Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.

Alma is a scientist at Berlin’s famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in human form, created to make her happy.

Just when Cozi finds romance with Blaze, the owner of an online dating site, her ex-boyfriend Ajax pops back into her life with plans of his own.

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.

Betrayed and abandoned by her boyfriend on wedding day, Kalina has decided to open unusual business that will once and for all solve problems of male fidelity. She decided to help women testing loyalty of their partners. Everything goes well until Kalina has to seduce Maciej – coach and specialist in female – male affairs. His wife Beata suspects that he is cheating on her and wants to have irrefutable evidence. Kalina, knowing class “opponent” starts working with redoubled energy, but this time all her plan goes wrong. Maciej is not like other man whom were easily caught cheating.

Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

The young girl Flossie comes straight from a Swiss boarding school to Stockholm where she meets a young embassy clerk, Jack Archer. Together with her friend Eva each tell the other two of previous sexual encounters as well as creating new memories.

What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you’re Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can’t be with the love of your life just because he doesn’t really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows — even encourages — her to keep functioning… in a kind of alternate reality.

Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti’s best friend since college; she’s a tough-talking schoolteacher who plays therapist to all Patti’s problems, while she’s got a few of her own.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Notes

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake — an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend — they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an existence playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.