France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
În Macao din secolul al XIX-lea, un comerciant bogat este obsedat de o legendă străveche care se răspândește din gură în gură printre marinari. Aceea a unui om bogat care a plătit unui marinar sărac 5 guinee pentru a avea un copil cu tânăra lui soție.
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.
15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps, has been accepted to a highly selective ski club whose aim is to train future professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned coach, decides to make Lyz his shining star regardless of her lack of experience. Under his influence, Lyz will have to endure more than the physical and emotional pressure of the training. Will Lyz’s determination help her escape his grip?
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.
Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Argentina, în timpul dictaturii militare din anii 1976-1983. Peste 30.000 de oameni sunt daţi dispăruţi, fără ca cineva să ştie unde sunt. Printre ei se afla şi Cecilia, o jurnalistă angajată în lupta pentru democraţie. Soţul ei, Carlos, director de teatru, porneşte pe urmele ei. Dar, pentru că descoperă că are capacităţi paranormale de clarvăzător, el ajută şi alte familii care, ca şi el, îşi caută dispăruţii. Emma Thomson, vorbind despre răpirile şi asasinatele practicate de regimul dictatorial argentinian, declară: "o persoană dispărută nu e doar o persoană, ci un univers întreg, o rană deschisă". Inspirat de imaginea lui Cuillermo Navarro, filmul evocă sugestiv o epocă în care a dominat teroarea, ajutată de "sora" ei, tortura!
În Provența anilor ’80, un comis-voiajor stresat vrea să-și schimbe stilul de viață atunci când cunoaște o comunitate hipiotă în care oamenii trăiesc și iubesc liber.
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.