A year after being mysteriously dumped by his girlfriend Olivia, Conrad takes a box of her mementos to his self-storage unit only to be trapped on the top floor in a twisted game of cat-and-mouse with a knife-wielding killer.
Set in Washington DC, this unconventional romcom profiles a series of quirky, borderline unhinged characters as they fall in and out of romantic entanglements. Joni must choose between her Ph.D. common-law husband and her dream lover. Her father Roland is a salesman with a billion-dollar idea, if he can only find angel investors. Michael has a plan to find the cash. Joni's sister Sioux can become a licensed family therapist if she can keep her hallucinations in check long enough to pass the licensing exam. Filling out the cast are a team of lesbian movers, a teenage boy with a secret identity, a suburban mom who did way too many drugs in the 90's, in the 80's, in the 70's, and in the 60's, and Kelly, a first year pharmacy student - and former beauty queen - who steals drugs to pay her tuition. Thrust together in a series of interlocking stories, these characters must all try and make sense of the strange emotional narcotic called love.
While the business is doing very well for the Denom family, all decide to leave as every year for a weekend in their country house. But that was without counting on the unexpected arrival of their brother-in-law Samuel, whom they had not heard from since the tragic death of his wife last year. And although the latter is in a wheelchair, unable to move anything but a hand, there are too many blame, secrets, money and mistakes that go in a very strange way, gradually resurface.
A screenwriter recruits a group of eccentric characters to go and find a missing teenage girl, with the intention of turning the search into a true story script.
Joshua and Angela grew up together in the same neighborhood. They vowed to be husband and wife as life got better. Joshua later introducedAngela to his boss so he could help her secure a job. Boss offered Angela but only if she agreed to be his illegal wife as that will help her travel for the delivery of goods she has to carry. Boss later realized Angela was the good luck charm he needed to boost his business so he decided to get rid of Joshua so as to keep Angela to him. What happens when Joshua resurfaces?
A young student fears for her life after she finds her teacher eating a live dog on her way out of school. Despair leads the girl to seek help from The Seekers, a group of researchers considered silly who seek evidence of life beyond Earth. The urgency in the girl's request and the signs of a possible invasion make the group look for a way to stop the possible invader.
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.
Zhang and Shanni are a couple. They live in Beijing and both are successful. Zhang is a director of some renown whose film has just won a prize abroad. Shanni is a fashion magazine photographer from Guangdong. They planned to get a marriage certificate quickly and start a wedding trip. However, their parents are not keen on the idea and insist on a traditional Chinese wedding. They force the couple to organize a traditional ceremony. Everyone comes to Zhang's hometown of Shanxi, and a family hell begins. Differences of opinion between the young couple and the parents, cultural differences between the two families, and then Zhang's ex-girlfriend turns up - A truly black comedy.
"Everything Moves Alone" opens in a sleepy New England town where Scotch, a recently discharged soldier, arrives at a bus depot with the vague plan of crashing with his long-estranged older brother. Scotch spies a creepy yet interesting character stealing luggage, who then offers Scotch a ride into town if he will assist in dropping dirt and a frog-shaped flower pot into another man's car. Scotch, who is clearly several cards short of a full deck, complies and immediately earns the wrath of the car owner McDunley, a bearish sourpuss who runs the local video store and who has a mysterious long-running feud with Anderson, the luggage-thief who quickly becomes Scotch's new best friend.
Juan Pablo, a mid-level official of the Colombian presidency, wants at all costs to get up to Natalia, an actress and television presenter who is far from his possibilities, because this "mommy", he believes, would not notice a guy in wheelchair, unless you give access to the coverage of the news of the moment: the signing of peace. The problem is that Juan Pablo is not even invited to the big event, so he decides to dismantle it by taking it to Rwanda to learn more about the process of reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis and return to the country in time for the signing and thus achieve, not only in the official photo but "lag" a selfie with Timochenko. That will surely make Natalia fall exhausted to the wheels of her chair.
Two estranged 20-something siblings find themselves living together once again in their parents' Minnesota home, where they discover home movies they made together as kids. After watching their old James Bond spoofs, talk shows, and Saturday Night Live sketches, they are inspired to make 'The Sarah and Beau Show', a talk/variety show for the Internet.