Una pareja de enfermos terminales de cáncer, de caracteres y mundos completamente opuestos, entablan amistad. Edward Cole es un engreído millonario mientras que Carter Chambers es un modesto mecánico. A pesar de todo, deciden emprender juntos un último viaje para poder hacer, antes de morir, todas las cosas que siempre han deseado.
Kanji Watanabe es un viejo funcionario público que arrastra una vida monótona y gris, sin hacer prácticamente nada. Sin embargo, no es consciente del vacío de su existencia hasta que un día le diagnostican un cáncer incurable. Con la certeza de que el fin de sus días se acerca, surge en él la necesidad de buscarle un sentido a la vida.
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
"The Hours" es la historia de tres mujeres que buscan vidas más potentes y significativas. Cada uno está vivo en un tiempo y lugar diferentes, todos están vinculados por sus anhelos y sus miedos. Sus historias se entrelazan y finalmente se unen en un momento sorprendente y trascendente de reconocimiento compartido.
Cuando el desilusionado caballero sueco Antonius Block regresa a casa de las Cruzadas para encontrar a su país en las garras de la Muerte Negra, desafía a la Muerte a una partida de ajedrez por su vida. Atormentado por la creencia de que Dios no existe, Block emprende un viaje, se encuentra con los jugadores itinerantes Jof y su esposa, Mia, y se decide a evadir a la Muerte el tiempo suficiente para cometer un acto redentor mientras aún vive.
Conjunto de episodios que muestran de forma disparatada los momentos más importantes del ciclo de la vida. Desde el nacimiento a la muerte, pasando por asuntos como la filosofía, la historia o la medicina, todo tratado con el inconfundible humor de los populares cómicos ingleses. El prólogo es un cortometraje independiente rodado por Terry Gilliam: "Seguros permanentes Crimson".
A raw and telling portrait of a people left behind by the modern world, inspired by the work of photographer Martin Martinček - whose pictures of the inhabitants of the Liptov region in central Slovakia, encompassed by the Tatra mountains, distilled entire lifetimes into luminous and intransient images. Dušan Hanák's continuation of these photographs takes the shape of a poetic visual essay, capturing more comprehensive vignettes of their isolate human experiences.
A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.
Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful.
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.
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Office worker, Adam, quits work to return to his childhood home and settles into the comforts of his parent's backyard. A chance meeting with a friend from his past leads to them making a "Things to Do" list so they can fulfill some of their childhood dreams.
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love.