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When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Two thugs travel around France terrorizing their compatriots.

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.

Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.

François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.