Three children play games on a deserted beach.
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
High school teacher Jiří is torn from his solitude and everyday life by an unexpected nighttime visit from his beloved younger sister, former seamstress Růžena. She tells her brother that she has run away from her husband Fanda, a textile merchant, because of his greed and vulgarity. However, Jiří later learns from his other sister, Tylda, that Růžena spent a lot of money and left her husband for a dragoon captain. The captain has now rejected his pregnant lover because he is getting married. Disappointed, Růžena believes that her brother has turned away from her because of her lie, and she decides to take a desperate step...
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
Three short stories about the people and folk around the shaft.
It's 1975, and John Dykstra, a lowly college professor, with not much confidence but a semi-successful author, is on his way home from his monthly meet up group with fellow authors, when he decides to pull off to the nearest rest stop. What he encounters there is an unnerving domestic assault, that will force him to embrace his alter ego, Rick Hardin, the hitman in his novels, and finally decide what kind of man he wants to be.
Japanese silent film.
The economic crisis in the early 1930s also affected the inhabitants of the distinctive Moravian-Slovak countryside. The protagonist and his family returned to their native cottage from the city because he could not find work anywhere. But his younger brother does not welcome him with open arms...
A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
A Pacific Northwestern woman experiences profound technological shifts over several decades. The protagonist encounters advances in nanotechnology, brain-machine interfaces and space exploration through personal encounters rather than global events, moving from initial resistance through gradual acceptance while maintaining her essential identity.
Song of Triumphant Love
Harvey and Janet Stevens are living the perfect life in the perfect house or so it seems. Janet has been secretly having an affair with Harvey's best friend Frank. What they don't know is Harvey may not be as in the dark as they suspect.
Mountaineer Álvar Toledano falls into an isolated valley inhabited by a community that has been blind for generations. Initially convinced of his superiority, Toledano soon discovers that his ability to see is considered a disturbance rather than advantage among the people of the valley. As he struggles to adapt, Toledano falls in love with Medina, the woman caring for him, leaving him to decide whether to renounce who he is in order to belong, or whether the price of seeing is to flee the valley of shadows.
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Heinrich comes from an officer's family with an army tradition and is preparing to enter cadet college. Paul's father and grandfather are workers, and Willi, left to depend on himself, works as a hotel messenger. The last year of the war is hard for everyone, but while Paul and Willi know their own minds and do not hesitate to help the war fugitives Tony and Sepp, for Heinrich everything is more complicated.
In despair, traveling salesman Alfie Zimmer, on the brink of suicide, finds hope documenting graffiti in his notebook. As he grapples with embracing his passion or surrendering to a mundane existence, his journey of self-discovery unfolds.
When a young man on his way home from a business trip picks up a deaf/mute hitchhiker for company, he has no idea what he's gotten himself into and it may cost him his life.
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
Still photo film based on the short story “Mute” from the short story collection “Just After Sunset” by world-renowned thriller author Stephen King.
In this Stephen King adapted film, our protagonist Roger Monette hasn't been to church in years, yet he finds himself sitting in a confessional booth telling the priest about a troubling series of events involving his cheating wife's $250,000 embezzlement and a mysterious hitchhiker who claims to be hearing and speech impaired.