"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more -- culled from 19 years of his life.
In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.
Jéssica investigates the death of her girlfriend because she thinks it wasn't natural. Juan is trying to know if a robbery in a rural house is a fraud. Everything gets complicated and Juan's life will be in danger. While he is trying to survive, he will meet Jéssica and they will try to find the truth together.
A man's life becomes threatened after he goes on a date with a woman who's in love with the Devil.
A man on the brink of death, has a conversation with a stranger. The pair philosophize about the meaning of a life well lived.
When Rose goes to reconcile with her drug-addicted brother, she instead meets the nephew she never knew existed.
In a small city in the north, the time of midsummer is very short. Two boys get to know each other by chance and agree to meet by a lake. But one of them doesn’t keep the agreement, and it begins to rain heavily.
An experimental short film set to Sufjan Stevens' 'Futile Devices'. What meaning there is comes from what one sees in the images for themselves.
Today, Rosa celebrates the anniversary of her engagement with Roberto. While she waits for him for dinner, she spends the afternoon in the pool with her younger brother Angelo. They begin to comment on a news story happened a few days earlier: the body of a boy found in a field a few kilometres from the city. Roberto arrives before they expected: the glances between the three become enigmatic and restless.
Due to declining orders, the sleazy boss of a company fires employee Christine. Now Sandra has to take over the work of her former colleague and is therefore busy until late at night. Worn out, she witnesses eerie happenings in the office.
Nathalie visits her boyfriend in Lübeck. But nothing is as it seems...
A woman suffers from her right-wing radical boyfriend until a mysterious woman takes care of her. When the protagonist returns home, she turns the tables.
A mysterious man with a cup full of money stands in a dark alley. After a woman throws money into the cup, the two kiss. The woman has thus been cursed.
Idi and Rita live with their grandmother, Manie. Idi tries to keep the memories they have of their mother, by drawing on his school notebook. By the force of their desire, the children keep the link they have to their funny mother, despite the separation.
The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.
The camera lingers over the back of a lonely New Yorker who ponders his own existence, his fears and fear of fears. Shot with an Olympus E-M5 Mark II as part of a film series to promote the camera system.
Pepita a Flemish nun of Mexican descent decides to go to Mexico just as her godmother Clara did years before.