Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

42-årige Viorel er en frustreret ingeniør, der tager drastiske metoder i brug for at gøre en ende på sine følelsesmæssige lidelser efter en ødelæggende skilsmisse.

The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.

Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of the girls from the bunch by the water, to watch over Ariane, escort her wherever she goes and report back to him on everything she does. Andrée becomes Ariane’s accomplice. She’ll tell lies for her, and with her, and most likely they’ll make love together when the mood takes them.

Composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.

In 21st century Bucharest, to go out in the city on Saturday evening on the arm of a beautiful woman is a risky financial investment. Ovidiu, an unassuming high school teacher, never could afford it. Looking for a source of income more substantial than a teacher's salary, Ovidiu plunges into a fabulous world – the beggar mob.

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Amerikaneren Joshua (Bryan Greenberg) har boet i Hong Kong i 10 år. Kineseren Ruby (Jamie Chung) er vokset op i USA og besøger Hong Kong for første gange. De to mødes uden for en bar en tilfældig aften. Ruby er på vej for at møde nogle venner, men kan ikke finde vej. Joshua indvilliger i at følge hende derhen og vi følger med. På den måde får vi et guidet tour igennem byen, mens vi betragter to mennesker, der stille og roligt falder for hinanden.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Thomas Jerome Newton ankommer til jorden fra en fjern planet, for at skaffe det vand som hans tørkeramte verden desperat har brug for. Med sin advancerede viden opbygger han et firma, for at få de penge og teknologi han har brug for, men han har ikke regnet med menneskets grådighed.

I 1988 tvinger et massivt internationalt pres den chilenske militærdiktator Augusto Pinochet til at afholde folkeafstemning om sit formandskab. Oppositionens ledere overtaler en smart ung reklamemand til at stå i spidsen for kampagnen, der skal få det chilenske folk til at stemme NEJ!

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

Texaneren Nicholas Barclay forsvandt sporløst, efter at han løb hjemmefra som 13-årig. Tre år senere dukker den 23-årige franskmand Frédéric Bourdin op hos det spanske politi og præsenterer sig som Barclays teenagesøn. Nicholas' efterladte får overbevist sig selv om, at svindleren taler sandt. Og dét på trods af, at Frederic slet ikke ligner Nicholas og taler med en uforklarlig europæisk accent.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

Den velansete instruktør Alfred Hitchcock chokerer filmindustrien, da han i 1960 vælger at følge succesen "Menneskejagt" op med en sort-hvid filmatisering af den underlødige gyserroman "Psycho". I trods belåner Hitchcock sit hus for at finansiere filmen selv. Imens kæmper hans hårdt prøvede kone og assistent, Alma Reville, for at overvinde sin skepsis og støtte det tvivlsomme projekt.

Det er den traditionsrige Spring Break uge i USA og en gruppe universitetsstuderende tager på campingtur i skovene i West Virginia. Tæt på det sted, de har slået lejr, bor de to bonderøve Tucker og Dale - som de unge hurtigt bliver overbeviste om, er onde og vil slå dem alle ihjel. De unge indleder derfor en mission, der skal afsløre dem som voldsmænd og mordere, men det går ikke helt efter planen, og flere af de unge ender med at blive dræbt i makabre ulykker. Hos Tucker og Dale stiger frygten og forvirringen derimod, da de til gengæld tror, at de unge har indgået en slags selvmordspagt... Det vrimler med fordomme og misforståelser, når gys og grin indtager skærmen side om side i denne grotesk morsomme hyldest til splattergenre.