After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
Peter Warren, um jornalista desempregado, encontra Ellie, a filha de um milionário que fugiu do iate de Alexander Andrews, seu pai, pois este não aprova quem ela escolheu como marido. Peter vê a oportunidade de obter uma boa matéria, mas vários fatos criam uma forte aproximação entre eles.
Um veterano de guerra com stress pós-traumático e a sua filha de treze anos levam uma existência aparentemente ideal num vasto parque urbano na cidade norte-americana de Portland, no Oregon. Até que um pequeno erro muda as suas vidas para sempre.
John Waters engrandece o conceito de "Problemas Femininos", nesse tributo aos melodramas de drive-in sobre "delinqüência juvenil". A mocinha da história, é Divine, musa travesti de John Waters. Divine está sensacional como a adolescente, que foge da casa para uma vida de prazeres libertinos, tudo porque ela não ganhou seu sapato de "chá-chá-chá", no Natal. Na fuga, ela é molestada por um vil motorista. No entanto, ela não deixa que a maternidade interfira nos seus planos de estrelato e se transforma em uma bizarra apresentadora de um espetáculo apocalíptico.
Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) é uma bela mulher de 29 anos que tem algo de muito diferente: ela tem polegares enormes, completamente desproporcionais. Aproveitando o seu "dom", ela decidiu que ia viver pelas estradas, pedindo carona. Modelo em Nova York, ela começa a trabalhar para a exótica Condessa (John Hurt), dona também de uma fazenda de beleza, no Oregon. Chamada para fazer um comercial de produtos de higiene íntima no tal rancho, ela acaba se aproximando da bela Bonanza Jellybean (Rain Phoenix) e entra em uma rebelião junto com as vaqueiras locais para tranformar o lugar em um santuário ecológico.
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.
A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…
Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
Beautiful, young hitchhiker Sally (Ely LaMay), attempts to survive the night while making her way back home as a sadistic killer and cannibalistic madman (John Blyth Barrymore) haunts the desert highways, probing for fresh roadkill.
A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Spain, 1966. An English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends with a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.
A sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape and murder.
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
Three girls go on the road and run into trouble with the people who give them rides.
A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.