Dette er en episk historie, like djerv og ambisiøs som sin hovedperson, en utrettelig hærfører og erobrer som 32 år gammel hadde kjempet seg til det største imperiet verden noen gang hadde sett. Fortid og nåtid møtes i et forsøk på å forme puslespillet om Aleksanders liv, et lerret fylt av triumfer og tragedier, der barndomsminner og Aleksanders vei til makten utfolder seg side om side med den senere utvidelsen av riket og dets uunngåelige endelikt.
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Hertuginnen av Devonshire var en vakker sosietetskvinne med politisk innflytelse i 1700-tallets England. Men i privatlivet var hun preget av et kjærlighetsløst ekteskap og opprivende utroskap.
Kan dronning Kleopatra få oppført et storslått byggverk på tre måneder og imponere selvgode Julius Cæsar? Arkitekten Linealis får ansvaret, men han blir krokodillemat om han ikke holder fristen. Her trengs et mirakel - eller kanskje gallisk trylledrikk? Han oppsøker Miraculix, og sammen med våre to hardtslående venner drar trollmannen til Egypt for å få fart i byggesakene. Men i Kleopatras rike er det ikke bare krokodillene som er farlige. Criminalis, hoffarkitekten som føler seg snytt for byggeoppdraget, vil sabotere prosjektet, koste hva det koste vil.
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Vi kjenner vel alle den lille landsbyen i Gallia som romerne ikke klarer å overvinne, selv etter 30 tegneseriealbum med iherdige forsøk og mye mørbanking. Så da er vel denne filmen et nytt kapittel i historien om de tapre gallerens kamp for selvstendighet?
Det også, men i tillegg skjer dette: Asterix kommer i kamp med bestevennen Obelix... Obelix overgir Asterix til romerne... Asterix hjelper Cæsar tilbake til tronen... Majestetix stjeler romernes skattekiste - for deretter å miste den... trylledrikken som gir overnaturlige krefter blir erstattet med en enda mer hemmelig drikk... En Asterix-historie på vrangen? Slett ikke. All galskap, moro og mannjevning er som vi er vant til fra den lille landsbyen. Det skjer bare enda mer, ved alle Gallias guder og gudinner!
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
A talking chimp, a jolly monk and a boxer on the run make an unlikely team in this French comedy for children. Brother Benoit, a French monk working with underprivileged youth in Mexico, one day finds a sick chimpanzee in need of water and medical attention. He brings the chimp back to his mission and nurses her back to health, naming her Mookie. A year later, Brother Benoit discovers Mookie can not only play basketball, but she can talk, the result of an exposure to radiation from a meteor crash. Primate experts from America are eager to get their hands on the little ape, but the Brother will allow no experiments to be performed on her. The Brother recruits Antoine, a boxer down on his luck, to help Mookie and the Brother flee to Mexico City, but when it turns out Antoine is wanted by the Mexican Mafia for not throwing a fight, all three must make tracks to insure their safety.
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…