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.
Svartedauen herjer i Europa på 1300-tallet. Ridderen Antonius Block og hans væpner Jöns er på hjemvei etter et langt og slitsomt korstog til det hellige landet. Et dagsritt hjemmefra møter ridderen Døden, men klarer å forhandle seg til en livsfrist gjennom et parti sjakk. Med døden til enhver tid i hælene, treffer Antonius på Jof og Maria og sønnen deres, Mikael, som er en del av en omreisende gjøglertrupp. De byr ham på markjordbær og melk i en skoghelling, og Antonius opplever en fredfylt tid. Han beslutter så å ofre sitt eget liv for å redde gjøglerfamilien.
Businessmilliardæren Edward Cole og arbeiderklassemekanikeren Carter Chambers lever i to verdener. Ved et vendepunkt i livet deler de sykehusrom og oppdager at de har to ting felles: et ønske om å bruke tiden de har igjen til å gjøre alt de har ønsket før de kaster inn håndkleet og et behov for å erkjenne hvem de er. Sammen legger de ut på en reise for livet. De blir venner underveis og lærer å leve livet til fulle, med innsikt og humor. Hvert eventyr blir et nytt punkt å krysse av på ønskelisten.
"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.
De seks elleville gærningene i Monty Python er tilbake og har tatt på seg oppgaven med å forklare oss meningen med livet. De ustyrlige britene byr på sedvanelig raffinerte sketsjer, blant annet om ulike favorittkroppsdeler og deres funksjoner, krigens undre, fødselens mirakel samt et lite innblikk i hva som venter oss i Himmelen. Ingen ting er hellig for Monty Python-gjengen. Og etter å ha sett dem i action, vil du ha et helt nytt syn på livet!
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.
Tatt av kvinnen er filmatiseringen av Erlend Loes debutroman om en ung manns nølende skritt inn det potensielle katastrofeområdet kjærligheten er, om kvinners monolog-dialoger og den moderne mannens rett til å bestemme hvor kommoden skal stå.
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.
Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”
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.