Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

In the early 1990s, Xiaolei, who lives in a small village in western China, longs for a summer holiday without homework after he graduated from primary school. However, it is filled with boring routine, and Xiaolei feels the anxiety around him. When his father has left, Xiaolei realises that his life is completely changed.

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy then lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener's face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy then runs away and the gardener continues his watering. Three separate versions of this film exist, this is the original, filmed by Louis Lumière.

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

清朝末年，腐朽的清政府对人民征收沉重的赋税，人民民不聊生。山东堂邑县农民宋景诗举行了抗捐起义的大旗，他领导的黑旗军与白莲教、捻军并肩作战。恶霸地主杨鸣谦、王二香派手下王占鳌带领柳林团向黑旗军发动了进攻，清军将领胜保也在围剿黑旗军，一时，黑旗军危机四起。宋景诗为了保存战斗实力，向清军诈降。
不久，胜保谎报战功，被问罪，宋景诗趁机重新拉起队伍，由陕西打回山东，打败了地主武装，并将地主杨鸣谦处死。后来，朝廷又派来了新的将领——僧格林沁，镇压黑旗军的行动又开始了，英帝国主义的洋枪队及地主武装也加入了这一行动。黑旗军四面楚歌，连连受挫。在战斗中，许多黑旗军家属被杀害，包括宋景诗的母亲及妻子。宋景诗并没有就此屈服，他鼓励众将士们不要气馁，继续战斗。他们投奔了太平军，与兄弟部队一起，继续与帝国主义和清军英勇作战。
该片创作者在历史素材的基础上，着重刻画了宋景诗在反清、反帝斗争中的鲜明个性，同时也指出了主人公的社会和历史的局限。该片是于《武训传》批判后开始构思的，其目的是力图运用历史唯物主义的观点，真实地再现中国人民的斗争历史，并且通过对农民起义英雄的歌颂，表现人民是历史主人公的思想。影片具有较鲜明的民族风格，并在浪漫主义和历史感的统一上有较高成就。宋景诗的饰演者崔嵬，虽然是第一次上银幕，但他以流畅的气韵和创作激情较好地表现了主人公的气质与性格，开始显示出艺术才华。

A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of his wife.

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.