A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Într-o familie cel mai bine e ca toată lumea să spună adevărul. Cynthia a născut la 15 ani o fetiță, pe care nu a văzut-o și a dat-o spre adopție. Ea e alba fetiță de culoare, dar mama nu a știut pană în momentul în care, ajunsă la vârsta majoratului, fata o caută. Se dovedește a fi o tânără ce a reușit în viață, înțeleaptă și cu bun simț.

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

Un cuplu nefericit încearcă să găsească direcția și perspectiva în timpul vacanței în Napoli.

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

Irlandezul Sean Thornton a făcut o carieră ca boxer în Statele Unite. Acum se întoarce în satul natal. Sătenii îl primesc cu bucurie – cu excepția unuia: Red Wil Danaher. Sean i-a smuls o casă de sub nas. Din fericire, Red este fratele marii iubiri a lui Sean, Mary Kate. Conform tradiției irlandeze, Sean o cere în căsătorie fratelui ei. El este insultat constant de Red Will. Dar Sean evită o luptă. Lui Mary Kate îi este rușine de asta. Ea îi cere soțului ei - presupus laș - să-l oblige pe Red Will să predea zestrea. Numai când Sean îi arată ei și fratelui ei care este stăpânul casei, le câștigă respectul.

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Marianne și Jean-Paul își petrec vacanța într-o superbă vilă de lângă Saint Tropez, a cărei piscină constituie cadrul de desfășurare a acțiunii. Cei doi sunt anunțați prin telefon că va veni în vizită un vechi prieten comun de-al lor, Harry, împreună cu fiica lui de 18 ani, Penelope. Cei doi îndrăgostiți s-au cunoscut chiar prin intermediul lui Harry, acum câțiva ani. Situația devine însă tensionată, întrucât Jean-Paul este gelos pe Harry, care a avut în trecut o relație cu Marianne. Vorbind cu Penelope, Jean-Paul aflaăcă Harry ar avea încă sentimente pentru Marianne, acesta pretinzând ca ar putea să ii despartă pe cei doi oricând și să se împace cu Marianne. Venind acasă de la o petrecere la care a băut prea mult, Harry se ceartă cu Jean-Paul, acuzându-l pe acesta că este mult prea apropiat de fiica lui. Discuția se termină tragic...

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave the country together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor -- the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.

At a cruising spot near a lake, Franck falls in love with Michael, a handsome and lethally dangerous man. Even though Franck is aware of this, he chooses to follow his passion.

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.