彼得．葛拉罕是一個政治犯，在多年煎熬的獄中生活之後，他終於回到了他魂牽夢迴的家鄉曼爪勾拉，一個陽光不曾升起的冰天雪地。在船上，他碰到了向她調情的神秘女郎茱麗安娜，在私密的床單底下，彼得再也難以忘懷他的夢中情人茱麗安娜。回到這個從來沒有太陽的故鄉，彼得就好像活在夢的高燒當中。他的姊姊，在莊園裡飼養一群鴕鳥的雅美莉雅，為了貪婪而且懂得催眼術的梭提博士而害了心痛的相思病。而梭提的激情對象則是早早守寡，後來嫁給森林的莉菲雅，和那座剛從土裡挖出來的維那斯女神像。而莉菲雅早在彼得返家的當天就立下誓約，其實她早死的漁人丈夫是她下手殺死的。彼得在莉菲雅浮沈於水面的床上成了她的戀人之後，卻在茱莉安娜的現身下拋棄了菲莉雅。彼得的苦戀成了他自身痛苦的根源，他永遠無法釋懷茱莉安娜，這位妓女所生的女兒，到底和梭提博士有何牽牽掛掛。在愛所非愛如此荒唐而痛苦難當的激情迷宮裡，每個人都在這個冰天雪地下投向毀滅，最後存活在各自的空屋裡，阿美莉雅向空氣呢喃自語著：吻我。吻我……

Originally produced as separate short films between 1962 and 1999.
Primarily live action films; Café bar, Bride of Resistor, and What is sex? are animated.
A collection of award-winning short films from around the world.
Special features: La jetée includes two alternative audio tracks, one featuring 12 monkeys screenwriters David and Janet Peoples, the second features 12 monkeys director Terry Gilliam ; A guy walks into a bar features an audio commentary track by Carmen Elly, Roderick Plummer and George Swift ; An eye like a strange balloon includes an audio commentary track by Guy Maddin and storyboards ; Big brass ring includes clips from the feature film version of the film.
La jetée: The themes of time and memory are intricately sewn into a eulogy to civilization.
Cafe bar: In this brushstroke animation a random meeting at a cafe becomes two people’s "escape" from one another.
Depth solitude: A lyrical short film about loneliness and the extreme measures some will take to overcome it.
A guy walks into a bar: A naive wannabe actor stumbles into a real life cowboy fantasy while driving across country.
Bride of Resistor: In this sequel to the kinetic animation film Mr. Resistor, the diminuitive scrap heap hero returns to have his heart stolen by a plasticine mistress.
Eye like a strange balloon: A whimsical allegory on man’s journey through time and space.
Vincent, the junkie chronicles: a work-in-progress documentary takes an unblinking look at the life of an addict.
Big brass ring: Malcolm McDowell plays a controversial political icon who verbally spars with a beautiful journalist.

The shield maiden of Gimli yearns for the drowned fisherman Mundi while her acolytes in mourning aid her in this fact-based account of a tragic accident.

Guy Maddin takes his dog Spanky out for his last walk with him at the lake.