In a village affected by climate change and scanty rainfall, a blind farmer strikes a deal with the debt recovery agent to save his son from a debt trap.
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Kaunis kertomus kuurosta pojasta Shigerusta (Kurôdo Maki), joka kohdistaa päivittäiset puuhansa ja intohimonsa rannalla surffailuun löydettyään roskakuskin apulaisena vahingoittuneen lainelaudan. Tyttöystävänsä kanssa hän lähtee jokapäivä merenrannalle harjoittelemaan korjaamallansa laudalla, kuitenkaan ilman mitään erityistä motiivia harrastukseensa kohtaan.
Rikas leskirouva Venables lupaa vuoden 1937 New Orleansissa tuntuvan avustuksen osavaltion vankilasairaalalle yhdellä ehdolla. Hän haluaa lääkärin tekevän lobotomialeikkauksen sukulaistyttärelleen Catherinelle. Tämä on tullut hulluksi serkkunsa Sebastian Venablesin kuoltua heidän lomamatkallaan Euroopassa. Käsikirjoituksen teki Tennessee Williamsin kirjasta Gore Vidal.
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Drownig by Numbers – Kohtalokkaat numerot kertoo saman perheen kolmen eri sukupolven naisista, joiden kaikkien nimi on Cissie Colpitts. Vanhin Cissie on lopen kyllästynyt jatkuvasti uskottomaan ja alkoholisoituneeseen mieheensä – niinpä eräänä yönä hän päättää hukuttaa tämän kylpyammeeseen. Rikoksen salaamiseksi hän tarvitsee apua kaupungin oikeuslääkäriltä Madgettilta. Cissien tukena ovat kuitenkin myös hänen tyttärensä ja tyttärentyttärensä. Heidän lisäkseen mukana hääräilee Madgettin omalaatuinen poika Smut, joka muun muassa merkitsee ja laskee kuolemantapauksia. Joukko saa lavastettua murhan onnettomuudeksi – mutta miten käykään, kun myös muut Cissie Colpittsit alkavat löytää miehistään epämiellyttäviä piirteitä?
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.
Margit and her older sister Katla flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter with Johan and his resentful young son, Jonas, the sisters help form an impromptu family unit that’s soon strained by Katla’s burgeoning sorcery.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Yksinäinen yövahti Koistinen joutuu keskelle varkaiden juonta. Hän menettää työnsä, vapautensa ja viimeisenkin toivon rakkaudesta. Keskellä synkintäkin hetkeä voi kuitenkin aina tuikahtaa pieni valonsäde. Aki Kaurismäen ohjaama, yksinäisyyttä pohtiva elokuva päättää trilogian, jonka aikaisemmat osat Kauas pilvet karkaavat ja Mies vailla menneisyyttä käsittelivät työttömyyttä ja asunnottomuutta.
Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. But after they miss their connection, they find themselves stranded in Russia, in one of the not the most gay-friendly regions in the world. The start of a crazy adventure as incredible as it is perilous.
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.