Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Pete Staunton (Will Ferrell) take a vacation with their two sons to an Austrian ski resort. When an avalanche threatens to kill them over lunch, Pete runs - leaving his wife and children behind, and opening up an emotional rift in their relationship. Downhill, the first feature from Disney's newly acquired ...
Hatidže Muratova lives with her elderly mother in an abandoned mountainside village in North Macedonia. Her house has no electricity or running water. Nobody lives for miles around. Hatidže makes a living keeping bees - she is one of the last of Macedonia's wild beekeepers - and carefully tends to the local hives, selling their ...
An editor for a French publishing company uncovers an abandoned and unpublished manuscript by small-town pizza chef Henri Pick - now dead for two years. When the published book becomes a literary sensation, all of France is enamoured with the discovery of a new literary genius - all except for prickly literary critic and TV ...
Victor (Daniel Auteuil) is a retired comic book creator in his 60s. When his wife (Fanny Ardant) demands a divorce, he takes up the offer to participate in an exclusive performative experience in which a team of technicians and actors recreate the historical setting of his choosing. Most clients select famous periods of French history; ...
Chanteraide (François Civil) is a sonar specialist assigned to a French submarine. After a near-contact reveals an unidentified submarine of Russian design, he risks his career and criminal arrest in an attempt to properly identify the new vehicle. Meanwhile Russian aggression in Scandinavia risks all-out nuclear war with France - and Chanteraide's mystery submarine appears ...
In a magical realm divided between darkness and light, the fairy princess Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood) prepares to marry the dashing captain Roland. When he cheats on her she swears off love for good - an opinion shared by the dark forest's villainous Bog King (Alan Cumming). When a pining elf sneaks into the dark ...
A debt-ridden boxer (Xia Yu) shoots a man dead in Hong Kong before fleeing to mainland China. A year later, a team of police officers have almost succeeded in tracking him down along the borders of the Gobi Desert - only to discover that a pair of assassins (Francis Ng and Yu Nan) are also ...
