Young Nelly lives a quiet life with her adoptive mother for years until her real mother, Jenny, shows up to reclaim her. Attracted by the fancy and daring lifestyle in Stockholm offered by Jenny, Nelly leaves the small town to embrace her adulthood. However, she later finds herself trapped in a complicated relationship with her mother’s lover, Jack, and starts to realize the dark sides of human nature.
A tall, middle-aged woman named Louise Wimmer rushes through her chambermaid duties, confronts her manager about more hours, and then goes off to a diner for coffee and cigarettes. After that, she goes back to her cramped car, the only place she can sleep in and call her own. The next day, the routine begins all over again….
Mei, a 13-year-old girl who watches her parents’ loveless marriage crumble in divorce. To escape her broken home, she immerses herself in a fantastical world of her own creation. After she meets Jay, the new kid at school, they decide to escapes their real-life troubles by embarking on a journey to her grandfather’s isolated cottage in the mountains, where she used to gaze at the beautiful starry sky as a child.
After losing her mother, 17-year-old Prudence Friedman is left alone in the family apartment. She meets Marilyne, a rebellious young woman with a love of motorcycles, and is drawn into a secretive world of biker clubs. A story of teenage rebellion in the wake of grief.
After decades, Burma finally has held its first presidential election. Many Burmese living abroad believe that prosperity will soon arrive. Migrant laborers Xing-Hong and Rong decide to go back to Burma from Taiwan. A few days before their departure, Rong is killed in an accident during an overtime shift. With Rong's ashes, Xing-Hong returns home alone.
What is love? What does love stand for? We have all been touched by love, yet no one can ever fully grasp it. Across Beijing and Taipei, eight lonely souls are in desperate search for happy endings in this romantic comedy, where everything that happens and every sacrifice made among them is for the purpose of love.
Both Tai and Xian were born into a long line of Din-tao performers, but their fathers are sworn enemies to each other. When Tai takes over the troupe from his father, he leads them to embark on a journey around the island. They travel on foot with drums on their backs and demonstrate the true spirit of Din-tao as they walk along.
An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison…
Poni and Mini are identical twins. They are the same height and weight; they get the same grades in high school; and they even play the same position in the basketball team. These similarities make people forget that they are individuals. For Poni, the elder twin, the biggest challenge is to make people realize how different they are.
In a village in Hunan, it is the beginning of spring. Honggui, a 14-year-old girl who lives with her aunt, daily stares anxiously at the still-clean toilet paper stuffed into her underpants. At school, she refuses a request by her best friend, Baiyu. At her aunt’s house where she has lived for 7 years, her aunt often plays mahjongg deep into the night...
It is filmmaker Wang's 1993 directorial debut. Filmed entirely in black-and-white, it follows the life of Dong and Chun, a couple who have recently graduated from Beijing Art Institute. Living meagerly in the hope of making money off their works, they begin to develop different ideas about their future.…
Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation, her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence where she meets the great love of her life, ice hockey star Pettersson-Jonsson...
Civil war ravages Irina’s country. Soldiers burst into her family’s house, kill her relatives and rape Irina. Traumatised, Irina flees to Berlin where she works illegally as a prostitute. In Berlin she meets Kalle, an unemployed punk, and lets him stay at her apartment. The two fall in love. But their happiness is soon threatened in the extreme when Kalle discovers a dead john in his girlfriend’s bed and commits a desperate deed.
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. The husband begins to take an interest in the artistic work of the lover and coaches him for a big job interview....
Mathias decides to go back to France to study the forensic medicine from Germany. He is strangely arrested and interrogated on the train and even finds a dead man's head in his suitcase after he arrives. Then he secretly starts an investigation...
