Like a ticking time-bomb, Ronnie tries to hold his personal relationships and artistic career together while struggling with a debilitating writers block. "A Beautiful Rush" is a silent film that explores what it means to be selfish and lose sight of the blessings life has graced us with.
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
While quarantined, a workaholic rediscovers their passion that was once lost while growing up.
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
Luna returns to her childhood home to retrieve old recordings hidden in a closet and to re-live the sense of home that once was. Much to her surprise, she meets the new inhabitant, from who she hides her true intention.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Mauro is the proud owner of a "Video 80", a video rental shop that used to be a big hit in the 80's, now empty and forgotten. On what would be the store's last day, someone finally appears - but it is not exactly what Mauro expected.
The Worth Family has been divided for years but when the matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, the family has to come together. The story of Family Squares takes the Worth Family on a journey discovering that not only did Grandma Mabel keep some secrets, so did everyone else. They find their way back to each other and realize that while you can’t choose your family, you can choose to be friends with them.
After emigrating to Australia, a traditional Turkish man collides with his idealist wife as the ghosts of his dead parents set him free from an isolated, defeated existence.
Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.
Zoe and her younger brother deal with the remnants of a drunken evening at their family cottage. They must clean-up a catastrophic mess and attempt to piece together yesterday's events before their mother's return, and as the clean-up revives memories from last night, the sibling face the truth behind the chaos.
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.
A frustrated author faces intense pressure from her editor, the internet, and her own characters as she attempts to craft a follow-up to her previous novel, a surprise success that may have been more of a curse than a blessing.