The methodical life of a travel writer is upset when his son dies and his wife leaves him, until he takes up with a dog trainer.

A career-minded newly divorced woman becomes involved with a much younger man who also happens to be her therapist's son.

Four former college friends, dissatisfied with their lives and careers, reconnect in Manhattan and seek to change their lives for the better.

Hank, a racist death-row prison guard, begins to question his beliefs when he falls in love with Leticia, the African American wife of a man he has just executed.

On the eve of her 15th high school reunion, Kathy fantasizes about making love to her hunky ex-boyfriend so she asks her best friend to act as a surrogate. However, it doesn't go as she expects.

A shaman has placed a curse on a nomadic Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic leading to malevolence and violence among the clan's leader and Atanarjuat, a man who has stolen the affections of the clan's betrothed; Atanarjuat escapes the village, only to return stronger and with the power to break the curse.

Cyrano is a wonderful poet but feels ugly due to his huge nose. When he agrees to help a friend woo a woman, she falls in love with the poetry and the poet.

Two American women, one engaged to be married and the other sexually flirtatious, both become romantically involved with a painter while on vacation in Barcelona, only to find they have competition in the form of the painter's ex-wife.

After thirty years of marriage to a loving but dull man, a woman begins an affair and rediscovers herself.

Twenty-one years ago, she ran away, And twenty-one years later, Carlotta is back from the void. But, Ismael has been busy rebuilding a life for himself with Sylvia and working on his next feature film. As Ismael's trials and tribulation unfurl, so too do those of his film's protagonist: idle, funny and reckless diplomat Ivan Dedalus. The character is a nod to the ghost of another of Desplechin's creations.