A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

Sherlock Holmes’ problem with disturbing dreams proves to be both an impediment and an aid in the search for a missing woman.

A brilliant and misunderstood Iranian writer struggles to pursue his ambitious goal of bringing together Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan’s first rock band.

Two sisters struggle with what it means to be a mother. One after the sudden loss of her baby, the other with her own inability to care for her young child. Together they find hope in the face of tragedy.

Dallas and heroin have one thing in common: Duncan always goes back to them.

At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and proposals do not arrive. Short of resources, she is forced to move to Sam, her younger sister.

After losing her home and all that she’s known, a widowed Turkish woman finds herself in an unexpected love affair with a young Syrian refugee in Istanbul.

A man navigates parallel realities: one as a hardened criminal who has spent years building his drug empire; the other as an ambitious architect who has been working his way up the corporate ladder.

Charlie and Alison are in love and it’s the real deal. Their time together is abruptly cut short, however, when one morning Charlie wakes to find the back door to their apartment is wide open, and Alison is nowhere to be found. Vanished from his life without a trace, a heartbroken Charlie eventually moves on. Years later, living with his beautiful new fiancee, and having all but forgotten Alison, Charlie receives a mysterious package. The horrifying discovery inside will bring Alison back into Charlie’s life in a terrible new way.

A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly woman now retired, tries to survive by selling peanuts and spends her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old friends, go to school and dream of emigrating together to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. Against the backdrop of San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, these three narratives and their respective worlds unfold. Over this mosaic of contemporaneity, however, brought to life through the characters’ memories, hovers the specter of separation, the true great scourge of Cuban society.