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Norman Bates returns home to be greeted by who else but his mother! (imdb)

Jeanne Dielman, a young widow, lives with her son Sylvain following an immutable order: While the boy is in school she cares for the flat and receives her clients in the afternoon. (imdb)

A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator. (imdb)

Paloma is a serious, but deeply bored 11-year old, who has decided to kill herself on her twelfth birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her...

An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets into an impersonal affaire with a man... (imdb)

The story of the film is based on Václav Kaplický's book Kladivo na ?arod?jnice (1963), a novel about witch trials in Northern Moravia during the 1670s. The black-and-white allegorical film, full of symbols, follows the events of the trial of the priest Kryštof Lautner. Unwillingness to stop the evil in the beginning only encourages the inquisitor to graduate his accusations and use torture. The vicious circle scares everyone from resistance. (Wikipedia)

An anthology of five loosely connected stories dealing with a variety of very different women in dealing with their own life problems... (imdb)

With the aid from a NYC policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things complicate when the Triads try to bribe the policeman. (imdb)

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. (imdb)

During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. (imdb)