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.
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Mehaničar Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) i milijarder Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) po prvi put se susreću u bolnici nakon što im je oboma dijagnosticiran rak. Dok prolaze kroz različite tretmane, njih dvojica postaju dobri prijatelji. Carter je briljanti povjesničar i obiteljski čovjek koji je oduvijek želio postati profesor povijesti ali nije uspio a Cole je bogati ekscentrični usamljenik. Uskoro obojica saznaju da imaju manje od godinu dana života, pa Carter počinje sastavljali listu stvari koji bi želio napraviti prije nego što umre. Iako nije ozbiljno razmišljao o tome, nakon nagovaranja od strane Colea koji obeća da će on platiti za sve, Carter dovrši listu. Par kreće na putovanje oko svijeta dodajući i brišući nove stvari na listu, njih dvojica se počnu baviti teškim pitanjima i još težim odgovorima koji muče sve nas.
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Britanska komičarska družina priča priču o sedam razdoblja u životu kroz skečeve i pjesme o rađanju, odrastanju, ratu, srednjoj dobi, transplantaciji organa, starosti i smrti.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
'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.
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.
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.
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A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.
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.
The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful.