Romance

Andreas, un jeune pasteur, arrive dans une banlieue particulièrement grisâtre de Copenhague pour effectuer un remplacement et reprendre en main le temple local. Il loge à l'hôtel, où il engage la conversation avec Jorgen Mortensen, le réceptionniste, qui lui conseille de s'inscrire au cours d'italien pour débutants.
Andreas se rend alors sur place et rencontre une charmante mais fort maladroite vendeuse en pâtisserie, Olympia. La jeune fille est traumatisée par un père outrancier. Elle n'est d'ailleurs pas au bout de ses surprises : à la mort de sa mère, elle découvre que Karen, une coiffeuse un peu inhibée, n'est autre que sa soeur.
D'autres personnes trentenaires interviennent à leur tour, toutes blessées par la vie mais motivées pour apprendre l'italien.

Three women and three men, all singles, with stressful or unhappy lives, register for an Italian course in a Danish village. The class serves as a way of bringing these various residents of the town, each of whom is dealing with loss or pain, out of their loneliness and into interactions with other people. When the teacher suffers a heart attack during class and ends up dying, the six classmates hold the class anyway and eventually take a vacation to Italy.

Director: Johnnie To
During the Japanese War of 1938, the Chinese government is forced to retreat to Wuhan. Wai (Andy Lau) was born to a powerful family that had extreme influence over the government. He joined the air force with the purpose of paving his way toward a future career in politics. On a routine message delivering mission, Wai runs into Japanese fighter planes. After a severe gun battle, he is seriously injured and is forced to make an emergency landing in a small village in the hills, where he is rescued by Wo (Wu Chien-Lien), a kind hearted village girl.

The innocent Gwang-Sik (Kim Joo-Hyeok, from Singles and Blue Swallow) is a nice enough guy, but he has a tough time interacting with the opposite sex. He may have numerous friends who happen to be girls, but he has no girlfriend to call his own - for some reason, he's just not considered "boyfriend material." At thirty-four years old, he runs a photo studio and has a crush on Yoon Kyung (Lee Yo-Won, from Take Care of My Cat). Unfortunately, he's too shy to reveal his feelings for her. Later, he begins to feel that Yoon-Kyung is starting to develop feelings for him, but is confused when she gives chocolates to another man on Valentine's Day. Will his love remain unrequited? Or will he finally find the courage to reveal his feelings?

Slow-paced and in some longer stretches, this period melodrama features the heroine Larisa and her various, competing suitors. Sergei Paratov dashes into Larisa's sister's wedding like a knight in shining armor and starts to court Larisa. Her head is turned, but not enough to keep her from getting engaged to the boring Yuli Karandyshev when the handsome, singing, dancing, and bon vivant Sergei has the temerity to be gone for a year. What ensues is a classic case of seduction by the immoral Sergei and then the inevitable happens – betrayal and tragedy. The movie is based on the classical play Bespridannitsa ( "Without Dowry" ) by Alexander Ostrovsky that was previously filmed by Yakov Protazanov in 1937.

Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. Elvira stays at a hotel near home so she can spy on her husband. She's unaware, however, that her husband has hired a detective, Peter Virgil, to keep an eye on her at sea. Of course, Peter doesn't realize that Georgia is not Mrs. Kent…

This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding…