During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.

Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

A story about the life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila, which becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.

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

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.

Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Julie se ujímá bílého německého ovčáka, jehož za tmy náhodou srazila autem. Záhy však zjišťuje, že pes byl už jako štěně vycvičen k útoku na Afroameričany. Celoživotní bojovník proti rasovým předsudkům Fuller vytvořil za scenáristické spolupráce Curtise Hansona kontroverzní metaforu o nejlepším příteli člověka, který byl svým pánem „naprogramován" k rasové nesnášenlivosti. (46th KVIFF)

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

V srpnu 1962 se stává Alžírsko nezávislou republikou. Je dost francouzů, kterým se to nelíbí, především těm, kteří v Alžírsku bojovali. Rekrutovala se z nich teroristická organizace OAS, která si kladla za cíl vrátit Alžírsko zpět Francii. Hlavní překážkou v jejich plánech byl prezident de Gaulle, kterého bylo třeba odstranit. Po neúspěšném atentátu na prezidenta, došli vůdci OAS k předsvědčení, že na zabití prezidenta potřebují sehnat profesionála z ciziny...

Příběh výjimečnými schopnostmi nadaného mimozemšťana, jenž v lidské podobě zkoumá možnosti, jak lze naši planetu kolonizovat. Má totiž jednu velkou přednost z větší části ji pokrývá voda; na mimozemšťanově domovské planetě se totiž potýkají se zničujícím suchem a vedrem. Kromě toto, že se po celý film nikdy neusměje, není na něm nic podezřelého, dokonce se zamiluje, ale přesto je od počátku kýmsi sledován. Svou misi však nedokončí, po sérii drastických zážitků končí jako zničený alkoholik bez vlastní vůle... Ač tento snímek spadá žánrově mezi sci-fi, výrazně omezuje jakékoli spektakulární prvky a soustřeďuje se na pobyt záhadného cizince na Zemi, na jeho přítomnost mezi lidskou populací. Hrdina rezignovaně říká, že se jednání lidí nediví; ani na jeho planetě by se k cizinci odjinud nechovali jinak, natož lépe.