In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.
A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
A nameless, pill-popping drifter girl steps off a bus and into a New Jersey neighborhood bar owned by two middle-age brothers, Jimmy & Victor. She quickly befriends older brother, Victor––a good-natured lummox whose mind was affected by a childhood accident. The mysterious "Girl" soon upsets the delicate balance of the brothers' lives while bringing both trouble and new life into their resigned world and town.
The homeless bed salesman Uwe tries to spend the night in the furniture store, but nothing comes of it. The aging security guard Bernd catches him and wants to get rid of him. What Uwe doesn't know is that Bernd also has a secret. In the nightly anonymity of the furniture store, he sells identities.
OB navigates a laundromat’s nighttime inhabitants while scavenging 50¢ to buy a Hero-themed gumball.
Camille Taylor has just written the hottest, sexiest, and most sensational tell-all book about her life as a high-class call girl…and someone killed her to keep it from being published. Was it one of her powerful clients; or perhaps her politician husband? Private Investigator Malena Powers is faced with the proposition of finding the killer.
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
Former freelance Soldier "Dragonhair" has retired for years. He set up a private investigation agency and now runs it with a group of martial arts experts. The group's premier investigator, Gene, an orphan who has learnt his excellent skills of swords, guns and Thai boxing from Dragonhair, keeps investigating crime cases while searching for his father. Anna, the adopted boyish girl of Dragonhair also works in the group. Dragonhair's daughter Run, migrated to Japan with her mother, has now returned to Thailand to visit her father. When all seems to be working so well, Dragon hair is threatened with a bullet shot into his home and a mysterious bomb like box which was sent to him. Everyone in the detective agent tries to find out who wants to kill Dragonhair. The old man has been worrying that he has to pay his debt for what the did 10 years ago but he never imagined his innocent child would also be affected....
TV cameraman Harry Hinkle is injured while filming a football game. Seeing big dollar signs, his unscrupulous ambulance-chasing lawyer brother-in-law Willie Gingrich enters the picture, and convinces Harry to overstate his injuries and claim $1 million in pain and suffering. Harry's similarly-minded ex-wife suddenly reappears in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
Mac and Steve, two immature college kids, are going out on a Friday night when they encounter a controversial homeless man that leaves them questioning their values and society.
Jonathan must protect himself and his younger sister by escaping the home of their abusive father.
Ji-so is a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plans to steal a wealthy person's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.