从古猿开始直立，地球上出现了人类的文明史。石器时代，人们从生活的偶然现象中创造出了艺术样式；摩西的十诫居然是出自失误；在伟大的罗马城中，人们在集市上展示各种新奇发明，而领取失业救济金的脱口政治家卡库斯（梅尔•布鲁克斯 Mel Brooks 饰）从经济人斯威特那里获得了一次进入皇宫表现的机会，卡库斯在集市上结识了被贩卖的才艺黑人乔飞斯以及女皇的女侍梅瑞，在凯撒面前表演脱口政治秀的卡库斯不慎口误，令皇帝勃然大怒，本来要被处死的卡库斯与乔飞斯二人一路杀出宫殿，在梅瑞的帮助下开始了东躲西藏的冒险生涯；随后的西班牙宗教法庭和法国大革命的故事都一一在导演梅尔•布鲁克斯的恶搞中呈现出别样的味道。

秩序是维护良好社会组织的纽带，为了表明这个公认的原则，阿巴斯拍摄了一系列短片。一个同样的行为先是以和谐的和有组织的方式开始，然后再以无政府主义的和突然的方式展开，阿巴斯通过一些例子(比如交通规则)以对比的方式说明了秩序的重要性。

阿瑟是一个热爱音乐的唱片商，他一直有一个梦想就是创造自己的音乐，但是由于没有钱他未能如愿，偶然中他遇到了年轻漂亮的艾琳，他们一起为音乐而疯狂，作出了一系列令人不可思议的事情，他们能不能实现自己的梦想呢？是不是真的会有天降财神的事情呢？

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

A portrait of the director's father, Tommy Thompson, and mother, Betty Thompson, each with their own section.

Boaz, a reserve soldier, returns from the battlefield and becomes involved in editing a memorial album dedicated to a friend who was killed before his eyes. He becomes increasingly involved in the lucrative business of producing memorabilia of this kind and does not hesitate exploiting the grief feelings of the survivors and symbolically becomes a "vulture," even in his romance with the dead hero's girlfriend.

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

The story of various journeys through the West Bank and Gaza Strip occupied territories during the months leading up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer and army officer living in occupied Paris in World War II, and newsreel footage of Paris as it really was."

‘What was unusual about this film I think is that I tried to see. I didn’t want to write a script I wanted to see it… There were certain given facts but the business of the script was to see them, to see if this world could exist’. - Jean-Luc Goddard. Scenario du film Passion. 1982

A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins... Written by Daniel Yates

Documentary about the process canned pineapple takes from cultivation to sale.

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.

Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end his troubles. As the doctor talks with him, the film cuts to a series of shorts about scenes from Nefron's life, and the lives of the people around him.

在德黑兰拥挤的街道上，一个交通机构试图让人们遵守一个禁止令。对规则的顺从，对机构的顺从。阿巴斯年轻时曾经在交通部门供过职，现在，他将摄影机架在一个隐蔽的地方观察城市的交通状况。

Celeste（Colette Laffont）是一家银行的电脑职员，对黄金和权力之间的关系着迷不已。Ruby（朱莉·克里斯蒂）是一位神秘的电影明星，寻找她的童年、回忆和自己身份的真相。当他们的道路交叉时，他们开始感觉到男性争夺经济霸权与女性神秘但无力的美的理想之间可能存在联系。

本片改编自Joe Gores推理小说。故事关于一名侦探小说作家汉密特因为职业牵涉到一宗错综复杂的神秘案件中，而对他日后的工作影响深远，汉密特受人之托到旧金山寻找一名名叫“小晶”的失踪中国女孩，结果发现了一连串谋杀的“自杀”案件，在侦探过程中，汉密特几乎丧命，但到了最后，发现凶手居然是……
1928年的美国旧金山，时年34岁的哈麦特仍是一个卑微而潦倒的低级杂志的雇佣文人，并饱受在一战的军队里染上肺病的折磨。哈麦特年轻时曾在平克顿私人侦探公司工作过一段时间，现在，他就以写侦破小说为生。那天晚上，就在他正在写侦破小说的最后一页时，小说中的主人公赖恩突然出现了。他要哈麦特帮他找一个叫克里斯泰·林的16岁的中国姑娘。哈麦特随身携带的小说稿在寻找林的过程中丢失了，而他同赖恩也失去了联系。回到公寓的哈麦特看到林正在那里，她自认：黑社会的头目方伟堂将她卖给了一个叫卡拉汉的人，而卡拉汉的老婆在嫉妒心的驱使下将丈夫杀掉。在方伟堂开的赌场里，哈麦特用钱买回了丢失的小说稿。他又在警察局看到了一具据说是林的尸体，尸体已被毁容，他同时还观看了一部关于林和六个男人鬼混的影片。原来，摄影师索尔特雇了赖恩去寻找林，卡拉汉的律师黑兹唐在打手企图打死哈麦特时救了他一命。哈麦特看到林和赖恩在码头上，他终于明白：这两人原来是一伙的。林打死了想告发她的赖恩。哈麦特的稿子掉进了水里，遂干脆以这几天的冒险经历为主体，重新创作了一部小说：《马耳他之鹰》。

Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future and his childhood buddies are in prison or dead. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-middle-class black woman, Pierce navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life. MY BROTHER'S WEDDING is an eye-opening revelation (it is wise, funny, heartbreaking and timeless).

《儿子的大玩偶》：青年坤树（陈博正 饰）没有工作又不识字，为了养家糊口只好替电影院做“三明治广告人”。他化妆成小丑，身前身后挂着厚厚的广告牌走街串巷卖力地吆喝，累到不行却还得不到亲友的认同，总为此事争吵不休。当坤树去掉化装的油彩时，儿子竟不认识父亲了，被吓得哭了……
《小琪的那顶帽子》：王武雄（金鼎 饰）退伍后找到一份推销员的工作，公司派他到沿海城镇推销日本生产的压力锅，在小镇内遇到小女孩小琪。然而，王武雄最感到不解的是小琪头上总是紧扣著那顶帽子，让他觉得非常奇怪。同时王武雄的搭档林再发（方定台 饰）接到怀孕妻子写信要求他快点回家。但是，压力锅却发生问题……
《苹果的滋味》：居住在台北贫民区的工人阿发（卓胜利 饰）早起上工的路上发生车祸，被美军汽车撞断了双腿，随后住进了照护条件非常好的美军医院。肇事的美军上校不仅承担了一切责任，还给了他一笔可观的赔偿费，又答应将其哑女送到美国学习。面对着生活巨大的变故，阿发一家人悲喜交加反而手足无措起来，竟然连连向美军道歉……