Il film narra la storia di una giovane coppia che vive nella periferia sud di Londra: la loro vita e la loro relazione sullo sfondo di una realtà sociale in veloce mutamento e di una struttura urbana in costante declino.
Alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, quattro fratelli di età tra i dieci e i vent'anni rimasti orfani, vivono di stenti in una cittadina mineraria nel Giappone meridionale. Dopo numerose difficoltà, i quattro fratelli sono costretti a separarsi. Amarezza e ottimismo convivono in questa odissea famigliare.
In 1940, Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker staff writer, meets Joe Gould, a homeless writer who attended Harvard and cadges contributions to the Joe Gould Fund. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a piece about him, bringing Gould some celebrity. Gould tells to Joseph that he is writing a voluminous "Oral History of the World", a record of 20,000 conversatio...
Bastiano, fifteen years old, lives in a institute with all the ones, who, like him, have nobody who can take care of them. Obsessed by strange visions of his friends and himself as old people, he convinces himself that the institute is stealing his youth and decides to leave.
Bernard and Mathilde are good neighbors, but he avoids meeting her. Seven years before, they were lovers and now they are both married. Passion will rekindle again and the tragedy is behind the corner. A movie about unforgotten loves and bourgeois treasons, with an extraordinary Fanny Ardant.
Born with a hearing impairment, Shigeru is a part timer working for the sanitation service. His girlfriend Takako has the same condition as well. On his usual pickup route, Shigeru finds a broken surf-board in a pile of garbage. His introduction to the world of surfing. Shigeru fails in his attempt to catch a wave and Takako looks on as the locals heckle the first time surfe...
Wren is a young punk who tries in any way to succeed on the musical scene of Manhattan. With no money and talent, she meets Paul, a young man who has just arrived in New York from Montana, and Eric, an arrogant musician. Susan Seidelman's first movie, Smithereens has been the first Independent American movie to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival.
Joan Webster, twenty-five years old, knows exactly what she wants from life. She decides to take a ship for the island of Kiloran, in the Hebrides , to marry Sir Robert Bellenger, an old rich man. Because of the fog, the ship stops on the island of Mull, where Joan spends some time with Torquil, a young Marine officer. On the island, Joan gets to know some of the inhabitants...
the night by a huge wall that divides the French speakers from the Flemish speakers.
During a meteor shower, a little girl sets out on a journey in which she faces her fears. The thought of her mother, victim of a banal bike incident will keep her company on the way home. "If in some precise moments, you feel clusters of thoughts flowing through the wrinkles of the soul or of a smile... well, let it be. It is us, knocking. Prepare your shoes and your gloves,...