When Kozue wakes up, she finds the brutally murdered body of her boyfriend. Falsely accused of the crime, she escapes and teams up with a man to uncover the truth behind the incident. It turns out that her boyfriend had been plotting with the yakuza to steal a diamond from the world-famous jewelry designer Junko and sell it. Kozue visits Junko's mountain villa to ask for her cooperation, but Junko demands sexual favors in return, which Kozue reluctantly accepts. However, when the yakuza arrive, Junko is repeatedly assaulted. Kozue tries to flee but ends up being captured as well…
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
A jaded Lower East Side couple have become bored of straight sex, in a bid to spice things up, they decide to imitate some rough sex scenes as seen on TV.
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
