In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold those men.
Acțiunea peliculei este plasată la Roma, în Italia anilor '80, când Salvatore Di Vita, un celebru regizor italian ajunge acasă și prietena lui îi spune că mama acestuia a sunat și a informat-o că un anume Alfredo a murit. Acela este momentul în care se declanșază amintirile lui Salvatore. Restul filmului curge printr-o serie de secvențe retrospective a căror acțiune se desfășoară imediat după cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial, în satul natal al lui Salvatore. Toto este un copil inteligent, rămas fără tată în urma războiului și îngrijit de mama lui. Descoperă pasiunea pentru filme și are ocazia să-șsi petreacă majoritatea timpului la cinematograful local, Cinema Paradiso, unde dezvoltă o relație apropiată cu proiecționistul Alfredo. Secvențele retrospective ale lui Salvatore ne oferă privilegiul de a observa dezvoltarea prieteniei cu Alfredo, dar și trecerea micului Toto de la copilărie la maturitate.
Pe măsură ce forțele aliate se apropie de Paris în august 1944, colonelul german Von Waldheim este disperat să ducă în Germania toate cele mai mari tablouri ale Franței. El reușește să asigure un tren pentru a transporta operele de artă valoroase, chiar dacă haosul retragerii coboară asupra lor. Rezistența franceză vrea totuși să-i împiedice să le fie furate comorile naționale, dar a primit ordine de la Londra să nu fie distruse. Șeful de gară, Labiche, are sarcina de a programa trenul și de a face totul să se întâmple fără probleme, dar face și parte dintr-un grup tot mai mic de luptători de rezistență însărcinați cu prevenirea furtului. El și alții pun la cale un șiretlic elaborat pentru a împiedica trenul să părăsească vreodată teritoriul francez.
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
Inspectorul Gallien investigheaza violul si moartea a doua fetite. Singurul aspect este avocatul Jerome Martinaud, dar nu exista probe.
In timp ce orasul sarbatoreste Anul Nou, Gallien il cheama pe Martinaud la el in birou si-l interogheaza. Va reusi sa-i demonstreze vinovatia?
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.