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- DirectorCharles SwensonFred WolfStarsPeter UstinovCloris LeachmanSally KellermanAdaptation of Russell Hoban's novel about two mechanical toy mice, and their quest to become "self-winding".
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsFredric MarchGary CooperMiriam HopkinsA woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
- DirectorFrank PerrySydney PollackStarsBurt LancasterJanet LandgardJanice RuleA man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsDorota SegdaOleg YankovskiyPaulus MankerTwo twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsLili DarvasMari TörőcsikIván DarvasThe wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.
- DirectorYuriy ChulyukinStarsNadezhda RumyantsevaNikolay RybnikovLyusena OvchinnikovaSeveral romance stories - part funny, part sadly - set in a remote logging camp.
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsDamian LewisVictoria HaralabidouAndréa FerréolSet in 1922, is the story of a mail order bride, one of 700, aboard the SS KING ALEXANDER, who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsLee PaceCatinca UntaruJustine WaddellIn 1920s Los Angeles, a bedridden patient in a hospital captivates a young girl with a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenEthel BarrymoreIn Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.
- DirectorTamar van den DopStarsJoren SeldeslachtsHalina ReijnKatelijne VerbekeIn late 19th century's Netherlands, an albino woman and a blind man develop an indiscriminate love for one another. Will love be blind?
- DirectorAndrzej JakimowskiStarsEdward HoggAlexandra Maria LaraMelchior DerouetA blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
- DirectorTaku SugiyamaOsamu TezukaStarsKaneto ShiozawaKeiko TakeshitaHiroshi ÔtakeIn the distant future, a young cadet is sent to find and capture "Cosmozone 2772", a mystical universal Phoenix which possesses the power to rejuvenate the drained Earth.
- DirectorKeith GordonStarsBilly CrudupBill HauglandNelson LandrieuA congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsWarren BeattyJean SebergPeter FondaA war veteran gets work at a mental institution, where he meets the beautiful and eccentric Lilith.
- DirectorMona AchacheStarsJosiane BalaskoGarance Le GuillermicTogo IgawaThe life of a determined young girl is changed when she befriends her building's concierge, a solitary woman who is more than what she seems.
- DirectorGrigoriy ChukhrayStarsIzolda IzvitskayaOleg StrizhenovNikolay KryuchkovAn unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
- DirectorNick WillingStarsToby StephensEmily WoofBen KingsleyPhotographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.
- DirectorKôji MorimotoStarsAlexa N. CarecciaShigeru ChibaRobbie Daymond"Magnetic Rose" is about what happens when a deep space corporate freighter is called upon to investigate a distress signal from what ought to be a derelict space station. The space station is run by the deranged AI imprint of a lovelorn, jaded opera diva, who controls the station's functions, including its life support systems and (to more dramatic effect) its VR holography and supporting nano-technical systems.
- DirectorSlawomir FabickiStarsMarcin DorocinskiJulia KijowskaAdam WoronowiczThe relationship of a young successful couple expecting a baby is put to the test after the traumatic experience Maria has endured. Her husband Tomek wants to seek revenge but doesn't know who is to blame.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe NoiretSabine AzémaPascale VignalIntense character study of men and women driven by an overpowering obsession with the past.
- DirectorWhit StillmanStarsChloë SevignyKate BeckinsaleChris EigemanStory of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsVictoire ThivisolDelphine SchiltzMatiaz Bureau CatonA four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsCharlotte RamplingBruno CremerJacques NolotWhen her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
- DirectorAdrienne ShellyStarsKeri RussellNathan FillionJeremy SistoJenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
- DirectorTrevor NunnStarsHelena Bonham CarterRichard E. GrantImogen StubbsShakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsAnnette BeningMichael GambonMaury ChaykinSet in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.
- DirectorPierre BoutronStarsJulie DelarmeMichel GalabruThomas JouannetIn a small town in the west of France, during the German occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture.
- DirectorJoshua LeonardStarsLukas HaasKelli GarnerNathan NortonA young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past.
- DirectorBrent BonacorsoStarsJacob WitkinMichael GarbeAmber NoelleA narrative story based on a series of interviews with children about their dreams.
- DirectorMichael CohnStarsSigourney WeaverSam NeillGil BellowsIn this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.
- DirectorJean-François LaguionieStarsJean BarneyChloé BerthierJB BlancThree characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsKeir DulleaCarol LynleyLaurence OlivierA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsLeslie CaronAnthony BoothAvis BunnageA single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
- StarsAdriano LuzMaria João BastosRicardo PereiraFollows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsOlivia de HavillandMark StevensLeo GennA detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsMaggie SmithGordon JacksonRobert StephensAn eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentNigel PatrickAndrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
- DirectorOlivier TreinerStarsGrégoire Leprince-RinguetDanièle LebrunGrégory GadeboisA pianist finds himself once again facing the performance anxiety demons that he so desperately tries to evade.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsClaudia CardinaleJacques PerrinLuciana AngiolilloA girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsEllie LambetiAthena MichaelidouEleni ZafeiriouA daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.
- DirectorDavid MichôdStarsJames FrechevilleGuy PearceJoel EdgertonA seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
- DirectorErik PoppeStarsPål Sverre HagenTrine DyrholmEllen Dorrit PetersenA man convicted in his teens for killing a child is released on parole. He struggles to build a new life, but his past is uncovered.
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsAnders Danielsen LieHans Olav BrennerIngrid OlavaOne day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
- DirectorJake SchreierStarsPeter SarsgaardFrank LangellaSusan SarandonIn the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team.
- DirectorBob RafelsonStarsJack NicholsonKaren BlackBilly Green BushA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
- DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsAndreas WilsonHenrik LundströmGustaf SkarsgårdA teenage boy expelled from school for fighting arrives at a boarding school where the systematic bullying of younger students is encouraged as a means to maintain discipline, and decides to fight back.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsLars EidingerCorinna HarfouchSebastian ZimmlerMarko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose bourgeois lifestyle he could never quite get used to. He visits them once or twice a year, mainly to give them a chance to spend a few days with their grandson. His hopes of spending a quiet weekend with the family fall short when Gitte, who has been mentally unstable since Marko was a child, feels so healthy after a homeopathic treatment that she stops taking her medication. Her announcement triggers reserved reactions in the family, and a series of revelations tip his family's structure out of balance.
- DirectorGabor CsupoStarsJosh HutchersonAnnaSophia RobbZooey DeschanelA preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.
- DirectorJulian PölslerStarsMartina GedeckLuchs von KyffhäuserbachKarlheinz HacklA woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the landscape.
- DirectorSean PennStarsJack NicholsonBenicio Del ToroPatricia ClarksonA retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsWendy HillerRoger LiveseyPamela BrownA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsHelena Bonham CarterOlivia WilliamsPaul Bettany1930's London. Two sisters - Madeleine and Dinah - One marries Rickie, the other falls in love with him. He begins an affair which is to have repercussions throughout their lives.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKim StanleyRichard AttenboroughMargaret LaceyA medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsDamian LewisJodhi MayRobert Lindsay"Friends and Crocodiles" traces the changing relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his assistant Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginnings of the Thatcher era to the bursting of the dot.com bubble.
- DirectorShawn ChristensenStarsShawn ChristensenFatima PtacekKim AllenHaving reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsIsabelle AdjaniBruce RobinsonSylvia MarriottThe story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsMichel SuborGrégoire ColinYekaterina GolubevaAn emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
- DirectorChristopher SmithStarsMelissa GeorgeJoshua McIvorJack TaylorFive friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsRiccardo ScamarcioNicole GrimaudoAlessandro PreziosiTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
- DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsJulie ChristieNacha GuevaraEduardo PavlovskyA young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular movement is preparing to install itself in power.
- DirectorValerio ZurliniStarsEleonora Rossi DragoJean-Louis TrintignantLilla BrignoneSummer 1943: The war is in full swing in southern Italy. Together with friends, Carlo enjoys a carefree summer in youthful naïveté. He falls in love with Roberta, whose husband was killed in the war.
- DirectorTadeusz KonwickiStarsIrena LaskowskaJan MachulskiA young man meets a middle-aged woman at a deserted beach. Will they overcome their personal and wartime traumas and find a way to stay together?
- DirectorJanusz MorgensternStarsDaniel OlbrychskiBarbara LassKalina JedrusikA talented athlete falls for a mysterious girl at a fancy-dress party. When she disappears, the boy is desperate to find her.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsGillian AndersonDan AykroydEleanor BronA woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
- DirectorTiffanie DeBartoloStarsIone SkyeJennifer AnistonMackenzie AstinGirl leads a lonely life until she meets the boy of her dreams. The boy, however, has a live-in girlfriend.
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsJohnny DeppGary FarmerCrispin GloverOn the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
- DirectorMark PalanskyStarsChristina RicciJames McAvoyReese WitherspoonA modern romantic tale about a young aristocratic heiress born under a curse that can only be broken when she finds true love with "one who will accept her as one of their own."
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsZoé AuclairLea BridarolliBérangère HaubrugeA look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
- DirectorRosario Garcia-MonteroStarsFatima BuntinxKaterina D'OnofrioMelchor GorrocháteguiA young girl convinces herself that she will die on the same day that her brother will be born.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowAnthony HopkinsHope DavisThe daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsNicole KidmanMatt DillonJoaquin PhoenixA beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
- DirectorMichael SteinbergStarsPhoebe CatesBridget FondaTim RothA fired TV salesman (Roth) abandons his girlfriend (Fonda) for the open highway. Encouraged by her best friend (Cates), the girlfriend has an affair with an idealistic local house painter (Stoltz) just as the boyfriend returns.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsIan McKellenAnnette BeningChristopher BowenThe classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsNigel HawthorneHelen MirrenRupert GravesWhen King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsJohn MalkovichWillem DafoeUdo KierThe filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
- DirectorMartha FiennesStarsRalph FiennesLiv TylerToby StephensRussia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncle's country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship.
- DirectorGustavo TarettoStarsJavier DrolasMiguel DedovichPilar López de AyalaMartín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don't notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together.
- DirectorJoel SchumacherStarsTed DansonIsabella RosselliniSean YoungTwo couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.
- DirectorVlatka VorkapicStarsJudita FrankovicGoran BogdanDejan AcimovicA comedy about two people with different world-views, from different places, whose fate, with the help from a bull Garonja (a name given to the black bulls in villages of Croatia), intertwine. Ante (Goran Bogdan) is a peasant from Dalmatian hinterland, a son of an bull fights organizer, and skilled insurance salesman. He is known by his powers of persuasion. At the voting for the Law for animal protection, biggest controversy is considering bull fights. Sonja (Judita Frankovic) is from Zagreb, an inveterate activist fighting for animal rights. In Dalmatian hinterland nobody can understand her attitude. They conclude that Sonja, regardless of the declared intense love of animals, would not dare stand in front of a bull. About Sonja and Anthony , the central pair who in his romantic comedy game going a little farther - a little back, a series of actions is carried out in the style of a wild untamed satire at the expense of local "yellow" media and important institutions such as the Croatian Parliament.
- DirectorFrank PerryStarsKeir DulleaJanet MargolinHoward Da SilvaTeenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsGabrielle AnwarMichael SchoefflingCliff RobertsonThrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora Webster tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievStarsValentin PopovNikolay GubenkoStanislav LyubshinFollowing three lifelong friends who return to Moscow after military service, we see their aspirations juxtaposed against everyday life in 1960 Soviet Union.
- DirectorMikhail BoginStarsPola RaksaWieslawa MazurkiewiczBarbara BargielowskaLove story of the Soviet officer and Polish girl in days of war. The battalion where Mikhail and Victor serve, settles down on rest in the Polish village. Friends meet the daughter of the room hostess. Mikhail at first sight falls in love with Zosyu, however it seems to him that it likes Victor. And only when the battalion leaves the village, Mikhail understands that the girl loves him.
- DirectorMatías BizeStarsSantiago CabreraBlanca LewinVíctor MonteroAndrés returns to Santiago after several years to face a tragic event.
- DirectorWilliam NicholsonStarsSophie MarceauStephen DillaneDominique BelcourtA governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
- DirectorDan IrelandStarsJoan PlowrightRupert FriendZoë TapperAll but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
- DirectorAliona RaynerAleksandr SmirnovStarsKarina AndolenkoElizaveta ArzamasovaMariya BerdinskikhThey were young, their life was in bloom and their hearts were longing to love.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsMargarita VolodinaMikhail NozhkinLarisa VikkelA chance call at a random number starts an unusual relationship, with regular nightly phone conversations. What's in store for the two collocutors when the mysterious woman on the other end of the line turns out to be the man's coworker?
- DirectorCésar Esteban AlendaJosé Esteban AlendaStarsManuela VellésMariano VenancioJavier GutiérrezJulia's life takes place in the bath tub. Drop by drop she will build up the courage to change the order of things.
- DirectorMikhail BoginStarsViktoriya FyodorovaValentin SmirnitskiyLina BraknyteA young musician courts a beautiful woman who refuses to respond to a word he says despite multiple encounters. Eventually he learns that she is completely deaf. The remainder of the film consists of their beautiful -- and beautifully silent -- romance.
- DirectorTatyana LioznovaStarsTatyana DoroninaOleg EfremovVyacheslav ShalevichIn Moscow from a distant village comes a rustic Russian woman. The first person she meets is a surprisingly intelligent cab driver. They meet by chance and do not even go out on a date, yet the hours they spend together are enough for her to take a fresh look at her life.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsKaroline HerfurthJosef BierbichlerCorinna HarfouchA renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsGérard DepardieuJean-Pierre MarielleAnne BrochetThe story of Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, fierce and somber man, grand master of the viola da gamba and professor of Marin Marais, prestigious musician in the court of Louis XIV.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsTim CurryMichael PalinStephen MooreOne hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Kingston to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
- DirectorLuigi BazzoniMario FanelliStarsFlorinda BolkanPeter McEneryNicoletta ElmiAfter being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.
- DirectorFrancesca GregoriniStarsKaya ScodelarioJessica BielFrances O'ConnorA troubled girl becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsRobert ShawSarah MilesPeter EganA young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsChloë Grace MoretzJames CaanMary SteenburgenKaguya is a beautiful young woman coveted by five nobles. To try to avoid marrying a stranger she doesn't love, she sends her suitors on seemingly impossible tasks. But she will have to face her fate and punishment for her choices.