Den 73-årige Alvin Straight, lever en rolig pensionisttilværelse i lillebyen Laurens i Iowa sammen med sin datter. Da han hører,...

Den charmerende levemand Oskar Schindler ankommer til Polen i hælene på den sejrrige tyske hær. Han gør sig hurtigt venner...

John Nash er et matematisk geni, der modtager Nobel-prisen, men har det svært med andre mennesker. Efter arbejde med russiske koder for...

Erin er alenemor uden uddannelse, men hendes gå-på-mod sikrer hende et job som assistent hos en sagfører. Her finder hun nogle...

I 'The Hole' opdager fire teenagers et forseglet hulrum under deres skole. Det viser sig at have været en tidligere bunker, og de fire venner...

Mike (River Phoenix) er en stille fyr, som blev forladt af sin mor som barn. Han lider af narkolepsi og er desuden homoseksuel. Han er forelsket i...

Året er 1935, og Paul Edgecomb er chef for dødsgangen, kaldet Den grønne mil, i Cold Mountain fængslet i Louisiana. Trods...

På en bar møder den prostituerede Aileen Wuornos den troskyldige Selby. Sammen forsøger de to unge kvinder at begynde på en...

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside,...

Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau...

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

To nab a sales manager who's at large after murdering his family, a detective investigates the man's colleagues, who seem to be hiding something.

A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Da en koreaner i Japan overlever sin henrettelse, sendes autoriteterne i panik over hvad de nu skal gøre.

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a...

After a policeman gets drunk and loses his service weapon, he frantically searches for his revolver and the killer who murdered his former lover.