A fiercely competitive screenwriter is initially furious when the biggest production of the year gets handed to an Austrian foreigner - then astonished when he reads what the Austrian writes.

A young screenwriter in Los Angeles is exposed to the corruption beneath the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle after befriending a director and his wife.

In modern day New York City, a woman working on a movie set attracts an actor who might just give her the life of fame she's always wanted.

During their discussion of philosophy and the downward spiral of the world’s condition, a group of men is startled by a voice in the dark that recounts for them two stories of the human embodiment of battlefield carnage. When the voice finishes, the men struggle to pinpoint where it came from.

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

When a man commits suicide by walking into oncoming traffic after watching a mysterious film by the name of Contrition, one by one, the workers of the theater each quench their curiosity by getting a sneak peak of the film. As her coworkers exit the theater either trying to kill themselves or other people, a woman feels compelled get a glimpse of the notorious movie.

Several men become involved in a suspicious gambling ring where secret messages are being anonymously sent out about the race's winners. When one of the men suspects another of cheating, he sends someone to kill him, but the hitman struggles to complete the job as he becomes distracted by drugs and various women.

The crew's infested with mites, the Assistant Director's coked up, and the director hates the star, but one young man, thrilled to be assisting in his first-ever Hollywood film, is dazzled by every dysfunctional minute.

A group of cult horror film-loving friends research the mystery of a famous director's incomplete film. Hoping to uncover more of the plot, they instead learn of its brutal filmmaking process that irreversibly damaged an actress for life.

A writer finds himself entangled in the lives of his college friends, an ex-literature professor and his wife, decades after they graduate. They pursue love and their literary dreams mind a chaotic New York City of the 1960s.