Metropolis tegner en fremtid, hvor skellene mellem de forskellige klasser i samfundet er trukket skarpt op. Tænkerne bor højt oppe i højhusene, der udgør den flotte by. Arbejderne bor i katakomber under byen og må hver dag knokle i en stor fabrik under umenneskelige kår. Freder Fredersen er søn af en af Metropolis' ledere og ser en dag en smuk arbejderpige, Maria, som vinder hans hjerte. Han følger efter hende og ser, hvor forfærdeligt arbejderne har det. Freder prøver at overtaler sin far til at forbedre arbejdernes vilkår, og Maria fortæller arbejderne, at der en dag vil komme en mand, som både bruger sine hænder og sin hjerne, og han vil være hjertet. En gal professor laver en robot med Marias udseende, og der begynder at opstå revner i Metropolis' fine facade.
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Ray og Polly Cutler er på en forsinket bryllupsrejse til Niagara. Her møder de et andet ægtepar, Rose, en bartender, og George, en deprimeret krigsveteran flere år ældre end sin kone, som de snart opdager begge har noget at skjule.
When young Joshua learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael and Diana, dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son's warnings. Guided by his grandfather's ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?
Alex og Penny er trætte af det hektiske byliv og beslutter sig for at flytte ud på landet for at opdrage deres nyfødte barn. Men de forventer ikke, at rædslerne truer deres forhold og familie.
Psychological thriller larded with manga-like animations about the young, poor comic strip illustrator Nina, living with her mean landlady. She sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, of varying reflections of death issuing from both past and future, concrete yet abstract, horrible yet desirable. A family asks a young psychiatrist to be their guest for a while to untangle the circumstances of their father's illness. He's developed a suicidal fixation for ropes and knots among other things. While deeply involved in analyzing the patient's delirium, the doctor begins to lose track of what is taking place. The task of "how to help" is twisted into "who am I? Doctor or patient? Chance guest, member of this suffering family, or a catholic priest who has dreamed this all up?" In order to get a handle on it all, it's best to start from the beginning, but why do things keep shifting, changing?
An alienated man, has no idea of what's going on outside his decrepit apartment in Burbank. When surrealistic events start happening around him, an inner struggle begins in which he'll have to figure out whether there's a strange presence haunting him or if it's just all inside his head.
In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.