Joulun lähestyessä Clark Griswold vannoo, että hänen perheensä tulee viettämään "kaikkien aikojen hauskimman, vanhan kunnon perhejoulun". Mutta ennen kuin katsoja ehtii lurauttaa tilanteeseen sopivan joululaulun, Clark asettaa jouluvärssyn vanhan vinkin "ei itkeä saa, ei meluta saa" todella kovalle koetukselle. Mikään ei nimittäin mene perheenpään suunnitelmien mukaan. Katolla on 25 000 lamppua. Joulupöydän kruunaa räjähtävä kalkkuna. Poliisin erikoisryhmä piirittää taloa.
Clark Griswold päättää viedä perheensä autolomalle Chicagosta Kalifornian upeaan Walley Worldiin. Rentouttava matka halki kauniin USA:n, perhe jonka keskinäinen kiintymys lujittuu... Mutta todellisuus on jotain aivan muuta - uskomattomia kolareita, viheliäistäkin kurjempia motelleja, takapenkille kuolevia sukulaisia...
The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
Levoton nuori mies vetäytyy suurkaupungista ja entisestä vaimostaan pikkukaupungin rauhan vuoksi. Hän vetää suhdetta nuori nainen, jonka poikaystävä katoaa, jättäen uuden saapuvan epäiltynä.
Mother's lucky day takes a strange turn when a lightning strike leaves her with telekinetic powers. She finds more and more ways to use her new ability, but soon things get a little out of control.
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.
A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
This documentary follows three couples to see how things turned out several years after their weddings. The film presents challenging ideas about relationships, as it answers the question: Why is marriage so difficult?
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.
A woman's nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love—unspool in a playful parade of surreal, straight-from-the-id images. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
A young couple gets ready for a ceremony. Emilia is not dressed yet and Pietro is struggling with his tie and also very annoyed about a speech he has to give. While they talk around their house, time travels back and forth revealing different phases of their life.
An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.
This sensual drama depicts the story of an inseparable couple trying to cope with the obstacle in life.
An intimate portrait that tells the story of Anthony, a lonely history teacher, and his adopted daughter Luna. Unexpectedly Sam, his ex boyfriend, shows up one year after their separation looking for closure or perhaps trying to revive a relationship that once was.
It's Sunday, and as usual a wife is nagging her husband, this time about the whereabouts of the Sunday newspaper which she's sure he's hiding from her. The husband is just as irritated by her nagging since this time it is interfering with him trying to take a shave and brush his teeth. Their argument extends to what belongs to whom and what each person contributes to the household. They end up doing things and making remarks just to irritate the other. Their argument reaches a whole different level when a pretty neighbor gets peripherally involved.