Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Bivši tenisač Tony Wendice sazna da njegova lijepa i nježna supruga Margo ima ljubavnika. To je pisac kriminalističkih romana Mark Halliday koji im dolazi u posjet. Tony smisli savršen plan koji treba rezultirati njezinim ubojstvom, nakon čega bi naslijedio novac. Angažira sumnjivog tipa s kojim je nekad pohađao koledž da ubije Margo, međutim, ne ide sve po planu.

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Razmažena i neurotična, južnjakinja Blanche DuBois, pokušavajući pobjeći od svoje prošlosti koja uključuje tešku ovisnost o alkoholu, gubitak naslijeđene plantaže i zavođenje maloljetnika, odlazi svojoj sestri Stelli Kowalski. Ubrzo će se naći u sukobu s Stellinim mužem, Stanleyem Kowalskim, vulgarnim i prljavim pripadnikom nove industrijsko-imigrantske generacije. Drugim riječima, sirovim čovjekom koji neumjereno pije i puši te se ponaša kao gospodar kuće. Stanely, koji je u svojoj nutrini zapravo senzualan, na nasilan će način suočiti Blanche s njenim problemima iz prošlosti, što će rezultirati njenim živčanim slomom.

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.

Emotivni Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero zvan Manny (H. Fonda) miran je i povučen obiteljski čovjek, koji za život zarađuje sviranjem u jazz-sastavu njujorškog noćnog kluba. Manny i Rose jedva financijski spajaju kraj s krajem, a u skrbi o sinovima pomaže im i Roseina majka (E. Minciotti). Toga 14. siječnja 1953. godine, na dan kada je zbog visokog računa Roseina stomatologa odlučio podići zajam u osiguravateljskom društvu, Mannyjev se život iz temelja promijenio. Čim je ušao u ured tri službenice su se počele došaptavati. Ne znajući o čemu je riječ, Manny je nakon nekoliko dužih razgovora uspio podići traženi novac i odnijeti ga Rose. Ubrzo na vrata mu je pokucalo nekoliko policajaca predvođenih detektivom Bowersom (H. J. Stone), koji su zbunjenog Mannyja priveli u 110. policijsku postaju. Ondje je konačno doznao da je osumnjičen za niz pljački u svojoj četvrti, jer prema riječima očevidaca, među kojima je i gospođica Constance Willis (L. Barrett), odgovara opisu pljačkaša.

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

From an inauspicious beginning performing comedy routines in the back of a burger joint in New York, unorthodox stand-up star Zach Galifianakis has made a splash on the scene with his inimitable brand of humor. In this live show filmed at San Francisco's Purple Onion nightclub, the versatile funnyman serves up a healthy dose of his signature wit.

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.

A private investigator is hired to find a missing girl, only to find she is missing across multiple realities.