On his sixty-sixth birthday, a cranky hypochondriac widower orders a pizza to his Florida condo. Instead, he gets a prostitute — and a heart attack.

A man plays bridge on his night off with a few distant friends. Their conversation inspires a tipsy, failed attempt to steal from a drugstore. In this 20th century jail, his excitement turns to anger and doom as he reflects on his crumbling marriage, kids, and childhood.

Fondly recalling memories at the motion picture theater, an old man blurs the lines between past and present.

In the post-WW1 streets of Paris, a jilted lover tries to get revenge, thwarted at every turn by two bumbling Americans.

Two brothers try to appease their older sister by screening a film with her favorite actor, but have trouble buying the right reel.

A young women sexually exploited and harassed by a famous Hollywood director in the late 1950s seeks revenge by stealing the physical copy of the film she was in. When she flees to an old motel, the toxic mother and son who run the place make her realize she still might not be safe.

A businessman covertly heads to the skating rink every day with a flailing routine, where he basks in the laughter of onlookers. Finally, he is forced to choose between his straitlaced family and his clownish — but authentic — alter ego.

The characters found in jokes are forced to act out the jokes every time they are told.

When two actors in New York fall in love and get married not long after World War II, they deal with the failures of their careers and are forced to look outside of the acting industry to make a living.

When a man watches an obscure French art film to kill time, he doesn't expect its characters to exactly resemble his life. Its gruesome ending leaves him shaken and determined to get his hands on a copy and watch it again.