The story takes place in northern Italy in the 1950's. Lola and Masetto are about to get married. Masetto wants to keep Lola as a virgin until they are married. But Lola is impatient to remain in chastity until the wedding night. She wants to be sure that Masetto is a good lover, before she commits herself into marriage. She does everything to trick Masetto into breaking the moral tradition.
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
Den 10-årige pige Wadjdas højeste ønske er en cykel, så hun kan køre ræs mod sin ven, Abdullah. Men det er ikke acceptabelt for piger at køre på cykel i offentligheden, og da hendes mor siger nej, må Wadjda forfølge sin drøm på en anden måde. Hun stiller derfor op i skolens konkurrence om at citere Koranen for at vinde den store pengepræmie, og på denne made udgør religionen på én og samme tid forhindringen og udvejen. Wadjda lægger alle kræfter i, og efterhånden begynder lærerne at få øjnene op for hende...
Duncan er en kejtet knægt på 14, der skal holde ferie sammen med sin mor og hendes nye kæreste, Trent. Trent lægger ikke skjul på, at han ikke ser det store lys i Duncan, og det tegner til at blive en lang og træls sommer. I hvert fald indtil Duncan møder drengerøven Owen, der arbejder i det lokale vandland. Owen tilbyder Duncan et sommerjob og ansporer den generte teenager til at komme ud af sin skal.
Den excentriske Pee-wee lever et lykkeligt liv indtil hans elskede cykel en dag bliver stjålet. Men den gode Pee-wee er fast besluttet på at genfinde sin store kærlighed, så han drager afsted for at igangsætte en større eftersøgning, der bringer ham vidt omkring i USA og i kontakt med en række farverige mennesker.
Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, they discover a box of walkie-talkies -- and find out that a gang of criminals intends to use them to monitor police signals during a bank robbery. When the young trio snatches the devices, it propels them on a hair-raising adventure in which their pedaling skills might just save their necks.
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
To brødre, Marcus og David Grant, deltager begge i det benhårde maraton-cykelløb 'Hell of the West', som går over Rocky Mountains. Men en arvelig - og dødelig - familiesygdom truer med at sætte dem en kæp i hjulet.
Breaking Away foregår i Bloomington, Indiana, et sommerhedt hul i USA, hvor de lokale arbejdersønner keder sig og drømmer om uopnåelige collegepiger. Dave og hans tre bedste venner Mike, Cyril og Moocher er færdige med highschool og skal snart til at se voksentilværelsen i øjnene. De fordriver tiden med det rene ingenting, for de nægter at vaske de universitetsstuderendes biler. Til sin fars bekymring er Dave en drømmer, der brændende ønsker sig at være berømt italiensk cykelrytter, men hans mors indstilling til, at det hele nok skal gå, viser sig at være den rette. Dave får nemlig et par erfaringer eller to den sommer, der gør ham moden til at tage nogle fornuftige valg. Filmen handler selvfølgelig også om at stræbe op ad, at have mål og at ville gøre en indsats for at nå dem. Det er cykelløbet i slutningen er filmen det klareste eksempel på. Der vinder arbejderklassedrengene over universitetsfyrene. En morsom og seriøs film på samme tid.
Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything.One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships.At the dinner they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it (thus the title "Nackt"=naked in German).
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Manchester er en kæmpende fotograf med charme til overs, der falder for Noon, en sød, men spunky kvinde, der arbejder som konservator. Middag trækkes også til Manchester, og sammen nyder de et vildt entusiastisk seksuelt forhold, der afspejler deres uskyldige, men dybt lidenskabelige kærlighed til hinanden.
Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong’s confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
I Bjergkøbing bor Theodor Fælgen sammen med sine to medhjælpere - det lidt pessimistiske, melankolske og forsigtige pindsvin Ludvig og den optimistiske fugl Solan Gundersen med halstørklæde, filttøfler og lav moral. I Bjergkøbing er miljøet luftigt og frodigt, og de tre lever af at reparere cykler, lave nye opfindelser og producere blomsterpinde. På tv ser de en dag, at Theodors tidligere hjælper, Rudolf Blodstrupmose, har stjålet en af Theodors store opfindelser - superretometerfordeleren. Han er dermed blevet verdensmester i Formel 1 og udfordrer, hvem det måtte være, til duel. Til trods for Ludvigs bekymrede advarsler - men inspireret af Solans entusiasme og støttet af oliesheikens Ben Redic Fy Fazans penge - tager Theodor udfordringen op og begynder at bygge racerbilen Il Tempo Gigante.
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.