El hombre del pito mágico

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Richard Curtis

Cast

Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Bigas Luna

Cast

Stefania Sandrelli, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Frédérique Meininger

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Sean Ellis

Cast

Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Tinto Brass

Cast

Yuliya Mayarchuk, Jarno Berardi, Francesca Nunzi

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa