Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural. This film is assembled from firsr season episodes of the Danish TV miniseries The Kingdom I. It does not include episodes from seasons 2 or 3.
Durant la unificació italiana, la invasió de Sicília per part de les tropes de Garibaldi porta el Príncep de Salina i la seva família a refugiar-se a la casa de camp que tenen a Donnafugata. Tanmateix, el príncep és conscient que els temps estan canviant i, per tal de preservar la posició social de la família, empara el matrimoni del seu nebot amb la filla del nou alcalde del poble: un nou-ric de tendències liberals.
A París, un brillant i trasbalsat cirurgià rapta noies per tal d'utilitzar la seva pell per reconstruir la bellesa del rostre de la seva filla, destrossat per un tràgic accident del qual ell se sent culpable.
Principis del segle XVIII. Anglaterra està en guerra amb els francesos. Una reina afeblida, Anne (Olivia Colman), ocupa el tron i la seva amiga Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governa el país en la seva absència, a causa del seu estat de salut i el seu caràcter inestable. Quan una nova serventa apareix, Abigail (Emma Stone), el seu encant sedueix Sarah. Sarah ajuda Abigail i aquesta veu una oportunitat per tornar a les seves arrels aristocràtiques. Com que la política ocupa gran part del temps de Sarah, Abigail comença a acompanyar amb més freqüència la Reina. Desenvoluparan una amistat que Abigail aprofitarà per satisfer les seves ambicions.
En els anys 1930 als Estats Units, durant la Gran depressió, una jove cambrera de cerveseria, Cecilia, té un marit aturat i camanduler. Es consola passant les seves vesprades en el cinema, la seva gran passió. Un dia en què ha anat a veure, per cinquena vegada, la mateixa pel·lícula al Jewel Palace, un incident extraordinari es produeix: un dels personatges de La Rosa porpra del Caire, Tom Baxter, l'interpel·la a la sala. Surt de la pantalla, passa de la pel·lícula en blanc i negre al món en colors i la fica en una aventura imprevista.
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
La Sissí ha demostrat la seva habilitat per tractar tant els assumptes d'estat com les delicades relacions amb la seva sogra, l'arxiduquessa Sophie. Aprofitant un viatge que fa la Sissí a Hongria amb el comte Andrassy per calmar una insubordinació de la noblesa, l'arxiduquessa escampa el rumor que tots dos tenen un idil·li. Quan es retroben la Sissí i en Franz Joseph, resulta que ella té una malaltia pulmonar i necessita tractar-la a Grècia.
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.
Londres, 1939. Sarah Miles, una dona bonica i apassionada, és presonera d'un matrimoni estèril amb en Henry, un marit dolç però ensopit. En el transcurs d'una festa, coneix Maurice Bendrix, un novel·lista veí de la parella. Entre ells neix un amor a primera vista. Després d'alguns anys d'una passió intensa, un obús cau durant un bombardeig sobre la casa d'en Bendrix mentre estan junts. La Sarah creu que Bendrix ha mort i, quan reapareix il·lès uns instants més tard, trenca sobtadament la seva relació sense donar-ne més explicacions.
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Sarah Davis heads to her uncle’s struggling ranch to escape New York and the spotlight from a recent breakup. Returning home for the first time since her aunt passed, complications arise when Graham, an entitled Hollywood star, arrives at the ranch to prepare for his next film. As Sarah and Graham start to bond, Sarah may get more for Christmas than she bargained for.
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.
Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.
Michael's health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael's wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients.
From campy lies to sexy surprises, this collection of vignettes captures the follies of several men as they fumble with fidelity and relationships.