When Jesper distinguishes himself as the Postal Academy's worst student, he is sent to Smeerensburg, a small village located on an icy island above the Arctic Circle, where grumpy inhabitants barely exchange words, let alone letters. Jesper is about to give up and abandon his duty as a postman when he meets local teacher Alva and Klaus, a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a cabin full of handmade toys.
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
イタリア、ナポリに浮かぶ小さな島に、チリ政府に追われた世界的詩人パブロ・ネルーダが亡命し、滞在することとなった。彼だけに郵便を届ける配達人となった村の貧しい青年マリオは、ネルーダとの交流の中で、少しずつ詩の世界に触れ、恋を知るのだった。美しい風景の中で切ない愛と友情を描く感動作。
Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Immediate delivery recounts the misadventures of Feliciano Callosum (Cantinflas), a postman who is recruited by the secret counterintelligence service (called XU-777 secret agency), and must uncover an international conspiracy.
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community. Influenced by too much wine and a newsreel account of rapid transportation methods used by the United States postal system, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed the delivery of mail while aboard his bicycle.
「弾丸ランナー」の新鋭・サブの監督第2作目。突然運び屋で殺し屋と勘違いされ、警察とヤクザの両方から追われるはめになる平凡な郵便局員の姿をコミカルでかつハードに描く。郵便配達人の沢木は、退屈な日常を送っていた。そんなある日、仕事中に偶然旧友の野口に再会。その日から沢木の日常は思わぬ方向へと展開して行く。沢木の赤い自転車は野口と謎の殺し屋ジョーへの友情のため、小夜子との約束のため、そして自分自身の日常からの解放のためにひたすら突っ走る。
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
80年代初頭の中国・湖南省西部の山間地帯。長年、責任と誇りを胸に郵便配達をしてきた男にも引退の時が近づいていた。ある日、男はその仕事を息子に引き継がせるため、息子とともに自らの最後の仕事へと出発する。それは一度の配達に2泊3日を要する過酷な道のり。重い郵便袋を背に、愛犬を連れ、険しい山道を辿り、いくつもの村を訪ねる。父は多くを語らず、黙々と仕事をこなす中で、道筋や集配の手順、そしてこの仕事の責任の重さと誇りを息子に伝えていく。父に対して少なからずわだかまりを抱えていた息子も、そんな父の背中を見ながら、徐々に父への思いを新たにしていくのだった…。
Dimwitted, somewhat misanthropic Oslo mail carrier Roy's quiet life changes dramatically on the day he steals a set of keys and lets himself into the apartment of a deaf woman who seems to be in trouble with a psychotic criminal. Though he doesn't know it at the time, his and her fate are about to intertwine and this is not going to be to his benefit.
A sprightly elderly man brightens the day of a little girl through magic.
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
A shy postman longing for a relationship is reading love letters he is supposed to deliver.
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.