This film tells the story of the president of a fictitious African nation who spends a sleepless night playing checkers with a pot-smoking vagabond who claims to be the all-round champion. However, the rules of the game entail the opponents howling vulgar and foul obscenities at one another. The champion proceeds to insult, and trounce, the President. His reward, and his fate, will not surprise anyone.

Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their s...

In Kabylie, rude mountain region in the north of Algeria. Arezki finds the young Larbi exhausted, bu...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...

A young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfrien...

Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice ...

Kids from Brooklyn, NY housing projects try to change the world when they are paired with Sierra Leo...

A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despi...
Catherine is taken to dine at "Eau de la vie" an opulent cafe known for its unusual entertainment. H...
16-year-old Frida and Mona take the train from the suburbs to Copenhagen on a Friday night to get ri...

Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the vict...
Manuel meets Lydie, a mysterious and very attractive young woman. In the company of his friend Sizo,...

On their wedding night, a couple rescue a baby from a garbage bin only to adopt it some years later.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tir...
A man with arachnophobia buys a poisonous bird spider and sets it free in his apartment.

The old lighthouse keeper lives peacefully with his two daughters, who are both engaged to fisherman...

A driven candidate moments before the most important point of his career. A desperate thug moments b...

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni...