1953 film by Howard Hawks

1939 film by Howard Hawks

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

2002 film by Aki Kaurismäki

1990 film by Aki Kaurismäki

这样一座小镇，非常的小。小到一个望远镜就能看到所有事情；小到邮差可以悠闲的翻看每一封信，然后再把他们封好；小到人们不需要打招呼，因为他们总是碰到。
镇上有一个男人，每天早上做同样的事，换鞋，出门，工作。表面上，他的工作是工地里的焊接工，实际上，他真正的工作是做画家梦。他用廉价水彩颜料做画，在天空中大量留白。他和镇子里的同龄人一样，感到单调，琐碎，平淡。他又有点像年轻人，为了理想蠢蠢欲动。
男人有一位妻子，肥胖的身体证明了她是一位尽职的家庭主妇。男人赚钱养家，妻子把赚来的钱变成食物养活他。他们懂得墨守契约的道理，所以很少说话。
男人的父亲是一位落寞贵族，他的前半生也许并不传奇，但他还是把优雅和感性留给了下一代。
小镇的爱情是平淡的，之所以称为平淡，是因为这样的爱情里面没有贫富距离，也没有肤色差异，好像所有爱情之外的事情都和爱情无关。只是寥寥几笔，直到结婚那一刻，还是没有让人感到坟墓的存在。
酒馆里的厕所管理员原来是男扮女装。他不喜欢的不光是女人，而是人。所以他看到动物很开心。但他决非是真正意义上的异服癖，因为很难想象他会喜欢自己穿上女装后臃肿老迈的样子。
小镇邮递员喜欢一封封的把信拆开，略略一阅，完后再放回去封好。也许寄信的人压根就没封，也许世界上的邮差都惦记着信里的内容。
星期一的早上，男人离家出走。
于是，他到了威尼斯。威尼斯的自由几乎可以包容一切，条件是你必须也是自由的。人们做着想做的任何的事，甚至是做一个小偷，也一样被允许。装腔作势与这里格格不入，他们太真实了，真实得藏不住丑和美，只要你有一丝恻隐之心都会暴露无遗。
偶然遇到他，火车上的陌生人。自由的共性让男人辞别了父亲的那位虚伪得可笑的老友，与第二次撞面就一见如故的他成为了朋友。他登上了朋友的小舟，带着不期而遇的好奇，离开了生活中刻意的无奈。
他还有过一次邂逅，之后才发现，艳遇注定不是此次旅行的主题。更多的邂逅都不会有下文，只是短暂的擦肩而已。即使再重复一次，重复同样的人，结果也是一样的。
他寄了一张明信片给妻子，正面画上威尼斯风景。这次邮差不用拆就能看到他对给妻子说的话，可妻子连看都不看就把他撕得粉碎。邮差猜到会这样，有时候男人喜欢的浪漫代表了女人痛恨的离别。
于是，男人回来了。
有时候，习惯让人产生想失去的冲动，转一圈之后回到原处，看看还是一样，男人，女人，老人，孩子，牧师。男人像往常一样换鞋，出门，工作。只是出门前多了一个妻子的吻。于是，他知道了，有些东西不用跑太远也能得到。

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

2016 film by Jim Jarmusch

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2016 film

2016 film by Tobias Nölle

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

2014 film directed by Hong Khaou