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.
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
三個不同年代的女人,被同一本小說牽引,走上同一道生命軌跡。 20年代,患有精神病的倫敦小說家維珍妮亞正埋首寫她的巨著 “Mrs. Dalloway”;1949年,家庭主婦羅拉受那小說感召,對生命價值忽然存疑,徘徊自殺邊緣;2002年,現代版Mrs. Dalloway嘉莉莎忙著為舊情人李察準備生命中最後一個派對。 三段故事曲折交纏、互相呼應,就像維珍妮亞一直所深信:生命的本質,是互為影響,互相感動...
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
潦倒的銀行職員片桐回家見到一隻會說話的巨大青蛙,說需要他的協助,拯救正面臨巨蟲來襲的東京。另一邊廂,片桐的同事小村事業岌岌可危,同時老婆突然離家出走,連家貓也不知所蹤了。瀕臨崩潰邊緣的他陪侄子到醫院看病,讓他憶起老婆從前跟他說的一個故事——盲柳與沉睡的女人。 繼《燒失樂園》及《Drive My Car》後,村上春樹的作品再度改編成電影。作曲家皮亞科德首執導筒,以別樹一幟的敘事手法,將村上的數個短篇小說糅合成這部穿梭於魔幻與寫實的動畫。電影被譽為「最能呈現村上世界的作品」,獲得安錫國際動畫影展評審團特別獎及布魯塞爾國際動畫影展最佳動畫長片殊榮。
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.