Desde Hong Kong a Cuba y a Londres, el agente 007 investiga los planes de Zao, el hijo del pacifista coronel Moon del ejército de Corea del Norte. El MI6 sospecha que los proyectos de Zao pueden poner en peligro la estabilidad mundial, y esas sospechas se confirman cuando 007 descubre que Zao planea unificar los ejércitos de las dos Coreas para atacar Japón y enfrentarse a los Estados Unidos. Pero Bond es apresado y torturado por Zao. Cuando Bond consigue escapar y llega a Londres, averigua que Gustav Graves, un misterioso millonario que tiene negocios con Zao, representa una gran amenaza para el mundo, pues ha fabricado un satélite que le permite dirigir la luz solar a su antojo.
A female teacher who is skilled in kendo is assigned to a rural high school in a beautiful remote valley. But she is soon trapped in a wide conspiracy of lust and perversion by those around her.
Adaptación de una novela del escritor inglés William Tackeray. Barry Lyndon, un joven irlandés ambicioso y sin escrúpulos, se ve obligado a emigrar a causa de un duelo. Lleva a partir de entonces una vida errante y llena de aventuras. Sin embargo, su sueño es alcanzar una elevada posición social. Y lo hace realidad al contraer un provechoso matrimonio, gracias al cual entra a formar parte de la nobleza inglesa del siglo XVIII.
El delirante y gótico estilo de vida de la peculiar familia Addams se ve amenazado peligrosamente cuando el codicioso dúo que forman madre e hijo, con la ayuda de un abogado sin ningún escrúpulos, conspiran para hacerse con la fortuna familiar.
Una banda de forajidos atemorizan a los habitantes de un pequeño pueblo, saqueándolos periódicamente sin piedad. Para repeler estos ataques, los aldeanos deciden contratar a mercenarios. Finalmente, consiguen los servicios de 7 guerreros, 7 samurais dispuestos a defenderlos a cambio, tan solo, de cobijo y comida.
Francia, siglo XVII. D'Artagnan, un joven y valeroso gascón, viaja a París con la intención de ingresar en la compañía de los mosqueteros del rey, a cuyo frente está el señor de Treville. En el camino tiene un mal encuentro con el conde de Rochefort y Milady De Winter, ambos colaboradores del cardenal Richelieu, primer ministro de Luis XIII (1610-1643). Una vez en la capital, tiene la mala suerte de enfrentarse a los más valerosos y fieles mosqueteros del Rey: Athos, Porthos y Aramis.
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social systems of Europe.
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
Huyendo de la policía secreta rusa, Endel, un joven campeón de esgrima, se ve obligado a regresar a su tierra natal, donde se convierte en profesor de educación física en una escuela local. Pero el pasado le pone frente a una difícil elección.
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
After fathering a child, Maharaj Bahadur Singh marries and starts a family. One of his sons grows up to usurp him, the other to be Zorro.
A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.
Traveling swordsman Shen Sheng-yi (Ti Lung) and his lady friend match wits and swords with the last surviving member of the once great Murung family who is determined to rule the martial world by stealing plans to crafting firearms.