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- On his way to the polls, an idealist yet absent-minded voter must endure continuous waves of racist cab drivers and their offensive remarks.
- This documentary captures the funeral of Czech student leader Jan Palach.
- A composer with a straining birth name is caught between his mother fixation and his need to father his own ambitions.
- A married couple bicker over the fact that a notorious serial killer is running loose in the suburbs. He is sceptical and is about to leave for his evening jog around the neighborhood. She is paranoid because she is going to be left alone at home.
- A Chinese gangster falls in love at the first sight with a woman he doesn't know; the woman is mourning over the loss of her lover. Through a series of chance meetings and coincidences, the paths of these two characters crisis cross and result in their realization that, after all, they are pursuing the impossible love.
- This is an intricately and cleverly crafted tale of trust versus suspicion, and faithfulness versus infidelity, in marriage. He is never sure whether his wife truly loves him, yet is unwilling to clarify and face the truth, instead using his doubt and uncertainty as an excuse for his own wayward behavior.
- A young boy finds ways to cope with his brother's sudden death in an accident.
- Mo Tz-yi is a high-school youth who likes to hypnotize himself by listening to tapes, intending to explore the world beyond. Chen Wen-yi, a student who failed in class before, cares about nobody and nobody cares about him. Mo begins to shift his attention to Chen. Rumours abound about Chen - he had once committed suicide. As two chords with the same frequency achieve resonance when played together, Mo and Chen begin an interesting journey together.
- For the past few days, Mun has repeatedly left messages on his ex-girlfriend's pager. Things change when a film director asks Mun to write an elaborate script on the 1997 handover of Hong Kong. By gathering information, Mun digs up his own history. On the same night when he was born thirty years ago, his mother left the world; and at the same time there was a fight at the turn of the streets... The financing of the shooting becomes a problem and the director has to give up. However, Mun refuses to give up hope on love. He starts to follow his ex-girlfriend. Unexpectedly, one accident, an orange changes everything and puts an end to the struggling and confusion.
- Stanley Kwan's view in this film is both personal and collective memories towards Hong Kong in 1997. He cites one famous line from Cantonese opera "Princess Chang Ping", "I deny, I deny, but in the end I cannot deny" as a metaphor for Hong Kongers' troubled minds when they have to recognize their identity as Chinese. To make a statement of the theme, Kwan adopts a complicated structure, mixing excerpts from his previous films, his stage play, even the soundtrack of Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild.
- This is the touching and poignant story of memorial and emotional loss, as experienced by father and son. Having lost his memory, the father tries to chase and cling on to an ambiguous and faded past, within the confines of the remaining days of his life. Having lost his father, the son experiences, for the first time, the irreparable sense of regret and loneliness in the long nights.
- Each one of us has a childhood, including the four characters in the movie. As they grow older and struggle through life, they desire to recreate their past, to return to innocence. However, life changes, they too are no longer who they used to be.
- Taipei, 1990s. Pizza boy JJ bumps one day into his ex-girlfriend Pony who is now pursuing a lesbian relationship with Mimi. On his first visit to the girl JJ gives in to Pony's seduction and makes love to her in the presence of Mimi who is seemingly asleep... Pony is now enjoying the secret excitement of her affair with JJ while Mimi tries hard to put up with it. But as days go by, JJ finds himself more and more obsessed with Mimi. At this stage none of the three is sure of what they want from love...
- The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.
- This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon's voice, his face and pictures from his childhood which are all mixed together on screen and contrasted with selected pictures he shot between 1957 and 1977 and now comments on.
- A pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.
- The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events happening around him.
- At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his home. She ends up staying the night. Later, the woman reveals that she has left her husband and son, but refuses to divulge her name. On the other hand, the boss' daughter informs Kozo's colleague that she is pregnant. They decide to elope but, before that, he demands Kozo to let him have sex with the red-haired woman...
- As the director and the cameraman of a documentary project, Meng and Jianxian are travelling around Taiwan filming statues of religious and historical figures. Their conversations and debates on the statues often touch the political reality of Taiwan. Meng's girlfriend, Ning, is involved in a mediocre commercial feature film (initially as location scout and subsequently as an actress). Instead of realizing her ambition, she finds herself being exploited by the filmmakers. On the other hand, Meng and Ning's relationship is gradually faded.
- Can is a drug dealer in Berlin. He sees no way to change his situation until his supplier Hakan offers him to run a bar, but then Hakan is shot. Abandoned by his girlfriend Jale, Can is then arrested and sentenced to four years in prison.
- Miles Butler lives an uneventful life with his girlfriend until he discovers the body of his landlord in a neighbouring apartment. The tragedy of this moment makes a deep impression on Miles. His curiosity is aroused when a beautiful stranger moves in, and his fascination with the vacant apartment develops from obsession to psychosis.
- Every day, 10-year-old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop, and every day something unexpected happens.
- Joe and Olivia are childhood sweethearts, about to embark on their wedding day. But, the so-called happiest day of their lives is over faster than they anticipated. Olivia doesn't quite make it up the aisle, and Joe is left jilted at the altar. A decade later, Olivia and Joe are walking up the aisle again, but this time it's as bridesmaid and best man. They haven't seen each other since and they have changed. Olivia wears pleated skirts and designs multi-storey carparks; Joe is older, wiser, sexier and married to a Spanish model, Mariana. But all is not as it seems. Will first love get a second chance?
- An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
- A little girl "kidnaps" her half-sister in order to get the attention of her father who left her mother years ago for another woman (who gave birth to her half-sister).
- A young boy and his girlfriend live with political terror in Bulgaria in 1952.
- A young American girl and her friends search for the resting place of her birth parents deep in the Malaysian jungle and encounter the Pontianak, a demonic female banshee seeking revenge on those who have wronged her.
- A young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp: the world of Taxandria, ruled by the dictatorship of the 'eternal present' where all machines, progress, and time have been banned. However, a naive but creative printing clerk unwittingly causes a revolution when he upsets a printing press and tries to replace the spilled letters only to have his new words taken for a subversive code. On the run he falls in love with a princess, discovers the forbidden art of photography, and sets out to fulfill his dream of building a flying machine.
- Stylish road movie in which a kidnapped youth becomes friends with his abductors.
- A 5 year old kid moves to live with his grandma in a small town at Taiwan. Soon after, he discovers that her grandma is not only a vendor, but also she is good at catching spectres. One day, she comes across that her grandson has mistakenly releases some of the most ferocious ghosts from her house...
- A naive guy, passionate cinemaddict, believes that his minor extras role is a first step to a shining star career.
- Simon is getting better. His job as a publisher is going smoothly. Suddenly, out of the blue, his psychoanalyst, Charles, hits him with the news: his analysis is over. It turns out to be a nightmare. Charles also has his own dilemma: his actress wife is pregnant, but she hesitates to keep the child as she has an upcoming performance, and feels that she no longer loves Charles. Worse things comes as Simon receives a manuscript that portrays his private life and fetishistic desires, and his partner insists on publishing the novel. He blames Charles for writing the novel. On the other hand, Charles simplifies the matter, thinking Simon's misunderstanding is the reason that his wife leaves him. The two angry men have a big fight in Simon's home. Charles is wounded at the end. Now, Simon believes Charles and nurses him. Simon's mother drops by and suspects that Charles is Simon's gay lover. Charles realizes that his professional mentor, whom he often discusses his patients' cases with, could be the person who writes the novel...
- Utena Tenjou disguises herself as a boy for the Ohtori Academy, however she encounters trouble due to a ring which shows she's skilled duelist. As well as this, the vice president of the school challenges her to a duel
- Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
- A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.
- This film about contemporary life in Lisbon concerns an Irish woman, Cathy, who dearly loves her Portugese lawyer husband Pedro. Though, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweller ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
- A boy and a girl, betrothed since childhood, are still fond of each other as teenagers. Their families, however, now have other plans for them, and try to break up the relationship. They reason that their association with each other at this stage is dangerous and will have an adverse impact on their future. The young boy and girl, on the other hand, believe all problems can be solved if the rite of marriage is performed on them, allowing them to see each other without transgressing any social moves. Shot as a film within a film, the boy speaks into the camera throughout the entire movie, relating his memories and interpretations to the audience.
- Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
- This is a story of five friends in Reykjavik, Iceland: the swimming icon, his girlfriend, the sewage expert, the single mother and speed addict, and the convict. They throw a party, but the celebration goes too far, and the dead body of a young woman is the result. This is the beginning of a fast and ominous chain of events, which nobody could have anticipated and none of them are prepared for.
- Three tragic stories happen around a mysterious mirror, which belongs to a courtesan in the 16th century China, who was murdered by a treacherous lover, and laid a curse on the mirror before her death.
- Young W. A. Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with "normal" boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
- A little girl gets hurt by her mother's syringe. Her teenage half-brother tries to get her to get an HIV and hepatitis tests without their parents' knowledge, which causes more trouble.
- The miserable football player becomes a town hero after bringing victory in extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge to the team star for the previous mockeries.
- Xiao Bo arrives in Beijing, gets a job at a boutique, and is invited to stay with his lady boss, Ah Qing, and her husband, Kang. Knowing that Xiao Bo is still single, Ah Qing recommends her best female friend, Ah Meng, to him. After a few dates, Ah Meng starts to suspect Xiao Bo is gay. She tells Ah Qing, who then informs Kang. After learning this, Kang attempts to rape Xiao Bo when Ah Qing isn't at home. Xiao Bo leaves the house, quits the job and joins his old friend, Chong Chong, and realizes that he has a gay lover, Gui Gui. Some time later, Ah Qing confesses to Kang that she had an affair... with Ah Meng. On the other hand, Chong Chong tries to "convert" Xiao Bo, much to the dismay of Gui Gui...
- A young man having lost his familiy as a boy in an accident comes to Brussels. There he falls in love with a girl who drives trams.
- Various government departments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have been criticised heavily by the public. The Commissioner welcomes the proposal of "Sunshine Cops" from public relations officer Geena to enhance the image of Hong Kong's finest. Both Lemon and Sammy have recently completed their Police Tactical Unit (PTU) training. They look like movie stars and are fit and ready to conquer the world. They are selected to represent PTU in the internal audition for "Sunshine Cops" and contest against elite from other units like Criminal Investigation Department and Task Force, etc. The competition is tough but they prevail.
- Mr. Kong is not a typical Hong Kong teacher. He isn't happy just teaching his students in his class, but he would rather go to rave parties and play along with them, as well as follow his female students and sit with them in their revision classes. However, by the time Mr. Kong wins the hearts of his students, the school revealed that he is not qualified to be a teacher...
- On a winter's day on a beach, the only people left are a stubborn lifeguard, an old man who is waiting to hunt the next shark, and a kid who wishes to spot a dolphin. All waiting on the beach for their dreams to come true. But it all changes when three young girls arrive. Thinking that it is their playground, never expecting that it will be their world and school ground...
- One night, a fading entertainer intervenes when a woman contemplates suicide, beginning a strange, unpredictable relationship.
- After stopping 12 y.o. Romeo and Gavin from being beaten up, Morell drives them home and meets Romeo's adult sister and falls in love. The boys "help" him in his pursuit.