When the Hong Kong government enacts a ban on smoking cigarettes indoors, hard-core smokers are driven outside and a budding romance develops between two co-workers.

En ældre japansk fisker rejser flere tusind kilometer for at filme en vigtig folkeopera i et forsøg på at genoptage forbindelsen med sin døende søn, der er filmskaber.

A Princess in the Joseon Dynasty travels to the Qing Dynasty to marry. On the way to there, she meets a young magician and falls in love with him.

Hot shot reporter Tom Merrick er i gang med research til en serie om århundredets største katastrofer. Skrivebordet er dækket af fotos, Titanic, Hindenburg, Orkanen Hugo. Pludselig stivner han. Samme skaldede mand er tilsyneladende overlever fra alle katastroferne. Derfor sætter han sig i det første fly til Washington og Smithsonian Instituttet, hvor de originale billeder opbevares. I flyet får han endnu et chok. Selvsamme skaldede mand sidder længere fremme! Det lykkedes Merrick at stjæle mandens taske. Her finder han en slags rejsebrochure med detaljerede beskrivelser af både kendte og endnu ikke indtrufne katastrofer ? bl.a. luftfarthistoriens værste ulykke, hvor to fyldte passagerfly kolliderer frontalt med hinanden.

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.

Stebbi har været til afhøring efter en brutal slåskamp. Foran politistationen støder han på en gammel skolekammerat der nu styrer Reykjaviks kriminelle underverden med hård hånd, og det varer ikke længe før Stebbi bliver en velintegreret del af miljøet. Filmen er baseret den islandske hovedstads virkelige bande- og undergrundsverden i slutningen af 90erne.

Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.

Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster.

When insurance agent Yip Wing Shun is called to visit Tak and Ling’s home to follow up on a life insurance policy, he discovers their son’s corpse hanging in the bathroom. Principled and kind-hearted, Yip suspects that the child may have been murdered. As Yip digs for the truth, the real perpetrator turns the tables and forces Yip into a psychological battle of wills.

Superagenten Carl Hamilton har infiltreret en international liga, som har stjålet avancerede svenske raketvåben. Men ligaen angribes af en gruppe lejesoldater, som stikker af med raketterne. Nu må Hamilton begive sig ud på en dødsensfarlig mission for at forhindre et spektakulært attentat. En opgave, der bringer ham fra Somalias barske ødemark til Beiruts gader og Stockholms skærgård.

The films spans two decades as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.

A young woman takes a job as a personal maid for a rich young man. The pair do not get along, but soon due to their classmates' games of love, their relationship grows more complicated than before.

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.