Many years ago Victor, Annette and their daughter Pamela spent an idyllic spring in Venice but, upon returning to Paris, the family split up. Over a decade later the now seventeen year old Pamela decides to reconnect with her absent father and sets out to find him.
A group of desperate real estate agents enter a sales contest where the losers will be sacked. At first, they keep on with their dull routines, working their old leads as usual, until one of them hatches a plan to break into the office, steal the leads and sell them to a rival. Winner for Best Actor (Jack Lemmon) at Venice Film Festival.
One Christmas Eve, an unhappy prostitute encounters a religious taxi driver who seeks a suitable female to pose as his fiancée. After a quick visit at his father's, the two meet up with a conflicted lesbian and an unstable bachelor and at the end of the day these four lonely souls find reconciliation in each others solitude.
Mona is a young woman who, despite previous setbacks, is determined to become a beauty queen. Her conviction is so strong she persuades her friend to raise her baby daughter as her own in order to go on with the Miss America competition. Along the way however, Mona is forced re-evaluate what's really important in life.
16-year old Cole is growing up in a dysfunctional Irish-Catholic family in Boston. His brother has turned to crime and his father is sinking deeper into depression. His pregnant sister is being sent away by his mother who only cares about protecting their image as the "perfect family". The only thing that keeps Cole going is his passion for baseball.
Many years ago Victor, Annette and their daughter Pamela spent an idyllic spring in Venice but, upon returning to Paris, the family split up. Over a decade later the now seventeen year old Pamela decides to reconnect with her absent father and sets out to find him.
A group of desperate real estate agents enter a sales contest where the losers will be sacked. At first, they keep on with their dull routines, working their old leads as usual, until one of them hatches a plan to break into the office, steal the leads and sell them to a rival. Winner for Best Actor (Jack Lemmon) at Venice Film Festival.
Mona is a young woman who, despite previous setbacks, is determined to become a beauty queen. Her conviction is so strong she persuades her friend to raise her baby daughter as her own in order to go on with the Miss America competition. Along the way however, Mona is forced re-evaluate what's really important in life.
One Christmas Eve, an unhappy prostitute encounters a religious taxi driver who seeks a suitable female to pose as his fiancée. After a quick visit at his father's, the two meet up with a conflicted lesbian and an unstable bachelor and at the end of the day these four lonely souls find reconciliation in each others solitude.
28 year-old Katy is an advertising executive more concerned with scaling the corporate ladder than being a good person. Soon however, her ambition ruins the relationship with the love of her life and Kate is forced see beyond greed and shallowness in order to win him back.
A small village in the south of France battles to preserve its identity when Mondavi, a feared wine multinational tries to buy the town. We enter into the soap opera territory of "Pueblo chico, infierno grande" ("Small village, big hell"). Where small town rivalries take on an international dimension and the controversial notion of "terroir" as "cultural identity" is first explored.
The Montille family dramas now unfold for us, up close and personal, as expressions of humanist resistance. We also explore their relations with their neighbours friends and foes including Aubert de Villaine of Romanee Conti, the princely defender of terroir.
A beautiful woman is struck by amnesia after a brutal car accident on Mulholland Drive and wanders into a stranger's apartment downtown. Her story coincidentally intertwines with Betty's, a bright-eyed young woman in town for an audition and the two women are pulled into a psychotic illusion in the city of dreams. Winner of a BAFTA Film Award awarded Best Editing and for Best Director at The Cannes Film Festival.
