The Greatest Thing (2001)

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.

恋人にフラれ、大学を休学したレオ（岡田将生）は、ひょんなことからハワイ島にあるホノカアの映画館で映写技師として働くことに。ホノカアは、レオが半年前に“伝説の虹”を探し求め、恋人と道に迷った末にたどり着いた町だった。不思議な魅力に吸い寄せられるように再びやって来たこの町で、レオは風変わりだが心優しい人たちと出会う。

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

When Kelly meets Victor on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub, the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat, making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can, while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover, while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. It's when they make love that their darker instincts take over.

Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"

Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.

Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.

椎名という大学生の現在の物語と琴美という女性の2年前の物語が同時に描かれる、カットバック形式の小説。 椎名は引っ越し先のアパートの隣人・河崎に「本屋で広辞苑を盗まないか」と誘われる。断りきれなかった椎名は本屋から広辞苑を奪う手伝いをさせられてしまう。その計画の後、河崎やペットショップの店長をしている麗子から2年前の話を聞かされることになる。 2年前の物語は琴美、その恋人であるキンレィ・ドルジ（ブータン人）、河崎、麗子を中心に展開する。世間で多発しているペット惨殺事件の犯人たちに出会ったことにより、琴美が目を付けられてしまう。琴美は何度も襲われるが、ドルジや河崎に助けられ、逆に犯人たちを捕まえようとする。 2年前の事件と現在の本屋襲撃が次第につながっていく。

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.