Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.

The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

Lives of several low-level gangsters get intertwined after a game of craps in their underground casino ends in a bloody shootout.

A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

Recep Ivedik has been depressed since the death of his grandmother. Everyone who tries to help him fails. A young girl named Zeynep, who can't find an apartment, stays with Recep. Initially, the two can't stand each others but after a while, they grow close. Despite many adventures together, Recep's depression won't go away. That is until he experiences something he had never experienced before.

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Londýn 1904. Škótsky dramaturg James Mathew Barrie je síce literárnym géniom svojej doby, ale zároveň je znudený stereotypnými námetmi hier z Edwardovského Anglicka. Nutne potrebuje inšpiráciu, ktorá dodá jeho práci humor, lesk a osvieženie. Nečakane ju nájde počas jednej zo svojich pravidelných prechádzok so svojím psom Porthosom v londýnskych Kensingtonských záhradách. Tam Barrie stretne rodinu Llwelyn Daviesových - štyroch chlapcov s ich krásnou matkou - vdovou. Napriek nevôli tvrdej a nepríjemnej babičky chlapcov a nechuti jeho vlastnej manželky Mary, sa James s chlapcami spriatelí. Záhrada za domom sa premení na svet plný kúziel a fantázie.

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Počnúc nezabudnuteľnou úvodnou scénou až po nevyhnutné naplnenie tragického osudu je film dokonalou výpoveďou o temnej a zúfalej stránke Hollywoodu. Všetci túžia po niečom, čo nemôžu získať, ale so sebazničujúcim odhodlaním sa o to stále pokúšajú. Neuznávaný scenárista a zabudnutá hviezda tvoria nesúrodý, no zároveň v niečom si veľmi podobný ústredný tandem, ktorý sa bije, aj keď tuší, že nikdy nevyhrá. Toto je Hollywood a kto sa dobrovoľne položí, prestáva existovať. Wilderov nekompromisný pohľad na fascinujúci a zničujúcí Hollywood spostredkúvajú tri dokonale napísané a odohrané hlavné figúry.