In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the dead. There are rumours that he might be the second coming of the Messiah. He is brought before the Grand Inquisitor. Though questioned and tortured, he chooses to remain silent.
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
The story of the chief prosecutor Dr. Klapka - a self-confident, cold-blooded, calculating man who lives in the comfort befitting his position - and his attractive wife. Dr. Klapka sues the factory owner Muller for murdering his brother and, years ago, his mistress for selfish reasons. The prosecutor has no direct evidence and must rely only on his oratory skills to propose the maximum sentence. In his desperate attempt to win the trial, he grabs at every straw. In this case, such a straw is a mysterious exotic stranger with alleged clairvoyant abilities to read the writer's character from a manuscript just by touching it with his fingers.
The story takes place in Prague in the 1930s. An old trickster watchmaker named Sakař fakes an illness to get into the hospital. A young doctor from Bulovka finds him on the street and admits him to the hospital. Sakař is an excellent specialist, he takes care of everyone's watches, but at a certain point his desire for freedom wins out and he runs away from the hospital with a rare piece of old watch, which unfortunately belongs to the headmistress. A problem arises for the doctor, his position and existence are threatened...
Short film based on Stephen King's short story 'All That You Love Will be Carried Away'.
Alfie Zimmer has reached his limits. Crushed beneath the weight of the Words, he now lingers on edge of complete despair, desperately trying to decide whether or not his life is worth living. An adaption of Stephen King's novella, 'All That You Love Will Be Carried Away'.
Alfie Zimmer is a suicidal salesman with a notebook full of everyone else's stories. But tonight he's forcing himself to figure out the ending to his own.
Alfie Zimmer, a traveling salesman, pulls into a motel for the night. He settles in and pulls out a revolver, ready to commit suicide. Alfie has a hobby of recording, into a notebook, random bathroom graffiti which he has discovered on his long, lonely travels.
A salesman's love of bathroom graffiti may save his life on a cold, Nebraska night. Based upon a short story by Stephen King.
The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
Monette, a middle-aged traveling book salesman (his first name is never given), goes to confession. When the priest asks him what sin he has committed, Monette admits that he believes he has sinned in some way but is not entirely sure exactly what he is guilty of.
Alfie Zimmer loves his wife but doesn't tell her anymore, and he hates his job but doesn't tell it either. Toilets, vulgar graffiti: real poems to him, and a notebook to list it. To never forget it. So one night, he books a room in a motel, down the hall, on the ground floor, not to sleep in it, but to die in it. The gun on the chin, a crazy idea cross his mind: what if he published his book? What if he does what he really wants? To live, fully, or to die?
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.
A man at a crossroads struggles with a decision that could end his life. Adapted from Stephen King’s short story, "All that you love will be carried away."
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
Alfie Zimmer stops at a motel for what might be the last night of his life in a surreal exploration of his mind. ALL THAT YOU LOVE WILL BE CARRIED AWAY is a short film based on the story by Stephen King.