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Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that most of them will die in the war. (imdb)

Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity. (imdb)

The film takes place in a maternity ward within twenty-four hours. Cecilia Ellius is brought into the emergency ward after she starts haemorrhaging only three months into her pregnancy. She is suffering from a miscarriage and is brought into Room E, joining two expectant mothers, Stina and Hjördis. Stina is strong and healthy but her baby is overdue, while Hjördis is expecting an illegitimate child and has attempted an abortion.

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see". (imdb)

WWII, in a British disciplinary camp located in the Libyan desert. Prisoners are persecuted by Staff Sergeant Williams, who made them climb again and again, under the heavy sun, an artificial hill built right in the middle of the camp. Harris is a more human and compassionate guard, but the chief, S.M. Wilson, refuses to disown his subordinate Williams. One day, five new prisoners arrive. Each of them will deal in a different way with the authority and Williams' ferocity. (imdb)

On a busy street in London, Gina thinks she sees herself drive past in her own car. Stunned by this strange event, Gina follows the mystery woman up to her apartment. From here, events take an eerie turn for the worse until Gina's awareness slides from solid reality into a world that will haunt more than just her nightmares. (imdb)

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup. (imdb)

Bottle Rocket follows three friends (Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson and Robert Musgrave) as they attempt to become gangsters. This short was the basis for the feature that followed in 1996. (imdb)

A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's. (imdb)

Robbins is sent to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you only get out of when you die... (imdb)