Johnny elsker to ting: sit lokomotiv, kaldet "The General", og kæresten Annabelle. Ved den amerikanske borgerkrigs udbrud melder Johnny sig under sydstaternes faner, men kasseres som soldat, fordi militæret hellere vil bruge ham som tekniker. Annabelle tror, det er fordi, han er en kujon, men da nordstatsspioner stjæler hans tog, hvor Annabelle er om bord, får Johnny mulighed for at vise sin duelighed og kæmper en heroisk kamp for at redde sine to elskede.

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

I en for Hitchcock atypisk dokumentarstil fortæller mesterinstruktøren om en mand, der anklages for en forbrydelse, han ikke har begået. Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda) er musiker og bor i New York. Da han opsøger sit livsforsikringsselskab for at låne penge til medicin til sin kone (Vera Miles), bliver han arresteret, fordi tre af de ansatte mener at kunne genkende ham som den person, der nogle dage forinden begik et røverisk overfald på stedet.

1500-tallets Vesteuropa. En gruppe lejesvende hævner sig på en adelsmand, som ikke vil betale for deres tjenester. De kidnapper hans søn og mens pest og krig trækker dybe spor igennem landet, forskanser lejesvendene sig i et slot og afventer deres skæbne.

A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.

Efter den fummelfingrede produkttester Fielding Mellish er blevet fyret af sin politisk aktive kæreste, Nancy, rejser han til den sydamerikanske mini republik San Marcos for at restituere sin selvrespekt. Men det bliver så som så med respekten, for kort efter ankomsten kidnappes han af en gruppe revolutionære og - utroligt nok - lykkes revolutionen. Men da deres leder går bananas og bliver fuldkommen vanvittig, erstatter guerillaerne ham med den til lejligheden nødtørftigt forklædte Mellish i den tro, at han kan redde revolutionen og landets fremtid... Men det kan han sjovt nok ikke...! Han indfører bl.a. svensk som hovedsprog og dekreterer en højst ukonventionel brug af borgernes undertøj inden hans karriere som diktator ender ved domstolene.

American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Efter et sammenbrud indlogerer den fremtrædende komponist Gustav von Aschenbach sig på et luksushotel på Lidoen ud for Venedig. Her møder han den guddommelige, blonde Tadzio, der med sin på én gang engleagtigt rene og sensuelle udstråling synes at rumme et håb om frelse og forløsning. Aschenbach giver sig til at følge efter den unge mand i en stadigt stigende smertefuld betagelse.

Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.

Dr. David Huxley er paleontolog og glæder sig til at få en ny knogle fra en dinosauer. Susan Vance er fuld af spillopper og vild med David. Derfor bruger hun sin leopard, Baby, til at tiltrække sig hans opmærksomhed. Det er lettere sagt end gjort, blandt andet fordi David er distræt, smånørdet og desuden forlovet med Alice.

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for a replacement aircraft they need to build before their food and water run out.

The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.