veku, aký majú život a čo si myslia o budúcnosti. Z Detroitu zavolá svojej sestre Viv, s ktorou nehovoril posledný rok od smrti ich matky na demenciu. Viv sa opýta Johnnyho, či môže prísť do Los Angeles a postarať sa na pár dní o jej deväťročného syna Jesseho. Ona musí odcestovať do Oaklandu, aby sa postarala o svojho odcudzeného manžela Paula, ktorý zápasí s duševnou chorobou. Johnny súhlasí a keď musí Viv zostať v Oaklande dlhšie ako očakávala, s jej súhlasom zoberie Jesseho so sebou do New Yorku. Dvojica sa vydáva na cestu naprieč Spojenými štátmi. Medzi New Yorkom a New Orleans sa rodí nevšedné priateľstvo, ktoré oboch ovplyvní na celý život.

Mladý učiteľ Johnny Smith upadol po nehode na päť rokov do kómy. Keď sa po dlhej dobe preberie späť k životu, zisťuje, že má náhle dar predvídať udalosti. Vo svojej mysli môže prechádzať priestorom i časom a vidí to, čo iní nie. Trápia ho však tiež vízie desivej budúcnosti, ktorej môže zabrániť jedine on. S nasadením vlastného života sa preto vrhá do osudovej akcie!

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.