Coffee and Cigarettes est une collection de onze court-métrages du réalisateur culte Jim Jarmusch. Chaque film accueille un groupe de stars qui partagent tous le plaisir de la conversation autour d'un café et de cigarettes.
Un ambulancier est contacté par la famille Tremayne à la suite de "l'accident" dont est victime la maîtresse de maison. Engagé comme chauffeur, il tombe sous le charme de la belle-fille de Mme Tremayne, Diane, dont le visage angélique semble cacher de noirs desseins.
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Jeune interne aux urgences, Margaux est à bout de souffle. Lors d’une énième nuit de garde, la jeune femme oublie malencontreusement une patiente sur un brancard. Encore sous le choc, Margaux est priée de vite reprendre son travail. C’est alors que son corps se met à transpirer du sang de façon incontrôlable. Commence alors une lutte acharnée pour rester en vie.
Dora, a young woman at the center of an unusual murder trial, is subjected to a psychiatric evaluation, and as the tests become more personal — and frightening — she begins to question the true motives of her doctor and is forced to live through the recreations of her past.
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.
Judith is a doctor who is very committed to her profession. Aiming to become a cardiologist, she performs part of her residency in a chronically understaffed hospital emergency room. During a particularly difficult shift, she makes a mistake that causes the death of a patient. Judith is devastated and doubts whether she is suited to the profession. Her fellow doctors, including her partner Mark, advise her to just carry on as before. While Judith’s actions are investigated, she is assigned to ambulance duty. Being in a new environment and having some distance to the clinical routine allow her to see things in a new light.
The tree surgeon (a donkey) races to the giant sequoia, which isn't feeling well. His techniques, though, seem better suited to treating a person.