Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) drømmer om, at hendes liv kunne være ligesom en ABBA-sang, og at prinsen på den hvide hest snart kommer og redder hende. I sine bestræbelser på at bevise, at hun er noget ganske særligt, skyer hun intet middel - ikke engang at stjæle fra sin far. Som bekendt står lykken den kække bi: snart befinder hun sig i en hvirvlende dans, som får hende til at føle sig som en rigtig Dancing Queen. Muriel's Wedding er en film om venskab og om styrken i at være den, man er.
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Det sker sjældent, at tre af de største kvindelige Hollywood-stjerner er med i samme film. Endnu sjældnere, at alle tre forsvarer deres roller så hudløst og brillant, at man vanskeligt kan fremhæve én uden at være uretfærdig mod de to andre. Men det mest usædvanlige er, at vi her har en stor, flot, stjernespækket Hollywood-film!"Urban:"Uden at overdrive sine virkemidler sniger filmen sig ind på os tilskuere og rører og river i følelsesregisteret. 'The Hours' er en historie om livet og døden. Kærligheden og smerten. Tag godt med lommetørklæder med i biografen, og sæt tid af til eftertanke!"Berlingske Tidende:"Elegance, trodsig humor og bevægende følsomhed, og den er en berigende, dybt tilfredsstillende oplevelse!
Vagabonden Gino forelsker sig i den underskønne Giovanna, der hader sin mand, den gamle kroejer Bragana, som hun har giftet sig med for pengenes skyld. De flygter sammen og myrder Bragana, men dermed er lykken ikke gjort.
Med Frankrigs krig i Algeriet som bagtæppe udforsker franske kostskoleelever i 1960'erne konsekvenserne af deres spirende seksualitet.
Da krigskorrespondenten, Paul, vender hjem til sin søvnige barndomsby for at deltage i sin fars begravelse, mødes han af mistænksomhed og tvivl fra alle andre end den 16-årige Celia, som fascineres af historierne i Pauls liv. De indleder et intensivt venskab, og da hun pludselig forsvinder sporløst, peger alle spor mod Paul. Den apatiske by viser sig at gemme på flere hemmeligheder, end man er villig til at erkende, og Paul bliver konfronteret med sin fortid...
Hélène er lærer i en lille fransk by. Ved en bryllupsfest møder hun den kejtede slagter Popaul, der forelsker sig i hende. Ved første tilnærmelse afvises han dog venligt, men bestemt. Kort efter opskræmmes byen af et bestialsk seksualmord. Efterhånden bliver tiltrækningen mellem Hélène og Popaul gensidig, men samtidig er hun bange for, at han er den morder, som huserer på egnen.
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine, who in many ways is the exact opposite of Louise: she lives in a fashionable neighborhood, is cold to others, and has snobby friends, while Louise lives in a small town and is thoroughly unpretentious. Louise's apparent happiness -- and similarities to their mother -- gradually gets on Martine's nerves.
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the historical drama about Joan of Arc. She was given not only great acting talent, but the talent of deep, selfless love. A dream comes true: she is invited to the main role, and she begins a completely different life, full of real creative torment, insights and true happiness.
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Two young women try to adapt to a new city: nostalgia, loneliness, friendship and family are mixed throughout the emotional process of both characters. A reflection on the sense of belonging and the experience of being a foreigner.
A mining town in Russia at the end of the nineties. A miners' strike has paralysed the place, corruption and fraud are flourishing in the transitional period from a socialist economy to a market economy. In this world of lost souls lives Yekaterina Artemovna (Katya). This unconspicuous woman has, in the words of her future lover, a "heart of gold". The only bright spots in her lonely life in a meagre communal apartment are literature and her work in the town library.
The only bright ray flashed in the life of the heroine is a visiting sailor. But he turns out to be a gigolo and leaves the poor woman. The tense string inside the heroine bursts, the iron nerves lose, and restrained Yekaterina at this point loses all patience with life and ready for the most desperate and cruel revenge...