A Dra. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) é uma académica satisfeita com a sua vida e uma criatura racional. Em Istambul, onde vai a uma conferência, encontra um génio (Idris Elba) que lhe oferece três desejos em troca da liberdade dele. Isso apresenta dois problemas. Primeiro, ela duvida que ele seja genuíno. Segundo, como é uma estudiosa de história e mitologia, conhece todas as histórias sobre desejos que correm mal. O génio defende a sua posição, contando-lhe histórias fantásticas sobre o seu passado. Ela acaba por ser cativada e pede um desejo que surpreende ambos.
Dora trabalha escrevendo cartas para analfabetos na estação Central do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. A escrivã ajuda um menino, após a sua mãe ser atropelada, a tentar encontrar o pai que nunca conheceu, no interior do Nordeste.
O Verão começa, Delphine tinha planeado ir de férias com uma amiga, mas esta descompromete-se do combinado no último momento. Delphine encontra-se só bastante deprimida. É convidada por uns amigos para ir à Normandia e às montanhas, mas interrompe rapidamente a estadia. Acaba em Biarritz, em errâncias amorosas de encontros fortuitos, sem compromisso ou ligações. Até que, um dia, ouve casualmente uma conversa na qual descobre o famoso Raio Verde de que fala Júlio Verne.
A single woman runs an unconventional service that rents housecats to lonely people.
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their apartment.
Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inherits a house in a little town, an opportunity arises to change her life.
A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's secret life is interrupted when her outgoing sister Mina rings her doorbell. Mina is running away from her abusive boyfriend and wants to stay at Hiroko's home
Four outsiders of three generations band together in a sweet and funny paean to non-conformism. After her husband's death, elderly Frida comes to know her introverted, friendless adult granddaughter, Lou, from whom she had long been kept apart by Frida's estranged daughter. Frida invites another misfit into her household: 10-year-old Tom, who welcomes the chance to spend time away from both his home and his bullying classmates. Meanwhile, Lou reluctantly gets drawn into a friendship with secondhand bookseller Henrik. A dry comedy of great charm and warmth.
Six elderly retired women, two from Buenos Aires, Argentina; two from Montevideo, Uruguay; and two from Madrid, Spain, have something in common, despite their different interests and lives: they go to the movies almost every day.
After an anonymous death threat, Suzanne, who is isolated at her house due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has to deal with her day-to-day life while an unknown danger surrounds her.
Filipino-born Ella works as a nanny in a prosperous Moscow family. Day by day, she carries out the same routine actions: washing, cooking, cleaning, babysitting. But once she accidentally hurts her arm, her smooth repetitive life gradually gives a lurch…
Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer.
Ksenia had a painful experience in her past. In the present, she leads a lonely life. She makes ASMR videos for a popular YouTube channel. One of her regular viewers, Philip, invites her to meet in person. For him, ASMR is a fetish; but, for her, it turns into something more.
A lonely woman finds an abandoned baby by her apartment house’s garbage bin, and decides to take the baby home with her.
A lonely college student downloads a dating simulator app only to find her pixelated partner may be more real than she thought.
A short film starring Kathryn Bland, written and directed by Louis Hannan.
Rosa is an alcoholic who is left alone with her shattered lonely life.
Eloise lives alone, shutting others out of her life, committed to her art. The film follows her internal rationale as she is forced to address a haunting secret hidden away in the depths of her home.