Filminstruktøren Vittorio De Sica indtager en vigtig plads i filmhistorien med sine neorealistiske hverdagsdramaer fra efterkrigstidens Italien. Han udtalte i sin tid, at hans idé var at afromantisere virkeligheden, og det lykkes ham til fulde i den mesterlige Cykeltyven fra 1948. Den arbejdsløse Antonio Ricci får endelig et job, men det kræver, at han har en cykel. Han anskaffer sig en sådan, men den bliver stjålet, og nu må han sammen med sin søn ud og skaffe sig den tilbage.
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
En stor sum penge lokker den pensionerede dusørjæger og legende William Munny samt hans ven Ned Logan til at tage af sted med unge uerfarne i Scholfield Kid for at fange to cowboys, der har skamferet en prostitueret i byen Big Whiskey. Imidlertid er byens sherif ”Little Bill” Daggett ikke glad for dusørjægere.
I et idyllisk beliggende hus uden for Tokyo bor pigen Arrietty med sine forældre - nede under gulvbrædderne. For familien tilhører lilleputfolket Lånerne, der lever at af hente forsyninger fra menneskenes skuffer og skabe uden at blive opdaget. Da en syg dreng, Sho, flytter ind i huset for at rekonvalescere, opstår et overraskende - og forbudt - venskab mellem menneskedrengen og den ti cm høje Arrietty.
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife Erika. But when he is unable to keep up this lifestyle, his story takes a horrendous turn...
Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
En anarkistisk komedie om to unge pigers konfrontation med det borgerlige samfund, fortalt i en eksperimenterende modernistisk stil.
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien.
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
Det tophemmelige spionagentur Control er i krise. Identiteterne på de hemmelige agenter er blevet afsløret, og det kræver utraditionelle metoder. Derfor bliver den entusiastiske analytiker Maxwell Smart forfremmet til aktiv tjeneste. Sammen med den labre og dødelige Agent 99, får Smart til opgave at stoppe forbrydersyndikatet KAOS.
A story of a businessman who accidentally boards a train bound for Russia with his mother and has to overcome difficulties with his mother and problems in his family life.
En landmand nedfælder en tilståelse om drabet på sin kone, men hendes død er kun begyndelsen på en makaber historie.
Efter at have hørt et barn skrige efter hjælp fra de grønne dybder af en stor mark med højt græs, parkerer Becky, en gravid kvinde, og Cal, hendes bror, deres bil nær en mystisk forladt kirke og går ind på marken og opdager, at de ikke er alene og af en eller anden grund er de ikke i stand til at undslippe en fuldstændig uløselig grøntsagslabyrint.
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...