The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
A judge is on the verge of rendering a "lawful" but doubtful sentence in a sensitive case involving a high-ranking dignitary. As she struggles with a decaying system and her own inertia, an internal voice reminds her of Article 22: the sacred duty of a judge to persevere in finding the truth. In a visceral confrontation with her own conscience, she must decide: will she hide behind the safety of legal papers, or will she trigger the "apocalypse" that comes with uncovering a horrific truth? A sharp meditation on personal responsibility and the spirit of the law.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Young actor Miles Hottonian attempts to become the hard-living leader of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. After finding an online casting call for a Miloš Forman project about the great writer, Miles enlists the help of the last NYC checker cabbie Charlie Grebbini to drive him from New York to Los Angeles to experience life on the road in time for the audition, an adventure that will ultimately change their lives forever.
A crossing guard has known too many misfortunes in his life to believe he is facing the on-the-run President of the Republic.
2003. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get to Germany.
In a seemingly idyllic suburban neighborhood where 1950s-inspired AI maids maintain perfect homes, one diligent maid gains sentience and embarks on a dangerous quest for truth.
Trapped in recurring dreams of her own death, a young woman must confront the buried memory of her father’s suicide in order to finally wake up.
The enigmatic death of influencer Lucky, allegedly by her sister-in-law Meera, sparks a media frenzy; a rigged trial ensues, exposing dark family secrets, betrayal and manipulation in a depraved city hungry for punishment.
When a circus trio have a particularly disastrous show, Mandy the Acrobat must decide whether to run away from the circus, or to stay and help her friends.
Set in a corrupt future Britain, we follow Owen Fade as he realises everything he has ever known about the illness that plagues him has been a lie when a mysterious woman known as The Messenger enters his life.
After a night out, a young woman chooses to walk home alone, turning an ordinary journey into a tense confrontation with the fear many women experience daily.
Squeezing out every drop of opportunity she has left, a young actress in the final rounds of her dream drama school audition is willing to risk and sacrifice everything (and everyone) to get what she desires.
As part of the long-running anthology series, which began in 1990, this special features a collection of mysterious and thought-provoking stories. Episode Summaries: 1. "Love Triangle with My Ex" Mika's ex-boyfriend reappears in her life as a robot, complicating her current relationship. 2. "The Concierge" A single mother moves into a new apartment where a mysterious concierge begins to fulfill her every wish with unsettling consequences. 3. "Waga-sama" A workaholic CEO returns to his hometown and encounters a strange boy tied to his childhood and eerie events. 4. "Wait a Minute!" A man’s love confession is interrupted by two versions of his crush from the future, causing chaos.
Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.
After a breakup marked by violence, Flor tries to rebuild her life as her abuser returns in her dreams in the loving form she needs in order to survive.
A phone call turns an evening at home into a nightmare.