A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered, and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.

When the affable host of an elegant Christmas party shoots a man to death, his friends discover secrets that make them less eager to help with his courtroom defense.

Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is ultimately a cathartic exploration of what it means to go on living...

Two knights return home from the Crusades to a land devastated by the Black Plague and they are ordered by the Church to transport an accused witch, who they believe to be responsible for the disease, to a remote abbey where a ritual will be performed to abolish her powers.

Davey is a 17 year-old girl abruptly relocated by her grieving mother to the strange 'atom bomb' town of Los Alamos, New Mexico. With the sudden and violent death of her father, the displaced Davey no longer knows who to be or how to fit in. Everything that once mattered suddenly seems insignificant. But when she meets Wolf, a mysterious young Native-American, while exploring the surrounding canyons, she feels he is able to see past her pain and into...

Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter.

Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.

A recently deceased man must tell his life story to the devil before being admitted into hell.

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A family that hasn't celebrated Christmas since their son was killed in the Gulf War, is visited by a soldier that bears a striking resemblence to their son.