The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car and converse with each other only when necessary. At a gas station, The Driver and The Mechanic, along with a girl who has ingratiated herself into their world, meet G.T.O., a middle-aged man who fabricates stories about his exploits. It is decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get the loser's car. Along the way, the race and the highway metaphorically depict the lives of these contestants as they struggle to their destination.

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father.

En 1910, le jeune Adolf Hitler tourne le dos à la province et à l’Autriche profonde et arrive à Vienne pour conquérir le monde par sa peinture. Il s’installe dans un foyer pour hommes de la Leichengasse, « la rue des Cadavres », et se prépare fiévreusement au grand jour de son concours d’entrée à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts. Il partage une baraque miteuse avec deux Juifs : Schlomo Herzl, un astucieux marchand de bibles, et le cuisinier casher Lobkowitz, qui prétend être Dieu et fait parfois vraiment des miracles. Schlomo, le vieux sage, veut écrire un livre intitulé « Mein Leben » (Ma vie) mais ce titre n’enthousiasme personne et on tombe d’accord pour que ce soit « Mein Kampf ».

What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition.

A modernisation of Edmond Rostands "Cyrano De Bergerac". C.D. Bales is a fire chief, who just happens to have an enormous nose. He hires a new fire-fighter, Chris, who is handsome, and knows his hoses, but is useless when it comes to women. Roxanne is an astronomer who has just arrived in town. She catches the eye of Chris, and he asks C.D. to help him woo her. Little does Chris know that C.D. is mad about Roxanne, but hasn't found the right way to tell her - yet.