19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy of 10 films from this period from the director's creative work. This short documentary film, created in this context, explains the film works using fragments of Ozu's notes, which he wrote between 1933 and 1963, elegant drawings and film clips. A fine insight into the themes and aesthetics of this moving cinema about intimacy and the passage of time and a fascinating journey into the moving final part of the Japanese master's work.

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch and invade the spectator's flat...

William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. The episode intercuts footage from Eye of the Storm with new footage of the students, who are now adults. The film takes us through the journey of a young class learning the unfairness of racism. Elliot teaches the lesson through eye color and different treatment. All of the students admit that this is wrong. In footage of the students as adults, we are able to see how this shaped the experiment changed their lives.

A teenager works in a car repair shop and makes a living from petty thefts. In order to impress the boss of a gang of car thieves, he decides to steal a jaguar. What’s more, he can realize his grandmother's dream – he can drive her to mass in the basilica.

While inspecting a wharf, young Amano, president of an urban planning company, meets beautiful laborer Takako and falls in love at first sight. However, she does not return his affections, so he steals her ID card and goes on the run from the infuriated Takako.

Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

Dentro al giovane ed innocente, Ikuro Hashizawa, ha preso dimora un parassita conosciuto col nome di Baoh, impiantato nel suo cervello da una malvagia organizzazione, il gruppo Dres. Il parassita rende il ragazzo quasi immortale e gli dà la possibilità di trasformarsi all'occorrenza in una creatura dai poteri straordinari. Dres ha intenzione di usarlo in un complotto per dominare il mondo. Ma quando l'organizzazione comincia a sfruttare anche una ragazzina di nome Sumire dai poteri psichici, Ikuro si ribella e fugge via insieme a Sumire. Il crudele dr. Kasuminome a capo dell'organizzazione farà di tutto per riprendersi i due soggetti dei suoi test.

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

Roger è coinvolto nello sfruttamento degli immigrati clandestini, che "protegge" facendoli lavorare in condizioni disumane per la sua impresa di costruzioni . Suo figlio quindicenne Igor lavora come meccanico ed aiuta il padre, perfettamente consapevole delle attività illecite del padre.

'Day of the Fight' shows Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier during the height of his career, on the day of a fight with black middleweight Bobby James, which took place on April 17, 1950.

Durante una ricognizione aerea in Vietnam il tenente colonnello Hambleton è costretto a gettarsi col paracadute in territorio nemico. Il capitano Clark, a bordo di un elicottero, cerca di trarlo in salvo. Al film, tratto da un libro di William C. Anderson su una vicenda realmente accaduta, ha collaborato il vero ufficiale protagonista. Passaggi stupendi, azione avvincente, solido mestiere di Hackman e Co.AUTORE LETTERARIO: William C. Anderson

Il film ruota attorno ad una misteriosa valigia, il cui contenuto cambierà la vita di molti personaggi molto differenti tra loro, come una casalinga infelice, un hippy, due sicari, due agenti FBI, un pubblicitario divorziato e molti altri.

Dopo aver perduto in un incidente d'auto la figlia e il marito, compositore di successo, Julie (Binoche) tenta di ricominciare da zero sbarazzandosi di tutto quel che la lega al passato, senza elaborare nemmeno un po' il lutto. Aiutata dal caso, è risucchiata dentro la vita e decide di amare il prossimo. Completa una partitura incompiuta del marito (un “Concerto per l'Europa”). Sceglie per il “Memento” del coro il tredicesimo capitolo della prima lettera di Paolo ai Corinti. 1° film della trilogia sui colori della bandiera francese (blu = libertà): coincide interamente con la protagonista (Kieslowski: “Voglio filmare la tua intimità”) che, tolta una breve scena, è sempre presente sullo schermo. Gli altri personaggi sono funzioni narrative più che figure con vita propria.

La città di Detroit è sconvolta da bande di drogati, di stupratori e assassini, e una società finanziaria (la COP) produce uno specialissimo robot corazzato, da lanciare di notte per le strade a tutela dei cittadini. Questo robot preme moltissimo al vice-presidente Jones, che comanda anche la polizia locale, poiché la sua produzione in serie si preannuncia come un gigantesco affare. Tuttavia, messo alla prova in pieno consiglio di amministrazione, il prototipo si inceppa e per errore uccide uno dei presenti. Morton, un dirigente furbo e rivale di Jones, propone Robocop, un robot avveniristico ed ultra protetto, nel quale viene innestato il corpo mutilato dell'agente Murphy.

Muthuvel Pandian, a retired, stern yet compassionate jailer lives a peaceful life with his family, but trouble knocks his door when his cop son’s tryst with an antique mafia gang goes awry and forces Muthu to step back into a dark world he had voluntarily took a break from.