On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.
Social & External
The people behind it
Chang Chen
Chen Mo
Gwei Lun-Mei
Chen Mo's Wife
Jack Kao
Barber
Chapman To Man-Chat
Tailor
Leon Dai
Pimp
Peggy Tseng
Hooker
Jiu Kong
Taxi Driver
Na-Do
King Shih-chieh
Alec Chia
When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal makeover and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity.
Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winter's day, he stops at a roadside parking lot and is approached by Laura, an 18-year-old young woman who asks him to drive her home. He accepts, and on the way, she offers him "her services" in exchange for money. Daniel is furious, and throws her out of his car. But his feelings of remorse and the violence of his reaction lead him to turn around and retrace his steps, only to discover that Laura has disappeared...
An elderly man and a youngster, fight over a much-coveted parking spot, let their egos get the better of them and the clash brings out their ugliest sides.
Steven Bassem spends his evenings at an upscale restaurant among the nouveau riche elite. But he's not there to dine; he's there to park cars. An all-but-invisible valet, Steven is acutely aware of his dead-end situation and begins to act out erratically.
A traffic warden runs into a surprising argument with a persisting customer.
A self-righteous traffic warden in Manchester becomes obsessed with ticketing an illegally parked car, only to learn its owner died. Forced to confront his own ruthlessness at the funeral, he must decide whether to uphold the law or salvage his humanity.
Parwana, an arrogant pyramid salesman, must battle surreal happenings on the streets of L.A in order to find parking and make it to a huge sale.
Rocky is expelled from his college due to his girlfriend and her friends. Furious Rocky decides to take revenge and takes up a job as a security guard at a shopping mall, often visited by his girlfriend. He then invites her to the basement of the mall. What is Rocky's agenda? Will things go as per his plan? What triggered Rocky to take this extreme step?
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
A young man on his way to a wedding struggles to find somewhere to park.
A son, whose relationship with his mother is strained after his father’s disappearance, becomes acquainted with telephone dating service operator No. 23, bringing unexpected changes to him and his mother.
A drama about a group of people stranded at an old wartime guesthouse during a flood. One guest announces that he has the power to "decreate" people and is asked to demonstrate. From an original story by Harry Farjeon.
Partly improvised dramatic thriller involving death, madness, love and sickness. Four actors, two actresses, one location. Three brothers, one sister plus husband and one nurse. Grandma is dead. The family is getting together to prepare the funeral and the heritage, but father doesn't show up. It seems everybody has its own reason to be present.
Comedy writer Ippei Sekiya decides to end his life one day, contemplating suicide by jumping in front of a train during his return home from work. Just as he is about to jump, a person is hit by a train at the previous station, which makes him reconsider. In tribute to Tomohiro, the man who died instead of him, Ippei sneaks into his funeral. Upon returning home, he is confronted by his ghost. Grateful that Ippei continues to live because of his death, Tomohiro makes an astonishing request.
Based on the story by I.S.Turgenev. The movie has not been preserved in full, without notes.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is coping with the end of his marriage. An unlikely friendship develops, as they ride together towards the Teton mountain range, where Wolf will spread his mothers ashes.
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Ip Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David and see if he gives in to temptation — but events spin out of control when Chloe spills the details of her torrid encounters.