Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
A sex comedy for adults depicting the lust of a man in a promiscuous relationship with his lover's sister.
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
A bored and frustrated wife meets an old lover who knows how to satisfy her pent-up passions. Unfortunately she finds out that he runs a call girl business.
After five years a tough former prostitute is released from prison and returns to the yakuza that sent her there. It is a cruel and pitiless world and she just wants to survive.
A taxi driver kidnaps a fare and imprisons her in his apartment.
Yakumaru is researching an aphrodisiac to cure his impotence. He happens to meet Mitsuko, who also has an impotent husband, and Yakumaru gives Mitsuko the medicine he is researching. The next day, the two meet again to hear the results, but Mitsuko seems strange. Mitsuko, who was frustrated that her husband did not cooperate and did not take her medicine, ended up taking the medicine herself.
Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart.
Hazuki clips her nails every time it rains. She caressed 'her' with these fingers back then. Hazuki, an editor of a publishing company now, is attracted by Shiori, the head of planning. On a day when the two women soaked wet in the rain, they enter an motel for shelter and take a shower. There Hazuki sees the image of her lost "girlfriend" in Shiori and eventually they reach out to each other.
Kenzo, Azusa's husband, has a heart condition but his passion for sex has not diminished one iota from the time he was a virile young man. Azusa does not refuse her husband for he is very wealthy and if he should happen to die of excess sex she would inherit a vast fortune. If only Azusa could kill him without staining her own hands. Unable to do it alone, she asks the aid of Naoya who is only too glad to help.
Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
A drug addict meets an aristocratic woman who married a criminal.
Jane is 10 years into a relationship and runs an underwear shopping mall. She is tired of her boyfriend and concentrates more on her work until one day she asks a nameless photographer named Hyeong-sik for some pictures to be taken. Hyeong-sik agrees to her after seeing her body. The two stick to each other with the excuse of 'work'. In the end, Jane starts romancing with Hyeong-sik too...
A woman rejects her clingy female lover and pursues a female co-worker. The spurned lover plots revenge and the co-worker has a kinky secret.
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
Randy Spears stars as a detective hired by an artist to catch her husband cheating.
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.
A photographer picks women up at the beach and invites them back to his house for photographs. He entices them with a large pay out. Little do they know what he has in store for him when he gets them home.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.