Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life. This eventually disrupts their relationship.

I 1600-talets Italien skapar en instrumentmakare sitt definitiva mästerverk: En fiol som under 300 år framåt kommer att byta ägare många gånger men alltid behålla sin magi - såväl som sin tragiska hemlighet.

En mystisk och mycket smittsam sjukdom som gör att folk blir blinda bryter ut och regeringen får panik. Snabbt samlas alla blinda ihop och sätts i karantän för att hindra den snabba spridningen av det farliga viruset. En kvinna verkar vara immun och låtsas vara blind för att kunna följa sin man som drabbats. I karantänen blir det en kamp på liv och död med beväpnade vakter och aggressiva medfångar. Frågan är om de kommer att kunna lämna sjukhuset levande och finns det egentligen något botemedel mot viruset?

En passionsfylld kärlekshistoria, inramad av kulinariska läckerheter och en andlöst vacker miljö, i sekelskiftets Milano. Emma är det kvinnliga överhuvudet i en välbärgad familj som är hårt styrd av traditioner. Hennes liv kretsar främst kring hennes plikter som mor och hustru. Vid årets traditionella julmiddag avslöjar familjens överhuvud, den åldrande och sjuklige Eduardo Recchi Sr, hur han vill att familjens framgångsrika företag ska drivas vidare. Förvåningen blir stor kring middagsbordet.

Tom råkar av en tillfällighet se sin pappa och äldre syster tillsammans i badkaret och misstänker att de två har ett incestuöst förhållande. Situationens obehag vägrar att släppa greppet om Tom.

Ända sedan Stéphane Miroux var barn har han haft problem att kunna skilja på dröm och verklighet. Han flyr från sitt vardagliga liv och sjunker allt djupare in i en märklig drömvärld. När han blir erbjuden ett nytt spännande jobb återvänder han till sin barndomstad Paris, men jobbet visar sig vara ett riktigt sömnpiller. Stéphane sjunker allt djupare in i en märklig drömvärld samtidigt som han får upp ögonen för sin granne Stéphane. Han vill få henne att lära känna den färgstarka värld som bor inom honom. När Stéphane är oförmögen att hitta nyckeln till Stephanies hjärta i verkligheten, börjar han leta efter svaret i sina drömmar.

Filmatisering av Virginia Woolfs märkliga roman med samma namn om Orlando, en människa som lever i 400 år. Först som man, sedan som kvinna, som älskare och älskarinna, som rik och som fattig. Orlando föds som man i ett välbärgat hem i 1500-talets England och avslutar sitt liv på 1990-talet som en helt vanlig kvinna som har förlorat allt men funnit sig själv.

En ultravåldsam allegori över Spaniens förflutna. Javier bevittnade som pojkvasker det spanska inbördeskriget från första parkett och såg sin far falla offer för Francos regim. Många år senare får han jobb på en cirkus och förälskar sig i akrobaten Natalia, som dock redan tjingpaxats av den sadistiske fylleclownen Sergio ? en fascistisk typ som väcker dåliga barndomsminnen till liv.

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

Norman is not just an admirer of nature, he's a part of it. He survives the harshness of the climate and the wildlife by coexisting with it. With his wife Nebraska, they live almost entirely off the land, making money by selling their furs.

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

An aimless college graduate jumping from one job interview to another — killing time in between with his deadbeat room-mate — finds his life turned upside down after falling in love with a mysterious woman.

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.