Set in Hong Kong in 1962, Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung), a newspaper editor, and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung), a secretary, move into an apartment building on the same day. Incidentally, their respective spouses aren’t there to help with the moving, as both are often away for work. The two lonely neighbors find themselves spending more time together in their…
In 1980, Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) makes his way to Miami, Florida with his best friend Manny Ribera (Steven Bauer). Together they take on the drug cartel, with Tony rising to the top of the empire, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But as Tony’s power grows, so do his…
In Brooklyn, parallel stories are told of four people who, despite their aspirations for something greater, find themselves imprisoned in their respective drug addictions. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) is a heroin junkie who believes he can make it big as a drug dealer along with his best friend Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans). Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver…
While at an assisted-living home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) reflects on his life back in the 1930s when he was a prison officer in charge of death row and the electric chair. While he had seen a variety of criminals walk through his penitentiary, none of them had quite an effect on him as John…
Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. When he learns he has terminal cancer and has only months to live, he decides to try to find meaning in his life.
In a South American village, four desperate men are hired to drive two trucks full of nitroglycerin to a remote oil field. As they journey through rough terrain on a suicide mission, each bump in the road tests their courage and their nerves.
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) is on the run from the Nazis and seeks refuge at a friend’s place. There he meets his fiancé Pina (Anna Magnani), a war-worn widowed mother. As she’s also part of the resistance, she helps him contact Catholic priest Don Pietro…
Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is a washed-up Broadway producer who seduces elderly women to finance his shows. When Max’s new accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) remarks that more money could be made with a flop, the two then scheme to put together the worst show possible, a musical called “Springtime for Hitler”.
Lulu (Louise Brooks) is a hedonistic but naive young woman whose alluring qualities capture the attention of the men around her. But her irresistible charms soon lead to tragedy, as her uninhibited nature brings ruin to herself and those who love her.
After growing up in a life of luxury as a prince of Egypt, Moses (Charlton Heston) learns of his true Hebrew heritage and God’s divine mission for him to free his people from slavery.