A escola St. Trinian’s para moças está enfrentando uma tremenda crise financeira. Para piorar as coisas, o ministro da educação Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth) quer que a exótica administradora Camilla Frittan (Rupert Everett) transforme a escola em uma “respeitável” faculdade para mulheres. Mas as alunas não vão desistir de salvar St. Trinian’s assim tão fácil. As anárquicas garotas arregimentam um bando de professores, associados e bagunceiros ingovernáveis que, usando sua esperteza, ousadia e imaginação, tentam armar um golpe do século para salvar a escola da ruína inevitável.
Um velho leproso que possuía uma distante vinícola de sorgo morre. Jiu'er, a esposa comprada pelo leproso, e seu amante, identificado apenas como "meu avô" pelo narrador, assumem a vinícola e montam uma comunidade idealizada quase matriarcal liderada por Jiu'er. Quando os invasores japoneses submetem a área ao seu domínio e cortam o sorgo para abrir caminho para uma estrada, a comunidade se ergue e resiste à medida que o sorgo cresce novamente.
An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
Kotaro visits Komada Distillery for a project on Japanese craft whisky. Led by young female president Rui, who took over the family business, the distillery works hard to reproduce its signature whisky, Koma, which they had to stop making years ago. However, not to mention financial backing, too many clues are missing to revive the once lost whisky.
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
Charilaos Maraziotis owns a store and owes so much money both to his lenders and to the state, that he is in danger of going to jail. He decides to pretend to be a psychopath and is sent to an asylum. His lenders, upon hearing the news about his mental health, change their attitude towards him and release him from his debts.
This documentary gives a voice to organizers, DJs and party guests. Through their memories and confessions as well as unpublished videos and photos 20 years of history come back to life.
Mark Thompson teams up with historian Dr Fionnan O’Connor to discover the fascinating story of what was once the greatest whiskey industry in the world.