Papá Cohiba

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.