Afacerea Est spune povestea unei prietenii dintre doi moldoveni, Marian (Constantin Pușcașu), un intelectual de provincie, și Petro (Ion Sapdaru), un oportunist plin de idei. Cei doi se avântă într-o călătorie nebunească în căutarea banilor necesari pentru a-și îndeplini visurile: Marian vrea să se căsătorească cu Veronica (Anne Marie Chertic), în timp ce Petro își dorește o macara pe care s-o închirieze. Ei decid să devină parteneri de afaceri și încep să lucreze la un plan: să vândă un vagon de potcoave. Planurile li se dau peste cap, dar cu toate acestea Marian și Petro nu își pierd optimismul și încearcă alte metode de a se căpătui.

When a child steals candles from the cemetery, in order to provide some light means for his family sheltered into a damp basement of a block of flats, this circumstance can say a lot about the sufferance imposed by transition period of time in Romania. This child is one of the seven that Maria has got. She is a 33 years old ordinary woman, whose husband (Ion) is unemployed and has become a drunkard and violently acting, maybe because of his despairing and lack of prospective.

În vârstă de 42 de ani, Viorel este un inginer disperat care ia măsuri drastice pentru a-și curma suferința emoțională provocată de un divorț devastator.

Anii ’60, România. Serafim, un doctor tânăr, e trimis la spitalul din Palilula, un orășel pierdut undeva în zona rurală, după moartea medicului anterior, domnul Pantelică. Palilula, un adevărat „Macondo” din regiunea Olteniei, e un loc unde nesemnificativul coexistă cu lucrurile fermecătoare. În spital, pacienții sunt perfect sănătoși, iar unul din modurile preferate de divertisment e să privească disecțiile de la morgă. Ceilalți locuitori ai orașului sunt fermecători și imbecili în același timp, mereu izolați în beție, festinuri și orgii. Serafim se adaptează la viața din această lume și ajunge să-i aparțină, chiar și fără să vrea.

Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of the girls from the bunch by the water, to watch over Ariane, escort her wherever she goes and report back to him on everything she does. Andrée becomes Ariane’s accomplice. She’ll tell lies for her, and with her, and most likely they’ll make love together when the mood takes them.

Această antologie de mituri urbane ilustrează circumstanțele bizare în care au trăit românii zi de zi, în timpul regimului comunist.

În Bucureștiul secolului XXI, a ieși în oraș sâmbătă seara la brațul unei femei frumoase e o investiție financiară riscantă. Ovidiu, modest profesor de liceu, nu și-ar putea-o permite. Și totuși trebuie, căci s-a îndrăgostit până peste cap de Diana, o mică sirenă de 20 de ani cu veleități de manechin.

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

In this sparkling romance, Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

În ultimii ani ai regimului comunist din România, o studentă încearcă să facă întrerupere de sarcină, dar avortul este ilegal în epoca Ceaușescu.

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.

Doi oameni care trăiesc în sălbăticie sunt suspectați că ar fi unui grup de studenți paranoici în tabără lângă cabana celor doi din Virginia de vest. Cum numărul de victime crește, așa crește și frica și confuzia deoarece studenții încearcă să se răzbune pe cei doi.