In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
This short film depicts troubles and panics caused by Calino (Clément Mégé) around the billiard table.
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success this film is a joyful comedy of humor and knowledge.
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her debts. But just as she plays her way into a big money tournament, a globe-trotting ladies' man threatens to disrupt her life with her daughter and her peace of mind. Suddenly, everything's riding on a single shot.
An online 8-ball pool game addict is threatened out of his digital world to play in a real life pool tournament to save his brother.
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
Jesse, a charismatic but down on his luck troubadour, finds himself at an existential crossroads as bad choices catch up with him during an unexpected reunion with Carla, an old flame.
Ramon is a guy who lives in a neighborhood, in the " fifth courtyard " in urban poverty. Nevertheless, aspires to the love of the daughter of his employer, a woman of another social class.
A movie about men and women involved in billiard gambling.
The story of Lou Marchesi, a down-and-out professional pool player, who's life begins to disintegrate through his association with the beautiful and sophisticated Sylvia, who refuses to understand or accept his way of life.
A stuntman who dabbles as a petty thief for corrupt policemen decides to quit. His bosses do not let him go but, instead, he is tortured. His consistent brushes with the law earn him a prize on his head and attention from a daily.
