MOVIES BASED ON SHORT STORIES

The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.

A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.

Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.

A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder.

When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

In 1825, an English aristocrat is captured by Native Americans. He lives with them and begins to understand their way of life. Eventually, he is accepted as part of the tribe and aspires to become their leader.

Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

A man and his wife decide that they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.

Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.