In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
Grace arriba a la remota localitat de Dogville fugint d'una banda de gàngsters. Persuadits per les paraules de Tom, que s'ha erigit en portaveu de la petita comunitat, els seus integrants s'avenen a amagar-la. Grace, en justa correspondència, accepta treballar per a ells. No obstant això, quan Dogville sigui sotmès a una intensa vigilància policial per trobar la fugitiva, els seus habitants exigiran un acord més favorable, que els compensi del perill que corren en acollir-lo. Grace aprendrà, d'una manera brutal, que en aquest lloc la bondat és molt relativa. Però ella guarda un secret que no vol desvetllar.
John "Jack" Sommersby abandona la seva plantació a Tennessee per lluitar al bàndol sudista de la Guerra de Secessió. Un cop passats sis anys sense tenir-ne cap més notícia, gairebé tots el consideren mort. La Laurel, la seva presumpta vídua, no el troba pas a faltar perquè era un individu desagradable i egoista. De sobte, en Jack torna inesperadament per a sorpresa de tothom. Però no queda res d'aquella persona menyspreable que la Laurel recordava, fins al punt que arriba a estimar-lo com mai no s'havia imaginat. És de debò en Jack o és un impostor?
Al desembre de 1941, l’atac japonès a Pearl Harbor va destruir la moral dels nord-americans. El president Franklin D. Roosevelt va decidir arriscar-ho tot per bombardejar Tòquio. Els bombarders es van enlairar d’un portaavions. Tot i això, després de completar les seves missions, els pilots van haver de ser rescatats a les zones costaneres de la Xina a causa de l’escassetat de combustible. Un jove pilot, Jack Turner, va ser salvat per una jove vídua local anomenada Ying, que va arriscar la seva vida mentre amagava el pilot ferit a casa seva. Tot i no poder comunicar-se verbalment, es van enamorar l’un de l’altre.
A wealthy NRI falls hard for a country girl during a visit to his homeland.
En un poble idíl·lic costaner escocès Macintyre (Peter Riegert), l'enviat d'una companyia petrolífera, negocia la compra de totes les propietats de la zona per construir-hi una refineria. Els habitants del poble veuen una oportunitat per enriquir-se, però l'obstinació del vell Ben (Fulton Mackay), propietari d'una platja, impedeix el tracte. Mac només pot oferir diners i la platja és tot el que Ben ambiciona. Mentrestant, el nouvingut se submergeix en un mode de vida que es mou a un ritme pausat, on el paisatge i la comunitat l'envolten als seus llaços.
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature, and lush, warm family, Manu find his first love and the first signs of adulthood.
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Kabya is an architect who gets an assignment to renovate a vintage house in a remote hilly small town of Odisha. There he meets the chirpy and bubbly interior decorator Smruti who is also the granddaughter of the head of the house Das Babu. Kabya and Smruti fall in love while renovating the house together. But then something agonizing happens which changes the dynamics of all the relationships around.
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.