In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

Metin is a small time hustler in a Stockholm suburb, filled with big dreams but bogged down by the circular world of street crime. Things change when his secret diary becomes a hot item for a posh book publisher, and Metin must decide if he's really up to the challenge that is leaving his criminal life behind.

Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room

After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.

At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag.

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

There's no subject too dark as the comedian skewers taboos and riffs on national tragedies before pulling back the curtain on his provocative style.

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.

Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.

One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

นาริทซูกุ ซึ่งเป็นน้องชายต่างมารดาของท่านโชกุนมีจิตใจโหดเหี้ยมฆ่าคนเป็นว่าเล่น ดังนั้น โดอิจึงขอคำสั่งจากท่านดชกุนอย่างลับๆ และโดอมีคำสั่งต่อลงมาถึง ชินซาเอม่อนให้รวบรวมคนไปฆ่า นาริทซูกุอย่างเงียบๆ ดังนั้นซินซาเอม่อน จึงต้องรวบรวมซามูไรฝีมือดีไปดักฆ่านาริทซูกุ ระหว่างทางที่เขาเดินทางกลับบ้านเกิดพร้อมคณะติดตามซึ่งนำคณะโดย ฮัมเบ ซามูไรและข้ารับใช้ผู้ซื้อสัตย์ ชินซาเอม่อน รวบรวมคนได้ทั้งหมด 13 คนและทำการปิดหมู่บ้านเพื่อฆ่านาริทซูกุ แต่นาริทซูกุและฮัมเบรู้แผนการณ์ พวกเขาจึงนำทหารติดตามไปด้วยถึง 200 คน

ในละครย้อนยุคของเมอร์เชินต์ไอวอรี่เรื่องนี้ หัวหน้าคนรับใช้ผู้ซื่อสัตย์อุทิศตนดูแลบ้านให้ท่านลอร์ดโดยไม่สนใจการฝักใฝ่ในลัทธินาซีของท่าน