At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her fam...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns b...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Christian is a presenter at a small radio station. His wife Katrin directs traffic in a car park. Bo...

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood ...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, dec...

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for bo...

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd...