The Skin (1981)

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustained during the war in Syria are making his life difficult. When news breaks that the rest of his family will arrive from a refugee camp, he should be as elated as Aya. But as Aya grows more eager to see her brother Saeed, Sami grows more anxious.

Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by literally becoming her. Dressing in her mom’s iconic St John Knit power suits and re-creating her 1980s local TV cooking show, Stephanie becomes Beta-Florence, a radical reinterpretation of Asian-American identity.

Inside a room full of plants, a woman finds shelter from the outside world. Submerged in delirium, Alba experiences her withering.

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

シュレックは他の人からは怖がられている怪物である。その外見とは裏腹に本質は心の優しい彼は、人里離れた沼地で一人気楽に暮らしていた。ある日、シュレックは森の中でお調子者でおしゃべりなロバのドンキーと出会う。シュレックに怯えて逃げた兵達を見てシュレックが自分を救ってくれたと思い込み嫌がるシュレックについて行く。ドンキーのおしゃべりにうんざりしたシュレックが戻ってみると、彼の沼地には妖精やおとぎ話の主人公達が押し寄せてきていた。

シカゴに住む建築家のサムは癌で妻を亡くし一人息子のジョナと共にシアトルに越してきたが、ジョナは、父親のために新しい奥さんが必要だと思いラジオ局の相談番組に電話をする。同じ頃、ボルチモアに住む新聞記者のアニーは、婚約者ウォルターを伴って実家のクリスマス・パーティに出席した帰途に偶然聞いた、そのラジオ番組で、サムが切々と語る亡き妻の思い出にアニーは思わず涙する。

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

＜モンマルトル編＞駐車できる場所を探し求めてモンマルトルの坂道を走り回った末、ようやく見つけたスペースにマイカーを滑り込ませた男性主人公は、すぐ近くで女性が行き倒れとなっているのと遭遇する。＜セーヌ河岸編＞2人の悪友とともにセーヌ河岸に陣取って、道行く女性たちの品定めをしていたフランソワ。偶然目の前で転んだアラブ系の若い女性を助け起こした彼は、彼女の美しさにたちまち魅せられる。その他、計18話。

カーニヴァルの夜、望みをかなえる魔王のボックスにコインを入れた主人公が、翌朝目覚めると少年からオトナに成長していた。親友の協力によって玩具メーカーに就職した主人公だったが、持ち前の自由な発想が社長に認められめきめき昇格していく……。

High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?

海の底に広がる大都会「リーフシティ」。そこに住むオスカーは大金持ちになりリーフシティのトップになるのが夢。ある日オスカーは、借金返済のための金を待ち合わせ場所の競馬場で誘惑に負けて賭けてしまった。運の悪いことに賭けに負けて、アーニー&バーニーによって深海にさらわれてしまった。ちょうど近くにきていたレニーとフランキーがオスカーを狙うが、運悪くフランキーがイカリに潰されて死んでしまう。アーニー&バーニーはオスカーがフランキーを殺したとカン違い。それをいい事に、オスカーは一躍大金持ちのヒーローになってしまう。

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.

Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what appears to be a harmonious and liberal family. But the girls discover how quickly their attractive world can fall apart when, at a hip nightclub, they happen to see Steffi's father in the arms of another woman. Steffi is shocked, her trust in her small perfect world shaken to the core. She can only think of one thing: revenge.

親子ほど歳の違う男女が恋に落ち、幸せの絶頂かに思えたとき、彼女の命があと1年しかないことを知らされて……。美しいニューヨークの秋の風景を背景に描かれる感動のドラマ。

On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.

ラスベガスに住むアルコール依存症の母と、家を出て行った家庭内暴力を振るう父との間に生まれた、少年トレバー。 中学1年生(アメリカでは7年生)になったばかりの彼は、社会科の最初の授業で、担当のシモネット先生と出会う。先生は「もし自分の手で世界を変えたいと思ったら、何をする?」という課題を生徒たちに与える。生徒達のほとんどは、いかにも子供らしいアイディアしか提案できなかったが、トレバーは違った。彼の提案した考えは、「ペイ・フォワード」。自分が受けた善意や思いやりを、その相手に返すのではなく、別の3人に渡すというものだ。 トレバーはこれを実践するため、“渡す”相手を探す。仕事に就かない薬物中毒の男、シモネット先生、いじめられている同級生…。 いろいろと試みるものの、なかなかうまくいかず、「ペイ・フォワードは失敗だったのではないか」とトレバーは思い始める。しかし、トレバーの気づかないところで、このバトンは次々に受け渡されていた。

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?