A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn in the air with light and long-exposure cinematography.

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Anden del af Kieslowskis film-trilogi, hvor hver film har sit udgangspunkt i de tre farver i tricoloren. Dominique - en ung smuk pariserinde - kræver i al dødsens alvor skilsmisse fra sin polske ægtemand, Karol. At han ikke længere kan tilfredsstille sin kone seksuelt, er noget den høje, franske dommer forstår. Parret bliver skilt på stedet. Totalt ydmyget, ribbet for alt han ejer - selv sit pas - lykkes det alligevel Karol at vende illegalt tilbage til Polen. Efter kommunismens fald er stemningen en god blanding af det totale anarki og nye muligheder efter kapitalismens rå lov. Det sorte marked er et eldorado for frygtløse og dristige mænd som Karol. Han tjener en formue og begynder at lægge udspekulerede planer.

D.J. fortæller om familiens bryderier med kærlighedens mysterier - som musical. Hendes far Joe dyrker sin ulykkelige kærlighed Von rundt om i verden. Søsteren Skylar skal giftes med den kiksede romantiker Holden samtidig med, at hun fristes af Ferry. Hendes mor og stedfar synger og danser med i festlighederne, som ender i en hyldest til selveste Groucho Marx.

Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.

To betjente bliver hver især svigtet af deres kærester og lukker sig inde med et nærmest rituelt vemod. Betjent #223 køber al den dåseananas (ekskærestens yndlingsfrugt), der har sidste salgsdato den 1. maj (hendes fødselsdag). Betjent #663 henter hver aften en bestemt salat til sin stewardesse-kæreste, indtil ejeren af fastfood-restauranten overtaler ham til at variere menuen. To dage senere afleverer hun afskedsbrev ved serveringsdisken. Hvad nu? 'Chungking Express' er en sørgmodig, skæv, vittig og varm fortælling om tilfældighed og mønstre i en storby.

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.

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend, but then the necklace gets lost.

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.

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

En omvandrende sulten samurai, ankommer til en lille by, der er splittet mellem to rivaliserende købmænd. Han øjner chancen for at spille de to grupper ud mod hinanden for at tjene penge. Pludselig dukker en bror til en af rivalerne op. Han er bevæbnet med en revolver men op imod samuraiens sværd er den intet værd.

Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy og de andre havner i et helvede af en træningslejr, hvor de bliver tværet flade af den skrigende eksercits-instruktør, der betragter de vordende dræbermaskiner som padder, mider eller noget endnu lavere. Handlingen er grum, historien er nådesløs, dialogen er krydret med ætsende humor. Fra basistræningens helvede til mareridtet i Hue i Vietnam står Full Metal Jacket som et filmhistorisk hovedværk.

I et lidt gustent kvarter i Hamburg driver den unge tysk-græske Zinos en restaurant, der serverer bratwürst, makaroni med ost og frosne pizzaer. Kæresten er flyttet til Shanghai, broren er tæt på en kriminel løbebane og myndighederne truer med at lukke biksen. For at få styr på sit liv hyrer han en stjernekok og smider saftig soul på stereoanlægget. Men det er ikke lige noget for stamkunderne.