Er wordt een feestje georganiseerd ter gelegenheid van het nieuwe boek van schrijver Giovanni Pontano. Alvorens hij daar arriveert is de avond al dramatisch. Hij en zijn vrouw bezoeken een vriend in het ziekenhuis die stervende is.
Het zware leven van Aldo die werkt in een suikerfabriek in de Po-vallei in Noord-Italië. Hij leeft met een getrouwde vrouw en haar dochter. Wanneer de vrouw hoort dat haar echtgenoot is overleden, doet Aldo haar onmiddellijk een aanzoek.
Giuliana is een vrouw die gekweld wordt door een vreselijke depressie. Haar emotionele buien verstoren alles en iedereen om haar heen, maar net als zij doet iedereen alsof het allemaal niet zo erg is. Een Britse ingenieur heeft het gevoel dat hij haar begrijpt en begint met haar een relatie.
Lina wordt ten onrechte beschuldigd van diefstal en belandt in een vrouwengevangenis. Daar krijgt ze een aantal lessen in de criminaliteit van haar celgenote Egle. De prostituees, moordenaars en dieven hebben geen positieve invloed op de onschuldige Lina.
Parijs, zomer 1960. Antropoloog en filmmaker Jean Rouch en socioloog en filmcriticus Edgar Morin dwalen door de drukke straten en vragen voorbijgangers hoe ze omgaan met de tegenslagen van het leven.
Voor de jeugd in New Granada is er niets te doen. Ze verveelt zich te pletter, zodat ze zich zelf moet zien te vermaken. Hierbij verliezen de pubers zich in misdaad en geweld.
ICAC Investigator William Luk and JFIU Chief Inspector Lau Po-keung both hit a dead end in their investigation of a bribery case and a money laundering case. In the meantime, William Luk was suspended when model Eva Ng went to Inspector Kenny Ching of ICAC’s Internal Investigation Group L, to file a report against him for accepting a $12M bribe. Lau discovered Luk was set up and whoever framed Luk was connected to his case. He began to suspect the bank manager Thomson Yau was assisting a gangster, Wong Hoi-wo in money laundering activities. When Director Hong Liang of China’s Anti-Corruption & Bribery Bureau (ACBB) provided Lau with important intelligence, it became clear the money laundering activities were connected to a corrupted Vice-Ministerial Level cadre. To clear his name, William Luk put everything on the line…
De vijftienjarige Laurent is de jongste zoon van Chevalier en Clara en groeit op in Dijon in de jaren '50. In tegenstelling tot zijn oudere broers is hij een fijngevoelige en intelligente knaap. Wegens zijn zwakke gezondheid wordt hij naar een kuuroord in Morvan gestuurd.
A newly-married merchant’s son is sent away for business. A ghost, who laid eyes on the bride, falls madly in love with her and takes the form of the husband and begins living with her.
Young Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery set off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on grumpy Barnyard Dog.
Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
Drie verhalen over welgestelde jongeren die een moord begaan. In het Franse verhaal doden enkele studenten een medestudent voor zijn geld. In het Italiaanse deel is een student betrokken bij sigarettensmokkel en in het Engelse deel vindt een luie dichter het lichaam van een vrouw en probeert hij hier geld aan te verdienen.
Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...
A college professor teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear" brings his students (including a psychic) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, a woman on crutches confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.
In 1984, photophobic Zano arrives in Athens and quickly gets devoured by the dark underbelly of the capital city.