After nearly 40 years in operation, the family-run Koto Japanese Restaurant is closing down. Over the course of its final service, the small Vancouver Island community bids farewell.
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Yin and Lee are making dumplings in the kitchen of their restaurant. Yin is kneading dough; Lee is cutting meat and vegetables to make the filling. They are preparing the favourite food of their daughter Tim Tim, who passed away three years before. While they are cautiously folding the dumplings, they are thinking of the beautiful and painful moments. In silence... each with their own memories.
A Swiss tourist named Stella meets Christophe, a French drifter, on a Greyhound bus traveling from Chicago to San Francisco. Settling in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Stella and Christophe develop a sexual relationship. In time, she gets a job as a cashier in a postcard shop, while he parks cars at an expensive restaurant. Stella dreams of going to Japan and singing in clubs, while Christophe wants to explore “the Wild West” he imagines from the American movies of his childhood. The couple befriends Maria, a bisexual Italian immigrant who works in the kitchen at Christophe’s restaurant. In their spare time, the three foreigners complain about their low-wage jobs, criticize Americans, and dream of going someplace else. After Christophe is fired from his valet job, an incoming customer hands him the keys to his car. Christophe takes the vehicle and convinces Stella and Maria to flee with him to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the trio embarks on a new adventure.
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
After Lisa Temple is brutally attacked and suffers from amnesia, it seems her bitter character has changed for the better, which causes her estranged husband Paul to have second thoughts about leaving her. As she rebuilds her life, Lisa and Paul fall in love again. However; there is danger lurking and one last angry memory waiting to surface. Will their love survive?
Quando la direttrice di una catena di ristoranti italiani vince l'opportunità di partecipare al programma di immersione educativa del franchising in Italia, quella che pensava fosse una fuga romantica si trasforma in caos e catastrofe.
Gardenia possiede un ristorante, ha una donna, Regina, e segue le vecchie regole della malavita romana. Questo finchè non arriva Salluzzo che pretende di smerciare la droga anche nel ristorante di Gardenia.
Un tradimento, un omicidio e uno scambio di droga avvengono al ristorante Collide, generando il caos. Questo thriller segue le storie di 6 individui in una serata importante che cambierà il loro destino.
Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Bryan, an unassuming pet photographer has action and adventure thrust upon him when he is forced to wed Masha, a Croatian crime lord's daughter, and she is subsequently kidnapped while on their honeymoon in a tropical paradise.
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
Susannah and Jesse Stanton divorced two years prior with three children. When Susannah starts dating a lawyer, the children decide to find someone for their father, sending a letter to a popular magazine called Alaskan Love. He receives a large number of responses, but the children later feel that his perfect match is Susannah, and they try to arrange a plan to bring them together.
The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.
Una ragazza, Sloane, agente pubblicitario, che si occupa di organizzare un party per l'attrice Caitlin Quinn. Ma quest'ultima muore strozzata da un'oliva in un cocktail. Però il suo fantasma ritorna per far cambiare vita a Sloane, la quale morirà da sola se avrebbe continuato la sua vita da superficiale. Sloane, quando si reca all'ospedale per vedere il corpo della star, rincontra Patrick, un ragazzo che frequentava al college, ma che mollò una notte senza dirgli niente. Caitlin e il fantasma di Brad (ex di Sloane), tornano indietro nel tempo, allo scorso Natale, chiamato da loro ex Natale passato. Sloane scopre che, dopo essersene andata, Patrick caccia fuori un anello e lo scaraventa a terra per la rabbia. Ma la ragazza non cambia idea, neanche quando Patrick le chiede di uscire da amici in un ristorante.
Il tenente Nick Frescia, della sezione narcotici della polizia di Los Angeles, è sulle tracce di Dale Mc Kussic (detto Mac), trafficante di droga e suo ex compagno di liceo. Mac vuole uscire dal giro della droga: Nick gli crede ma il suo collega Maguire è convinto che stia mentendo. Mentre Nick indaga fra le amicizie di Mac questi, le cui intenzioni sono sincere, decide di aiutare un'ultima volta il trafficante messicano Carlos a piazzare una grossa partita di droga nella città degli angeli.
Headly, a 15-year-old teenager, thinks her mother has mourned her father's death long enough, so she decides to find her a new husband by the end of the summer.
Darcy ha sempre lavorato duramente, ma ha preferito fondare una propria società anziché lavorare per quella del padre. Tornando nella cittadina natia per Natale, Darcy ha modo di ritrovare Luke, un vecchio rivale proprietario di un ristorante, e di pianificare con lui un evento di beneficenza. Finiranno con l'innamorarsi: Darcy riscoprirà così il valore della famiglia e Luke capirà cosa conta davvero nella vita (proponendosi di aiutare lei a ristabilire il giusto rapporto con il padre).
Una fotografa francese che vive e lavora a New York, Marion, ed un interior designer, Jack, stanno passando un momento di crisi del loro rapporto e decidono così, di fare un viaggio in Europa e precisamente a Parigi, per cercare di salvare il loro rapporto. Nella capitale francese, vive la famiglia "snob" di Marion e tutti i suoi ex ragazzi... Riusciranno i due a ritrovare la complicità di un tempo?