Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

Warsaw, Poland, 1953. Mr. T., a renowned writer, lives in a hotel and earns his living by giving pri...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough m...

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit h...

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have ...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves he...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has b...

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

In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting ...

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...