An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the "Pin Up of Penscombe" has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now comes to a showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Ashido and Takeshi meet Yoshiko, a beautiful woman in Japanese clothes, on a train in the suburbs. Meiko was a little drunk and had an indescribable sex appeal. The two get close to Yoshiko. At that moment, there was an announcement announcing the stop, and Yoshiko came to her senses and hurriedly stood up. Michio and Takeshi follow her and somehow manage to locate the apartment where Yoshiko lives. After Miko hastily put the chain on her front door, she suddenly notices a tingling sensation in her lower body...
Happy Hearts is about true love between a young man and a young woman, a son's love for his father, a father's love for his son, and true love between a man and a man. Alvin (Rayver Cruz) returns to the Philippines with her mom Sarah (Jean Garcia) to visit his father, Enrico (Rustom Padilla) a respected professor of an exclusive university for boys and his godfather Louie (Wendell Ramos), a sing-along master and who happens to be Enrico's live-in partner. Alvin falls in love with Kristine (Shaina Magdayao), a rich and talented girl who lives under the strict hand of a very influential father (Tirso Cruz III). Can love survive the odds? Will Alvin fight for his true love? Will the man get to keep his romance with the man? Will everybody's hearts indeed be happy?
A married woman betrays her husband with a man who suffers sexual dysfunction. The two meet near a stark seaside location for a brief but telling exchange that will alter both their lives forever.
A girl who loves her brother, sees a boy in college, who looks exactly like him.
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Scorning the demands of her overbearing family, Bobbie Lee Hartley and Billy Joe McAllister meet at their usual Choctaw Ridge trysting place and attempt to consumate their forbidden love. Ode attempts to reconcile modern moralites with a tradition-bound faith, and asks whether it's possible to commit a sin against a religion that won't even have you as a member.
An experimental film matching shifting colors with audio taken from an NPR radio interview with a mother who lost her son in the Iraq War.
A quartet of girls from a prep high school are recruited by a secret paramilitary academy to conduct cloak-and-dagger missions. Short film later expanded into a feature film with the same name.
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task
A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
The farmhouse of a rural family is declared unfit for habitation. While part of the family fights to save the space their ancestors built, the younger ones imagine where they could go.