A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
În timp ce renovează fațada unei clădiri din Beirut, Toni, un libanez creștin, și Yasser, un refugiat palestinian, se contrazic pe o problemă legată de canalizare. Se iscă o ceartă, iar Yasser sfârșește prin a-l jigni pe Toni. Cu demnitatea lezată, Toni decide să-l dea în judecată. Urmează un proces lung și extrem de mediatizat...
Valdis Nulle is a young and ambitious captain of fishing ship 'Dzintars'. He has his views on fishing methods but the sea makes its own rules. Kolkhoz authorities are forced to include dubious characters in his crew, for example, former captain Bauze and silent alcoholic Juhans. The young captain lacks experience in working with so many fishermen on board. Unexpectedly, pretty engineer Sabīne is ordered to test a new construction fishing net on Nulle's ship and 'production conflict' between her and the captain arises...
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Zhenya și Boris trec printr-un divorț dificil, marcat de resentimente, frustrare și învinuiri. Pregătindu-se deja de noile lor vieți, fiecare cu un nou partener, cei doi sunt nerăbdători să o ia de la capăt, să întoarcă pagina - chiar dacă asta presupune să își abandoneze fiul, pe Alexei, în vârstă de 12 ani. Până când, după ce este martorul uneia dintre certurile lor, Alyosha dispare...
Un croitor și burlac renumit din Londra anilor 1950 întâlnește o tânără a cărei natură puternică îi perturbă viața de zi cu zi și îi stârnește inspirația.
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Mildly successful comedian, Hannibal Buress, performs his second stand-up special in Chicago based on his wild night with the police.
Un agent francez de informații devine implicat în politica Războiului Rece mai întâi descoperind evenimentele care au condus la criza rachetelor cubaneze din 1962 și apoi înapoi în Franța pentru a sparge un inel de spionat rus internațional.
This documentary examines a selection of real life serial killers and compares them to the fictional Hannibal Lecter.