For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Chuck Noland on FedExi tippspetsialist, kelle erialast ja isiklikku elu valitseb kell. Täna viib töö ta Moskvasse, järgmisel nädalal juba Lõuna-Ameerikasse, kusjuures sageli saavad nii Chuck ise kui tema pruut Kelly sellest teada vaid veidi enne reisi algust. Kuid mehe elu muutub päeva pealt, kui ta elab üle lennuõnnetuse. Katastroofist ainsana eluga pääsenud Chuck satub üksikule troopikasaarele, kus tuleb järgnevad määramatud päevad-kuud-aastad hakkama saada.
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
George Valentin on 1927. aastal oma karjääri tipus, kui ta tutvub elava ja südamliku Peppy Milleriga (Bejo), kes üritab massistseenides osalemise kaudu staariks tõusta. Just nagu filmides "Täht on sündinud" ja "Lauldes vihmas", tõuseb Peppy Milleri täht ajal, kui stuudiod otsivad vastse helifilmi jaoks kauni häälega näitlejaid... ning just siis käib George’i kuulsus alla. Viimase paugu paneb talle börsikrahh, sest George on just paigutanud kogu oma raha ülespuhutud tumma seiklusfilmi "Armastuse pisarad". Heli kõlab selles filmis harva ja mõjuvalt. Ühes lustakas unenäostseenis kogeb George heli tungimist filmistuudiosse ülevõimendatult – ta kuuleb isegi udusule langemist põrandale. Filmi lõpustseenis kõlab üks õige põgus dialoogikatke.
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Young Juliette is obsessed with dying in tragedy, just as her namesake. Desperate to find her Romeo before her 15th birthday, Juliette goes to great lengths to make her classmates fall deeply in love with her.
In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...