Maarten, a scientist approaching middle age, lives with his sickly mother so he can take care of her. While he is very close with his mother, he hasn’t had any other successful relationships with the opposite sex — in fact, he is still a virgin. However, God himself enters Maarten’s dream and gives him one week to have sex. If Maarten fails, he will be struck dead. Fearing for his life, he develops a dashing alter ego to help guide him through dating.
Category: Drama
After the death of her husband, Lilia’s life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of the place, Lilia gets consistently drawn back to it. She befriends one of the belly dancers and is encouraged into dancing for the audience. Lilia also starts a romance with one of the cabaret’s musicians, who unbeknown to both of them, is also romancing Salma.
A group of Irish college students are about to leave for the United States, where they’ve landed summer jobs on Long Island, New York. Working hard in the day and playing even harder at night, they relish the opportunity to enjoy adult life far from the eyes of their families. This will be a summer to remember for the rest of their lives.
After being released from a mental hospital, David Woolf kidnaps his daughter, Melodie, and drives from Paris to Belgium, stopping to get the young girl’s hair cut to disguise her. Melodie, who has never heard of David, calls her mother and occasionally makes halfhearted efforts to escape. Their car breaks down, and father and daughter check into a hotel, killing time until David runs out of medication for his psychotic tendencies.
Based on Mark Medoff’s stage play about a crazed Vietnam veteran who holds patrons hostage at a Texas roadside diner.
Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity he passed up in this place 40 years ago.
Odile and Camille are two sisters living in Paris. Odile is frustrated in her dull marriage to Claude, who shows no enthusiasm in her desire to buy a new apartment. Camille, studying for a doctorate, suffers from a panic disorder. The lives of both women are up-ended when three men enter their lives.