Với nhân vật trung tâm là J. Robert Oppenheimer, nhà vật lý lý thuyết người đứng đầu phòng thí nghiệm Los Alamos, thời kỳ Thế chiến II. Ông đóng vai trò quan trọng trong Dự án Manhattan, tiên phong trong nhiệm vụ phát triển vũ khí hạt nhân, và được coi là một trong những “cha đẻ của bom nguyên tử”.
Bernardo Bertolucci là đạo diễn người Ý, ảnh hưởng của Trào lưu Tân hiện thực quá mạnh mẽ nên phim của Bertolucci cũng mang hơi hướng đặc tính của lối làm phim thuộc Trào lưu này. Ông sử dụng nhiều cảnh đặc tả, góc máy đuổi bắt hoặc đón sẵn chờ nhân vật trung tâm xuất hiện. Không tô vẽ hào quang, cốt cách cho nhân vật mà để cho mọi sự tự nhiên được diễn ra... Bộ phim đã giành tổng cộng 9 giải Oscar, bao gồm cả giải Phim hay nhất và Đạo diễn xuất sắc nhất. Đây là một bộ phim hi hữu khi giành chiến thắng ở tất cả 9 hạng mục mà nó được đề cử. Đồng thời phim cũng đoạt giải BAFTA Phim hay nhất và Quả cầu Vàng ở hạng mục Phim chính kịch xuất sắc nhất.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Đông Đức tháng 11, 1984. Wiesler là nhân viên Stasi chuyên theo dõi người khác. Điệp vụ mới nhất của hắn là nghe trộm hàng ngày hoạt động của cặp nghệ sĩ Sieland và Dreyman. Từ sự quan sát cuộc sống của những người khác, Wiesler đã có những biến chuyển tâm lý rõ rệt để dẫn đến thay đổi cuộc sống của chính mình.
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won't do the wild thing with her brother's biker friend, who is black.
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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.
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.