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- A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
- A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
- A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
- After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
- Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
- In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
- An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
- A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
- Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.
- Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
- Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
- An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
- A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
- After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
- A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
- A wax museum owner uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil on the world.
- The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
- Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
- This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
- In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.
- The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
- As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
- A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
- A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.
- In this sequel, a couple must use a portal through time to defeat evil.
- Following the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt.
- A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
- In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
- The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.
- An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
- Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
- A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
- Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
- A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
- A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
- Story of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.
- In a future where dying of illness is exceedingly rare, a terminally ill woman becomes a celebrity and a man with camera implants goes to secretly record her for a morbid TV show.
- A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
- Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
- A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
- On an isolated island ruled by a dictator, a petty thief rises through the ranks, becoming fly-catcher, dog-keeper, and boot polisher. Temptations arise, putting the islanders' fate in jeopardy and threatening to change the island forever.
- Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
- A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
- Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with the mysterious woman Terry. The talk at the party is about the apparent suicide of their friend Juan, a Spanish activist who had recently broken up with Terry. Philip warns Anne that the forces that killed Juan will soon do the same to Gerard. Gerard is trying to rehearse Shakespeare's "Pericles", although he has no financial backing. Anne takes a part in the play to help Gerard, and to try to discover why Juan died.