老朱 虽是台北最了不起的名厨,但妻子去世后便要肩负起抚养三个女儿的责任,惟她们性情各异,充满叛逆个性,有着自身的问题。女儿们都逐渐长大了,老父亲也渐渐力不从心,不过他那一手炉火纯青的厨艺却依旧维系着全家的和睦。吃晚饭也就成为全家团聚沟通的唯一时刻。这样的时刻理应是其乐融融的,但是因为三个女儿和老父亲各自的“宣布”,令每顿晚饭都充满了意外:闪电结婚,投资失败,未婚先孕,叙弦娶妻。不仅令剧中人惊讶不已,更使观众原本平静的心情频起波澜。家家都有一本难念的经,这期间有人怀孕,有人被抛弃,有人找到真爱,也有人死去。直到有一天,一向最乖巧、不露声色的三女儿宣布自己已经怀孕,还没等父亲和两位姐姐回过味来,就跳上男友的摩托车飞奔而去,然后是大姐也结婚。最想搬出去的二女儿反而一个人留在旧居,原来一个完整的家,肥皂泡一样破碎了。 同时,朱家隔壁搬来了一位聒噪的寡妇,她终日痴缠着老朱,老朱周旋于她们之间,最终,即将破裂的大家庭再度团聚。
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.