There's Always Vanilla

A series of intertwining tales involve "pleasure seekers and pleasure providers" during the course of one night in Geylang, Singapore's red-light district. There are three distinct stories, united only by the presence of characters from all the stories in a streetside eatery:

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Ekachai Uekrongtham

Cast

Yang Kuei-mei, Ananda Everingham, Loo Zihan

Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Bernard Rose

Cast

Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis

While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Alan J. Pakula

Cast

Maggie Smith, Timothy Bottoms, Jaime de Mora y Aragón

It's 1975, and Martin is a teenager looking to break out of a stifling home environment ruled by his alcoholic father and long-suffering mother. When Martin's pal Micke suggests they get jobs together as waiters at a resort off the Swedish coast, Martin is all for it, but before long Micke finds better things to do and Martin is left o...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Hannes Holm

Cast

Bill Skarsgård, Peter Dalle, Björn Kjellman

High society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Nikos Perakis

Cast

Maria Georgiadou, Smaragda Diamantidou, Sofi Zanninou

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