Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst the overflowing piles of excrement, a well-nourished love story unfolds.

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

Жано дванадцять років, і він разом із батьком переїхав у невелике містечко. Оскільки хлопчик дуже добре грає в хокей, то його відразу запрошують тут у команду. Але не всі з хлопців зраділи появі новенького. Чи зможе Жано знайти нових друзів, показати на що здатний і виграти юніорський турнір?

A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film... An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy's childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Літня подружня пара їде до Токіо провідати своїх старших дітей: сина, який став лікарем, і дочку, яка відкрила салон краси. Але діти дуже зайняті роботою і зовсім не мають часу на своїх батьків. Щоб якось зайняти батьків, вони відправляють їх на курорт до Атамі. Після безсонної ночі на галасливому курорті батьки повертаються назад і приймають рішення їхати додому, оскільки розуміють, що для всіх буде найкраще, якщо вони поїдуть і не заважатимуть сім'ям дітей жити своїм життям, в якому для них місця вже немає.

A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Під час Другої світової війни італійка Джованна зустрічає солдата Антоніо, якого мають відправити на фронт до Африки. Між молодими людьми виникають романтичні стосунки, вони одружуються. Проте після короткотермінової відпустки Антоніо направляють на Східний фронт, де він пропадає без вісті… На справді Антоніо потрапляє у радянський полон, а потім зустрічає російську дівчину Машу, одружується з нею. Починає працювати на радянському заводі.

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.