The Pearl Fishers from 1863 concerns an opera in three acts. It's a work about friendship, love, faithfulness and betrayal. The story takes place in Sri Lanka. The pearl fishers Nadir and Zurga are both in love with the girl Leïla. In order to maintain their friendship, the swear not to court the girl. They promise never let go of their friendship end over the love for th a girl. Then they lose sight of the girl. Years later, Leïla returns as a priestess back to the fishermen's village. Nadir recognizes her and courts her. The two are caught and the sentence is the pillar. Zurga, now the fisherman's captain, avoids this and lets them escape. The angry villagers grabbed him and threw him on the pile of fire that was intended for the two lovers.

Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bige and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB's General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.

Nevia, a 17-years-old girl from a poor trailer park family in Naples, joins a circus, trying to escape from her situation.

On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.

Sophie, 28, just found out she landed that job at a famous Parisian publisher. Her dream? Not exactly: she would rather see her own graphic work printed… When she tells her boyfriend Jean she is pregnant, everything explodes. They break up and she must return to waiting tables like her friend Julia, an aspiring actress. How can one survive in the city under such conditions?

Moskva på 50-talet. När kommunisten Katya tar emot sin största uppgift, att spionera på regeringsstjärnan Alexander, förväntar hon sig inte att falla för honom. Men för att förena sina känslor med sin tro på kommunismen måste hon offra sitt liv.

Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.

Arbetslös och pank kommer Michael till den lilla staden Red Rock West där han blir förväxlad med en yrkesmördare. En barägare vill att han ska mörda hans otrogna fru.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Hyun-su and Soo-jin are newlyweds. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of what happened the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he’d hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and she begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger…

Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails to get the stroke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his older, wealthy girlfriend (whom he hooked up to pay for a lavish life in the big city), and the work he does for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.

I denna fiktiva skildring får vi veta hur kvinnorna på Newsnight lyckades göra den ökända intervjun med prins Andrew. Inspirerad av verkliga händelser.

A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.

Spanien, 1949. Narcisa, en novis, anländer till ett gammalt kloster, omvandlat till en flickskola, för att arbeta som lärare.

Ett luttrat filmteam kämpar på med att slutföra en splattrig skräckis i en nedstängd militäranläggning. När inspelningen störs av en riktig zombieattack är den energiska regissörens envetna instruktion: Låt kameran rulla! Oscarsbelönade regissören Michel Hazanavicius är tillbaka med en splattrig, sanslös meta- och metameta-späckad remake av Shinichiro Uedas kultrulle One Cut of the Dead. Exempel på metakopplingar: Bérénice Bejo, Oscarsnominerad för sin roll i The Artist, är i verkligheten gift med Hazanavicius. Dottern i filmen spelas av parets verkliga dotter Simone. Huvudrollen och regissören av zombiefilmen-i-filmen är dock inte släkt med Hazanavicius. Remi spelas av Romain Duris (Eiffel) som nästa år även dyker upp i en ny extravagant version av Alexandre Dumas klassiker De tre musketörerna.

Efter att med nöd och näppe undvikit en skandal i hemstaden kommer den unga och idealistiska tryckarlärlingen och poeten Lucien de Rubempré till metropolen Paris på 1820-talet. Planen är att bli introducerad i de rätta kretsarna och göra skrivandet till karriär. Men succén uteblir. För att få in pengar söker sig Lucien till ett par skrupelfria journalister. I deras publikationer skapas och förstörs folks anseenden och karriärer och allt det som trycks är inte nödvändigtvis sant. Lucien börjar tumma på sina principer och målet att bli en firad författare skjuts på framtiden.

Following the end of the acclaimed tv series, King Arthur will oppose Lancelot's army to get the throne back after his flee to Rome.