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Spoofy look at the motion-picture production process, made to encourage discussion among filmmakers.

The son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joins his father on the road.

A couple talks about, and in a series of flashbacks we see, the evolution of their relationship. It starts innocently: he says, "I'm fond of you." She says, "Fond? I'm fond of my goldfish!" He tells her that in fact he loves her. She: "Say it again, you would if you loved me." And that phrase becomes their trump card as each takes turns asking the other to prove their love. We watch the challenges escalate from him giving her a cow mask to wear into a steak house and her reaching up to wiggle his ears in public to more and more outlandish tests. Finally, we find out to whom they are talking, and their listener asks them the ultimate question.

A Parisian lad spends a brief, life-changing time with a clan of the Imûhar, a high desert Berber people, called Tuaregs by the French. At age ten, Khénan's mother dies, and his father Najem, an Imûhar, brings him from Paris to Niger after an eight year absence. Khénan bonds with his grandfather, a clan elder, from whom he learns Imûhar ways, with his aunt, Tannès, who is engaged but falls in love with a man from another tribe, and with Chadèma, a girl whose relationship to him is a surprise. Khénan mourns his mother in a culture that doesn't mention the dead; Hamou, the outsider, courts Tannès; Paris is in the past and future; and, the desert is an ocean of beauty and trial.

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Marcos is a lad in Texas, the second son of a migrant farmworker family, his brother is missing in the Korean war. We travel with the family into Minnesota, following the crops. The housing is awful, sometimes the boss furnishes no water as the hands labor, and TB goes untreated. In good times the pay is $15 a day for adults, half that for children. For a few sordid weeks, his parents leave him in the care of a corrupt couple, he's expelled from school for hitting back, and he finds solace in a graveyard. As his parents long for their missing son, as folks gather around a local troubadour for songs of romance, comedy, and heartbreak, Marcos observes and remembers.

A woman hatches a plan for revenge after seeking independence from her drug-dealing boyfriend.

A triptych of ghost stories. A school-girl, accused of thievery, jumps to her death; her ghost possesses one of her friends to deny the theft to a TV reporter and a skeptical psychologist. Four young women on holiday rent a flat that's haunted by a woman who murdered her son. Two workers in a high-rise are spooked by a ghost after they find a gold chain in an elevator motor. The ghost pursues them until his own body is found and he can rest. These ghosts are especially active at 3:00 A.M.

Despite she witnessing Jake's possible communication through numbers and despite Jake having run away to home, Clea is still convinced that Jake is better off under Child and Family Services care. Before Clea whisks Jake away, Jake gives his father what Martin believes is a local telephone number. That number does lead Martin to a pawn shop owned and operated by Arnie Klepper. After visiting the shop, Martin believes that part of his purpose was to prevent the armed robbery that occurred while he was in the shop. Arnie is however ungrateful for Martin's appearance as Martin's action led to Arnie suffering a gunshot wound - a superficial one but a gunshot wound nonetheless. Meanwhile, Jake is able to run away once again, he who ultimately leads Martin to the rationale for the number, which will include in its story a Russian boy who wants the friendship of his classmates but who doesn't understand why they don't like him, a peanut vendor with serious money problems, a flight attendant whose current task is to track down a dog that was scheduled to depart on one of the flights but who escaped, a South Asian man who is in town to spread his dead father's ashes in the center of New York Stadium, an oft stolen seventh game league winning home run baseball, and the power of magic and second chances.

Sarah, 30, single, well educated, likes art, places a voice ad for phone sex, inviting replies from men under 35, sturdy and sensual.

An actor prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk, and together they hit the road to show each other their respective worlds.

A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

The Red Army aims to assassinate the Daka Lama in Singapore. Ling May, with a rare blood type, encounters them. Terrorists strike. Authorities seek a donor match as Ling's boyfriend and a conman intervene, racing against time.

Episodes in the life of ordinary Singaporeans living in one HDB flat.

A politician has just a couple of minutes to convince people to vote for him, and tries to seduce his audience with promises he thinks they want to hear.

Hard times in 1950s St. Louis and the social services that aimed to alleviate them.

A desperate man takes part in an underworld game of Russian roulette.

Something strange is going on at 1465 Westerly. Daniella emerges as if from a dream. She can't get warm, and objects in her living room are utterly strange to her. Can she get help? What is happening to her?

Peace within war. An adult voice narrates a story of childhood during World War II.

The sound of a ticking kitchen timer introduces a slim, nude woman who is standing in semi-profile against a bare, off-white wall. Her expression is impassive. Her image flickers slightly, and we watch her abdomen grow, realizing we are seeing a time-lapse sequence of her pregnancy. After 17 seconds, the timer rings; a baby appears in her arms, and the time-lapse gives way to real time. A mother's beatific smile appears as she cuddles the child.

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red color with white and then blue dominates the frame. Blue paint runs; small bulbs float. The dark colors spread. White, red, blue, and black dominate the frame. Then comes fire. The bulbs burn and break. A broken bulb's filaments are exposed.

Public morality, late night cavorting, and a practical joke. A constable and a subway attendant are working late at night in an underground station. A well-dressed man and two well-dressed women of the night enter the platform, and they are soon in trouble for violating public decorum. Another man arrives, carrying a long package. A train arrives to our right and the man with the package boards. Soon, to the consternation of the constable, women's legs (in hose) are on full display. The constable will have none of it. Will there be an arrest?

In Buenos Aires, a con job brings together Heriberto, an innocent from the sticks, and Cynthia, a blond knockout. Both aspire to act, and when Cynthia tries suicide, Heriberto becomes her protector, working behind the scenes to jumpstart her career. Through a comedy of errors, he comes to the attention of a studio head, who agrees to give Cynthia a role in a soap if Heriberto will become his boyfriend. Heriberto reluctantly accepts, and when Cynthia lands a role, she thinks her patron is an executive who assaulted her after a party. Mistakes and misunderstandings mount: can she make it as a star; can Heriberto keep his end of the bargain; and, will she figure out who loves her?