Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.

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An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense mur...

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Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunti...

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana s...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

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A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...

Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fau...

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