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- Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.
- Nine stories based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers.
- The town of Papayal is located in the Amazon jungle. It is ruled by violence, greed and vice. It has grown around mines where gold is extracted, and where mercury has severely destroyed the environment. Apart from the local bar and brothel, the settlers have nothing to do but work on the mines. Every once in a while a man called Fellini arrives and projects films. One day the mother of teenager Isabel and her lover steal the gold from miner El Gallego and flee from Papayal. The girl is forced to pay their debt, by working on the brothel. Isabel tries to escape, but she is caught by the police, and meets Cae, a young man who is bought by a trader to work in the gold mines. Back on Papayal, Isabel falls in love with Cae, who tells her that both her mother and her lover have been killed.
- A handsome young man is released from jail and goes to "El Pez Que Fuma", a bordello in the outskirts of Caracas. La Garza, its middle-aged owner, hires the young man as handy man, but soon he takes the place of the administrator, who is also La Garza's lover.
- Coverage of the activities of the group Théatre de la Jeune Lune, during the summer of 1980 in Paris. Integrated by American and French performers, the group reflects on the art of acting as it represents "Cirque de Molière", a show consisting of fragments of Moliere's plays, performed both on the street (at the Centre Georges Pompidou) and on an improvised stage in the Carreau du Temple, a Parisian market place.
- Divided in five parts, 'The Art of Influence' registers fifteen artists' impressions on the life and work of other artists that influenced them. Part one 'Performers on Performers' covers Salerno-Sonnenberg's opinions on Maria Callas, and Cassandra Wilson's on Miles Davis. In part two 'Ways of Seeing', Fuentes talks about Luis Buñuel, Iturbide about Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Frankenthaler about Jackson Pollock, and Jackie Chan about Bruce Lee's films, Buster Keaton's stunts, Charles Chaplin's humor, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Sylvester Stallone. Part three 'Breaking the Silence' is dedicated to Fugard's admiration for Bertolt Brecht, and Oe's for Günter Grass. Choreographers Marin and Jones reflect on the influences of, respectively, Samuel Beckett and Marcel Proust, in part four 'Choreographers on Writers'. The last part, 'Artist and Visionairies' registers Anger's opinion of Jean Cocteau, Bo's admiration for Marcel Duchamp, Komar and Melamid's memories of Andy Warhol, and O'Connor's affectionate appreciation for Bob Marley.
- In a Dogon village, the storyteller Egnelou explains that each night many stories are told to make the people think, to give advices and ideas. The young interpret his stories, and reflect on different aspects of the daily life in the Dogon society: the relationship between husband and wife, respect for taboos, incest, the value of work, etc.
- In Mali, 800 kilometers northeast of Bamako, the Dogon tribe of Arou prepare the funeral of their last "hogon", or religious chief. Due to economic and religious conflicts, the funeral was in 1992, eight years after the death of the hogon. Six weeks later, they prepare his successor, Ogomale, son of the hogon, who is nominated and enthroned as the new hogon. For the rest of his life, he will have to live away from the tribe, in a sanctuary located on top of the Bandiagara cliffs.
- Every day construction worker Yunier, cashier Noritza and public bureaucrat Cajar, go to work in Nacho's bus. Each time they tell a story. In pilot "Private Business" Yunier tells how his childhood friend Beto Cobra sold him a stolen watch, and stole his girlfriend.