Sweet Smell of Success is a film-noir crime drama that follows a press agent who becomes entangled in a web of deceit, as he manipulates the media to further his own ambitions. Set in 1950s New York City, the movie explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the dark underbelly of the entertainment industry.
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
The film depicts 24 hours in a HDB block of residential flats in Singapore. There are three main storylines. San San, fat, silent, and alone, hears the ghost of her mother constantly upbraid her. Ah Gu, a tofu soup vendor, is at odds with Lily, his materialistic immigrant wife, who longs for something he cannot provide. Meng spouts every moralistic bromide of the striving middle class, but is unhinged by his teenage sister May ("Trixie" to her boyfriend) who won't study, parties all night, and seems doomed by youth culture.
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
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