The Cheat

Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.

A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.

A woman is sexually assaulted while jogging and the attacker leaves behind a ID pendent in the struggle. With this as her only clue she searches the nightclubs of Ginza for a chance at revenge.

Dimitri Venkov’s Krisis is based on a Facebook discussion on December 8, 2013, the day on which pro-European demonstrators in Kiev started to demolish statues of Vladimir Lenin. The film reenacts debates between Russian and Ukrainian artists during the protests, revealing deep aesthetic, historical, and political divisions.

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

Qamar al-Zaman is an innocent and naive girl. She leaves her hometown to look for work in Cairo and goes to a friend of her father, but she finds him dead. A neighbor tries to rape her. A young man who works as a magician in an amusement park saves her and takes her to work with him, but she fails to work as a waitress because she is not able to read and write, so she learns through theater toys.