I 2031 har en ny istid gjort Jorden nærmest ubeboelig. Menneskets sidste bastion er et langt højteknologisk tog, som konstant er i bevægelse. Hvis motoren stopper, fryser menneskeheden ihjel. De rigeste bor i de forreste vogne, mens de fattigste lever kummerligt i de bagerste vogne, hvor oprøret ulmer.
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Gymnasiepigen Adèle længes efter noget, hun ikke kan sætte ord på. Men da hun møder den blåhårede kunststuderende Emma, vækkes hun følelsesmæssigt og seksuelt. De to unge kvinder indleder et lidenskabeligt forhold, og Adèle tager hul på et helt nyt kapitel af sit liv. 'Adèles liv' modtog Cannes-festivalens Guldpalme foruden en lang række andre priser.
Filmen foregår i 1970erne, og handler om et topmoderne højhus, der byder på alt, hvad hjertet begærer. Beboernes tilværelse er det rene utopi, lige indtil et sammenbrud i det selvskabte og ekstremt voldelige hierarki vender op og ned på det hele.
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Uma (Emma Roberts) vågner op på Paradise Hills uden nogen anelse om, hvordan hun er havnet der. Det er en fornem skole lokaliseret på en afsidesliggende ø, men det er ikke en almindelig skole. Formålet med Paradise Hills er at få piger, der ikke opfører sig korrekt, til at lære at makke ret. Omas "forbrydelse" er åbenbart, at hun har nægtet at gifte sig med dén mand, hendes familie har udvalgt. På skolen møder hun andre piger, der også har modsat sig dette mystiske samfunds befalinger. Heldigvis er Paradise Hills designet til at slå den slags oprør ned. Men hvordan? Det viser sig snart, at skolen gemmer på en grusom hemmelighed.
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.
As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?
Thirty-year-old Camilla, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princess.
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
A girl with a secret assignment arrives in a provincial town, where she meets a scavenger, who in the evening turns out to be an elegant and ironic respectable gentleman. A mutual interest arises between them, and they begin to play the game, trying to guess each other's past.
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
The inheritance from her former boss is a poisoned chalice for Indigenous housekeeper Justina: a huge, derelict mansion in the back of beyond. Justina’s daughter Alexia would much prefer to return to Buenos Aires and work as a car mechanic.
When Sangchan and Rawee meet and fall in love the day before he leaves to study abroad, he promises to return on October 8th of every year to see her. As the years pass and new relationships arise, Sangchan's faith in their love is tested.