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1989 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

1962 film by Agnès Varda

1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

1967 film by Éric Rohmer

1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...

1954 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.

Death of Yazdgerd, is a poetic and political work exploring the cruel and tragic dynamics of a class-based society. War is raging. King Yazdgerd's body is discovered in a run-down mill in the Iranian desert. Charged with murder, the miller, his wife and his sickly daughter must tell their story to the commanders to escape torture and death. Who killed the King? Was Yazdgerd indeed the revered God-King, or a puny, immoral man caught in the destructive whirlwind of his times?

按照《圣经》“出埃及记”的记载，《十诫》是十条上帝对人类的戒律。而基氏所讲述的是十个现代版离经叛道的警世恒言。十段短片都是普通人在平凡生活中发生的故事，却向我们提出了有关道德人性、宗教伦理、科学理性等诸多人类精神世界的问题。第一诫中葬身湖底的小巴博，都是因为父亲一味迷信 电子技术的结果；第二戒里的女人在两难中做出选择；第三戒是有关婚姻的困境；第四戒讲述有关家庭伦理的问题……第十戒以两兄弟间的猜忌而告终。基式向我们赤裸裸的解剖着这古老的十诫，永恒的人性难题又一次遭受现代社会里种种有关精神戒律的挑战与质疑。 导演克日什托夫·基耶斯洛夫斯基荣1989年威尼斯电影节 Children and Cinema Award等诸多奖项。

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

A documentary about the film-maker's wife and co-worker, Peggy Lawson, who died in 1971.