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An old lady lives in a quiet village in the Andes and has never seen the sea. For many years her husband has promised to take her to the Caribbean Sea, but the plans are always thwarted for different reasons.

Eslaam is released from prison and goes to visit his old friend, Mosayyeb. Ghadir tries to involve them in smuggling, but Eslaam resists and warns Mosayyeb, who is willing to cooperate. An old man asks them to find his daughter, Safaa, across the sea and bring her back to the port. The two friends set off in their launch for an Arab country and, against her will, bring Safaa back from a café where she works. In retaliation, Safaa causes a rift between the two friends...

When the old fisherman tries to convince his donkey to climb the steep winding road of their Greek island, he finds Mariza to be one suborn ass. But the old man knows that no one can resist Zorba's dance.

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Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

While the dam project will be expropriated, Yellow poplar and Long poplar villages are included in the expropriation. Although this is supposed to protect the confidentiality, a member of the commission sells this information to a holding company and someone in that holding company sells what they heard to another holding company.

For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...

Íker thinks that everyone looks like an animal. He would have liked to be a bear, like his dad, but no, he is just like his grandfather, a porcupine.

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The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, 39. Rather than sell his milk, he pours it down the drain. The villagers condemn him for continuing the milk strike. Both his marriage and his finances are on the rocks. As Hanna becomes more involved in Uwe's troubles, it seems she may be his only hope. But that's not why she came here. In the neighboring town, she spies on a small family and then Uwe finds her out.

The film tells the story of Niu Yuwen, a young village official who leads the locals in building a beautiful countryside. Through intricately woven comedic conflicts and a vivid, humorous, and emotionally resonant narrative, the film allows viewers to experience the interplay between personal destiny and the broader tides of the times; evoking both laughter and tears.

The grandmother is torn at home and does not have time to do several things at once. She urgently needs to go to the store, and she put the dough. So that the dough does not run away, the grandmother asks to take care her granddaughter Zhenya. It would seem that nothing complicated, but Zhenya has more important things, such as to take a walk, play with her friends, and therefore she puts the grandmother's request on a dog. The dog also does not want to guard the dough, and therefore he delegates this important task to the cat. The cat is even more lazy to engage in such nonsense, and she has to ask the mouse to look after the household. As a result, the stubborn dough ran away, and now you need to know where to look for it.

A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.

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Fat Kau (Leung Sing-por) and his wife (Ma Siu-ying) are not on the best terms with their fierce daughter-in-law Tang (Tam Lan-hing). It is their secret wish that their grandson Kim-kwong (Yam Kim-fai) would marry an ill-tempered woman—it would be, Kau and Lee think, poetic justice for Tang to have a taste of her own medicine. But to their disappointment, the granddaughter-in-law Yu-chu (Law Yim-hing) turns out to be meek and understanding. Kau and his wife therefore tricks Yu-chu into starting a quarrel with Tang. Rich in intricate details of everyday life, the film depicts a witty battle between vivid characters, and is a comedic portrayal of the relationship between mother and daughter-in-law through three generations.

Concert for the Stubborn shows us the implications of being an indie musician trough the work of two music groups from Mexico City: Los Músicos de José and Renee Mooi. Two stories about honesty, passion and dedication to music.

There are only eight films in the creative dossier of film director Marlene Khutsiev to date. But without any exaggeration, we can say that each of these films was an unforgettable event in our cultural life. The legendary tapes "Spring on Zarechnaya Street", "It was the month of May", "Two Fedors", "July Rain", "Afterword" still do not come off the cinema and television screens. The film "I am Twenty years old" earned even greater fame, once not accepted by official authorities, and now recognized both here and abroad as the brightest artistic document of the era of the seventies of the last century.

In the Hungarian border town Rábagyarmat, local workers get together as part of an amateur theatre troupe that's been performing since 1920. This documentary is a meditation about growing old but sticking to tradition and making something of one’s lives.

A stern matron lives together in a luxurious home with her three married children. The eldest son's wife is not popular with the family because of her cross temper and foolishness. She invests all her husband's fortune in paintings that turn out to be forgeries. Her husband brings his mistress into the household as a maid. His mother is aware of their relationship and it has her approval.

Selim, a young Maghrebian, shares his life with Jacques, a middle-aged septuagenarian. He is not content to maintain an emotional relationship with his lover, but also meets men during his outings. The discovery of this new life increases his insatiable need for freedom. However, this is endangered by the weight of a family with well-established traditions.

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!

Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.

When blind former Olympic skier Sophie Scott cat-sits in a secluded mansion, she gets caught in the crossfire of a home invasion scheme. She must rely on a sighted Army veteran via the See for Me app to help her survive the night.

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concerns. As he starts building, he is blindsided by the bureaucratic codes and officials. As Irene becomes increasingly ill, Craig fights back. Based on a true story.

Symphony doesn't seem to know whether she wants to be angry or fair, having developed an enormous hate for her ex, Tyler. Tyler's frustration as he tries his best to remain calm throughout the agony he's had to endure comes to light.