Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.

When a western-clad stranger passing through town finds the widow Tampopo's restaurant food intolerable, he stays just long enough to teach her to prepare the perfect noodle.

After beautiful struggling actress Mala is hired to flirt with and then dump a producer's handsome ex, she discovers that her acting skills may not be enough to save her from falling in love.

Dramatizes the harrowing events of the tumultuous Algerian uprising of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence ... The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.

Dreaming of a better life for her family, a star struck mother invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting.

Céline (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiancé, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-within-the film'? a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the 'Phantom Ladies Over Paris' (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister...

Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son.

Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that...

A soccer player and three other prisioners awaiting execution in a horrific detention center, risk their lives to escape. Based on the memoirs and testimony of two of the prisoners, who were later witnesses at a war crimes trial.

This is the story of the BOPE, a SWAT-like team at war with the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro. Racing against time, its hard-driving captain puts a pair of rookies through hell in an effort to shape a worthy successor and clear out a drug-infested slum before his imminent retirement.