Before Michael Mak’s Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the ’90s, there was Ho Fan’s Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But without sex bomb Amy Yip, coarse humour or lesbian love affairs, Yu Pui Tsuen had to rely on the nudity and sex from his cast of relative unknowns to save the day. When a young man dreams that he drowns after a night of carnal passion, he asks a buddhist monk to translate the experience for him. The monk replies that the dream is a warning not to indulge the pleasures of the flesh to excess, but the man ignores his advice, marrying a virgin and making love to her constantly. However, after several torrid affairs, the man begins to realise the sagacity of the monk's warning.
An embittered Texas border rancher mistakenly shoots a young migrant woman as she crosses his property and must decide whether to help her, risking discovery by his estranged son, a Border Patrol Agent.
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
When Isaac, a young teen struggling with his self-worth, finds a new identity as popular singer-songwriter Ace Duncan, in an unconscious attempt to save himself from his depression.
A virus spreads across the country making people feel sleepy, while the political situation enters a moment of tension. Sofia suffers from insomnia and the Doctor formulates plans that involve her.
Portrays two wealthy families who encourage the acquisition of money through the easy way and the effects of their illicit actions. In their eagerness to maintain their social level, one of the families neglects their daughter, thinking that money is everything. The other maintains making money as north because they come from a poor social stratum.
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
In the silence of a cold morning, Ana repeats a meticulous and almost sacred culinary ritual to lure Chloe, her deceased grandmother's cat, who has been missing for a week. When her boyfriend, Julián, confronts her at the doorstep, urging her to accept reality, Ana breaks down, releasing the true pain she has been hiding. "La Perte" is an intimate portrait of denial, the weight of grief in everyday spaces, and how, sometimes, a shared ritual is what someone needs to finally let go of those who left us behind.
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.