Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst the overflowing piles of excrement, a well-nourished love story unfolds.

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

Juneauvoi Trudelovi je dvanáct let a nedávno mu zemřela matka. Stěhuje se s otcem do městečka ve státě Quebec. Tam se brzy spřátelí s Julií, tvrdohlavou brankářkou místního malého hokejového týmu Lynx. Julie záhy odhalí Juneaův hokejový talent a zlanaří ho, aby se přidal k týmu. Snad se jim společnými silami podaří dostat na mezinárodní turnaj Pee-Wee pořádaný v Quebecu. Julie věří, že pokud Juneau bude hrát jako center, mají dokonce šanci dotáhnout to až do finále. Juneau si ale musí kromě protihráčů poradit i s ostatními v týmu - hlavně s kapitánem Joeym. Na ledě vedle sebe mohou hrát jen v případě, že se jim jejich odlišné postoje a názory podaří zamknout v šatně. Snad se tak stane hlavně během zápasu s favoritem z Ruska.

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Stárnoucí manželský pár přijíždí do Tokia navštívit své děti a vnoučata. Ani syn, který se stal lékařem, ani dcera, která je vedoucí kosmetického salónu, ale nemají rodiče čas. Rozčarovaní rodiče se po čase vrátí domů. Matka onemocní a krátce na to umírá. Nyní je na dětech aby se vydaly na cestu k rodičům.

Příběh zasazený do současné Belgie zachycuje vnitřní boj třináctiletého Ahmeda, který se musí rozhodnout mezi ideálem čistoty islámského imáma, a životními pokušeními.

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Pozdní snímek Vittoria De Sicy je melodramatem, které upomíná na nesmyslnost a ničivou sílu války. Píše se čtyřiačtyřicátý rok. Ztřeštěná mladičká Neapolitánka Giovanna (Sophia Lorenová) si začne s vojákem Antoniem (Marcello Mastroianni), který má zakrátko vyplout do Afriky. Mladý pár zjistí, že na sňatek by Antonio dostal dvanáct dní dovolené, a bez otálení zamíří k oltáři. Dvanáct dní však novomanželům uteče jako voda a Antonio ve snaze ještě oddálit odjezd nafinguje duševní poruchu. Je odhalen a za trest poslán na ruskou frontu, kde beze stopy mizí...

Brad a Jane sdílejí telefonní linku, což jim způsobuje mnoho problémů. Ona ho považuje za sexuálního maniaka, on ji za zatrpklou ženu, která žije sama. Situace se změní, když Brad zjistí, že jeho nejlepší přítel Jonathan je do Jane zamilovaný. Poté, co ji Brad náhodou potká, zatají jí svou totožnost a rozhodne se jí udělit lekci.