Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.

A young, modern single woman enters the world of online dating looking for an instant soul mate.

The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people would buy cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and Lucky Strikes online. When sales reached over one hundred million, "Big Tobacco" started to fight the "Little Guys" and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down.

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.

Samuele and Marzio, as teenagers, make a promise to be friends forever, but adulthood, women and everyday problems sneak into their lives.

18歳のソニア（デボラ・フランソワ）と20歳のブリュノ（ジェレミー・レニエ）に息子が生まれる。病院から戻ったソニアは、定職もなく怪しい商売でその日暮しをしているブリュノにまじめに働くよう頼む。

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

8歳の少年スルリックは、ポーランドのユダヤ人強制居住区から脱走。森へと逃げ込むものの寒さと飢えに襲われてしまう彼だが、ヤンチック夫人に助けられる。聡明で愛嬌のあるスルリックに魅了された夫人は、彼にポーランド人孤児のユレクだと名乗るように諭し、架空の身の上話を頭にたたき込む。

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.

郊外の住宅地、長屋のように複数の家族が隣り合って暮らしている。林家の息子実（設楽幸嗣）と勇（島津雅彦）はテレビがほしいと両親にねだるが、聞き入れてもらえない。子供たちは、要求を聞き入れてもらえるまで口を利かないというストライキをして、最終的に買ってもらうのだった。　

建築事務所に勤めるジョージ・モンローは42歳の建築デザイナー。父親との確執が原因で、自分の息子ともうまくコミュニケーションがとれなかった。ついには妻にも逃げられ、上司との摩擦から会社もクビになる。挙げ句の果てに医者から余命3ヵ月との宣告を受けてしまう。再婚して幸せに暮らす妻。そしていまだに父を憎み続ける16歳になる息子。ジョージは初めて自分の人生に疑問を感じた。そして、昔からの夢だった自分の家を建て直すことを決意する。最後の夏、ジョージは反発する息子を無理やり手伝わせ、手造りの家を建て始めた……。

Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.

3人の子供たちを残して行方不明になった妻スザンヌ・ヴィギエの殺害容疑で、夫である大学教授のジャックが起訴される。彼の無実を信じるシングルマザーのノラ(マリナ・フォイス)は、腕利きの弁護士デュポン=モレッティ(オリヴィエ・グルメ)に弁護を直訴し、自らアシスタントとなって事件の調査を開始。刑事、ベビーシッター、スザンヌの愛人らの証言はそれぞれに食い違い、やがて新たな疑惑と真実が浮かび上がる。

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.