Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
I Hiroshima mødes en fransk skuespillerinde og en japansk arkitekt. I løbet af en enkelt nat udlever de en lidenskabelig kærlighed og betror hinanden deres livshistorier.
A blind woman and a delivery boy attempt to solve a hit-and-run case the police have been unable to solve.
The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) er en desillusioneret musiker, der heller ikke er tilfreds med sit job på en olieplatform. Hans kæreste, Rayette, vil giftes, men han kan ikke beslutte sig. Tingene bliver ikke bedre, da han besøger sin familie. Faderen kan ikke tale, broderen er utålelig, og hans søster har en affære med faderens mandlige sygeplejerske. Bobby har dog et godt øje til broderens forlovede, Catherine (Susan Anspach), - i hvert fald indtil Rayette dukker op.
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.
Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Costa records with great sensitivity and insight the exacting process by which the two re-edit their film Sicilia!, discussing and arguing over each cut and its effect. Incorporating comments about the influence of figures as diverse as Chaplin and Eisenstein, about the ethical and aesthetic implications of film technique and such matters as rhythm, sound mixing, and acting. The film becomes a tour de force, immersing us in the mysteries of cinema as practiced by some of its greatest creators. Costa calls the film both his first comedy and his first love story.
På sin bryllupsdag bliver Julie Kohler enke, da hendes brudgom David på brutal vis bliver dræbt for øjnene af hende. Sønderknust og ødelagt af sorg begynder hun dog at udtænke sin grusomme hævn! Ingen af de fem mænd der skød hendes mand, skal slippe fra det med livet i behold, og den smukke enke Julie begiver sig snart afsted med det ene formål at finde og dræbe dem, der ødelagde hendes liv.
Efter sønnens død under en pilgrimsrejse på Camino de Santiago i Pyrenæerne beslutter en sorgramt far at gennemføre den 800 km lange vandring til Spanien.
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
A group of disillusioned young Parisians look for satisfaction in political activism, religion, romance, music, and drugs.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.