Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Narko-kuréren Manny er på spanden. Han har mistet 100.000 DM, som hans brutale boss afhenter om 20 minutter. Nu står Manny svedende i en telefonboks og ringer til sin kæreste Lola for at få hjælp. Efter en panisk samtale styrter den rødhårede punkpige Lola ud af døren. Hun har 20 min. til at komme op med pengene. Hun løber og løber og løber. Ellers er det sket med Manny.

Østberlin, 1984. Den dybt loyale Stasi-Agent Wiesler. er fra højeste sted blevet beordret om at overvåge den intellektuelle forfatter Dreyman, og hans kæreste, Sieland, en kendt skuespillerinde, men finder snart ud af at ministeren kun søger snavs på Dreyman for selv at kunne få fingre i kæresten. Wiesler bliver mere og mere fascineret af deres liv, og bliver trukket længere ind end han burde.

Nazityskland, 1943. Krigen er i fuld gang, og en lille flok universitetsstuderende, der kalder sig 'Hvide Rose', bekæmper med al magt Det tredie Rige. Den eneste kvinde i gruppen er Sophie Scholl. Da hun og hendes bror uddeler flyveblade nær universitetet i München går det galt. Da Gestapo får fingre i dem, begynder en krævende afhøring, hvor Sophies idealer bliver sat på en alvorlig prøve.

Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.

For at dække borgerkrigen tager New York Times journalisten Sydney Schanberg til Cambodia. Sammen med den lokale Dith Pran oplever han krigens rædsler og meningsløshed. Da amerikanske tropper forlader landet vil Sydney tage med, men Dith er lokal og kan ikke komme ud. Og de Røde Khmer kommer...

Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a string of girlfriends and is always on the look out for a new one; Patrice has become a monogamous father with a very ordered life. After a drunken evening, the two childhood friends find themselves cast back into 1986, when they were 17 years old. This return to the past is a dream opportunity to try to change the path their lives will take. What will they do with this second chance?

Den italienske instruktør Franco Zeffirelli forbløffede filmverdenen, da han satte to ukendte unge mennesker til at spille de to elskende Romeo and Juliet, der ikke må få hinanden, men det var en satsning, der resulterede i en af de populæreste film nogensinde, der opnåede international anerkendelse og fire Oscar-nomineringer. Shakespeares klassiske fortælling fremstår forbavsende visuelt levende i en forfriskende moderne udgave, der puster nyt liv i alle tiders mest uopslidelige kærlighedshistorie og fortæller den med stor indlevelse.

Da forfatteren Sam Dalmas rammes af skrivekrampe, er det nærliggende, at han vender hjem fra sit ophold i Italien. Men da han en sommeraften går forbi et kunstgalleri, bliver han vidne til et brutalt mord, som foregår inde bag indgangspartiets glasrude. Som eneste vidne til den forfærdelige handling risikerer han at blive morderens næste offer.

I 1966 har BBC endnu ikke fået ørene op for rock- og popmusikkens kvaliteter. Heldigvis begynder en gruppe DJ's at sende rockradio fra en båd ud for Englands kyst. Hver dag lytter 25 millioner englændere til den musik, der ledsager 1960'ernes samfundsrevolution.

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

30'erne var en svær tid for Australiens originale folk, the aboriginals. Tre piger bortføres fra deres forældre. Det lykkes dem dog at undslippe, og dermed begynder den 300 kilometer lange tur hjem. Med mod og beslutsomhed tager Molly pigerne med ud på en næsten 2500 kilometer lang episk rejse gennem Australiens øde områder. Hvis blot de kan finde det "kanin-sikrede hegn", som deler kontinentet i to, vil de kunne følge det hele vejen tilbage til deres hjem.

Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous...

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin brother of the politician. Even if looks like two drops of water with his brother Giovanni may have a different personality. His ideas are innovative and direct approach to get the party in the polls ...

Persepolis er fortællingen om den selvstændige pige Marjane, der nægter at makke ret. Marjane forsøger gennem sin barndom og ungdom at finde sig til rette med sine omgivelser. Men det er ikke nemt, slet ikke når man vokser op under præstestyret i Iran. Hendes interesse for ABBA og Nike-sko, og ikke mindst hendes lyst til at ytre sig overfor autoriteter gør, at hun vækker vel meget opsigt.

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Ed passer sin daglige dont i frisørsalonen i 1949, hvor der stadig var sort-hvide film og livsfarlige blondiner. Da en skaldet handelsrejsende kommer forbi med en fidus, ser Ed sit livs chance. Han afpresser Big Dave, som hans kone Doris har en affære med. Planen ser skudsikker ud, men det eneste, der er sikkert, er, at nogen bliver skudt. Og nogen ender i stolen for mord.

Hisako loses her home in Tokyo to Allied bombing. With her husband fighting somewhere in Asia, she and her two children evacuate to a suburb of Kobe, where they share a house with Hisako's cousin, Kyoko. Kobe is bombed and Kyoko is killed. Hisako is forced to take care of Kyoko's two children in addition to her own, but there is not enough food for everyone.