Vincent, policier, dérobe un gros sac de cocaïne à des trafiquants, mais il est identifié au cours de l’opération. Les truands prennent alors son fils en otage. Vincent doit faire l’échange - son fils contre le sac - dans une immense boîte de nuit tenue par les bandits. La nuit qui commence sera la plus longue de sa vie et peut-être même la dernière.
On May 8, 1938, the day Hitler visited Mussolini in Rome, Antonietta, a native and sentimental homemaker (Loren) stays home doing her usual domestic tasks, while her fascist husband and her six spoilt children take to the streets to follow the parade. The building is empty except for a neighbor across the complex (Mastroianni), a charming man named Gabriele. He is a radio broadcaster who has been dismissed from his job and is about to be deported to Sardinia because of his anti-fascist stance and his homosexuality. They meet by chance and began to talk. Antonietta is surprised by his opinions and, unaware of his sexual orientation, flirts with him.
The story takes place on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto in South Central Los Angeles. Members of a local gang known as 'Street Thunder' have recently stolen a large number of assault rifles and pistols. The film begins at 3 a.m. that morning, as a team of heavily-armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of the gang. Later, the gang's four warlords swear a blood oath of revenge, known as a "Cholo", against the police and the citizens of Los Angeles.
The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge up to the same time at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks:
Dans la maison du grand couturier parisien Pierre Roussel (joué par Jean Chevrier), à cause de leur séance de représentation prolongée la veille de Noël, des mannequins, notamment Marlène (Sophie Desmarets), Blanche (Brigitte Auber) et Catherine (Anne Vernon), vont voir leur nuit et leur vie sentimentale quelque peu bouleversée. Mais tout s'achèvera dans la liesse.
Cléo (played by Corinne Marchand) is a pop singer who wanders around Paris while she awaits her medical test results. As Cléo kills time until she is able to phone the doctor for her medical results in the evening, she meets with several friends and strangers while trying to grapple with her own mortality.
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a middle-aged Los Angeles electronics salesman driving his red 1971 Plymouth Valiant sedan on a business trip. On a two-lane highway in the California desert, he encounters a grimy and rusty 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck, traveling slower than the speed limit and expelling thick plumes of sooty diesel exhaust. Mann passes the unsightly truck, which promptly roars past him and then slows down again. Mann is unmoved, passing the truck a second time, and is startled when it suddenly issues a long air horn blast.
Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui. Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui. Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier... Trois mariages dans un mariage, trois couples durant les 24 heures d'une noce quelque peu perturbée par les doutes et les crises de chacun. "Qu'il est formidable d'aimer", chante courageusement le curé, à l'heure où un mariage sur trois se termine en divorce... Un sur trois : d'accord, mais lequel ?
Bérengère et Vincent, tous deux issus de familles bourgeoises, s'unissent religieusement entourés des leurs. La journée, qui commençait plutôt bien, se dégrade au fil des heures. Le mariage est vécu d'un point de vue différent par certains membres de la famille des jeunes mariés et par les mariés eux-mêmes : secrets, rancœurs, malentendus et quiproquos se succèdent à l'ombre d'un très, très ancien secret… de famille.
Jerome Martinaud, a wealthy, influential attorney in a small French town who falls under suspicion for the rape and murder of two little girls. He is the only suspect, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates New Year's Eve, the police led by Inspector Antoine Gallien, who is investigating the double rape/murder case, brings the lawyer in for questioning; at first politely, and then less so, as the interrogation team consisting of Inspectors Gallien and Marcel Belmont chips away at the suspect's alibi. They interrogate him for hour after hour while Martinaud continues to maintain his innocence. We learn all about the evidence; we meet Martinaud's wife Chantal who tells Gallien about the rift between them and the origin of it, which may be an eight-year-old girl (Camille) Martinaud was in love with. On the face of overwhelming evidence and feeling let down by his wife, Martinaud confesses to the two rapes and murder. However a fresh corpse inside the boot of a stolen car, and the car's owner turns out to be guilty of the crime--exculpating Martinaud. Martinaud leaves the police station and finds his wife who has committed suicide.
The plot is based around a successful, yet very shy painter Yann (Pierre Richard) who is in love with a married woman Florence (Fanny Cottençon). When he finally manages to have a date with her in his apartment, he has to face big problems. His neighbour Boris, another painter (and an artist maudit) who is extremely jealous towards his young wife Éva, leaves his flat without his suitcase, and when Éva, dressed only in lingerie, runs out of the door to let him know, a draft of air closes her door and she has to ask Yann for help. Unfortunately, that is just the moment when both Boris and Florence turn up. The story gets even more complicated as Florence's husband also comes to Yann's flat, and when Yann, when joking, mistakes a toy gun for a real one, and lightly injures Boris. But eventually all comes to a happy end.
Trajectoires croisées d'une jeune femme en lutte contre le quotidien, de sa mère en déni de surpoids, de son copain en pertes de repères et d'un vieillard esseulé. Jusqu'au drame...
Lundi matin, Paul Wertret (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) se rend à son travail, à la banque où il est chargé d’affaires. Il arrive, comme à son habitude, à huit heures précises. Il sort un pistolet, abat deux de ses supérieurs puis s’enferme dans son bureau. Dans l’attente des forces de l’ordre, cet homme, jusque-là sans histoire, se remémore des pans de sa vie et les évènements qui l’ont conduit à commettre son acte.
Alix joue La Dame de la mer d'Ibsen au théâtre à Calais. Alors qu'elle doit passer une audition pour un rôle, elle croise le regard d'un homme dans le train qui l'amène à Paris et elle est attirée par son air triste. Il lui demande le chemin de l'église Sainte-Clotilde à leur arrivée en gare.
The film follows the friends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich as they take a train from Paris to Limoges, where he is to be buried, attend his funeral, then gather at the home of his twin brother, Lucien. The mourners include François, who spends the journey listening to a series of taped conversations with the painter; Jean-Marie and Claire, a couple whose marriage has broken down; Emmerich's former lover Lucie; Louis, a close friend of François, and Bruno a young man with whom he has fallen in love. As the train heads south, the travellers watch the car carrying Emmerich's coffin being driven recklessly alongside the train by their friend Thierry.