Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.
A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.
35-vuotias ikkunanpesijä John on kasvattanut yksinhuoltajana neljävuotiasta Michaelia sen jälkeen, kun lapsen äiti jätti heidät pian pojan synnyttyä. Kun John saa kuulla, että hänellä on vain muutama kuukausi elinaikaa, hän päättää suojella Michaelia kauhealta tilanteelta etsimällä hänelle uuden, täydellisen perheen. Vaikka aluksi John luulee tietävänsä, millainen täydellinen perhe on, valinta osoittautuu yllättävän vaikeaksi. Miten perheettä voi arvioida lyhyen tapaamisen perusteella? Tunteeko hän lapsensa tarpeeksi hyvin tehdäkseen päätöksen tämän puolesta? Kun John huomaa olevansa mahdottoman tehtävän edessä, hän suostuu lopulta ottamaan apua vastaan nuorelta sosiaalityöntekijältä, joka avaa hänelle täysin uuden mahdollisuuden. Hänen on hyväksyttävä joukko isoja ja kipeitä asioita: oman kohtalonsa epäreiluus, siitä kumpuavat vihan tunteet ja totuuden kertomisen välttämättömyys. Sekä se, että lopulta lapsen elämän suurimmissa päätöksissä on seurattava lapsen omaa vaistoa.
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
Luke Wilson on lämminhenkisen draamakomedian nimikkoroolissa mies, joka vetäytyy hiljaiseen lähiöön surrakseen lääkäriltä kuulemiaan huonoja uutisia. Mies ei saa enää olla rauhassa, kun naapuri Esperanza huomaa Henryn talon seinässä oudon läiskän ja tulkitsee sen ilmestykseksi. Kaaoksen keskellä Henry tutustuu ihastuttavaan Dawniin (Radha Mitchell), naapurissa asuvaan yksinhuoltajaäitiin.
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other ideas. His best friend Jay (Topher Owen) urges him to "live life to the fullest" by going on crazy adventures. His girlfriend Sasha (Carrie Slaughter) wants to have his baby. And his mother Corinna (Rebekah Turner) tries to save his life with home cooking, yoga, and smothering love. Randall must find a way to help all of them fulfill their needs if he's going to have any chance of achieving his own dying wish -- fixing a meter that's been broken for more than a year!
A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
During an annual cabin retreat, a dying man must confront past mistakes after learning he may not know his friends as well as he may think.
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.
Set in the year 2071, where technology has brought mankind to the brink of colonization on a planet named Gaia, one astronaut takes on an isolated mission and discovers unearthly horrors that could bring an end to human life on this planet.
A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.
Sandeep, a doctor, meets Devan, who is a dying patient. He gets inspired by Devan and decides to give him the best in his last few days.
A poignant and humorous film telling the life story of the hugely popular author of the discworld series of books, in his own words.
A Yugoslav man, dying after being shot while attempting to help defend his village, writes a letter of encouragement and hope to his unborn child, explaining what he was fighting for in resisting the Nazi invasion of his homeland. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short.