A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers' inappropriate idyll: some of these include documentary footage of starving African children, images (both real and re-enacted) of George Bernard Shaw going about his daily life, and a corpse coming to life on an autopsy table, only to cheapen that miracle by scolding a group of women. The music used in the film ironically points to its disturbing message and is uniformly anachronistic.

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

Vi befinner oss i 40-talets Tokyo. Professor Hyakken Uchida bestämmer sig för att dra sig tillbaka från professorsjobbet och istället satsa på en karriär som författare. Hans tidigare studenter älskar honom och de fortsätter att hålla kontakten även efter att han slutat undervisa. Mitt under andra världskriget bombas hans hus och han tvingas flytta in i en liten stuga. Hans studenter vägrar att låta sin älskade professor bo under sådana förhållanden, så de bygger ett litet hus åt honom. Varje år på hans födelsedag kommer de på besök och ställer frågan "Mahda kai?" ("Är du redo?"). Och varje år sveper professorn ett glas öl och svarar "Madadayo" ("inte än").