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- A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
- Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
- Cryptic fortune cookie messages become death omens for a group of friends.
- When his wife cracks open a fortune cookie that prophesizes her death in four days, a pro-life doctor must solve the mystery behind the fortune before it's too late.
- Three very different dating couples end up in the same late Chinese restaurant where a seer gives each diner a personalized fortune. A teen geek is dining with a blond cheerleader, who is there only to make her boy friend jealous. Her independent-minded mother is also there with her long-time beau, who is trying to gather his nerve to propose. The geek's older sister is also there with a DJ whom she met at a book club. All of the individuals are shown to have flaws and assets, which makes for a well-rounded story and good insights into relation's expectations of males and females today.
- A short film about a salesman who becomes addicted to fortunes, and finds himself unable to complete a sale unless he gets a good fortune from a cookie.
- So, you're a talented young actor. It's the eve of your theatrical debut. Would you turn down your big break to help save the family business? And appear with them on their favorite TV game show? Fortune Cookies is the debut feature film from Writer/Director Brenda Lee. Shot in Northampton, UK, by Screen Northants.
- Robbie coaxes his skeptic friend Scott to accompany him to a fortune teller, but after Robbie and Scott find that their predictions are not what they seem after they run into Miss Fortune.
- At end of the dinner with friends at a Chinese Restaurant, a young man becomes immobilized as he reads on the fortune cookie that today is being his last day on earth which changes his life and raises the question of what it all means.
- A closeness to a childhood friend begins to turn into something more. Fathin (Yuki Kato) and Rayhan (Stefan William) have grown up next door to each other in the same neighborhood.
- A successful womaniser is cursed by a Fortune Cookie and the only way to lift the curse is if he starts respecting women and all those around him.
- The Fortune You Seek Is In Another Cookie is an essay film searching for happiness.
- Think twice before opening this fortune cookie.
- A traditional Chinese father struggles to cope with his son's homosexuality, which then takes an absurd and comical turn for the worse.
- When young lovers Helen and Dave meet at their favorite restaurant in Chinatown, neither expects what the other is about to do.
- A dark comedy exploring loneliness and isolation. When an extremely reclusive lady meets a desperate door-to-door traveling salesman, maybe a single gesture could change both of their lives.
- A short romantic comedy about self-fulfilling prophesy as Chris the pessimist meets the vivacious Sue, as they share a bag of prophetic fortune cookies.
- The Douglas family sits and contemplates their various fortune cookies after a midnight meal on the eve of a family wedding.
- A young woman becomes obsessed with a box of fortune cookies left outside her house. Although the cookie quotes are vague and somewhat pathetic, her superstitious side can't help but start believing them.
- Two best friends get opposing extreme fortune cookies, when one announces she is getting married.
- When a strung-out alcoholic teen finds herself on the verge of her breaking point, her best friend is forced to ignore her own personal struggle to come to her support.
- A young woman spreads fortune in the world with the help of a family heirloom, but when she loses it, her ability to continue is in doubt.
- A fortune-cookie-head crumbles himself, piece by piece in order to keep devouring creatures out of his way.
- Maya gets a vague message from a Fortune Cookie telling her she will 'soon re-connect with a long lost love.' She awakes in the middle of the night to find an unexpected guest in her living room.
- A messenger comes from a foreign land bringing cookies with strange messages inside. They are Chinese fortune cookies, known around the world except to the actual Chinese. A look at the hijinks of a small expat community in a city in western China.
- A young woman struggles to avenge the death of her brother who died from a hit and run accident.
- A control freak's fragile reality crumbles when his beloved fortune cookie is empty, forcing him to live with ambiguities.
- Times change. The pure heart remains. Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, a hand-crafted retail store with 57 years of history hidden in an alley of Chinatown in San Francisco, has become well-known nowadays. In the mechanized and digitalized era, Kevin Chan, a new guardian, insists on the original taste of hand-made cookies, and innovates modern management style, making the century-old craft culture spread. The film is directed by a young generation female Chinese American director explores the historical movement and cultural value of Chinatown's business development.
- Peter, a talented actor in Hollywood is struggling to prove to his heard-headed father that one day he can become the big established actor he always dreamed of being. Drifting away from his worried father to avoid reaching a larger emotional detachment, Peter finds an escape through the tiny notes he finds while having his Chinese food, in fortune cookies. This leads him to finding out that those notes seems to be predicting a successful future for him, until one fortune cookie predicts an unpleasant happening that may involve his father.
- A man has a dream about God: telling him that his entire life will be dictated by his next fortune cookie. With 237 fortune cookies, he must decide only one.
- A shy young man's fancy turns to the pretty girl sitting next to him on a café terrace. But cell phones, waitresses, city buses and a rebellious can of soda seem determined to thwart his awkward overtures - until an innocent fortune cookie comes to the rescue.
- A man is having Chinese food with his girlfriend when things go south fast.
- When James 'bumps' into his true love after lunch in a Chinese restaurant. He spends the afternoon pursuing the woman of his dreams based on a message from a fortune cookie.
- This award winning film is a story of ideas, the portrait of a young man's quest for self discovery and inspiration. A thought of leaving friends and family behind, discarding comfort in order to find his eye as an artist. The search for an ideal, a place where things are going to be as they should be, not as they are. Shot on only $250, Winner of the Audience Favorite Award at the 2005 Dam Short Film Festival.