The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (depending on the age).
Multipremiada extravagancia de Ettore Scola que recorre la historia de Europa (y más concretamente la de Francia) de los últimos cincuentra años a través de distintos bailes. Así, sólo mediante música, baile y danza, sin ningún diálogo, el director italiano refleja cambios políticos, comportamientos sociales y tendencias en la moda desde 1936 hasta el presente... sin tan siquiera mover su cámara de una salón de baile.

Driving through the Mojave Desert somewhere between Las Vegas and Disneyland, a middle aged German tourist couple has a spat...and the wife, Jasmin, strikes out on her own. Trudging down the highway pulling along a large suitcase, she is so unlikely a sight that Brenda, the irascible proprietor of the Bagdad Cafe where Jasmin stops, is instantly suspicious. So begins a hilarious and touching account of the relationship that develops between these two women of different cultures. It also offers a renewed, endearingly quirky vision of America as a land with room for self discovery and individuality.

En medio del desierto de Mohave -en Estados Unidos-, una mujer alemana, Jasmine, y su marido tienen una fuerte discusión. Ella se baja del coche, coge la maleta y llega a un sucio bar de carretera, el Bagdad Café, regentado por una mujer negra llamada Brenda. Jasmine se instala allí y, poco a poco, entabla amistad con los clientes habituales. Entre ellos se encuentra un antiguo decorador de Hollywood, empeñado en retratar a la alemana. Mientras, ésta consigue transformar el destartalado local en un lugar muy popular, donde cada noche, se dará cita numerosa clientela.

The plot of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is simple to relate. Two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. Two other characters appear, a master and a slave, who perform a grotesque scene in the middle of the play. A young boy arrives to say that M. Godot will not come today, but that he will come tomorrow. The play is a development of the title, Waiting for Godot. He does not come and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves, the only symbol of a possible order in a thoroughly alienated world.

Returning home from work with news of a promotion, a husband (Gary Sweet as Steve) expects a "surprise" birthday party only to find his home deserted with a videotape to watch that initially wishes him a happy birthday and notes that the two children have been sent to a relative's house for the night. The wife (Helen Buday as Alexandra) then engages in a taped strip tease that initially amuses Steve, but soon horrifies him.