The Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang (1921)

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

Действие картины происходит на востоке Пакистана. В фильме показана семья рыбаков. Невыносимая тяжесть ежедневной борьбы за существование, показана объективной неореалистической камерой. Положение рыбаков безнадежно: человека, у которого они просят денег, интересует только своё личное материальное обеспечение, но не жизнь других людей.

Жили-были двое бездомных сирот. Маленький Май обладал необыкновенным даром находить спрятанное золото. Однажды в рождественскую ночь злой и жадный Горгон, переодевшись Дедом Морозом, украл мальчика. И тогда Марта отправилась на поиски брата. В этом нелегком пути ее сопровождал веселый и добрый друг Орландо — врач, поэт, философ, путешественник. Пока Марта искала брата, Май превратился в жадного и черствого человека. Но терпение, любовь, надежда и новый друг помогли девочке воскресить его душу.

Young Chinese-American filmmaker Wei-ming travels from New York to his childhood home on Lamma Island to make a video documentary about the imminent opening of a Disneyland theme park in Hong Kong. While doing research for the project, he meets Larry, a dancer/choreographer.

Wealthy Mary Townleigh gets lost in the bush and hurts her ankle, but is rescued and stays with the Hayseed family. She starts a romance with their neighbour, Englishman John Manners...

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

A solitary mountain man finds a young woman who has been beaten and abandoned in the woods. He makes her the object of his passion, but her dark past catches up on them.

Twelve-year-old Isabel and her mother, who was a famous political singer, had to escape Chile after the 1973 military coup. Isabel’s father stayed behind fighting in the underground. For six years, they have lived in a new apartment building in East Berlin. At first, the neighbors made an effort to welcome them, but later became more distant. Isabel does not feel at home in the strange country. Not even her friendship to Philip, the neighbors’ son, can change her mind. Almost every day, Isabel sits on the stairs waiting for a letter from her father, from whom she has not heard for many years.

Living an indolent life in a luxurious palace, Prince Gautama (Rai) is insulated by his family from the harshness of the world outside. But he is destined to learn greater truths: shocked to discover the pain and suffering of so many in his kingdom, he abandons his privileged existence, and his wife Gopa (Seeta Devi), to become a wandering teacher, eventually finding enlightenment and founding Buddhism. Featuring superimposed images and deep-focus shots that were highly impressive for the time, Light of Asia astutely combines a deeply felt spirituality with the surefire attraction of Indian exotica, which helped make it a considerable success in Europe.

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress, is by no means free of blame. She is a "newcomer" to the area and even after eleven years in the area, still a "stranger". A Cracow company announces that a money-collector is on his way to the innkeeper. Mr. Szulski arrives and the debts are settled - with money supposedly stemming from an inheritance. The next day, Szulski departs but according to the maid and the stable-boy, behaves in a very strange manner. Soon afterwards, his carriage is discovered in the Oder River, but there is no trace of the drowned man. Hradscheck's neighbor starts casting suspicion on the innkeeper. The Counselor of Justice, who heads the investigations has the spot under the pear tree dug out. A dead body is exhumed...

По роману Прежихова Воранца "Самородки". Батрачка Мета и Ожбей, сын богатого крестьянина, полюбили друг друга и решили пожениться. Но отец Ожбея не мог допустить, чтобы его старший сын, наследник, женился на простой батрачке. Всеми силами старый Карничник старался вырвать из сердца Меты ее любовь. Не брезгуя никакими средствами, он заставлял девушку отречься от своей любви. Но ничто не сломило Мету. Она оставалась такой же гордой, красивой, независимой. У Меты и Ожбея было пятеро детей, пятеро незаконнорожденных. Они росли, и из года в год Мета прививала им веру в свои силы и учила презирать несправедливость.

The movie opens with the title card "bushland symphony", followed by sounds and vision of the Australian bush. The subsequent action involves a series of various subplots centered around a "selection" in South West Queensland owned by Dad Rudd.

Декабрь 1943 года. США вступает в воздушное противостояние с Германией, открыв второй фронт с союзниками. Американские летчики готовят свои боевые машины к полету через Атлантику в оккупированную фашистами Европу. Популярная певица Пени Крэйг знакомится в пункте переливания крови красного креста с Биллом Морли летчиком дальней авиации США, который, ради шутки выдает себя за врача. Они влюбляются друг в друга с первого взгляда, но война есть война и её любимый должен лететьна фронт. Пени решает внести свой вклад в борьбу с нацистами, она надевает рабочий комбинезон и как многие её сверстницы идет работать на авиазавод, чтобы помочь стране в тяжелые дни. В перерывах между работой она поёт своим друзьямпрекрасные песни, которые подхватывает вся Америка.

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead

Лос-Анджелес, конец XX века, страна неограниченных возможностей для всех… Ленни и Элоиза любили друг друга и боролись за свою любовь. Элоиза работала секретаршей у богатой актрисы, а вот Ленни был типичным неудачником, причем с амбициями. Он не мог удержаться ни на одной работе, поэтому жил за счёт Элоизы. Но он пытался исправить положение — и попал в полицию за участие в незаконных съёмках порнофильма. Все сбережения ушли на уплату залога. Из квартиры их выгнали. И тогда Ленни и Элоиза пошли на грабёж.