A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.

A feature documentary about the life of Lenny McLean, as seen through the eyes of his only son, Jamie.

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Charlie vedie online kurzy štylistiky na univerzite. Snaží sa svojich študentov naučiť písať jasne a presvedčivo. Len tak môžu svoje myšlienky efektívne predávať ďalším. Chce, aby boli úprimní a autentickí. On vidí svojich študentov vo svojom notebooku, ale oni jeho nie. Vyhovára sa na pokazenú kameru, ale v skutočnosti nechce, aby ho videli. Má totiž takmer tristo kíl, je osamelý a pod ťarchou vlastných tráum sa len zložito vyrovnáva s minulosťou. Uzavrel sa vo svojom byte a stresové situácie rieši prejedaním. Hoci jeho zdravotný stav je čoraz horší, odmieta ísť do nemocnice a spolieha sa len na svoju kamarátku Liz, ktorá je ošetrovateľkou v nemocnici. Liz neustále v sebe rieši spor medzi jej povinnosťou rešpektovať želania priateľa a jej túžbou udržať ho nažive.

Keď sa v 20. rokoch 20. storočia objaví ropa na pôde kmeňa Osagov v Oklahome, príslušníkov kmeňa jedného po druhom zabíjajú, až zakročí FBI, aby záhadu objasnila.

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Keď slávneho autora detektívok Harlana Thrombeyho nájdu mŕtveho v jeho sídle tesne po oslave 85. narodenín, na mieste činu sa záhadne objaví svojrázny a šarmantne neodbytný detektív Benoit Blanc. Postupne sa zoznamuje s členmi rozhádanej excentrickej rodiny aj s oddaným služobníctvom, aby rozmotal sieť dômyselne utkanú zo lží a poloprávd a vylovil z nej pravdu o smrti starého pána.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.