A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

Servitricen Cecilia flygter fra sin triste hverdag ind i biografens mørke. Da hun har set "The Purple Rose of Cairo" fem gange sker det helt fantastiske at filmens helt træder ud af biograflærredet og ned i biografen til sin trofaste fan. Det er kærlighed ved første blik, men ikke helt uden problemer.

Ferdinand Griffon lever et kedeligt liv i Paris, indtil han han møder den forføriske våbensmugler Marianne Renoir. De stikker af på en kærligheds- og dannelsesrejse igennem Frankrig - ned til et solbeskinnet Middelhav. Men kærligheden får katastrofale følger for både Ferdinand og Marianne.

Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.

Thomas har netop holdt audition til et teaterstykke. Han er skuffet over kandidaternes lave standard, da Vanda blæser ind på scenen. Vanda er grov og idiotisk, men da Thomas lader hende få en chance, står han pludselig står over for en forvandlet kvinde. Vanda kender rollen indgående og kan alle replikkerne. Prøven bliver mere og mere intens, og Thomas' fascination udvikler sig til en ren besættelse.

Den succesrige, midaldrende forretningsmand Richard Forst fortæller en morgen uden varsel sin unge hustru Maria, at han vil skilles. Årsagerne er dunkle, men måske har et møde dagen før med den letlevende Jeannie udløst det brutale udsagn, der får uventede følger

A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

Den gamle sherif Steve Judd bliver hyret til at transportere en sending guld gennem et farligt område. Han hyrer sin gamle makker Gil Westrum og dennes protege Heck Longtree til at hjælpe sig. Hvad han ikke ved, er at Gil og Heck planlægger at stjæle guldet undervejs. Undervejs møder de tre en ung kvinde der forsøger at komme væk fra sin far og sin forlovede.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

I en gammel herskabsvilla, der er beliggende ved en øde bugt, myrdes grevinde Federica på brutal vis af sin ægtemand Filippo Donati. Grevinden er lam i underkroppen og bundet til sin rullestol, så da hun får et reb om halsen og sparkes ud af stolen, kan Filippo smilende se til, mens hun udånder. Nu er arven efter hende hans. Men ikke så snart har grevinden trukket sit sidste åndedrag, før den griske Filippo overfaldes og slagtes af en mørkklædt morder.

Vi er i swingin´ New York i 1940. CW Briggs er forsikringsdetektiv og knaldhamrende dygtig til det...Nå, ja, det er i hvert fald hvad han igen og igen fortæller forsikringsselskabets nyudnævnte effektivisering-ekspert, Betty Ann ”Fitz” Fitzgerald. Briggs brøster sig af til enhver tid at være i stand til at afsløre forsikringssvindel og –svindlere pga. sin evne til at trænge ind i svindlerens hjerne. Men nu – takket være den jadegrønne skorpions hypnotiske kraft – trænger svindlerens hjerne i stedet ind i Briggs...

Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.

Mildly successful comedian, Hannibal Buress, performs his second stand-up special in Chicago based on his wild night with the police.