A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?

How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.

Wrongfully jailed for arson, political activist Leopold Dilg escapes and takes refuge at the house of his childhood friend, Nora, unaware that she has recently rented it to a high-principled lawyer. Hilarity ensues as Nora tries to hide Leopold's identity from Professor Lightcap, while the two men enjoy spirited debates about their conflicting views of law.

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and returns to capture David's attention, while falling in love with Linus.

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Ľudské mláďa Mauglí sa kedysi zatúlal do džungle, kde sa ho ujala a vychovala vlčia svorka. Do džungle sa však vracia tiger Šer Chán, obávaný vládca pralesa. Šer Chán, ktorý si nesie jazvy, spôsobené človekom, prisahá, že odstráni všetko, čo vníma ako hrozbu. Mauglí cíti, že musí opustiť džungľu, jediný domov, ktorý kedy poznal. Spoločnosť mu robia len dvaja priatelia – čierny panter Baghíra a ľahkomyseľný medveď Balú. Počas svojej cesty stretáva v džungli veľa tvorov, ktoré však nemajú najčistejšie úmysly. Obrovský pytón so zvodným hlasom Kaa zláka ľudské mláďa do trosiek dávneho chrámu, kde sídli opičí kráľ Louie. Na prvý pohľad priateľský kráľ chce presvedčiť Mauglího, aby mu prezradil tajomstvo krásneho, prchavého a smrtiaceho červeného kvetu – ohňa.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

Bud Baxter je úradníkom vo veľkej poisťovni. Pred nejakým časom nedokázal odmietnuť žiadosť jedného svojho kolegu o požičanie bytu a to bola veľká chyba. Prišli ďalší kolegovia a Baxter nemohol ich žiadosti odmietať, keďže jednému už vyhovel. Situácia zašla tak ďaleko, že kolegovia si sem vodia podľa rozpisu v kalendári svoje milenky. Baxter, ktorý medzitým mrzne v parku, získava u svojich susedov, ku ktorým dolieha z jeho bytu hluk, povesť veľkého zhýralca. Samozrejme Baxter je za svoje služby odmeňovaný a rýchlo postupuje v kariérnom rebríčku. Jedného dňa sa naňho so žiadosťou o požičanie bytu obráti aj sám riaditeľ poisťovne. Baxter mu vyhovie, ale potom zistí, že šéfovou milenkou je slečna Kubeliková, do ktorej je už dlho zaľúbený. A práve vtedy sa rozhodne s doterajšou praxou skončiť, a to bez ohľadu na následky...

Mladý novinár Marcello sa pohybuje v najvyšších kruhoch spoločenskej smotánky. Pre slávu a úspech urobí čokoľvek. Po príchode slávnej filmovej hviezdy Sylvii sa zdá, že jeho sen je na dosah. Konečne má šancu dostať sa na vrchol. Aký má ale zmysel utápať svoj život v alkohole, náhodných sexuálnych epizódach a primitívnej divokej zábave? Jednoducho jediný – žiť si svoj „sladký život“.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.