Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first follows Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosáková, who contemplates retirement as she undergoes a gruelling training schedule; the second, a housewife who is unappreciated and ignored by her husband.

Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet and gentle man, Abel hides a dark and morbid personality.

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster's hit-team, but ends up joining a group of people who resist his original employers.

Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight-year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realize that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.

Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.

Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

Forretningsmanden Peter Egerman betror sine drømme om at slå sin kone Katarina ihjel til sin ven og psykiater Mogens Jensen, men myrder i stedet en prostitueret.

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.

Efter 10 år som lærerinde for fattige børn i New Yorks Harlem-kvarter, får Roberta besked om, at skolebestyrelsen har lukket for pengekassen. Hun beslutter sig for at tage kampen op.

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Den succesfulde, palæstinensiske kirurg Amin Jaafari, der bor og arbejder i Israel, må se sin verden bryde sammen, da en selvmordsbomber en dag detonerer på en café i Tel Aviv, hvor hans hustru tilfældigvis sidder. Hun ikke alene omkommer, Amin må også forholde sig til politiets utvetydige teori om, at det var hende, som var selvmordsbomberen. Hærget af skyld, skam og komplet mangel på forståelse sætter han alt ind for at komme til en afklaring af situationen og følger i fodsporerne på den tur til Vestbredden, som hans kone tog for nylig. Men hvor rejsen begynder som en undersøgelse, bliver det gradvist til en smertefuld og udleverende selvindsigt, da Amin tvinges til at konfrontere sin status som palæstinensisk israeler.

An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

I år 2000 er Guy Montag medlem af et brandkorps, der ikke mere slukker brande, men som påsætter dem i huse, hvor der findes bøger. Bøgernes budskab er farligt for de diktatorer, som regerer landet, landet som er i krig med en ukendt fjende. Da Guy møder Clarisse, begynder han at sætte spørgsmål ved verdenen, som han kender den, og han begynder at samle bøger, mens hans kone Linda på alle måder er pacificeret af tv-skærmene i stuen med virkelighedsfjernt fiktion.

Buster Keaton’s fænomenale stumfilmskomedier er hovedværker i filmhistorien, evigt fascinerende og universelt morsomme som de er. I sagens natur er komikken af visuel art, og The Navigator er et overflødighedshorn af ”sight gags”. Keaton spiller selv hovedrollen som en fyr, der forgæves frier til sit livs kærlighed. Han beslutter sig for at tage ud at sejle alene, men havner ved et tilfælde på den samme båd, som hun gør, og så tager begivenhederne fart.

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.