A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Một samurai được yêu cầu bảo vệ một ngôi làng khỏi bọn cướp, vì vậy samurai tập hợp sáu người khác để giúp anh ta dạy người dân cách tự vệ, và dân làng cung cấp thức ăn cho binh lính. Một trận chiến khổng lồ xảy ra khi 40 tên cướp tấn công ngôi làng.

Cùng với những Rashomon, Seven Samurai... thì Ran là 1 trong những tác phẩm nổi tiếng và hay nhất của đạo diễn huyền thoại Akira Kurosawa. Bộ phim này được ông ấp ủ từ lâu nhưng chỉ đến khi những người hâm mộ ông như đạo diễn S.Stenberg và G.Lucas giúp đỡ ông mới có kinh phí thực hiện. Bộ phim nói đến mối quan hệ quân thần, vua tôi, mối quan hệ cha con trong thời phong kiến. Cảnh phim dàn dựng cực kỳ hoành tráng. Tâm trạng nhân vật được đẩy lên đến đỉnh điểm trong những đoạn cao trào. Kurosawa đúng là bậc thầy về dàn dựng phim chiến trận... Akira Kurosawa đã kể lại vở bi kịch King Lear của Shakespeare thông qua nhân vật samurai. Chỉ huy Tatsuya Nakadia đã mang vương quốc đặt vào tay người con trai trưởng của ông. Cuộc đấu tranh giành ...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Blade Of The Immortal (Lưỡi Kiếm Bất Tử) kể về một lãng khách tên Manji (Takuya Kimura). Anh ta từng khét tiếng với biệt danh "võ sĩ giết chết 100 người". Để đền tội cho quá khứ, Manji được ban cho năng lực bất tử bằng loài ký sinh Huyết Tiên Trùng cùng trách nhiệm phải lấy mạng 1000 kẻ ác. Manji bắt đầu hành trình khó khăn này cùng cô gái trẻ Rin Asano (Hana Sugisaki), người nung nấu ý chí trả thù băng đảng võ sĩ đã hạ sát toàn bộ gia đình mình. Rin vừa là điểm yếu và cũng là động lực cho Manji trong suốt cuộc đời gần như bất tử của vị samurai hùng mạnh này.

The Seventh Seal - Det sjunde inseglet (1957) lấy bối cảnh thời Trung cổ trong khung cảnh châu Âu lúc đó đang bị đại dịch hoành hành. Bộ phim xoay quanh câu chuyện của chàng hiệp sĩ người Thụy Điển Antonius Block, trở về sau cuộc Thập tự chinh, người đã được thần Chết viếng thăm và cho phép chơi một ván cờ với thần để giành lấy mạng sống của mình. Block là người hiểu lý lẽ, chàng biết rõ chàng gần như không có cơ hội chiến thắng. Tất cả những gì chàng muốn là có thêm thời gian trì hoãn. Một sự trì hoãn mong manh khỏi một cái tất yếu, đồng thời chàng hy vọng cuộc đánh cờ với vị thần quyền năng sẽ giúp chàng giải đáp những câu hỏi về đức tin, về cái chết, về sự cô độc của con người trong thế giới...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.