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

Polen, anden verdenskrig. Den jødiske Wladyslaw Szpilman er en talentfuld jødiske pianist, der undgår deportation. I lighed med...

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...

Craig Schwartz er en talentfuld dukkefører, men gennembruddet udebliver. Han er gift med den nærmest manisk arbejdsomme Lotte. Deres...

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

Eks-bookmakeren Sam 'Ace' Rothstein bliver i starten af 1970'erne sendt til Las Vegas for at styre mafiakasinoet Tangiers. Korruptionen trives, Ace...

A grieving mother lures her daughter's killer into her smart home in order to take revenge, becoming involved in a distorted game where life and...

Today is Raphael’s funeral. His young wife Lola doesn’t know what to do with her sadness, or with her 7-year-old son’s, or with...

14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs...

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and...

A desperate photographer who suffers from a degenerative eye disease and a husband who wants to kill his dying wife, plot to recover her life...

Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past...

Souleyman, 27, a boxing champion in full preparation for the Olympic Games with the French team, sees his future crumble when he cracks the bones of...

1947. On a beach, Madeleine, a waitress in a hotel restaurant, mother of a little boy, meets François, a rich and cultivated student. The...

Mireille Stockaert is a lonely and broken woman. In love with painting and poetry, she makes do with her work in the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in...