Woody Allen spiller den små-fallerede filminstruktør Val Waxman, der er desperat efter at skabe sig et comeback. Men det er ikke nemt når det er ekskonen der er chefen.... Val accepterer imidlertid tilbuddet, men umiddelbart før optagelserne bliver han blind - naturligvis forårsaget af den klassiske Woody Allen-neorotiske angst og bekymring.... Spørgsmålet er nu hvordan han kan instruere, når han intet kan se....

Vi er i swingin´ New York i 1940. CW Briggs er forsikringsdetektiv og knaldhamrende dygtig til det...Nå, ja, det er i hvert fald hvad han igen og igen fortæller forsikringsselskabets nyudnævnte effektivisering-ekspert, Betty Ann ”Fitz” Fitzgerald. Briggs brøster sig af til enhver tid at være i stand til at afsløre forsikringssvindel og –svindlere pga. sin evne til at trænge ind i svindlerens hjerne. Men nu – takket være den jadegrønne skorpions hypnotiske kraft – trænger svindlerens hjerne i stedet ind i Briggs...

High school teacher Lam Yiu-Kwok is in the midst of a midlife crisis. His wife, Man-Ching, has been unfaithful; his friends are reaping the rewards of successful business careers while he earns a comparatively meager salary at an unglamorous job; and one of his young students, Choy-Lam, has fallen for him. When Man-Ching leaves for a month to help her former lover, a jealous Yiu-Kwok is tempted to retaliate by pursuing an affair with Choy-Lam.

Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…

With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Four stories about football.

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Fire sofistikerede newyorkere er ude at spise. En anekdote fremprovokerer en diskussion mellem forfatterne Max og Sy om det menneskelige dramas dobbelte natur, symboliseret ved teatrets komedie- og tragediemasker. Det ender med, at de fortæller hver sin historie - den ene komisk, den anden mere dramatisk - begge centreret omkring en gådefuld kvinde ved navn Melinda.

The details of undercover police officers are deleted from a police database and a senior officer is left struggling to know who are the undercover officers and who are the criminals.

Mock documentary about Seinfeld writer Larry David featuring contributions from his friends and colleagues. Larry makes a return to stand-up comedy and prepares to film a television special for HBO. This is the original special that gave birth to the long-running award-winning HBO series.

After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.

When Katie meets Paco, they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.

Irena Sendler er en katolsk socialrådgiver, der har sympatiserede med jøderne siden sin barndom, hvor hendes far, der var læge, døde af tyfus, som han havde fået ved at behandle fattige jødiske patienter. Da hun foreslår at man skal forsøge at redde jødiske børn fra ghettoen i Warszawa bliver hendes idé mødt med skepsis af hendes kolleger, hendes sognepræst, og selv hendes egen mor Janina.

Da fisken Pi's forældre omkommer i et fiskenet forlader han sit hjemlige farvand ud for Boston. Han rejser den lange vej ud til det store hav, for at bo hos sin skøre tante Pearl. Her møder Pi sin drømmefisk - havets mest populære pige Cordelia - og han falder straks for hende. Men den store onde tigerhaj, Troy, er også lun på Cordelia og spænder finne for den spirende romance mellem Pi og Cordelia. For at redde Pi fra at blive hajføde, lader Cordelia sig forlove med den frygtindgydende Troy, og nu må Pi samle alt sit mod og kæmpe for både sit liv og sin kærlighed.

I en lille engelsk by får to veninder en ide. Hvert år udgiver den lokale kvindeforening en kalender for at rejse penge til velgørenhed. Det er ikke nogen succes - men hvad nu, hvis de sædvanlige blomster- og landskabsmotiver blev peppet op med nøgne kvinder? Foreningens medlemmer er ikke længere helt unge. Alligevel siger de ja til at smide tøjet, for hvad gør man ikke i en god sags tjeneste?

Tre kortfilm, som udspiller sig i New York. 'Life lessons' handler om en kunstner, som er besat af sin assistent. 'Life without Zoe' om en pige, der bor på hotel. Og 'Oedipus Wrecks' om en 50-årig, der ikke kan gøre sig fri af sin mor.

Langt ude på landet i Californien driver den græske immigrant Nick Papadakis (John Colicos) en lille café sammen med sin smukke og yngre kone Cora (Jessica Lange). Cora er træt af sine ægtemand og ville ønske, at hun kunne drive stedet alene. Da den charmerende laps Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) dukker op, starter de to en affære og lægger en plan for fremtiden - en fremtid uden Nick. Historien er filmet flere gange, dels i Hollywood, dels i andre lande.

A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.