Topic: Ensemble Film

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast John Travolta · Samuel L. Jackson · Uma Thurman · Bruce Willis

Synopsis Pulp Fiction (1994) weaves together multiple interconnected stories in a nonlinear narrative. The film follows hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield as they navigate the criminal underworld, dealing with a mysterious briefcase, a boxer who double-crosses a mob boss, and...

Direction Carl Tibbetts

Cast Jon Hamm · Rafe Spall · Rasmus Hardiker · Oona Chaplin

Synopsis Matt Trent (Jon Hamm) and Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) are stationed at a small, remote outpost in the middle of a snowy wilderness. On Christmas Day, Matt is preparing Christmas dinner, while "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" plays...

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Synopsis Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded group who are rehearsing another work by the same ancient...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Alan Alda · Claire Bloom · Anjelica Huston

Synopsis In Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), a gripping moral drama by Woody Allen, intertwines two contrasting stories. One follows a successful ophthalmologist whose life unravels when his extramarital affair threatens his reputation. Desperate, he considers drastic measures to silence his mistress....

Direction Guy Ritchie

Cast Jason Statham · Stephen Graham · Brad Pitt · Alan Ford

Synopsis In Snatch (2000), a chaotic web of interconnected characters collides in London's criminal underworld. A stolen diamond sets off a chain reaction involving unscrupulous boxing promoters, a ruthless gangster, and a group of bumbling thieves. At the center is a...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Michael Caine · Barbara Hershey

Synopsis Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) follows three sisters in New York City over two tumultuous years. Hannah, the stable eldest, supports her neurotic sister Holly and their emotionally fragile sister Lee. As their lives intertwine with husbands, lovers, and career...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Burt Lancaster · Montgomery Clift · Deborah Kerr · Frank Sinatra

Synopsis From Here to Eternity (1953) is a dramatic tale set in 1941 Hawaii, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The story follows the lives of several soldiers stationed at Schofield Barracks, exploring their personal struggles, romantic entanglements, and the...

Direction Makoto Shinkai

Synopsis In Your Name (2016), two teenagers, Mitsuha and Taki, living in different parts of Japan, mysteriously begin swapping bodies at random intervals. Through this unusual connection, they navigate each other's lives, leaving notes and forming a unique bond. As they...

Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Emilio Echevarría · Gael García Bernal · Goya Toledo · Alvaro Guerrero

Synopsis "Love Dogs (2000)" intertwines three gripping stories in Mexico City, linked by a tragic car accident and the lives of dogs. Octavio, a young man, enters his rottweiler into brutal fights to escape poverty and win his brother's wife. Valeria,...

Direction Milcho Manchevski

Cast Katrin Cartlidge · Rade Serbedzija · Grégoire Colin · Labina Mitevska

Synopsis The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of...

Direction Edward Yang

Cast Wu Nien-jen · Elaine Jin · Kelly Lee · Jonathan Chang

Synopsis Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through every-day quandaries. NJ is morose; his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when...

Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Sean Penn · Benicio del Toro · Naomi Watts · Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis College professor Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) and his wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant, while she hopes to become pregnant with his child through...

Direction Paul Haggis

Cast Sandra Bullock · Don Cheadle · Matt Dillon · Jennifer Esposito

Synopsis Crash (2004) weaves together multiple interconnected stories in Los Angeles, exploring themes of racism, prejudice, and human connection. Over 36 hours, a diverse group of strangers—including cops, criminals, wealthy elites, and immigrants—collide in unexpected ways. Their lives intersect through tense,...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Anton Walbrook · Simone Signoret · Serge Reggiani · Simone Simon

Synopsis An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with...

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Tom Cruise · John C. Reilly · Philip Baker Hall · William H. Macy

Synopsis Magnolia (1999) weaves together the interconnected lives of several characters in California's San Fernando Valley over the course of one emotionally charged day. As a storm looms, the stories of a dying television producer, a troubled former quiz show prodigy,...

Direction Wayne Wang

Cast Harvey Keitel · William Hurt · Stockard Channing · Forest Whitaker

Synopsis Smoke (1995) is a heartfelt drama that weaves together the lives of diverse characters in Brooklyn. At its center is Auggie, a cigar shop owner who meticulously photographs the same street corner every day. His quiet routine intersects with Paul,...

Direction Milad Alami · Iram Haq · Jeanette Nordahl

Cast Jakob Ulrik Lohmann · Karen-Lise Mynster · Peter Christoffersen · Arian Kashef

Synopsis When the Dust Settles is a multi-plot drama that portrays eight very different characters during the days before and after a terrorist attack shocks Copenhagen. The characters who start off as strangers are all fundamentally changed by the tragic incident,...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Synopsis Short Cuts (1993) weaves together the intersecting lives of 22 Los Angeles residents over a few days, blending humor, tragedy, and mundane reality. Directed by Robert Altman, the film explores themes of love, infidelity, mortality, and chance encounters. From a...

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast Martin Sheen · Tony Musante · Beau Bridges · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis The passengers on a New York subway car are terrorized by two teenage delinquents. Although outnumbered, the teenagers take advantage of the passenger's passivity and unwillingness to act together.

Direction Laura Citarella

Cast Laura Paredes · Ezequiel Pierri · Rafael Spregelburd · Elisa Carricajo

Synopsis A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who—mysteriously—never truly becomes his...