When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal cancer.
Thomas, in his forties, holds an important post in a slaughterhouse. He is engaged to Marie-Rose, the daughter of the director, whom he hopes to follow later. In a routine examination in the hospital, however, he finds out that he has cancer and his days are counted. The upheaval that he suffers as a result, however, does not take long, his decision is certain: he will use the short time to clean up some bad guys. What else can he do now?
Nach dem Selbstmord ihrer Mutter flüchtet die 19-jährige Lucy in die Toskana, um ihren leiblichen Vater zu finden und ihre Jugendliebe wieder zu treffen. Mit ihrer unbeschwerten und offenen Art reißt sie die intellektuellen Bewohner einer Villa, in der sie zu Gast ist, aus ihrer Lethargie. Nicht nur auf den leukämiekranken Schriftsteller Alex wirkt die bezaubernde Lucy wie ein wiederbelebendes Mittel …
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
The film follows an emotionally harrowing journey endured by young gay photographer Alex, after he is diagnosed with peritoneal cancer. Abandoned by his brother and his on-again, off-again lover, Alex is forced to face his mortality and the loss of his sexual identity through sheer resilience. A devastating, but ultimately hopeful story of survival and resolve.
Two friends take a high tech risk for the chance to talk to their best friend one more time.
A young widow loses his girlfriend Yuan Mei to a mysterious fainting spell disease, and he finds out his sole daughter Wang Xiao Nao will follow after her footsteps after being told she will only live to see twelve years old. After Xiao Nao tries out for a school play by acting out a folktale about trees passed down from her deceased mother, she earns the role of Princess Rabbit in the Rabbit Kingdom play. With the other parents becoming jealous of Xiao Nao's position, the director is bribed to take Xiao Nao out of her main role and is given the background role of a tree.
Ein Dorf ist dem Untergang geweiht, hier gibt es nichts mehr, was den Ort noch vor dem Sterben bewahren könnte. Die noch verbliebenen jungen Menschen schlagen die Zeit tot, indem sie alles Fremde verachten, illegalen Hundekämpfen beiwohnen oder sich anderweitig berauschen.