Vita all'ultimo respiro di un giovane drogato: e anche uscirne non basta. Bob, tossicodipendente, con la moglie Dianne e gli amici Rick e Nadine ruba la droga a farmacie e ospedali…
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
Una casalinga insoddisfatta ha una torrida vita sessuale notturna con un adolescente iperattivo, ma quando conosce il padre del ragazzo, dirigente industriale costretto a gestire un emporio che fa orario notturno continuato, se ne innamora e decide di mettere la testa a posto, andando a vivere con lui.
Dramma sociale a tinte forti con denuncia nei confronti di organizzazioni xenofobe come il Klu Klux Klan. Frank Taylor, un operaio interpretato da Humphrey Bogart, vede sfumata una promozione a causa di un immigrato polacco, Dombrowsy, che viene preferito a Frank per la sua maggiore capacità lavorativa. Frank allora si unisce all'organizzazione xenofoba "Black Legion" che combatte gli immigrati e le minoranze razziali con metodi violenti. Incappucciati in un saio nero, gli adepti del clan costringono Dombrowsy ad abbandonare la fabbrica. Jack ottiene il suo posto. Ma il crescente coinvolgimento di Jack nell'organizzazione xenofoba spinge la moglie ad abbandonarlo. Frank inizia a bere e diventa sempre più violento e dissoluto fino al punto di denunciare all'organizzazione il suo migliore amico, Ed, a cui aveva confessato le sue attività poco pulite. L'organizzazione decide la condanna a morte di Ed.
Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
IL CAMPANELLO DI NOTTE, Farce in one act by Gaetano Donizetti, is set in Naples. Don Annibale Pistacchio, an old apothecary, have just married the young Serafina. Enrico, former lover of Serafina, interrupts constantly the wedding night showing on several disguises and calling at Pistacchio's drugstore by ringing the night bell, asking the unfortunate groom a preposterous list of prescriptions.
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
A hostage situation gone bad. Jesús, an amateur thief, holds prisoner a group of clients. But nothing is what it seems. Behind the gates of the drugstore the story will unfold in two times. On one side, to the inevitable end: the police will shoot their way inn. And on the other side, to the past, unveiling how Jesús got caught in this situation, where the hostages are not the real victims, but something more sinister. Retracing step by step, reveling the truth, playing with the prejudices and beliefs of the audience on racial hate, social prejudices, and the intolerance. How far are we willing to go to survive?