In 1920s China, nineteen-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Durant la Guerra de Secessió americana, un post avançat del Nord ha capturat el plantador d'Alabama Peyton Farquhar mentre tractava de sabotejar la via que travessa el pont sobre el riu Owl. Seguint ordres del comandament, serà executat per la forca en procés sumaríssim. La corda encercla ja el coll d'en Peyton i sembla que no té escapatòria...
Fred Madison, un músic de Jazz, rep una sèrie de misterioses cintes de vídeo en què apareix amb la seva dona Renée dins de casa seva. A l'última, que Fred veu tot sol, al costat d'ell apareix la seva dona morta.
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
This biblical drama from the Catholic Marxist director focuses on the teachings of Jesus, including the parables that reflect their revolutionary nature. As Jesus travels along the coast of the Sea of Galilee, he gradually gathers more followers, leading him into direct conflict with the authorities.
L'Oscar i la seva germana Linda viuen des de fa poc a Tòquio. Ell sobreviu traficant amb drogues, ella treballa com a stripper en un club nocturn. Durant un forcejament amb la policia, l'Oscar cau ferit després de rebre tret. Encara que mor, el seu esperit, fidel a la promesa de no abandonar mai la seva germana, rebutja abandonar el món dels vius. El seu esperit vaga ara per la ciutat i les seves visions són cada vegada més caòtiques.
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
La Sandra disposa d'un cap de setmana per anar a trobar els seus col·legues i convença'ls que renunciïn a la seva paga extraordinària perquè ella pugui conservar el seu lloc de treball. El seu marit l'acompanya per recolzar-la.
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
A punt d'iniciar un important projecte immobiliari, Michael Courtland, un destacat home de negocis de Nova Orleans, perd la seva dona Elizabeth i la seva filla de nou anys en el desenllaç fatal d'un tràgic segrest. Devastat per l'aflicció, decideix cancel·lar-ho tot i construeix un mausoleu dedicat a la seva memòria en els terrenys adquirits per l'empresa. Molts anys després, durant un viatge a Florència amb el seu soci Bob, queda fascinat en conèixer la Sandra, una noia que és el viu retrat de la seva difunta esposa.
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches.
Roman loves Camille as much as he loves his two daughters. But he is hiding from all of them a serious problem of addiction, which could endanger his dearest. Does love have a chance to survive when trust is broken?
A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.
Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...
A series of 3 shortfilms, shot for Canal+ and broadcasted during Cannes Film Festival 2005, starring Eva Herzigova.