A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2003 film by Denys Arcand

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

工程师Tom（吉姆·布劳德本特 Jim Broadbent 饰）和心理咨询师Gerri（鲁斯·西恩 Ruth Sheen 饰）是一对生活在伦敦的中年夫妻。单身女性Mary（莱丝利·曼维尔 Lesley Manville饰）是Gerri的同事。 春天，Gerri邀请Mary来到家中吃饭，Mary告诉他们，她正存钱买一辆汽车，当晚Mary喝醉了，在Gerri家过了一夜，早晨遇见了Tom和Gerri的儿子Joe（奥利弗·莫尔特曼 Oliver Maltman 饰）。 夏天，Mary终于买下了一辆二手汽车，她来到Gerri家参加一次朋友聚会，又遇到了Tom的老朋友Ken（彼得·怀特 Peter Wight 饰），然而同样孤独的Mary对Ken的求爱只感到了恐慌。 秋天，Joe把他的女朋友Katie（卡瑞娜•费尔南德斯 Karina Fernandez 饰）带回了家，碰巧Mary也来了，她看见Joe和他的女朋友，心里很不是滋味。 冬天，Tom的哥哥Ronnie（大卫·布拉德利 David Bradley 饰）的妻子去世了，参加完葬礼的Tom邀请他来伦敦住几天。心情糟糕的Mary想找Gerri，碰上了独自看家的Ronnie。两人言不由衷地聊了一会，后来Tom和Gerri回来了，在餐桌上，大家又开始聊天，Mary却感到了寂寞......

2007 film by Li Yang

NJ（吴念真 饰）是个很有原则的生意人，同妻子敏敏（金燕玲 饰）、女儿婷婷（李凯莉 饰）、儿子洋洋（张杨洋 饰）以及外婆住在台北某所普通公寓里。小舅子一场麻烦的婚礼过后，因为外婆突然中风昏迷，他迎来更加混乱的日子。 敏敏要在公司、家里两头跑，时常感觉自己要被耗空；婷婷一直为外婆的中风内疚，恋爱谈到中途发现自己不过是替代品；NJ更是麻烦重重，公司面临破产，他又不愿放下别人眼里一文不值的自尊。一家人里，似乎只有洋洋没有烦恼，他平静地用照相机拍着各种人的背面，帮他们长出另一双眼睛。然而，洋洋简简单单的一句话，道出了更深的悲凉……

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

1979 film by Roman Polanski

In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.

A Czech immigrant in 1960s America escapes into musicals while working long hours in poverty. Struggling with hereditary blindness, she is determined to secure her son’s future and will sacrifice everything to ensure he receives the operation that could spare him from her fate.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.