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Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who's away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar's lap. Amadou, a young Franco-African, berates him. The police arrive, arrest Amadou and deport the beggar. Georges's girlfriend Anne is upset; it colors her relationship with Georges when he returns from the war. Separate lives intersect for the one moment, around the pastry bag, and all are altered. (imdb)

Just when it seemed safe to come out of the kennel, Cruella De Vil is back and this time she's not alone.

The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about. (imdb)

Horror movie actor Paul Toombes (Vincent Price), famous for playing "Dr. Death," suffers a nervous breakdown before going to England to do a TV series,and cast and crew members start dying the way characters did in Toombes' old movies. Peter Cushing plays his scriptwriter and Robert Quarry is the producer. The highlights are provided by clips of Price in earlier AIP films. (imdb)

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war. (imdb)

Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ? (imdb)

A boy in Malawi helps his village by building a wind turbine after reading about them in a library book. (imdb)

After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life. (imdb)

Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, his most gifted writing student James Leer (Maguire). (Paramount Pictures)

It begins with a grisly mass killing. It was Christmas eve 1993 and a 19-year old student inexplicably murders several people and then kills himself. The fragmented film flashes back to October 12 and then progresses toward the fateful night. Throughout the film many characters appear and suddenly reappear.