The Trial

Director Orson Welles's brilliant adaptation of Franz Kafka's existential novel casts Anthony Perkins as Josef K, a bank clerk who finds himself at the mercy of a powerful and bizarre judicial system when he's arrested for an unnamed crime. In his efforts to exonerate himself, the bewildered Josef becomes ensnared in a ponderous maze of bureaucratic camouflage and faceless courtrooms. Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider and Elsa Martinelli co-star.