David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish…

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican’s career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French…

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking…

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a…

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana’s grimy underworld.

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving…

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to…

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect’s daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately…

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.