In every movie that he watches, 16-year-old Andoy creates narratives that could help him find answers to the questions that have always bothered him: Who is he and who is his father? While the truth remains elusive, his imaginings remain unrealized until two movie-like characters appear in their barrio - Ariel, a hairdresser who lures young men with his inexplicable charm, and Isidro, a mysterious, long-haired man who owns a VCD player. Andoy finds himself entranced with Ariel and Isidro and begins to spend intimate time with them. As he gets entangled with their twisted lives, his reality becomes mystified. Just like the movies, Andoy must decide whether to conclude his years-long search for his father with a bang or with a whimper.
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
Approaching the end of his twenties and his relative youth, a man decides to quit his cushy desk job and 'embrace life' - only to realize he has no idea what to do with this newfound freedom.
Keith, a defeated adult store owner, falls for a younger woman who visits his shop looking for a gift. When their relationship turns physical, Keith’s failure to perform leads him to a strange doctor who offers hope in the form of a new experimental drug. The experience gives Keith much more than renewed manhood. It also provides a glimpse into a parallel universe where he is not only the singer of the band OFF!, but also the target of an evil alien species that will stop at nothing to prevent the group from making a new album which holds the key to an awakening of human consciousness.
安娜(克里斯蒂娜•里奇 Christina Ricci 饰)是一次车祸的幸存者,然而她惊讶的发现自己已经被判定了死亡。证据是她的葬礼已经在准备中,负责人正是葬礼主管艾略特(连姆•尼森 Liam Neeson 饰)。安娜对此既不解又恐惧。因为她很清楚,葬礼的终点就是入棺活埋。她对艾略特现身,希望后者坚持自己还活着的真相。两个人在封闭的停尸间进行着辩论,艾略特坚持履行自己的职责,并对安娜解释她到“来世”的种种缘由。而安娜面对不见底的黑暗,内心无比悲凉。然而,艾略特并不认同安娜的说法。他坚持自己是因为通灵才能辨识安娜的游魂。只有一个人还坚信安娜活着,那就是她的男友保罗(贾斯汀•朗 Justin Long 饰)。他并不认同艾略特的说法,坚持调查安娜的死因,慢慢地,他接近了真相……