Lancaster Dodd, un intel·lectual brillant i de fortes conviccions, crea una organització religiosa que comença a fer-se popular a Estats Units cap a 1952. Freddie Quell, un jove vagabund, es convertirà a la mà dreta d'aquest líder religiós. No obstant això, quan la secta triomfa i aconsegueix atreure a nombrosos i fervents seguidors, a Freddie li sorgiran dubtes.

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.

Isabella, the daughter of the noble York family, is enrolled in an all-girls academy to be groomed into a dame worthy of nobility. However, she has given up on her future, seeing the prestigious school as nothing more than a prison from the outside world. Her family notices her struggling in her lessons and decides to hire Violet Evergarden to personally tutor her under the guise of a handmaiden. At first, Isabella treats Violet coldly. Violet seems to be able to do everything perfectly, leading Isabella to assume that she was born with a silver spoon. After some time, Isabella begins to realize that Violet has had her own struggles and starts to open up to her. Isabella soon reveals that she has lost contact with her beloved younger sister, whom she yearns to see again. Having experienced the power of words through her past clientele, Violet asks if Isabella wishes to write a letter to Taylor. Will Violet be able to help Isabella convey her feelings to her long-lost sister?

L'any 1953, Katherine Watson és professora a Wellesley College, una universitat només per a dones. La societat d'aquella època, tradicional i masclista, donava a la dona un paper ben definit: la casa, el marit i els fills. Katherine Watson qüestiona aquestes idees i intentarà que les seves estudiants vagin més enllà i considerin totes les possibilitats que tenen, lluny dels rols preestablerts.

Un nen queda cec, sord i mut com a conseqüència del trauma sofert en contemplar l'assassinat del seu pare a mans de l'amant de la seva mare. Amb el pas del temps es converteix en estrella mundial del pinball.

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

1940. Paulette, una nena parisenca de cinc anys, es queda òrfena després d’un atac de l’aviació alemanya. Escapant del caos, troba refugi en el si d’una humil família de grangers i es fa amiga del petit de la casa, Michel. Els nens forgen una sòlida relació de solidaritat i suport, junts aconsegueixen processar la brutal realitat de la guerra gràcies a la creació del seu propi món inventat.

El 1945, acabada la Segona Guerra Mundial, Jake Geismar (George Clooney), un corresponsal de guerra nord-americà, torna a Berlín per informar sobre la Conferència de Postdam, que reunirà Truman, Churchill i Stalin. Alhora, es veu embolicat en un turbulent assumpte per intentar ajudar Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), una antiga amant, el marit de la qual és buscat tant pels americans com pels russos.

When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.

ust després de la Segona Guerra Mundial, la petita illa de Shikotan va passar a formar part de la província soviètica de Sakhalin. El setembre del 1945, les forces soviètiques van ocupar l'illa. Però en aquest racó remot el món, un territori encara en disputa a l'actualitat, va aparèixer tímidament una amistat entre dos països diferents, superant les barreres de la llengua i de la història. Els principals protagonistes de la història són en Junpei, en Kanta i la Tanya, nens que es veuen enmig del conflicte. La història està basada en fets reals.

Als Estats Units posteriors a la guerra civil, quan es presumeix que un soldat de la Unió està mort, els seus fills són enviats per error al tren dels orfes.

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.

Una petita ciutat alemanya, poc temps després de la I Guerra Mundial. Anna va tots els dies a visitar la tomba del seu promès Frantz, assassinat a França. Un dia, Adrien, un misteriós jove francès, també deixa flors a la tomba.

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.

In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

En els anys durs de la postguerra rural a Catalunya, l'Andreu, un nen que pertany al bàndol dels perdedors, troba un dia al bosc els cadàvers d'un home i el seu fill. Les autoritats volen carregar-li el mort al seu pare, però ell, per ajudar-lo, intenta esbrinar qui els va matar.

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.