During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

Two years after the Bosnian civil war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.

The story about Jimmy Barka, a young vagabond who works as a seasonal worker. Having been sacked from the job, his dreams are to become a singer. As most of the things in the Balkans happen, he is destined to failure.

Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.

An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renowned in Japan for saving the lives of countless suicidal men and women through his wise and compassionate counsel. But Nemoto is now approaching middle-age with a wife and young boy of his own, when he learns his life is at risk from heart disease, compounded by the heavy emotional workload of supporting those who no longer want to live. When saving others takes such a toll, can he find the resiliency to save himself?

This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would get out of its own way and enjoy it for a change.

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, the documentary offers the viewpoint of the individuals who braved the remarkable journey to the moon and back.

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.

On April 5th, 1941, a day before the Nazi attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colorful group of passengers is headed for Belgrade...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

Stuart Shorter a fost un vagabond care iubea suferința. Îi plăceau alcoolul și heroina. El are șansa să-l întâlnească pe scriitorul Alexander Masters cu care a avut o prietenie neobișnuită. Alexander îi spune că ar dori să scrie biografia lui Stuart, iar acesta are o idee despre cum să facă această carte să fie una mult mai incitantă. Pe măsură ce prietenia lor se dezvoltă, bărbatul îi povestește prin ce a trecut.

After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Povestea filmului Ran este o adaptare Regelui Lear, combinata cu o veche legenda japoneza despre trei sageti. Rezultatul este transformarea substantiala a tragediei shakespeariene - fiicele lui Lear sunt acum fii si accentul cade mai mult pe razbunare decat pe catharsis.

Joe Gillis, un tanar scenarist sarac, care – la inceputul anilor ‘50 - bate la portile Hollywoodului, ajunge intamplator in preajma unei foste glorii a ecranului, Norma Desmond. Vedeta cu milioane de fani in epoca filmului mut, Norma traieste uitata de lume in sumbra ei resedinta, avandu-l alaturi doar pe majordomul credincios, de care o leaga un trecut indelungat. La inceput, ea ii propune lui Joe colaborarea la scrierea unui scenariu, pentru ca apoi relatia sa se complice si sa culmineze cu o crima pasionala.

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

Liniştea unei familii devine haos când dublurile lor le bat la uşă şi încep să îi terorizeze.

Cetățeanul Kane este o satiră a primului magnat de presă cu o carieră de neegalat din acest secol. Personajul principal este Charles Foster Kane, care s-a născut pentru a fi un om mare. A început ca o persoană simplă, dar cu puțin noroc, a recunoscut mereu oportunitățile din mediul său și a putut să le folosească în avantajul său. Avea ziare, posturi de radio și era un om cu influență al opiniei publice. Povestea lui Kane, care s-a ridicat de jos și a „uitat” acest lucru, a pierdut totul dintr-o lovitură. A murit singur – chiar dacă părea nemuritor – și odată cu el bogăția, puterea și gloria.