Being John Malkovich (1999)

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean for the screen.

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill.

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.

The extracurricular king of Rushmore preparatory school is put on academic probation.

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.