Priceless

Director : Pierre Salvadori

Casts : Gad Elmaleh, Audrey Tautou, Marie-Christine Adam

Summory : Jean, a shy waiter at a luxury hotel, pretends to be a millionaire and awakens the interest of Irène, an adventurer who makes wealthy men pay for her bills. When Irène discovers who Jean really is, she escapes. However, Jean is in love and goes after her, finding her at Côte d'Azur. Pursuing her, he spends all the money to his name to pay for her presence, until he uses his final euro for "10 more seconds".

When she leaves him for richer men and he is left with a hotel bill he can't pay, he is picked up by a wealthy widow and assumes the lifestyle of the one he pursues. Now that they are "equals", she teaches him the tricks of gold-digging and he soon wheedles a 30,000 Euro watch from his supporter. Jean and Irène steal away from their patrons at every chance they get, and eventually are caught kissing by Irène's patron.
Furious, he leaves her with nothing but a sarong and the swim suit she is wearing. Jean sells his watch to buy her a week's stay in their hotel, a gorgeous evening gown, and the invitation to a party they both attend. Jean's patron is at first furious with his selling the watch, but is calmed and pleased when he gives her a beautiful pair of earrings he also bought with the money. He proves himself a skillful gold digger when she later gives him a scooter.

Irène shows up at the party and sees her original patron with another woman, and decides to steal him back with Jean's help. Even though his patron dumps him for it, Jean pretends to be a wealthy prince and goes up to his room with the woman Irène's patron is with, and Irène takes her old man up to his room across from Jean's. Hoping her patron will catch his woman with Jean, she at first tries to direct his attention to the window, but finds herself caught seeing Jean with another woman. She runs to his room, leaving the wealthy man and her only chance at a glamorous lifestyle, and tells Jean of her feelings. The movie ends as they ride off on his scooter to Italy, Irène barefoot.

Black Cat White Cat

Director : Emir Kusturica

Cast : Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan Todorovic, Branka Katic

Subway

Director : Luc Besson

Cast : Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Jean Reno

Two Guys

Disturbia

Director : D.J. Caruso

Cast : Ivan Reitman, Steven Spielberg

The White Balloon

Director : Jafar Panahi

Cast : Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadr Orfani

Summary: It is the eve of the Iranian New Year. The film opens in a Teheran market where seven year old Razieh and her mother are shopping. Razieh sees a goldfish in a shop and begins to nag her harried mother to buy it for the festivities instead of the skinny ones in her family's pond at home. Almost all of the film's major characters are briefly seen in this market scene, though the they won't be introduced to the viewer until later. On their way home mother and daughter pass a courtyard where a crowd of men has gathered to watch two snake charmers. Razieh wants to see what is happening but her mother pulls her daughter away, telling her that it is not good for her to watch these things.
Back home, Razieh is upset about her mother's refusal to let her buy a new goldfish, but continues her campaign of nagging. Her older brother Ali (Mohsen Kalifi) returns from a shopping errand for their father, who although he remains unseen, is a tangible presence causing tension in the family. He complains that he asked Ali to buy shampoo, not soap, then throws the soap at him. Ali sets off to buy the shampoo and when he returns Razieh enlists his help in changing her mother's mind about the goldfish, bribing him with a balloon. Insisting that she can buy the goldfish in the market for 100 tomans ("You're crazy," Ali tells her, remarking that he can see two films for that money), Razieh finally gets her wish. Her mother gives her the family's last 500-toman banknote and asks her to bring back the change. Razieh sets off with an empty glass jar to the fish shop a few blocks away.
Between their home and the fish store, Razieh manages to lose the money twice, first in an encounter with the snake charmer, and then when she drops the money through the grate of the entrance to a store which has been closed for the New Year celebration.
Razieh and Ali make several attempts to retrieve the money and receive assistance from many people, including the owners of nearby shops and an Iranian soldier. The money, however, is always just out of reach. Finally, the siblings receive help from a young Afghan street vendor selling balloons. He carries all of his balloons on a wooden stick, and has only one balloon, a white one, left. The group attaches a piece of gum to one end of the balloon stick, and with it, they reach down through the grate and pull the money up.
The film ends, not with Ali and Razieh, but with the young Afghan boy, who has become an important character only at the very end of the film.

The Circle

Director : Jafar Panahi

Cast : Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani

Summary : The film does not have a central protagonist: instead, it is constructed around a sequence of short interconnecting stories that illustrate the everyday challenges women face in Iran. Each story intersects, but none is complete, leaving the viewer to imagine both the background and the ending. All the actors are amateurs, except Fereshteh Sadr Orafai who plays Pari, and Fatemeh Naghavi, who plays the mother abandoning her daughter.
Throughout the movie, Panahi focuses on the little rules symbolizing difficulties of life for Iranian women, such as the need to wear a chador under certain circumstances, or not being allowed to travel alone. He frequently uses contrast to illustrate both happiness and misery in contemporary Tehran: for example, a marriage party, symbolizing a happy ending, takes place in the background while a young girl is abandoned.