Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

Albrechtice near Jablonec. Sixteen-year-old Pavlínka Linková lives with her grandmother Barbara, a l...

This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

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A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly w...

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As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...