Porpoise Spit, Austrália. Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) tem 22 anos e nunca teve muitos amigos, já que as roupas que usa são fora de moda e, ainda por cima, vive ouvindo as canções do ABBA. Além disto, está acima do peso e nunca demonstrou muitos talentos. Sua vida muda ao conhecer Rhonda Epinstalk (Rachel Griffiths), que também é excluída do meio social. Sonhando com uma vida livre, elas fogem para Sydney. Apesar das críticas de seu pai, Muriel acredita que possa enfim encontrar a felicidade e coloca como primeira meta se casar. É quando ela conhece e se apaixona por um famoso nadador.

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.

Em três períodos diferentes, três mulheres vivem e sofrem em silêncio. Une-as o romance "Mrs. Dalloway": em 1923, Virginia Woolf, a autora, enfrenta a depressão e o medo do suicídio; em 1949, Laura Brown, a leitora, sente-se presa a um casamento infeliz e a uma vida que detesta; em 2001, Clarissa Vaughn, a quem os amigos chamam "Mrs. Dalloway", planeia uma festa a um amigo que, no passado, foi seu amante.

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Às vésperas de sair da escola e entrar para a vida adulta, quatro jovens que estão terminando o colegial, passam pelos últimos espinhos da adolescência. Tendo como plano de fundo o sudoeste da França em 1962, época do final da guerra da Argélia, Henri (Frédéric Gorny), um garoto argelino se envolve com o doce François (Gaël Morel), a bela Maïté (Élodie Bouchez) e o rude Serge (Stéphane Rideau). Juntos, eles nutrem amizade, desejos e paixões uns pelos outros.

Um renomado fotógrafo de guerra retorna para um local isolado da Nova Zelândia onde é sua terra natal para o enterro do pai. Os 17 anos de sua ausência criou um certo afastamento do irmão, que ainda vive no local. O reencontro mostra que, apesar de serem do mesmo sangue, eles tem diferenças a acertar, mas todo caminha bem. No meio desse caminho, ela acaba conhecendo uma garota de 16 anos de idade e, conforme o tempo passa, o envolvimento dos dois vai ficando cada vez mais íntimo. Os problemas começam depois que ela, misteriosamente, desaparece. Agora ele é acusado de ser a última pessoa que viu a garota e percebe que pode ter sido envolvido em alguma espécie de plano do qual jamais desconfio. Essa crise vai trazer muita dor de cabeça e vai fazer com que ele pense num jeito de salvar a sua reputação e descobrir o que realmente aconteceu com a garota.

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

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.

Norte da Suécia, década de 60. Matti e Niila são dois meninos que vivem em Pajala, uma vila da cidade de Vitulla, situada junto à fronteira com a Finlândia. Numa comunidade puritana, convivendo com pais abusivos e inimigos da escola, morar em Pajala não é nada agradável. Ainda na infância, os meninos conhecem o rock ouvindo um disco dos Beatles e ficam fascinados.

Com a chegada da adolescência, Matti, Niila e outros amigos sonham em se tornar estrelas do rock para finalmente conhecer o mundo, mas a dura realidade e o ambiente conservador do povoado criarão conflitos de difícil solução.

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...