A young man shoots hoops in an empty gym. He misses constantly. At the other end of the court, a young woman arrives and starts warming up. She rarely misses. He's white, she's black. From time to time, she glances at him and smiles. He's fully aware of her presence and of his lack of talent. Is there any way he can impress her? His imagination takes over.

A single middle aged lady working as receptionist and cleaner in a public lavatory for men spends her time between chores reading "Happy Woman" and daydreaming about a loving partner. When an unknown man starts leaving flowers at her desk, she gets excited but also increasingly stressed out trying to figure out who is her secret admirer or, perhaps, the prankster.

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Juliette é uma dona de casa que gasta um dia por semana no centro de Paris a vender o seu corpo na rua, na esperança de conseguir escapar à decadência de um bairro suburbano, onde vive com a sua família, e encontrar a felicidade.

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

The popular monarch, Queen Christina of Sweden, must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

Judeu sobrevivente de Auschwitz perdeu toda a família no campo de concentração. Vive em Nova York, amargurado, solitário e descrente, toca uma loja de penhores num bairro não muito amistoso.

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.

Uma artista francesa de striptease está desesperada para ser mãe. Quando o seu namorado relutante sugere que o seu melhor amigo a engravide, os sentimentos complicam-se quando ela aceita.

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. The woman that comes does not look like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway.

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

Argélia, 1920. O rabino Sfar vive com sua filha Zlabya, um papagaio barulhento e um gato brincalhão que começa a falar depois de engolir o papagaio. Apaixonado pela dona, Zlabya, o felino faz de tudo para ficar por perto e até aceita as condições impostas pelo rabino: aprender mais sobre o judaísmo e fazer o Bar Mitzvah. Para isso, ele embarca em uma grande aventura.

Na guerra fria, André é contratado para checar boatos de mísseis russos em Cuba e descobrir o espião na Otan de codinome Topázio. Traição, morte e suspense cercam a história na perseguição do espião infiltrado.

Após tentativa de suicídio, viúva Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) persegue os cinco homens que, acidentalmente, assassinaram seu marido nas escadarias da igreja, logo após concluída a cerimônia de casamento.

Antoine Doinel casou-se com Christine Darbon que dá aulas de violino. Antoine tinge flores no pátio do prédio onde vivem. Entre os seus vizinhos contam-se um cantor de ópera e a sua esposa, um sequestrador voluntário, um criado apaixonado e um homem misterioso apelidado "o estrangulador". Antoine muda de profissão e é contratado por uma empresa americana. Christine espera uma criança que se chamará Alphonse. Antoine conhece Kyoko, uma bela japonesa com quem tem uma aventura. O caldo está entornado no seio da família Doinel.