In Recife, Dr. Paulo is an important lawyer that has a daughter, Heloísa, with his paramour and living in the country. A few days before traveling to Europe, Dr. Paulo asks to a close friend to bring Heloísa to Recife. Meanwhile, his bohemian and irresponsible son Helvécio meets Heloísa, and without knowing that she is his sister, he tries to rape her, and she kills him. Heloísa is arrested and goes to trial without any evidence to prove that she self-defended her honor.

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 ...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...
A krautrock ghost story where a ghostly transmission implores the help of an occult-savvy pizza girl...

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

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

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

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to i...

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

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets ...

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

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...