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Jane Castleton leads a satirical tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.

An actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Germans move into the city.

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to Valium and drink and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.

Being imprisoned for murdering a politician, husband tells his wife why he did this.

In Venice, forty-old-year old Serge Fabergé has just been given the best advertisement director award. While taking a walk on the Piazza San Marco, Serge meets Evelyn Nicholson, a twenty-three-year-old English beauty. He falls passionately in love with her and, as a result, starts neglecting his charming wife, Françoise, going so far as to consider divorcing her. But having a young fiery insatiable mistress is not without drawbacks...

Two small-time thieves (Michael Emil and Zack Norman) come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. On the road they pick up a singer/chauffeur (Richard Romanus) plus two unlikely women they meet in a Holiday Inn (Patrice Townsend and Irene Forrest). Then the fun begins. A zany, hilarious, screwball road comedy about sex, money and vitamins, with an exceptional cast who deliver comic performances of manic perfection.

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

A young woman visiting the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao reacts to the audio-tour description of the curves and sensual textures of the building's interior.

Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.

When deaf-mute Singer moves to a new town to be near his hospitalized friend, he makes an indelible impression on the lives of those around him.

The story of a girl and the love she has for her bicycle. With the good times, comes the eventual bad times, which ultimately leads back to the original love she always had for her mechanical wonder.

Luis enjoys the liberty of being single. He has a smell for perfumes and thus money. However, his 5 sisters and mom believe that at 43, he should be looking for a wife, not one-night stands. They find candi/dates. He hires a "fiancée".

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; when a mysterious man finds her wallet, they embark on a peculiar romance.

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

In Havana, a post office branch is more than a place of bureaucratic rules and regulations to ensure effective public services. This is where Carla Perez works. A young dreamer, this government employee transforms boredom into a 'crossroads of feeling in writing'. More than merely sending and receiving letters, she aims to help her companions in finding happiness and love. Such good will can not go un-rewarded. Her exiled parents in Miami entered her name in the yearly U.S. immigration lottery. Unexpectedly, she receives a notice for her interview to get the 'green card'. Now she will have to opt between a future of her own in Cuba, and a future planned by others in Miami.

While working on a murder-mystery script, unaware that his brain is about to implode, aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer becomes baffled when his characters start to appear in his life.

His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house.

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days.

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

A woman reflects on her childhood relationship with her father, attempting to understand the depths of his despair and the truth of his myths.