Coco-the-Flower, Candidate (1979)

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the man destined to succeed him, unknown and mysterious businessman Jerome Cade...

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his speechwriter turned poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.