I en serie vignetter diskuterer berømtheder familie, berømmelse, kunst, film, musik, og, ikke mindst, kaffe og cigaretter.

Ghost Dog er en massiv, afroamerikansk mand, der arbejder som hitman for mafiaen. Ingen kender hans identitet, hvilket begrænser risikoen for begge parter. Uheldigvis bliver datteren til en af mafiabosserne vidne til et af Ghost Dog’s hits, hvorefter mafiaen ønsker at bryde samarbejdet. Permanent! Ghost Dog, der lever og arbejder efter det klassiske samurai æreskodeks, angriber - som det bedste forsvar - og til sidst er kun hans egen arbejdsgiver tilbage… Men en samurai kan ikke vende sig mod sin herre - ifølge Hagakure - samuraiernes bog.

Den mystiske enspænder Lone Man (Isaach De Bankolé) arbejder på en opgave uden for lovens rammer. Han stoler ikke på nogen, og hans formål bliver ikke umiddelbart klarlagt. Filmen foregår i nutidens Spanien - både i byen og på landet.

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.

Four prisoners discover a handwritten book of black magic in their cell, and decide to use it to escape.

Jack Giamoro er den amerikanske drøm. Toppen-af-poppen i Hollywood som filmbyens mest eftertragtede talent-spejder. Men da han på samme dag mister sin dagbog - fuld af fortroligt Hollywood-sladder - og opdager sin kones sidespring, går Jacks liv fra "bling-bling" t il det rene ingenting.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Marisa er 20 år gammel, skinhead og dybt involveret i et nynazistisk fællesskab. Her bliver hun et forbillede for den yngre Svenja, der i sin søgen efter holdepunkt fascineres og tiltrækkes af gruppens sammenhold. Efter et møde med en ung flygtning fra Afghanistan begynder Marisa imidlertid at vakle i sin tro. Hun beslutter sig for at hjælpe ham med at flygte til Sverige, og det bliver samtidig hendes egen flugt fra et miljø, hun har sværere og sværere ved at se sig selv i. Men hun lærer hurtigt, at man ikke bare vender gruppen ryggen, og et voldeligt opgør er uundgåeligt.

Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music goes against the stereotype of their age group. Although they have toured Europe and sang for royalty, this account focuses on preparing new songs for a concert in their hometown.

The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.

Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.

Ikke alle piloter kan lette fra et hangarskib, mens bølgerne slår ind over dækket, udsøge sig mål over fremmed koreansk territorium og så vende tilbage til det, der ser ud som en prik i havet. Det kan flådereserveofficer Harry Brubaker.

Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.

Albert and David Maysles' classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who lived in alarmingly poor conditions. But there is more to the story: it was Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard who first brought the Maysles to the Beales, when the two set out to make a film about Radziwill's childhood. The reels of that first contact were shelved for 45 years. This documentary recovers the lost footage. Anchored in Beard's recollections and artistic vision, we are returned to "that summer" in 1972, a seductive dream world and collage of radically unconventional creative personalities—Warhol, Bacon, Jagger, Capote—practicing the art of living amidst oppressive forces of class expectation and prejudice.

Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

In 1986, astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when he noticed a 75-cent discrepancy between the charges printed by two accounting programs responsible for charging people for machine use. Intrigued, he deduced that the system was being hacked, and he determined to find the culprit. This is the re-enactment of how he tracked down KGB cracker Markus Hess through the Ethernet to Hannover, Germany.