Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

William Holden spiller en manuskriptforfatter som skal aflevere et manuskript om 3 dage. Da han beder sekretæren Audrey Hepburn om hjælp til at udtænke nogle idéer, omsætter hun et potpourri af fuldkommen meningsløse forslag til handling. Smukt optaget on location i Paris af den berømte fotograf Claude Renoir.

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.

Above all, Delfín wants to participate in a Children's Orchestra that is forming in a neighboring city. This trip will mean an adventure for him, and also for his father.

A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?

Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is obsessed with the desire to shape Sonia's body and mind as does a fire with gold. Almost imperceptibly Sonia becomes a passive participant and the relationship grows into a reciprocal masochistic game. When the two lovers isolate themselves in a country house in the Veneto hills, they dangerously lose touch with reality and the rest of the world.

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.

En excentrisk og ambitiøs mand bliver hovedmistænkt, da hans kone, som er en del ældre end ham selv, dør under mystiske omstændigheder. Baseret på en sand historie.

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.

15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is.

Efter et sammenbrud indlogerer den fremtrædende komponist Gustav von Aschenbach sig på et luksushotel på Lidoen ud for Venedig. Her møder han den guddommelige, blonde Tadzio, der med sin på én gang engleagtigt rene og sensuelle udstråling synes at rumme et håb om frelse og forløsning. Aschenbach giver sig til at følge efter den unge mand i en stadigt stigende smertefuld betagelse.

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.

Chris (Emile Hirsch) har oparbejdet en anselig gæld til sin pusher, som nu truer ham på livet. I desperation planlægger han at myrde sin mor for at hæve forsikringssummen og til jobbet hyrer han en korrupt politimand med tilnavnet ’Killer Joe’ (Matthew McConaughey). Problemet er, at Chris ikke har penge til det forskud, Joe forlanger og snart bliver alt for mange personer involveret i Chris’ svindelnummer. Killer Joe er instrueret af William Friedkin, kendt for sin instruktion af Eksorsisten og Oscar-belønnet for The French Connection.

I Hiroshima mødes en fransk skuespillerinde og en japansk arkitekt. I løbet af en enkelt nat udlever de en lidenskabelig kærlighed og betror hinanden deres livshistorier.

USA, 1930’erne. Bonnie og Clyde mødes, da han forsøger at stjæle hendes mors bil. Snart er de i gang med små røverier, men da de slår pjalterne sammen med Clydes bror og og dennes kone, Buck og Blanche, samt den tungnemme tankpasser C.W. Moss, står der banker på menuen. Under et røveri lader Clyde en kunde beholde sine penge og bliver efterfølgende i medierne fremstillet som en ny Robin Hood. Det glamourøse forbryderpar har dog politiet lige i hælene…

Den mislykkede skuespiller Andrew Largeman lever i en rus af beroligende piller. Da hans mor dør, stopper han misbruget og vender tilbage til sin fødeby. Skæbnen fører ham sammen med den farverige Sam, hvis positive energi snart får Andrew til at åbne sig for livet og for kærligheden.