En man kastas ut i ett tomrum, förödmjukad av sin franska hustru. Han hamnar utan fotfäste i sitt hemland Polen. Hans väg tillbaka till självkänsla är en raffinerad hämnd mot sveket. Ett sätt att nå känslomässig jämlikhet.

En bil går av vägen och två av dess tre passagerare dör. Den överlevande från kraschen är den unga kvinnan Julie. De två offren hennes dotter och hennes man. Julie har förlorat allt och fått hela sin verklighet bortryckt. Men har hon också, genom den tragiska olyckan, uppnått något som skulle kunna kallas frihet?

Den 23 november 1966, klockan 3 på natten, födds två flickor. Den ena i Polen, den andra i Frankrike. Båda får namnet Veronika. Annars har de ingenting gemensamt. De har aldrig träffats, och lever i två helt skilda världar. Likväl är flickorna identiska. De är båda vänsterhänta, älskar att gå barfota, har en brinnande passion för musik, och lider av samma unika hjärtåkomma.

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.

Florens i början av 1900-talet. Lucy och hennes förkläde Charlotte turistar i Florens. De träffar herr Emerson och hans son George. Bägge männen är mer frigjorda och liberala än vad Lucy är van vid. Vid ett tillfälle kysser George Lucy men de blir avbrutna av Charlotte. Hemma igen friar den konventionelle och välbärgade Cecil Vyse till Lucy och hon accepterar. Men plötsligt dyker far och son Emerson upp i byn, de tänker bosätta sig där.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached heads sing in unison. The conjurer then removes it a third time. You then see all three of his heads, which are exact duplicates, upon the table at one time, while the conjurer again stands before the audience with his head perfectly intact, singing in unison with the three heads upon the table. He closes the picture by bowing himself from the stage.

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.

Jeanne looks back on her love for Jean. The melancholic young man wouldn't accept the world as it was, always wishing to depart. She doesn't know that he's dead.

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?

The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

A painter in Amsterdam receives flowers from a mysterious admirer, while a hitman and cop find themselves in conflict.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.

Sju episoder, sju dagar om döden...

Whoopi Goldberg guidar oss genom Elmo-skaparen Kevin Clashs otroliga resa från ett arbetarklasskvarter i Baltimore till Jim Hensons Sesam.