Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

When a young nomad begins the journey home from his ex-girlfriend’s funeral, he finds himself desperately trying to escape increasingly real visions of her vengeful ghost.

A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.

Two years after her husband dies in a sudden accident, Annie and her two children are left to cope with the loss. Annie can’t imagine falling in love again, until she meets a wealthy bachelor who is drawn to her free spirit. Afraid to love again, she longs for guidance when she starts to develop feelings for this new man. Her prayers are answered when she starts receiving communications from her late husband that encourage her to follow her heart.

Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon – that is, if she doesn’t go insane first.

A circus family encounters hard times and family strife, but is brought into the limelight through their chance encounter with a polar bear cub.

Members of an opera company performing Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” find their lives parallel those of the characters.

Peter Fonda plays ‘Heavenly Blues’, the leader of Hell’s Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays ‘Loser’, his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser’s stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues’ “old lady” and Diane Ladd plays Loser’s wife (Dern’s real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser’s funeral becomes another wild party.

A father sends his son on a suicide mission. The son, knowing the danger, accepts for the sake of his country.

When Marija learns that her unstable boyfriend has disappeared, she takes to the streets in an attempt to find him.

A widow and her daughter join a commune that is actually a front for something much more sinister.

The insurgence of substance abuse among the young in the Indian state of Punjab through the stories of a rock star, a migrant laborer, a doctor and a policeman.