Noriko are 27 de ani si nu este casatorita inca. Rudele si prietenii o indeamna tot timpul sa faca pasul, dar ea ezita. Dorinta de a-si ingriji tatal vaduv este mai puternica decat gandul la casatorie. Asta pana intr-o zi, cand tatal ii spune ca are de gand sa-si gaseasca o noua sotie.
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Umberto Domenico Ferrari, un funcționar public bătrân pensionat, încearcă cu disperare să mențină un nivel de trai decent pe o pensie de stat în scădere rapidă. Dar el se confruntă cu gazda lui tiranică, care continuă să-i ceară chiria pe care n-o poate plăti (în timp ce închiriază camera lui pentru prostituate în timpul zilei), iar singurii lui prieteni sunt menajera gravidă și micul său câine Flike.
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
Pentru a face un ban în plus într-un sfârșit de săptămână de sărbători, un student se angajează să îngrijească un colonel pensionat recalcitrant, care și-a pierdut vederea.
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Tulburata Blanche DuBois se mută cu sora ei din New Orleans și este chinuită de cumnatul ei brutal, în timp ce realitatea ei i se prăbușește în jur.
After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.
A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of all kinds.
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Hüseyin Al Baldawi arrives in Brussels in August 2015. He has traveled thousands of kilometers until he got there from Iraq. A year after his arrival, he receives his residence permit and decides to go to Greece. This journey from Brussels to Athens involves the viewers on the difficulties faced by Hüseyin and thousands of other immigrants. While the story of Hüseyin is taking shape through the countries he travels, the forgotten people he meets and the selfish society of Europe give us many messages, as well.
Gestionarul de sală retras, Lou, se îndrăgostește de Jackie, un culturist ambițios care se îndreaptă prin oraș spre Las Vegas în urmărirea visului ei. Dar dragostea lor aprinde violența, trăgându-i adânc în rețeaua familiei criminale a lui Lou.
After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.
A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
A woman with a seemingly ideal life, Siu Man is abandoned by her husband partly due to her fear of intimacy. After several life crises, she decides to reboot her life by taking over her father’s restaurant. Siu Man eventually finds herself attracted to her new chef, a free spirit who treats cooking as serious philosophy. Tired of the shackles she placed on herself, Siu Man embarks on a journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation.