On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."

Marijana's life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana takes his place as head of the clan. Soon, she is working two jobs to keep everything afloat, while her mother and disabled brother do their best to scupper the ship. Driven to the edge, Marijana finds comfort in seedy sex with random strangers; and this taste of freedom leaves her wanting more. But now that she has finally found freedom, what's she meant to do with it?

A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.

A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.

A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

Unul dintre cele mai importante filme din curentul așa-zisei "cinematografii a neliniștii morale". Un angajat al unei fabrici devine brusc interesat de cinematografie. Prin documentarele pe care le realizează cu ajutorul camerei sale de amator, Filip încearcă să lupte împotriva nedreptății și abuzului social, pe care le observă în jur. Plătește însă un preț mult prea mare pentru dedicarea sa.

Anna și prietena ei Claudia sunt duse într-o excursie de iubitul Annei, Sandro, pe barca sa cu pânze. Pe drum, Anna își dă seama că nimic nu o leagă de fapt de Sandro. Când nava acostează pe o insulă singuratică, Anna dispare în mod neașteptat fără urmă. Nimeni nici măcar nu ghicește ce s-a întâmplat cu ea, dacă este în viață sau poate că a fost răpită. În timpul căutării, Sandro începe să flirteze cu Claudia, iar aceasta cedează în fața curtării lui. Dar bărbatul îi va fi în curând infidel și ei.

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

O tânără întâlnește un tânăr energic, dar povestea lor de dragoste este osândită de natura materialistă a bărbatului.

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.