Historien handler om Puyi, den sidste kejser af Kina. Man følger hans liv fra fødsel, da han bliver kejser som 3-årig og hersker over en halv milliard mennesker, da han bliver fængslet under den japanske invasion og til sidst i hans liv, hvor han blot er gartner.
CIA-agenten Osborne Cox tager det ikke let, da han bliver fyret. Fordrukken og bitter begynder han at skrive sine erindringer. En computerdisk med hans skriverier havner i hænderne på to kiksede fitness-instruktører. De er sikre på, at de har fået fingre i en række saftige spionhemmeligheder og ser disken som en genvej til hurtige penge. Det sætter gang i en kæde af begivenheder, der snart løber løbsk.
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
En engang lovende bryder jagter den guldmedalje, han aldrig vandt, ved at træne to af sine døtre til Commonwealth Games.
Eric har lukket omverdenen ude og er besat af tog og køreplaner. Ved et tilfælde møder han den betagende Patti og lokkes ud af sin skal. Men på bryllupsnatten vender mareridt om tiden som japansk krigsfange tilbage. Tortur og tvangsarbejde på 'Dødens jernbane' har formørket hans sind. Han plages af hævntørst. Da han opdager, at hans bøddel stadig er i live, må Patti vælge. Vil hun støtte ham, uanset hvad han gør?
Der er gået 12 år, siden en 55-årig kvinde har set sin datter, Antía. Hun forsvandt som 18-årig. Moren har søgt overalt efter sin datter, men uden held.Hun beslutter sig for, at skrive et langt brev, hvor hun indrømmer alle de ting hun har holdt hemmeligt for Antía i 30 år.
I 1960'ernes England forsøger den unge Nigel at vinde sin fars accept ved at duellere mod sin nye stedmor i kulinariske kundskaber. Færdigheder, der snart vil lede ham mod noget meget større. En bittersød livsberetning om en gudsbenådet kogekunst - som begynder i et køkken, hvor toast er det fineste, der severes. Filmen er en hjertelig, smagfuld og bittersød dramakomedie, som er baseret på mesterkokken Nigel Slaters selvbiografi.
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
Based on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.
The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".
Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny (Jay Underwood) and Cher (Renee Faia) during the early 60's to their divorce in the late 70's.
A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Denne dokumentar beretter om, hvordan den tidligere olympiske mester og UFC-mester Ronda Rousey blev et ikon inden for MMA.
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school in 1944. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie, and the two old friends deal with a troublesome fraternity president who is in charge of hazings.
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen's life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fueled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, twelve-year-old Petersen is taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.