In the center of the plot is a senior investigator named Masha Shvetsova and her male colleagues. The plot is the most vital, but, like in “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” it is seasoned with a fair amount of humor - otherwise, how can the audience (and the heroes) endure countless morgues, identifications and other “cute” charms of the investigative routine?

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.

A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.

First time expectant mother Lara meets a "bump buddy" online. But the other pregnant woman, Jamie, hides a devastating secret that brings dangerous characters into Lara's life. After the birth, Lara's baby is stolen, and she must fight to get her baby back from the baby stealer.

First time expectant mother Lara meets a "bump buddy" online. But the other pregnant woman, Jamie, hides a devastating secret that brings dangerous characters into Lara's life. After the birth, Lara's baby is stolen, and she must fight to get her baby back from the baby stealer.

A Mexican-American teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school, when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family’s breadwinner.

Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie.