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- A friar seeks refuge in Beatriz's farmhouse, a girl everyone calls remarkable. Suddenly, Beatriz feels a being inside her, and everyone blames the friar.
- Henri is a middle-aged writer in crisis. Just at a time when he assesses of his life, an enormous gray dog, impolite and smelly, sneaks into Henri's house.
- Based on José Antonio García Blázquez's novel of the same name, the film tells the story of Jacinto Martín del Río, AKA 'Jaci', a fatherless lad who feels a strong love almost unhealthy for his mother, a bourgeois widow with unclear virtues. Anyway, that will not be an obstacle for him to notice other women.
- Arnaud is young and inexperienced when he joins the communication team of a presidential candidate. As he discovers the tactics of the campaign, and the rivalries inside the team, he develops an attraction and fascination for this world.
- A woman returns to her village after her father's death, who has never loved. She meets a man who spends his days cultivating the land and writing. Each of their meetings will culminate in a need for them to confront physically.
- The inhabitants of a strange desert Barcelona are gradually leaving the city in a panic group. The victims of a serial killers seem to feel strangely attracted by their executioners. Only Gim, an attractive blonde advertising model, decides to face her destiny.
- Benito Freire is a peddler who lives miserably in an environment dominated by ignorance and superstition. He is dedicated to peddling by the Galician towns and suffers severe attacks of epilepsy. Through the region begins to spread the rumor that he is a werewolf and that he is possessed by a demonic spirit. And it will be precisely the stories that people are telling about him what start to make him go crazy.
- The tempest over the house of Narcés arose when it was three years since Martín's wife, Angélica, mysteriously disappeared in the waters of the river. Despite the bad weather and ignoring the advice of Angélica's mother, Martín leaves the house to go and raise cattle. At that moment a strange pilgrim arrives in search of shelter. She can only stop for a few minutes because she has to meet on the bridge with Adela, a girl whom Death seeks.
- When a hostage-for-ransom exchange goes wrong, the F.B.I. sends an agent to Turkey to retrieve the ransom money and the hostage who's an important nuclear-weapon scientist.
- Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
- Julia goes to Berlin to study but once there, completely alone, she realizes that she doesn't know herself as well as she thought and that she has no idea what she wants to do while living in a completely new city.
- Deep Andalusia: Manuela, the daughter of a Sevillian poacher who supports his family with the proceeds of their raids and killed shot by order of the chief of the village, marries Antonio, a servant of the rich landowner don Ramón, although the latter is in love with her. Manuela, with its natural beauty and sensuality on edge attracts the most diverse passions, with subsequent conflicts.
- After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.
- Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha's experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.
- Mércedès breaks off a difficult relationship with Johnny, a jealous and possessive young North African. Then another love affair begins with Pierre, a journalist who abandons her.
- Former students reunite years later to honor their school's headmistress. Reminiscing sparks an idea to reenact a cherished tradition, but only 9 out of 40 committed show up, leaving them unsure of what's to come.
- Eva is a young and independent cartoonist who returns to Málaga (Spain) to spend the summer holidays. There she meets her mother and Gema, her best friend. What she does not expect is to meet again with Rubén, her old boyfriend, with whom she has not had any contact since he broke off all relations with her unexpectedly, without farewells, six years ago. Eva will have to think about whether to give Rubén a second chance while she remembers her past, as well as the reason why the young man decided to get away from her.
- A young couple reviews the year they have lived together. According to him, this time has been positive. But she thinks that Jorge was carried away by his father, betraying the plans they had made together before marrying, although she believes that there is still some way to save the situation. That is why she escapes from home, thinking that her husband will go after her and that everything will start again. But a new person enters her life and the situation gets complicated.
- In 16th-century Rome, Rampín, a sympathetic and shameless rogue, exploits his deceptive arts. He lives with his aunt, Napolitana, a gossiper dedicated to the same trades as his nephew. With the arrival of a beautiful Andalusian, Lozana, fortune enters the house by making her the most beautiful courtesan of Rome. Lozana and Rampín reach an agreement: he will be at her service, taking many lovers at home, and she will give him the best, what others will never have. But one day, don Sancho, a handsome Spaniard, falls in love with her.
- Little Benedetto came out of an accident uninjured on his First Communion day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and make him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin, and grace.
- Jacinto, a retired bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter in which he is informed that, according to an old agreement, he must participate in a mock bullfight that will be celebrated that day in Las Ventas bullring. The letter seems to him a joke in bad taste, since he has not signed any contract; but while Jacinto is picking up cigarette butts around, he checks that his name is on the poster.
- Clara has a double life: although she seems like an exemplary wife, during the day she acts as a model for pornographic films in order to earn some extra money. On the other hand, she and her husband Juan form a couple apparently happy. He is an architect, but the state-of-the-art urban project he is working on lacks financing. To make matters worse, an old American guru, a mixture of multi-millionaire patron and rake libertine, bursts into scene.
- A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.
- A gang of fifteen-year-old living in the suburbs of Barcelona have specialized in car theft. With that cars they are engaged in giving the "pull", storming shops to sell goods and attack couples in secluded places in order to rob them and abuse women. Sometimes caught red-handed, they are persecuted by the police; To escape, they invade the road, circulate in the opposite direction and skip controls, sometimes resulting badly injured.
- History of love between a pilot of a pleasure craft and a French girl on vacation in Spain. Unfortunately, once the holidays are over, she will have to return to France to start her classes at the university.
- Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois from Milan is reunited at the Central Station of that city with a childhood companion. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.
- Teacher in the most prestigious high school in the country, François enjoys the life he's always known in Paris. Forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits.
- Delusion 1: A former TV star and a run-down actress live in the same apartment. Over time their relationship has deteriorated and, to save it, they turn to an attractive presenter. But their strategy will only complicate matters. Delusion 2: A young married couple is stunned by a newspaper story. The arrival of some fiery neighbors influences them in such a way that they will end up becoming the protagonists of the news themselves. Delusion 3: A well-known antiquarian holds a party at his house, attended by a young man of haunting beauty. The two start a romance that will reach unsuspected limits.
- Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.
- Resident in an industrial city, Martín is a lonely man who lives isolated in his villa where he has created a world of his own that he shares with Elena, a doll he treats as if she were his wife. In a neighboring apartment lives Lina, a prostitute, and her daughter Cati, an overly curious girl who discovers the truth. Little by little, Martín will be dominated by Lina, to the point that she and her daughter settle in his house. Mauro, a pimp and Lina's lover, will precipitate the tragedy with his aggressive behavior.
- Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages. They all live with the grandfather and depend exclusively on Carlos work (moonlighting rigger) as the sole breadwinner, which puts them in constant financial trouble. They also have the generous support of Juan the godfather, baker by profession. Through various events, we are told of everyday family life: a regular and full-time day of the clan; First communion of two sons; finals of nine of them; holiday on the Costa Dorada (Tarragona), propitious time for the romance of various members of the clan; the loss of Chencho, the baby of the family, in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid and its subsequent recovery. The arrival of their first television serves to announce the arrival of a new child.
- Professor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest's eminence, local residents spend their time engaged in their modest daily chores. The affable Professor Hamilton not only integrates perfectly into the small town, forging deep friendships with his neighbors, but he might also be finding the happiness he craves.
- A bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid.
- Barcelona between the years 1917 and 1923. It is the time of the gun law, during which the confrontation between anarchist gunmen and hired assassins paid by the employers gave a scandalous number of deaths. The confrontation between the anarchist workers and the owners of the Savolta arms factory is aggravated when the Savolta family decides to end the rebellion by hiring hit-men and plotting intrigues in order to hide their illegal transactions with Germany.
- The frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in Paris, is unbearable: he has a wife whom he does not love, a son who is foreign to him and friends whom he despises but, at the same time, he is incapable of taking his own life. One day, he buys a bike from a bizarre cyclist who was to make the Paris-Timbuktu route and sets out to make the journey: then, Timbuktu becomes for him the Promised Land.
- Sellout in the bullring of Las Ventas in Madrid. A luxury poster is about to deal a cattle from Antonio Pérez Tabernero. A spontaneous jumps into the ring, the wife of one of those bullfighters is expecting a child secretly, one of the matadors is prey to nerves during slaughter, some spectators are cheering and discussed among themselves - Halfway between documentary and fiction, carries out this production which, as its title suggests, revolves around a bullfight.
- Marianela (Nela) is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears and promises to operate him so he can see. His father is happy to know this way he will be able to marry his rich cousin while Nela gets desperate knowing his luck will turn into her disgrace when he finally see her face.
- Verónica, recently divorced and with a son, begins to reorganize her life and adapt to the new situation. Her problems are relegated to the background when Carlos, her masseuse, is killed. Knowing himself in danger, Carlos left Verónica with a message on the answering machine: she had to pick up a package hidden in the sinks of a railway station. From that moment on, Verónica won't rest in calm.
- Paco, bored office worker, is a sexually repressed young man, of strict moral and serious convictions. Paco is annoyed by couples who kiss in parks and women with short skirts. Angélica, his secretary and future wife, is even more repressed than him. Paco tries to recover lost time, putting into practice all the erotic fantasies that until then he had considered aberrant. Lying on the couch of his psychoanalyst, he will explain what his life trajectory has been.
- Carlos, a widower in his forties, lives with his daughter Lolita and her sister Merche. He is a candidate to Spanish Court's Proctor, so frequently travels outside Madrid. During one of those trips, he is forced to return home precipitously, because his sister informed him that Lolita has left the house to live with some friends.
- Marta spends a few days alone while her husband is on a business trip. But she starts to get scared when she hears some mysterious steps every night on the top floor. Her neighbor will try to convince her that it is her husband's footsteps when he returns from work, but Marta does not believe it and begins to investigate.
- José, a homosexual magician of 50 years, lived his childhood in Granada (Spain). His father was a gardener in the Buendía house. There he once saw Federico García Lorca. One night of July 1936, a group of fascists assassinated the father of José at the doors of the garden. Today José need to return to the place of his childhood. Maybe to recover the memory or perhaps to bury it permanently. And he also feels the need to unveil Miguel, his current lover, the most hidden of his feelings.
- A grumpy publisher receives a parcel containing a hand that may or may not be fake. A woman is following him. Someone from his past? Reality and fantasy begin to intermingle.
- Three criminals from Madrid meet a former partner who plans to commit a robbery at a jewelry store. The attempt is a failure.
- An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.
- The film tells the story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
- Three different episodes with the common nexus of expressing how a situation that seems normal ends up in an outbreak of violence: a father, actor of renown and owner of a luxurious mansion, who fears losing his daughter to an American officer; an adulterous husband, owner of an extensive estate where he breeds fighting bulls, who feels cheated to find that his wife has also been unfaithful to him; a young American traveler across Spanish lands who decides that his trip and that of his companions should not continue.
- Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program under the title 'Alone in the wee hours' ('Solos en la madrugada'), which has garnered a huge national audience as a satirical chronicle of Spanish society in the democratic transition of the late 1970s. Married and separated from Elena, Jose has two children, whom he only sees from time to time. Then he meets Maite, younger than him, outgoing and more open-minded than he wants. The emotional shock caused by his relationship with these two women will change his pessimistic view of life.
- Lola, a divorce lawyer, has two brothers: Benoit, owner of an optical shop, and Pierre, who works demolishing buildings. Everything seems to keep these three siblings apart, although, in reality, they are inseparable. In fact, they usually gather in the cemetery next to the grave of their deceased parents. Together, they will share the ups and downs of their respective lives: Benoit's wedding, marriage crisis and fatherhood; Lola's relationship with Zoher, a former client of her, and Pierre's labor problems.
- Samuel is an old hippie musician who settled in Formentera in the 1970s, when King Crimson and other British rock bands frequented the island. There he lives austerely, in a ramshackle house without electric light or unnecessary luxuries, and plays the banjo in a friends' club. Until one day, after many years, he receives the unexpected visit of his daughter Anna and his grandson Marc. Anna, unemployed for some time, says she has had to accept a job in France and is forced to leave her little son on the island with grandfather Samuel.