Special somehow

Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

Bilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

A chef with a mysterious past spends the day with a waitress who needs a friend.

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

An unemployed ex-office worker (Anna Thomson) searching for work floats a fragile line of sanity as she struggles to find friendship and companionship. Her tenuous grasp on reality further fluctuates when a man (Matthew Powers) whom she met in a restaurant and started an affair is called to go to India for an assignment. The final straw occurs when she is evicted and moves into a sleazy hotel. She then starts seeking casual sex in unorthodox locations just to have human contact.

A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.

A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

An Army medic brings his girlfriend to stay with him at an out of the way Vietnam outpost in 1967, the woman disappears one day and he begins searching for her.

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

Two teenage girls share a unique bond: their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.