WALL-E (promoted with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 computer animated adventure comedy science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures on June 27, 2008. WALL-E will be released onto DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008. The film is directed by Andrew Stanton, who previously directed Finding Nemo. It follows a romance between two robots in the future. Most of the characters do not have human voices, instead communicating with body language and sounds (designed by Ben Burtt) that resemble voices. It is also the first animated feature by Pixar to have several segments featuring live action characters. The film has received almost universal praise from film critics.

In the early 2100s, the megacorporation Buy 'n Large took over every service on Earth, including the government. Overrun by consumerism, the planet eventually became so heavily polluted that it could no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, Buy 'n Large sponsored an exodus to space aboard hundreds of massive "Executive Starliners", the largest of which is the Axiom. Thousands of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units were left behind to clean up the planet. However, seven hundred years later in the year 2815, only one WALL-E (Ben Burtt) remains operational, scavenging parts from his inactive duplicates. The planet is still covered in trash, only arranged in neat piles. After centuries of living in micro-gravity (it was originally supposed to be five years), the humans aboard the Axiom have lost considerable bone and muscle mass, rendering them too obese and weak to stand or move without robotic assistance. Every task is now automated, including piloting the ship, which is handled by the autopilot AUTO (voiced by the program MacInTalk).

WALL-E's centuries of prolonged activation have caused him to develop a personality. He collects items that he finds among the refuse and adopts a cockroach as a pet. He constantly watches a videotape of the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly! on an old iPod through a magnifier, especially the performances of "Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment". It teaches him emotion, particularly holding hands (which becomes a recurring theme). He also finds and saves a seedling plant, placing it in an old boot. One day, he meets EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, Elissa Knight), a robot from the Axiom sent to Earth to find plant life. He falls in love with her, but despite his best efforts, her only concern is for her directive. When WALL-E shows her the plant he found, she stores the plant inside herself and deactivates. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her body until EVE and her plant cargo are retrieved by the ship that delivered her. Distraught, WALL-E clings to the outer hull as it departs.

Aboard the Axiom, WALL-E follows EVE to her destination. His peculiar behavior causes both humans and robots to act outside their normal routine. In particular, WALL-E causes an M-O (Microbe Obliterator) model cleaning robot to leave its designated path to obsessively clean the filth WALL-E leaves in his wake, and inadvertently awakens two humans, John and Mary, to the world around them and each other.

EVE tries to present the plant to Captain B. McCrea (Jeff Garlin), but it is missing. AUTO tells the captain that EVE has malfunctioned, and sends her to the robot repair ward with WALL-E. Mistakenly thinking that diagnostic machine is trying to hurt her, WALL-E takes EVE's gun arm and accidentally frees all the malfunctioning robots. In her attempt to get the arm back, she and WALL-E are labeled as rogue robots. EVE tries to send WALL-E back to Earth in an escape pod, but he refuses to go. AUTO's assistant, GO-4, arrives carrying the missing plant, which he attempts to dispose of in the escape pod. WALL-E manages to save the plant and EVE returns it to McCrea. Curious to see images of Earth, he projects EVE's security camera footage, where she sees the lengths that WALL-E went to protect her. The captain is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in the recordings and decides they must return to make amends.

When AUTO insists that they cannot return to Earth, he is forced to reveal that Buy 'n Large ordered the autopilots to never return to Earth, having deemed it too toxic to ever support life again. Unable to disobey the order, AUTO locks the captain in his quarters and tries to dispose of the plant. He severely damages WALL-E and deactivates EVE, throwing them and the plant into a garbage chute. EVE awakens and searches in vain for parts to repair WALL-E, even dismissing her directive to do so. WALL-E presents the plant, which will bring them back to Earth where he can be fixed. They recruit the malfunctioning robots and fight their way back to the main part of the ship. They are aided by the captain, who hotwires the operating systems. He tells WALL-E and EVE to put the plant on the holo-detector, a pedestal that rises from the floor on one of the passenger decks. The captain and AUTO have a brief battle, which causes the ship to turn on its side and pile the immobile humans in the corner. While EVE protects the humans from the vehicles falling towards them, AUTO forces the holo-detector back into the floor. WALL-E uses his body to jam it open, which crushes him. McCrea stands up by himself (to the amazement of the passengers) and deactivates AUTO, restoring order aboard the ship. Once the plant is in the holo-detector, the ship's hyperjump back to Earth is initiated. WALL-E's crushed body runs out of charge and shuts down.

Once they arrive on Earth, EVE frantically repairs WALL-E. However, the extent of the repairs seems to have wiped his memory and personality: he begins crushing his treasured knick-knacks into cubes, following his original directive. EVE's attempts to make him remember prove useless, so as a parting gesture she takes hold of his hand and leans her head towards his. A static discharge (a "kiss") jumps between the two. WALL-E's memory reboots and he suddenly recognizes her as they clasp hands. With a renewed sense of purpose, humanity and robots begin working together to restore Earth's biosphere.

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The Darjeeling Limited is a drama-comedy film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. It was written by Anderson, Schwartzmann, and Roman Coppola. The film also stars Waris Ahluwalia, Amara Karan, Barbet Schroeder and Anjelica Huston, with Natalie Portman, Irfan Khan and Bill Murray in cameo roles.

The film begins with a businessman (Murray) racing to reach a train in rural India. As he is about to lose the train we see Peter (Brody) also running to the same train. Peter makes it to the train, leaving the businessman behind. Peter makes his way to his compartment, where he finds his brothers Jack (Schwartzman) and Francis (Wilson). The latter's head and face are heavily bandaged, as he was in a serious motorcycle accident. Peter and Jack have come to India, apparently at Francis' suggestion, on the titular train, on what he hopes to be a "spiritual journey".

All three have taken advantage of the local pharmaceutical shops upon their arrival in India and summarily dip into each others' stash of drugs. Jack, who hasn't been back in the States in a year, is a writer, and had written a story while in France. The story is apparently based on a flashback shown later in the movie. Jack has a return ticket, and asks Peter not to tell Francis. Francis is trying to get the family back together, and Peter is away from his seven-and-a-half-months pregnant wife, who doesn't know he's in India, and asks Jack not to tell Francis.

Along the trip, Jack falls in love with one of the stewardesses, Rita (Amara Karan) and proceeds to kiss her passionately. On the first stop, the brothers buy a venomous snake, Francis has one of his shoes stolen by a street boy, and Jack buys pepper spray. The next morning back on the train, the snake escapes; the chief steward (Waris Ahluwalia) captures and confiscates it, then threatens to kick them off the train before relenting. They find the train is stopped because it is lost, having apparently taken a wrong turn the night before. While the conductors try to locate where they are, the brothers head up to a sand dune to perform a ceremony Francis says will bring them closer together. Instead, Francis reveals the real reason why they are on their trip, to connect with their mother (Anjelica Huston) who did not attend their father's funeral. He withheld this information from them on purpose, knowing that if he told them to begin with, they would never have come. Later that night, Francis and Peter get into a heated argument, leading to a small fight in their compartment, and Jack maces them both. After this fails, Jack runs and smashes into a glass window, which disrupts people on the train. They are kicked off, and Francis' assistant Brendan (Wallace Wolodarsky) leaves him and gets back on the train after Francis insults him about his inability to grow body hair.

Left with only their luggage and a letter from their mother, they try to perform the ceremony, which involves peacock feathers, praying and going off by themselves. Although the instructions were apparently to bury the feather, only Francis performs the ritual correctly. They later camp out for the night. The next morning, they discover three boys trying to cross a rapid river on a wooden raft. The water starts flowing faster, and rips off their support rope which causes all three boys to flip over. Jack, Peter and Francis run to save the boys. Jack and Francis save their kids, but the third boy whom Peter tried to save is killed when the boat flips over and his head smashes into the rocks. The other two boys bring the brothers back to their village, with Peter holding the dead boy. The villagers aid the three brothers and invite them to the boy's funeral as they are boarding a bus to leave. As they pay their respects, they have a flashback to their father's funeral which is the basis for Jack's short story.

They are taken to the airport by bus, and are going to take the next flight out back home. Peter finds out that he and his wife's child will be a boy. When they reach the plane, they decide instead to find their mother. They go to a monastery in the Himalayas where they find their mother, who appears to be a nun or missionary. Francis explains his bandages telling that he "smashed into a hill on purpose on [his] motorcycle". They ask their mother why she did not attend their father's funeral, to which she replies simply that she "didn't want to" and says that the people here needed her, to which the brothers reply, "What about us?" She attempts to bring them all together through meditation, but they think about the people in their lives and the ones they've met along the way. Their mother then leaves saying "To be continued...".

The next morning, Jack explains to Peter and Francis that their mother has left. At a stroke of inspiration during breakfast, they head to the top of the mountain, burying Peter's feather and performing the ritual correctly.

In the end, all three brothers head to the train station, but they are already late for their train, and they run after it to catch it. In this symbolic scene, the brothers literally throw away their baggage they brought with them on the journey, leaving their bags with the porters as they board the moving train. They make it to their compartment, and are greeted by the head steward and their stewardess, as they were when the movie began. Francis goes to give back the passports he took from Jack and Peter, but they both tell him to hang on to them for safe keeping. They then leave the passenger compartment to "have a drink and smoke a cigarette."

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 film based on the memoir of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke at the age of 43, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The condition paralyzed him, with the exception of his left eyelid, so that he could only communicate by blinking. The film was directed by Julian Schnabel, written by Ronald Harwood and stars Mathieu Amalric as Bauby. It won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards, as well as four Academy Award nominations.

The film is initially told entirely from the restricted point of view of Bauby, as he wakes from his three-week coma in a hospital in Berck, France. A neurologist explains that he has locked-in syndrome, an extremely rare condition in which the patient is almost completely physically paralyzed, but remains mentally normal. The viewer hears the thoughts of Bauby, which are unattainable to the other characters, and sees through his one functioning eye.

A speech therapist and physical therapist try to help Bauby become as functional as possible. Bauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to spell out his messages, letter by letter.

Gradually, the film's restricted point of view broadens out, and the viewer begins to see Bauby from 'outside', in addition to experiencing incidents from his past, as well as his fantasies, in which he imagines beaches, mountains, The Empress Eugénie, and a large feast. It is revealed that Bauby had been editor of the popular French fashion magazine Elle, and that he had a deal to write a book. He decides that he will still write a book, using his slow and exhausting communication technique. A woman from the magazine is hired to take dictation.

The story of Bauby's writing of the book is juxtaposed with his recollections and regrets of his life up until his stroke. We see the mother of his three children, his children, his mistress, his friends and his father. He encounters people from his past whose lives bear similarities to his own situation: a friend who was kidnapped in Beirut and held in solitary confinement for years, and his own father, who is confined to his own apartment because he is too frail to use the stairs.

Bauby eventually completes his memoir and hears the critics' responses to it. However, he dies of pneumonia ten days after the publication.

Heartbeat Detector is the North American release title for the 2007 French film La Question humaine. It was directed by Nicolas Klotz, and stars Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, and Edith Scob.

The movie centers around the actions of a Psychologist who works as an assistant to human resources in a company where he had been plays a major part in restructuring.

His girlfriend doesn't like him smoking. He goes to the archives where he has sexual relations (offscreen) with a woman. Later on he harasses her at a tecno party.

He is told to look into whether the CEO, Jüst, of the company is unfit to do his job by the vicepresident. He thinks a quartet that Jüst was a part of is significant. He tries to investigate this quartet. The CEO discovers he is investigating him and tells him the one who suggested the investigation was involved with the Nazis. A child who was raised by German parents, wherefore the last name Klaus. He finds out the CEO was also involved with the Nazis. The main character has crises of conscience about having fired men judging by age, alcoholism. The CEO gets blackmail letters about his Nazi past. The main character also gets a letter. He traces it to one of the members of the quartet, Arie Neumann, who he then finds at a cafe.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 film written by Kelly Masterson and directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. The title comes from the Irish saying: "May you be in heaven a full half hour before the devil knows you're dead."

The film goes back and forth in time many times, often showing scenes repeatedly, from various points of view.

Andy Hanson (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a finance executive in desperate need of money to cover funds he embezzled from his employer, convinces his also-strapped brother Hank (Ethan Hawke) to rob their parents' jewelry store. Andy argues that he cannot go himself because he has been in the neighborhood recently, and could therefore be recognized. They assume that only the old woman who works for their parents will be in the store. Andy argues that only a toy gun is needed and that it is a victimless crime, because the insurance will repay their parents.

Without consulting Andy, Hank hires an acquaintance, Bobby Lasorda (Brian F. O'Byrne), to help him in the robbery. In fact, Bobby will do it himself (with a real and loaded gun); Hank just needs to wait in the car. The brothers' mother Nanette (Rosemary Harris) happens to be in the store herself and also has a gun. The robbery goes awry, and both Bobby and Nanette are shot. Bobby dies at the scene; Nanette dies later in the hospital after her husband Charles (Albert Finney) agrees to take her off life support.

Bobby's brother-in-law (Michael Shannon) demands financial compensation for Bobby's death; because they have no money, Andy and Hank rob and kill Andy's drug dealer to obtain the demanded money, and Andy also kills a client who happens to be present.

Hank has secretly been having an affair with Andy's wife, Gina (Marisa Tomei). Hank and Andy labor to try to get away with their botched crime, but ultimately their father Charles discovers Andy's involvement and tracks them as they make their final desperate moves.

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The Bank Job is a British 2008 crime film based on a 1971 true-life robbery of a bank in Baker Street, London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered. The story was prevented from being told because of a D-Notice government gagging request, allegedly to protect a prominent member of the British Royal Family. According to the producers, this movie is intended to reveal the truth for the first time, although it includes significant elements of fiction and the extent to which it represents historical fact is difficult to determine.

It also may be based upon the scandal causing Lord Lambton's resignation, with Lew Vogel representing the Soho porn baron Bernie Silver.

The premiere was held in London on 18 February 2008, and the film was released in the UK on 28 February 2008.

Stay is an American film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Benioff. It stars Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins and Naomi Watts, with production by Regency and distribution by 20th Century Fox. The film represents intense relationships centering on reality, death, love and the afterlife. The film received mixed reviews by critics (receiving a solid 3 1/2 stars by Roger Ebert though only a 26% on Rotten Tomatoes), and did poorly at the box office.

The movie opens with a car crash on Brooklyn Bridge, and introduces Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), apparently a survivor of the crash, sitting next to a burning car on the bridge.

Psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) and his girlfriend Lila (Naomi Watts) are then introduced in a new scene. Sam discusses his patient, Henry, a college student and aspiring artist whom he describes as depressed and paranoid. Sometimes Henry hears voices, and he seems able to predict future events. Henry has told Sam the he will kill himself that Saturday at midnight, which Sam finds very troubling. Lila, an art teacher who has survived a past suicide attempt, offers to help to dissuade Henry from killing himself. But first they must find Henry.

Sam investigates Henry's circumstances in an effort to help. Henry claims to have killed both of his parents, but Sam finds that Henry's mother appears to be alive. Sam visits Henry's mother but finds her living in a bare house, confused about Sam's identity (she insists that he is Henry) and refuses to respond to his questions. Henry's mother insists on feeding Sam, but when she opens the fridge it is completely empty, and then her dog bites Sam.

At the clinic to have his arm bandaged, Sam discusses the visit with a police officer who is curious as to why he would visit that house. Sam reveals that she started to bleed from a head wound during his conversation with Henry's mother. The police officer tells him that the woman who lived there is dead. This seems to send Sam into a fugue in which the same scene is repeated several times.

Later Sam contacts a waitress with whom Henry had fallen in love. She is an aspiring actress and he meets her at a script reading where she is reading lines with another man. She agrees to take him to Henry, but after a long trip down winding staircases he loses her. When he gets back to the rehearsal room, she is there reading the same lines as when he first met her.

The search continues until 11:33 pm on Saturday, less than half an hour before Henry plans to kill himself. At a bookshop known to have been frequented by Henry, Sam finds a painting that Henry had painted and bartered for books about Henry's favorite artist. He learns that the artist had killed himself on Brooklyn Bridge, on his twenty-first birthday. Henry's twenty-first birthday is Sunday, and Sam realises that Henry plans to commit suicide on Brooklyn Bridge in imitation of the artist.

Sam finds Henry on Brooklyn Bridge, but fails to stop him. He turns away as Henry puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger.

The car crash of the first scene is then reprised. Henry is apparently the sole survivor of the crash, but is badly injured and suffers survivor guilt. In another scene, however, Sam and Lila, who have never met one another, are in the traffic on the bridge and try to save his life, but he dies.

Cassandra's Dream (2007) is a suspense film directed by Woody Allen in the UK, starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. It was released in 2007 in Europe and in January, 2008 in the US.

The film was premiered in secret at Avilés in Spain on June 18, 2007. It was officially premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2007 and was already in theaters in Spain by November 3rd, 2007. The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2007
The film involves British brothers Terry (Farrell) and Ian (McGregor), who live in South London. They were raised by a weak father who runs a restaurant, and a strong mother who taught her sons to look up to their uncle Howard (Tom Wilkinson), a successful businessman.

Both brothers decide to buy a sailboat which they name Cassandra's Dream, after the dog that won the race in which Terry earned the money to buy the boat. After a day sailing with their girlfriends and while driving back home in a borrowed Jaguar, Ian crosses an attractive woman on the road (Hayley Atwell), with whom he falls in love. The brothers' financial difficulties, Terry's gambling problems, and Ian's wishes to invest in hotels in California, lead them to think about asking for Howard's help. Uncle Howard supposedly comes to London to celebrate his sister's birthday. When the two brothers ask for his financial help, he unexpectedly reveals that he's about to go to jail due to certain accusations coming from Martin Burns, an old business partner who plans to testify against him. Howard asks his two nephews to murder Burns.

After initial reluctance the two brothers agree. They make two working wooden guns, allowing them to burn them afterwards. In an initial attempt they wait in Burn's home; unexpectedly he is accompanied by a woman. and they have to choose between killing the woman too, or postponing the murder. They choose the latter.

In the next attempt they succeed in carrying out the murder uncaught, and burn the guns. However, Terry's conscience is heavily loaded and he starts to become depressed and suffers from panic attacks. After he confides to his brother that he's thinking about informing the police, Ian plans to poison him during a trip on the boat. In the end, Ian can't bring himself to kill Terry. Thus in a fit of rage, they tussle aboard their small sailboat. In the chaos, Ian is thrown against the hull and killed. Terry, who already had thoughts of suicide from the depression he faced by becoming a murderer, then drowns himself.

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The Lives of Others (original German: Das Leben der Anderen) is an Academy Award-winning German film, marking the feature film debut of writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

With The Lives of Others, Donnersmarck won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards including best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor, after having set a new record with 11 nominations. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Golden Globe Awards.

Alles auf Zucker! (English: Go for Zucker) is a German comedy film, released internationally in 2004. It can be seen as part of the "Ossi-Wessi" confrontation within Germany. Directed by Dani Levy, the cast includes Henry Hübchen, Hannelore Elsner, Udo Samel, Golda Tencer and Steffen Groth.

Director Dani Levy, himself Jewish, has made an ironic comedy about modern Jewish identity in present-day Germany. Henry Hübchen stars as Jaecki Zucker.

Jakob Zuckermann alias Jaeckie Zucker is Jewish. But he says he's got nothing to do with "that club", ever since his mother and his little brother left him behind the Iron Curtain in the GDR when he was young. Therefore when he learns of the death of his mother, he does not care. However he has to care, since his younger brother pays him a visit with his own family. According to Jewish tradition, they have to observe the seven-day Shiv'ah period of mourning and their Mamme's will requires them to reconcile in the presence of the rabbi and the family. If they fail, her assets will be bestowed upon the Jewish community of Berlin, and not them.

Most of the scenes were shot at Tegel Airport, Karl-Marx-Allee, Alexanderplatz, Oranienburger Straße and the Jewish Cemetery Weißensee in Berlin. The Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit makes a cameo appearance as himself.

Polish actress Golda Tencer does not speak German, even though she spoke her own lines fluently. She had the German text written down on small pieces of paper, hidden in her purse. During the movie she can sometimes be seen looking down into her purse.[citation needed]

The soundtrack is light and jovial, featuring some klezmer music as well.

Delirious is a 2006 film released directed by Tom DiCillo. It stars Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Elvis Costello, Greg D'Agostino and Joe D'Onofrio.

It is the story of twenty-year old Toby Grace (Michael Pitt) who progresses from a homeless scavenger in New York City to the assistant of a self-absorbed, obsessive-compulsive, familial-complexed paparazzi, Les Galantine (Steve Buscemi), then falls in love with a superstar, effectively and sweetly abandoning his former employer.

New York City. Present day. Les is a small time celebrity photographer aching to get that one great picture that will get him noticed. He meets Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. Luck intervenes for Toby when he gets a chance meeting with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment. Instant chemistry sparks between them, causing friction between Toby and new found friend Les.

The Savages is a 2007 2-time Academy Award-nominated American film (Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Original Screenplay), written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It had a limited release on November 28, 2007.
After drifting apart emotionally and geographically over the years, two single siblings Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) must band together to care for an elderly parent (Philip Bosco). Visiting their father in his nursing home and their father's eventual death helps each sibling to better deal with their love relationships with others.

Into the Wild is a 2007 Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated film based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer about the adventures of Christopher McCandless. It was directed by Sean Penn, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt and Catherine Keener. It was premiered during the second edition of the Rome Film Feast and a limited release was given on September 21, 2007, and a wide release on October 19 .

The Orphanage (Spanish title: El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish horror film. It stars Belén Rueda as Laura, a woman who returns to the orphanage where she stayed for a period as a child. She purchases the house, with plans to turn it into a home for disabled children. Everything seems to be going well for Laura, her husband Carlos (Cayo) and their son Simón (Príncep). However, the parents soon realize their son has an imaginary friend and horror begins to unfold.

The film is directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 20, 2007. It opened Spain's Sitges Film Festival on October 4, 2007. The film opened in limited release in the United States on December 28, 2007. It went into wide release in the U.S. on January 11, 2008.

The Orphanage was chosen by the Spanish Academy of Films as Spain's nominee for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but ultimately did not end up as one of the five final nominees in that category.

The film was nominated for 14 Goya Awards, including Best Picture. It won seven. An American remake is in production.

The Science of Sleep, or La Science des rêves (literally The Science of Dreams), is a 2006 film, written and directed by Michel Gondry. The film stars Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou and Alain Chabat.

Stéphane (Gael García Bernal), a young man whose vivid dreams and imagination often interfere with his ability to interact with reality. He is coaxed back to his childhood home after his divorced father passes away and his mother finds him a job in France. He initially assumes he will be working creatively, and prepares colorful drawings, each showing a disaster, for a "disasterology" calendar. However, nobody appreciates his talents and he is set to mundane typesetting work. While leaving his apartment to go to work one day, Stéphane injures his hand helping his new neighbor move a piano into her apartment. The new neighbor, Stéphanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), invites Stéphane into her apartment (not knowing he actually lives next door) where her friend Zoé (Emma de Caunes) tends to his wound. Stéphane initially forms an attraction to Zoé, though he suspects it is instead Stéphanie who likes him.


"He's punk." Stéphane introduces Guy to Zoé and Stéphanie.Stéphane realizes that Stéphanie, like he, is creative and artistic. They plan a project for use in a short animated film. Following the advice of Guy (Alain Chabat), Stéphane's sex-obsessed co-worker, Stéphane pretends that he isn't Stéphanie's neighbor, pretending to leave the building when he leaves her apartment. That night when he is sleepwalking he writes a confusing note to Stéphanie that asks for Zoé's phone number. Stéphane realizes his mistake and retrieves the letter with a coat hanger, without realizing Stéphanie has already read it.

Surrealistic and naturalistic elements begin to overlap, the viewer is never certain of which portions are real and which are merely dreams. Stéphane becomes more enamored with Stéphanie as he spends more time with her and shares his many inventions with her. He gives her a "one-second time machine". He asks her repeatedly if she will marry him, despite her consistent rejections. Stéphane's dreams encroach on his waking life as he tries to win Stéphanie's heart and misses time at work. He breaks into Stéphanie's apartment, takes her small, stuffed horse and builds a motor into it. While putting it back into her apartment, Stéphanie arrives and catches him, shocked, calling him "creepy." Embarrassed and heartbroken, Stéphane retreats to his apartment where he receives a call from Stéphanie who apologizes and thanks him for the gift she discovers: a galloping version of "Golden the Pony Boy," named after Stéphane.

Maria Full of Grace (2004, Spanish title: María llena eres de gracia, lit. "Maria, full you are of grace") is a joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston. The title is a reference to the Hail Mary and a reference to what Maria carries in her into the United States.

The main actress, Catalina Sandino Moreno who won "Best Actress" at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for "Best Actress" in the 77th Academy Awards. She is one of the three Hispanic actress to ever be nominated to an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, joining Mexican actress Salma Hayek, for Frida (2002); and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, for Volver (2006).

American History X is a 1998 film directed by Tony Kaye. It features Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, Ethan Suplee, Fairuza Balk, Avery Brooks, Elliott Gould, Stacy Keach, Guy Torry, and William Russ. Norton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Derek Vineyard (EDWARD NORTON, Rounders, Primal Fear), the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny (EDWARD FURLONG, Pecker), from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family, American History X also stars Fairuza Balk, Elliott Gould, Stacy Keach, and Beverly D'Angelo.

Kids is a 1995 American drama film written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark.[1] The film features Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce and Rosario Dawson, most of whom in their debut performances. The film is centered on a day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City and their unrestrained behavior towards sex and drugs during the era of HIV in the mid 1990s.

Kids created a considerable controversy upon its release in 1995, and caused much public debate over its artistic merit, even receiving the dreaded NC-17 rating from the MPAA. It is often compared to topically similar films such as The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Kidulthood (2006), which deal with similar issues.

Boogie Nights is a 1997 film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly and Heather Graham.

The film follows a young porn star as he enters the industry in the late 1970s in California, and deals with the highs and lows of success into the 1980s. It also follows several other characters involved in the industry, and their downfalls.

Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) is a 2004 black comedy Spanish film, directed by Álex de la Iglesia.

Rafael is a women's clothing clerk at a large Madrid department store. His department is filled with beautiful, comely young women whom Rafael regularly seduces. When Rafael vies for a management position with Don Antonio, a men's clothing clerk whom Rafael despises, a fluke causes Don Antonio to win the promotion. He fires Rafael and a fight ensues, in which Rafael accidentally kills Don Antonio. Lourdes, an ugly and unassuming clerk at the store, witnesses the outcome of the fight, helps Rafael dispose of the body, and provides him an alibi for the Police. Rafael wins his coveted promotion, but at a terrible cost: Lourdes blackmails Rafael into a miserable relationship. He is forced to fire his many former lovers, to marry Lourdes (she proposes in a live TV show) and to support clown-like women's clothes of her design. Rafael becomes so depressed that he begins to hallucinate, seeing the ghost of Don Antonio, hinting that Rafael should kill Lourdes. As the Police is also pressing him again, he causes a fire in the department store and fakes his death, in front of his wife and of the Police. Five years later, he (with a false identity) has a small business selling ties and socks, but Lourdes's clown-like clothes are a success and she becomes a millionaire.

When the film was released in the United States in 2005, the film was retitled El Crimen Perfecto, which translates to "The Perfect Crime". It should be noted that the original title was a deliberate error, as the film explains.
The film was released on DVD in the United States in March 2007 under the name "The Perfect Crime", and in Croatia it was titled Ševac i njegov pijevac which means "A fucker and his roster".