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.

Imigrantul polonez Karol Karol se trezește fără o căsnicie, un loc de muncă și o țară când soția sa franceză, Dominique, divorțează de el după șase luni din cauza impotenței sale. Forțat să părăsească Franța după ce a pierdut afacerea pe care o dețineau în comun, Karol îl înrolează pe un coleg expatriat polonez Mikolah pentru a-l aduce clandestin înapoi în patria lor.

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Un cuplu varstnic porneste intr-o calatorie catre Tokyo pentru a-si vizita copiii. Ajunsi acolo ei se confrunta cu indiferenta, egoism si nerecunostinta.

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.

În timpul celui de al Doilea Război Mondial, doi copii de la țară, înconjurați de cadavre, fac un cimitir pentru animalele ucise în luptă pentru a face față situației.

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

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.

Cinci povești întrepătrunse, care documentează viețile lui Toto, Roberto, Pasquale, Marco și Ciro, și relația lor complexă cu Camorra, mafia napolitană, a cărei lume crudă și brutală a corupției și constrângerii domină societatea.

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...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Un pușcaș marin american observă efectele de dezumanizare ale războiului din Vietnam pe care le are asupra camarazilor din câmpul de antrenament până la bătăile de stradă sângeroase din Hue.

In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.