Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...

Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

A woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the recollection for the day of the funeral grow all around.

Kunstanmelderen James ender i seng med den forføreriske Berenice. Parret rejser til kunstsamleren Cassidys hus ved Como-søen. Cassidy har en usædvanlig forespørgsel: James og Berenice skal stjæle et maleri fra den legendariske maler Debney's atelier. Men snart begynder parret at indse, at intet ved Debney eller deres mission er, som det ser ud til.

A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

Lupin investigates the kidnapping of a former love in Italy, and is drawn into a game with an unknown enemy.

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.

Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.

Brian og Neil er to unge mænd, der tilsyneladende intet har til fælles. Godt nok bor de i den samme by, og da de var 8 år, gik de på samme baseballhold. Men der stopper ligheden. Brian er blevet en sexforskrækket, indadvendt ung mand, der er overbevist om, at han blev bortført af en UFO, da han var otte. I samme alder opdagede Neil, at han var bøsse, og siden har han levet som eftertragtet trækkerdreng. Men de to meget forskellige mænd bærer på en fælles hemmelighed fra barndommen, som har formet og ødelagt deres liv. Det er kun Neil, der kan huske, hvad der skete. Brian, derimod, husker intet af, hvad der skete i fem uheldssvangre timer i hans barndom.

Den strenge og principfaste rektor på Saint Nicholas Church School, Søster Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), har meget svært ved at acceptere sognets radikale men meget populære præst Fader Flynn (Hoffman). Da hun får at vide, at præsten giver én speciel dreng ekstra opmærksomhed, er hun overbevist om at hun er på sporet af en mørk hemmelighed, men da der mangler beviser står kun tvivlen tilbage...

Februar 1888. Den hollandske maler Vincent van Gogh ankommer til Arles i Sydfrankrig. Han drømmer om helt andre farver og penselstrøg, nyt lys og varmere breddegrader. Men venskabet med den franske maler Paul Gauguin går skævt, og van Gogh befinder sig pludseligt i en voldsom livskrise, mentalt såvel som religiøst.

Filmen 'The Dressmaker' handler om haute couture-designeren Tilly, der vender tilbage til sin australske fødeby for at pleje sin syge mor. Den lille landsby begynder hurtigt at summe af sladder om Tillys tilbagevenden. For det er ikke kun sin succes hun er kendt for. Der gemmer sig flere skeletter i skabet, og langsomt begynder de at kravle ud igen.

Phil Stern, den magtfulde ejer af et stort filmselskab, bliver opsøgt af sin nevø, der søger arbejde i industrien. Den unge mand, der er rejst fra Bronx i New York til Los Angeles, bliver tilbudt et lille assistentjob, og han tager gladeligt imod. Phils sekretær, Vonnie, får til opgave at vise den nytilflyttede rundt i filmbyen. Forholdet udvikler sig til en regulær romance, men da en hemmelighed kommer frem i lyset, sættes deres kærlighed på prøve.

Cheerleaderen Jennifer besættes af en dæmon, og ondskab får en ny betydning, der resulterer i masser af action og blod, når drengene bliver ofre for hendes lyst til menneskekød. Veninden må forsøge at stoppe det, før det er for sent.

Ben Campell er et matematisk geni. Han vil studere på Harvard, men mangler 300.000 dollars for at betale for studiet. Heldigvis har Bens lærer, den excentriske Mickey, et attraktivt tilbud. Ben kan blive medlem af en lyssky Blackjack-bande. De mangler en til at tælle kort i Vegas, hvor de svindler sig til store summer på deres weekendture. Men Bens møde med livet i Las Vegas er ikke uden nye udfordringer.