Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere being heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has an unsettling dream about the ills of alcohol, among other things.
Early Balkan footage.
Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
At a department store, George seeks help in getting a bone out of his throat. No one will help him; lunch counter girl Gracie wants to talk about airplanes.
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by her boyfriend Vance. The professional writer John Banning understands why Belle got involved with these criminals. Banning tries to help her get out of that seedy life. However, It is not easy. A lot of action and violence ensues before Belle eventually succeeds.
Le café du Colisée sur les Champs-Elysées à Paris.
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Porky utilise ses gadgets mécaniques pour préparer un repas pour un étrange petit homme, tandis que le cuisinier Conrad Cat s'occupe d'une fourmi dans la préparation des crêpes.
À la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, Frank Gibbons retrouve sa femme et ses trois enfants. La famille emménage dans la banlieue de Londres avec une tante et la grand-mère. Pendant les vingt années qui suivent, ils traversent les moments de bonheur et les tragédies soudaines, avec en toile de fond les grands événements de l’entre-deux-guerres...
Une panne oblige les voyageurs d'un autocar à passer la nuit dans une station-service, sur la grande autoroute de Californie. La panne réparée, un nouvel incident immobilise pendant des heures les voyageurs en pleine montagne. De chacun des naufragés de l'autocar, l'auteur trace un portrait étonnant, dévoilant le drame ou la comédie de son existence entière. Chacun des voyageurs perd la tête, est assailli par des tentations sexuelles, nous livre un instant son âme secrète.
Vienna, 1957: Head waiters Gustav (Paul Hörbiger) and Franz (Hans Moser) are working for the stinted Cafétier Panigl and are close friiends despite of their different characters. Franz is happily married and a good family father, Gustav, a relaxed charmer, is living a calm single life. Overnight both of them become jobless, because Panigl decided to sell his Café which was not successful anymore. Right in this moment, Franz' brother is sending 20.000 Dollar from USA. Money, he once peculated and now wants to pay back.. Gustav and Franz are buying half of the Café for each from the unexpected money. One half they develop as the modern Musicbox-Espresso «Pinguin», the other half as a traditional old style Vienna Café . Misunderstandings between guests and generations are inevitable and stretch the long term friendship of the two waiters.
A man who used to be a political brigade commissar offended the society. Twenty years after the war, he comes to visit the old monument erected in honor of his dead comrades, unwanted and abandoned. They were roll-calling the dead and alive, but his name was not mentioned. And he stood before his comrades, face to face. He stood, and it looked as if he had never existed.
Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented together. US limited theatrical release in 1969.
Alexandre, jeune oisif, vit avec (et aux crochets de) Marie, boutiquière sensiblement plus âgée que lui. Il aime encore Gilberte, étudiante qui refuse la demande en mariage qu’il lui fait en forme d’expiation. Il accoste, alors qu’elle quitte une terrasse, Veronika, interne à Laennec. « Je me laisse facilement aborder, comme vous avez pu le constater (…) Je peux coucher avec n’importe qui, ça n’a pas d’importance. » Marie accepte, quoique difficilement, de partager son homme avec elle.
A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.
Dans le hameau belge de Pont Brûlé, les anciens amants Monique et Louis se retrouvent lors d'un carnaval, provoquant un drame avec leurs partenaires actuels.
Londres, 1969. Withnail et Marwood sont deux comédiens qui vivent ensemble dans un appartement sale, crasseux. Ils attendent depuis des mois de décrocher un rôle qui leur permettrait de remplir leur compte en banque désespérément vide. En attendant ce grand jour, ils passent leurs journées à ne rien faire dans leur logement en se « nourrissant » d'alcool et de pilules. Un jour, las et découragés, ils décident de partir en vacances. Ils arrivent chez l'oncle de Withnail, un homosexuel obèse qui essaie aussitôt de séduire Marwood. Ce dernier est alors rappelé de Londres : on lui propose le premier rôle pour une pièce.
A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An unemployed paleonthologist spends his nights sewing dresses for his beloved one. When she sets off to countryside for work and doesn't call back, he becomes suspicious and decides to solve this sudden departure on his own.
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.