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Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.