When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.

Two New York film editors balance their personal relationships while reworking a movie in crisis.

A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.

A group of young men agree to act as "test subjects" for plastic surgeon Victoria Franks. But their getaway at Victoria's lavish Malibu mansion turns deadly, as their mad scientist hostess implements a nefarious and homicidal agenda.

A young girl, Benilde, so protected by her religious family that she seemingly knows nothing about procreation, insists that her mysterious pregnancy is a miracle; however, her distressed bourgeois family decides that Benilde has lost her mind.

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

Een vrouw probeert de dagelijkse sleur te doorbreken door een vooroorlogse jeugdliefde te doen herleven. Tegelijkertijd probeert haar stiefzoon de Algerijnse oorlog te vergeten.

Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

In de regio Noord-Friuli in Italië woont de 11-jarige Cristiano samen met zijn vader, nadat zijn moeder hen heeft verlaten. Ze worden door de buitenwereld met argwaan bekeken, vooral omdat zijn vader Rino een neo-Nazi is. Diens maffe vrienden, waaronder 'Quattro Formaggi', komen dermate vaak over de vloer dat er sprake is van een soort surrogaat-familie voor Cristiano.

In deze plotloze film worden beelden van het leven in New York vermengd met de voice-over van de filmmaker die voorleest uit brieven van haar moeder. Vele persoonlijke fragmenten passeren de revue: ruzies, scheidingen, zwangerschappen en andere zaken komen aan bod.

An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.

Johan en zijn familie zijn Mennonnieten uit het noorden van Mexico. Tegen alle regels van God en de bijbel in wordt hij verliefd op een andere vrouw.

Nazarín is een priester die een puur en eerlijk leven tracht te leiden volgens de Christelijke grondbeginselen. Zijn omgeving echter schenkt hem vooral wantrouwen en haat, afgezien van de plaatselijke prostituee dan.

Samengesteld uit meer dan 1200 uren zeldzame en nooit eerder vertoonde beelden, plus uit een recent opgenomen interview en livebeelden, vormt Pearl Jam Twenty het definitieve portret van Pearl Jam, verteld door regisseur en muziekjournalist Cameron Crowe.

In een Spaans dorpje in 1940 ziet een jong meisje de film Frankenstein (1931) van James Whale in een reizend theater. Ze raakt zo onder de indruk van het monster, dat ze vastbesloten is om naar hem op zoek te gaan.