A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.
A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
The social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Breitner who is at risk of drifting into prostitution.
A stage director gives the lead role to an actress who gets completely in character and becomes the fraudster who steals a precious necklace from one of the stores. As she escapes to Cairo, she puts the necklace in the pocket of a well-known singer who discovers her singing talent.
Rio Acima
The manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She uses her apartment as a meeting place for friends and is the source of her donations. Samira falls in love with the director of the association, despite knowing that he is married and has children, who go too far in their relationship
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
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.
A man tries to find a moment of silence amidst the chaos of a busy city and his own troubled mind.
Short film that pays homage to Rod Serling's famous series, The Twilight Zone. Carlos is a young man who lives with his partner, Alicia. The problems to pay the bills make Carlos succumb to the world of online gambling, neglecting and forgetting, more and more, his girlfriend, who is becoming a mannequin as Carlos can not unhook.
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
The suffering of a beautiful woman changes a lonely outsiders life forever.
A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
A son brings his girlfriend to meet his father for the first time, but a cordial afternoon soon takes a violent turn when intentions on both sides are revealed.