China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.

The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor, and employable only in the most menial jobs, from elevator service staff to prostitution.

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

A young Englishwoman is drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remove convent--a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors.

Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the jealousy of Gonda's mistress, Leda, the bar's matron. Eddie and Gonda decide to get rid of her...

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.

When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.

The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.

De voksne søstre Sachi, Yoshino och Chika bor sammen i den idylliske Kamakura. Da deres far, som de ikke har set i femten år, pludselig dør, samler de deres pakkenelliker og tager til begravelse. Her møder de deres halvsøster, som de uden de store overvejelser inviterer til at flytte med dem hjem. Det er en beslutning, som kommer til gribe afgørende ind i alles liv.

Handlingen følger FBI-manden Will Grahams jagt på seriemorderen “The Tooth Fairy”, der specialiserer sig i at bryde ind hos børnefamilier og udrydde far, mor, børn og kanariefugl. Graham har egentlig trukket sig tilbage efter den traumatiserende oplevelse, det var at fange Dr. Lecter. Han er kort og godt blevet bange for sig selv efter at have været “inde i hjernen” på den geniale psykopat, men må nu modvilligt opsøge denne i håb om at opspore “The Tooth Fairy”...

Det er historien om forsikringssælgeren Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), som tryllebindes af mødet med en blond femme fatale, Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). Sammen planlægger de at skaffe hendes mand af vejen. Mordet planlægges og udføres omhyggeligt Walters overordnede (Edward G. Robinson) er sikker på, at noget ikke er, som det skal være; den afdøde har netop tegnet en livsforsikring med en såkaldt "double indemnity" klausul - og sandsynligheden for så efterfølgende at dø i et ulykkestilfælde, der dækkes af policen - er uendelig lille. Han mistænker ikke umiddelbart sin trofaste medarbejder, men da undersøgelserne i ubehagelig grad nærmer sig sandheden, erfarer Walter, at han måske slet ikke står foran en ny tilværelse med en smuk, ung kvinde - men at hun i virkeligheden har helt andre planer.

Emily og Martin er et ungt par, der lever det gode liv - indtil Martin sendes i fængsel for insiderhandel. Det slår Emily fuldstændig ud af kurs, og psykiateren Banks kaldes til for at hjælpe hende. Emily ender på en ny medicinsk behandling. Den viser sig at have uforudsete bivirkninger, som vender op og ned på alles liv.

Den 14-årige Marie Antoinette bliver revet væk fra sin familie, frataget alle sine ejendele og bragt ind i Versailles' dekadente verden for at blive gift med Frankrigs konge.