Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Vypočítavá Phyllis Dietrichsonová (Barbara Stanwyck) a jej milenec – poisťovací agent (Fred McMurray) donútia pána Dietrichsona uzavrieť životnú poistku na dvojnásobné odškodnenie. Phyllisin manžel netuší, že podpisom poistnej zmluvy na svoj život spečatil svoj ďalší osud. Obaja sprisahanci naplánujú dokonalý zločin a po Dietrichsonovej smrti sa chystajú zinkasovať poistku. Vražda je takmer perfektná, lenže nekompromisný vyšetrovateľ poisťovne (Edward G. Robinson) vo vzduchu cíti zradu. Napätá atmosféra ešte viac hustne, keď doterajší milenci a komplici zisťujú, že si navzájom už nemôžu dôverovať.

Súkromný detektív Sam Spade dostane banálnu úlohu od na prvý pohľad bezbrannej klientky. Netrvá dlho a jeho dlhoročný partner skonči nedobrovoľne svoju pozemskú púť a on je hlavným podozrivým. Postupne ako pribúda mŕtvol začína sa pred Samom odhaľovať príbeh Maltézskeho sokola, sošky nevyčísliteľnej hodnoty, po ktorej množstvo ľudí tak túži, že sa nezastaví pred ničim, ani pred vraždou...

Príbeh o dvoch starnúcich sestrách, ktoré spoločne žijú v dome na predmestí Los Angeles. Zatrpknutá Jane, kedysi známa ako zázračné spievajúce dieťa Baby Jane Hudson, sa však v dospelom veku dostala do tieňa jej sestry Blanche, úspešnej filmovej hviezdy 30. rokov, ktorá je po autonehode pripútaná na invalidný vozík. Jane tak nevynechá ani jednu príležitosť, aby ju terorizovala. Bezmocná Blanche sa nedokáže brániť fyzicky ani psychicky a s hrôzou pozoruje, ako jej sestra prepadá do čoraz väčšej demencie.

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Hudební dokument Western Stars je filmovou verzí posledního stejnojmenného alba Bruce Springsteena, které se těší ohromnému mezinárodnímu úspěchu. Film nabízí fanouškům z celého světa jedinečnou příležitost přijmout pozvání do hudebníkovy historické katedrály, slavné stodoly staré téměř sto let, a vychutnat si všech 13 zbrusu nových písní, které zde Bruce Springsteen představuje v doprovodu své stálé kapely i symfonického orchestru. Přestože nás Springsteen ve svém prvním studiovém albu po pětileté pauze zavádí do zcela nových míst, vrací se zároveň ke svým kořenům. Dokument, který se dotýká témat jako jsou láska, ztráta, osamělost, rodina a neúprosné plynutí času, evokuje vzpomínky na americký západ a kombinuje archivní materiál a vyprávění Bruce Springsteena s písněmi z jeho poslední desky.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their native India and blending into American culture. Although parents Ashoke and Ashima are proud of the sacrifices they make to give their children opportunities, their son Gogol strives to forge his own identity without forgetting his heritage.

In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.