Sista delen i trilogin om Apu, den indiske pojken som nu är en ung föräldralös vuxen med författardrömmar efter sina universitetsstudier. Men ett besök med en vän på ett lokalt bröllop i bergen ändrar hans planer drastiskt.

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of Cáceres, who has won a radio contest. The prize is a trip to Madrid to experience just for a fortnight the life of the famous and wealthy people.

Police investigator Galvão is pursuing two trails, one professional and one personal. While he looks for a serial killer, he also searches for his estranged daughter, Sandra, whom he kicked out of the house. Lives intersect when the serial killer, Toninho, befriends Sandra, now an exotic dancer and prostitute living and working in the seamy underside of late 1970s Rio.

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench.

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Merchant Ivory Foundation in 1996.

Filmen utspelar sig på den bengaliska landsbygden på 1920-talet och kretsar kring Apu och hans familj. Fadern är poet och präst, som måste kämpa för familjens överlevnad. Han vill ge dottern Durga och den nyfödde sonen Apu ett bättre liv. Baserad på en bengalisk roman med samma namn.

Den franske motståndsaktivisten Fontaine döms till döden av nazisterna och ägnar all sin vakna tid till att planera sin flykt ur fängelset.

Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Merchant and Ivory Foundation in 1996.

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

A young couple, Ganga and Nakulan, arrives at the ancestral home called Madampalli of the latter. Hailing from a family that follows tradition and superstitions, Nakulan's uncle Thampi objects to the couple's idea of moving into the allegedly haunted mansion, which Nakulan ignores. The couple moves in anyway following which seemingly supernatural events begin to happen.

A wealthy landlord lives a decadent life with his wife and son. His passion – his wife would calls it his addiction – is music, and he spends a great deal of his fortune on concerts held for the locals in his magnificent music room. He feels threatened by his neighbour, a commoner who has attained riches through business dealings. His passion for music and quest for social respect are his undoing, as he sacrifices his family and wealth trying to retain it.

När Frankie Machine kommer ut från drogkliniken har han bestämt sig för att sköta sig och bli jazztrummis. Men hans gamla liv som professionell pokergivare vid illegala spel och hans heroinberoende tränger sig på.

Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

I den andra filmen i Lars von Triers USA-trilogi fortsätter vi att följa Graces utveckling som kvinna och människa. Grace och hennes far lämnar Dogville och kommer på sin resa till plantagen Manderlay. Där möts de av ett samhälle där slaveri fortfarande är vardag och Grace blir återigen förfärad över hur grymma människor kan vara mot varandra.

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Georg och hans hustru Anna lever ett extremt inrutat, närmast ritualiserat liv. Varje dag upprepas samma procedurer. De blundar för meningslösheten och isoleringen i sitt liv. Men när deras dotter en dag låtsas att hon blivit blind bryter hittills latenta aggressioner igenom.