A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Two teenage girls with parallel lives but coming from different socio-economic backgrounds meet one summer to discover friendship and a sexual awakening.
A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
A virgin, a married woman, a career woman, and the progress is made by combining the abnormal sex of each of them. This is Rumi Tama's first work in 1983, which can be called the Japanese version of the Decameron, and is a female writer who has made a point of creating enjoyable pornographic entertainment without logic.
Zolita has been suffering from nightmares and insomnia for months - so she decides to visit a priestess said to help people with similar issues. She road trips to the retreat with her girlfriend Lily, and along the way, she finds out Lily isn't who she says she is.
Following an awards ceremony, the ungrateful winner encounters an eager photographer who seems determined to get the perfect shot.
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Five people, who have never met face-to face before, become friends through an online university class. They decide to finally meet and take a road trip together after exams. What starts off as a fun trip, turns hectic when they become lost. They meet new people along the way and encounter various problems that test the friendship they just started to build.
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
A med school burnout returns to his small home town, but when he decides against telling his mother that he dropped out, complications ensue.
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and overall fortunate man says he never feels happy. He draws people in, but ends up hurting them, yet he is impossible to resist.
Jinx Sister is a story about Laura (Wiseman) who is convinced she is a jinx. People who get close to her have a habit of dying. She thought fleeing to the other side of the world would help. Instead, she developed a serious drink problem. Waking one night in an alley, with no recollection of who she had sex with, Laura decides its time to face up to her past.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.