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An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hopes of achieving success, only to be lured by an eccentric music producer and his entourage into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.

When a married American woman ends up in a Vienna hospital after a suicide attempt, an inspector seeks to uncover the cause and eventual demise of her torrid affair with a psychoanalyst.

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When alone, he sits at a desk, sighing, and looking at a photograph of a pretty girl. One day, the circus descended onto his palace, and amidst all the fun it brought, he recognized the Amazon on the white horse - the girl in the photograph. The girl is now the mother of a small boy, Yo-Yo, whom she considers that looks like the millionaire, even under a clown's make-up. The boy will spend some time in the palace, in awe of so much riches, but he will leave (in a dream-like scene) on the tusks of the elephant. Time passes - and one day Yo-Yo will be the owner of his father's palace in decay. Starting from scratch, he will rebuilt it, and be praised as a great clown, an artist, a film-maker, a millionaire. Yet, something is amiss...

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

An introspective young woman's life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister.

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

Roger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders.

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.