Hardwired

Rajeev Kumar, an IAS aspirant, Shankar Pandey, a graduate, and Jeans, a restaurant helper's paths intertwine with each other while they try to cope with their lives. Set against the backdrop of unemployment, corruption, etc the film explores the lives of youths in the state of Bihar and their exodus from the state.

The Earth receives an influx of X refugees, who were deported from their home planet due to a dispute. Countries on Earth agonize over how to deal with the influx of these interplanetary immigrants. The American and Japanese governments announce that they will accept X refugees. The X refugees transform their appearance into human beings and live among ordinary humans. Residents in the host countries are unable to distinguish X refugees by appearance and they have no idea if any of them live among them. People become anxious, confused, and afraid of the X refugees and they try to find the refugees who may live among them. Kentaro Sasa is a weekly magazine journalist. For a story, he hides his identity as a journalist and approaches Ryoko Kashiwagi, who is suspected of being an X refugee. He gets close to her and becomes to have feelings for her, but he's not certain if she is human.

Ah-young, a grown orphan with government aid cut off, starts working as a nanny for Young-chae, a single mother who works at a bar. One day, while Ah-young is asleep, Young-chae comes home drunk and seriously injures her baby by mistake.

Roti made in the early 1940s inspired by the German Expressionism, is a real critique of Indian society with prophetic insight. It deals with two models - one of a millionaire, possessed by money and power in an industrial civilisation, the other of a tribal couple living in a primeval state of nature. The millionaire is saved by the couple after an air crash, the tribal couple emigrate to the city, do not find happiness and return. The millionaire is ruined in the city, tries futilely to find salvation among the tribal. (Not my own synopsis, taken from a website on the history of Indian Cinema which Imdb wouldn't let me include because it doesn't accept links or htmls in plot synopses)

Pat Marvin, a photographer/reporter for a magazine gets some pictures of a gambling place and barely escapes with her life. The publisher decides to sell the publication, and the staff, headed by the editor, Larry Burke, get the money together to buy it. Larry and Pat decide to get some pictures of a never-photographed society deb, Cynthia Van Loan, and, in the process, stumble upon a murder, identify the killer, expose the girl's scheming fiancée, and get their pictures.