A minimalist study of lonely, isolated existence. Mohamad Sardari has spent thirty years at a remote outpost raising and lowering a gate to keep road traffic from crossing tracks when a train passes. He lives with his wife in an unadorned shack; a few bare trees dot the threadbare landscape.

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity.

Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her.

Over the span of a year, filmmakers Marte(Norway) and Jéro (South Korea) exchange visual letters, documenting their everyday lives.

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

Cel mai accesibil si probabil cel mai bun film al lui Edward Yang de la "O zi de vara mai stralucitoare", "Si una si doua" urmareste perioada de viata a trei generatii ale unei familii din Taipeiul contemporan cuprins intre o nunta si o inmormantare si, desi dureaza aproape trei ore, niciun moment al filmului nu pare superfluu.

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Una dintre cele mai emotionante povesti de razboi,din toate timpurile. Doi copii ramasi orfani dupa moartea mamei, in timpul unui bombardament american din timpul Celui de Al Doilea Razboi Mondial, incearca sa supravietuiasca singuri. Ei isi improvizeaza o locuinta la marginea orasului,pe malul unui lac. Scenariul dupa care a fost realizat filmul a primit cea mai inalta distinctie a criticilor japonezi, echivalentul premiului Pulizer.

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

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.

În primii ani ai secolului 20-lea, Mohandas K. Gandhi, avocat pregătit de britanici, a părăsit toate posesiunile lumii pentru a prelua cauza independenței indiene. Confruntat cu rezistența armată din partea guvernului britanic, Gandhi adoptă o politică de „rezistență pasivă”, încercând să câștige libertatea pentru poporul său fără a recurge la vărsare de sânge.

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.