As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Wild Reeds
Wounded Man, The
Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up so much...
Vie de Bohème, La
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Three Colors: Red
Valentine, a student model in Geneva, struggles with a possessive boyfriend and a troubled family. When she runs over a dog, she discovers that its owner, a retired judge, is illegally wiretapping and eavesdropping on his neighbors' phone calls. Although Valentine is outraged, she develops a strange bond with...
Shadows in Paradise
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Juha
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
Man Without a Past, The
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation...
Coeur fidèle
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Nostalgia (Nostalghia)
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
