Under en gigantisk, faldefærdig port i udkanten af 1100-tallets Kyoto har en præst, en skovhugger og en dagdriver søgt tilflugt...

Den mislykkede ekspedition til månen i 1970 blev lige så berømt som den første månelanding året før....

I en lille fattig by i Alabama i 1930'erne ne bliver den sorte Tom Robinson anklaget for voldtægt. Den hvide og højt respekterede...

I april 1912 stævner den enorme luksusliner Titanic ud på sin skæbnesvangre jomfrurejse. Ombord forelsker den 17-årige...

En dag under en flugt fra sine kreditorer gemmer den unge manuskriptforfatter Joe Gillis sig i en garage til et palæ på Sunset Boulevard....

Nathan Algren er krigsveteran fra den amerikanske borgerkrig. Han tager til Japan for at lære kejser Meijis tropper at bruge skydevåben i...

En alkoholiseret advokat hægter sig på to deltids-pushere, som har motorcykler som deres store hobby. I jagten på den amerikanske...

For at dække borgerkrigen tager New York Times journalisten Sydney Schanberg til Cambodia. Sammen med den lokale Dith Pran oplever han krigens...

En stakkels jazzmusiker plages af tanken om, at hans kone er ham utro. Bedre bliver det ikke, da han senere bliver anklaget for at have myrdet hende....

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside,...

Da en koreaner i Japan overlever sin henrettelse, sendes autoriteterne i panik over hvad de nu skal gøre.

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a...

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he...

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.