A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.

While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

Med kort varsel melder den amerikanske præsident sin ankomst til den lille by Suddenly. Byens sherif og nogle specialagenter sørger for sikkerheden, men tre koldblodige mordere er kommet dem i forkøbet. De har forskanset sig i et hus, taget dets beboere som gidsler og har fra husets stuevindue en perfekt mulighed for at skyde præsidenten, når han stiger ud af toget på stationen. Men så begynder en nervekrig mellem gidslerne og attentatmændene.

Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

Three young and desperate inhabitants of Madrid attempt to rise above their circumstances by any means available to them in that sun-drenched city. This tight-knit trio must scramble when their hasty plans become derailed by a demanding matriarch, an abusive older brother, and the entire corrupt underclass with which they deal.

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.

A Crime on the Bayou is the story of Gary Duncan, a Black teenager from Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. In 1966, Duncan tries to break up an argument between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy’s arm. The boy recoils like a snake. That night, police burst into Duncan’s trailer and arrest him for assault on a minor. A young Jewish attorney, Richard Sobol, leaves his prestigious D.C. firm to volunteer in New Orleans. With his help, Duncan bravely stands up to a racist legal system powered by a white supremacist boss to challenge his unfair arrest. Their fight goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and their lifelong friendship is forged.

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of the Weimar Republic and the constant political turmoil in which a divided society lived after the end of the First World War.

During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.

I træningslokaler, snuskede barer og slidte moteller, som har tydelige spor efter næseblod og billig sprut. Der møder vi Jim Tully, en fyr som har slået sig frem med de dårligste odds af alle - som professionel bokser. Men siden hans kone forlod ham for 18 mdr. siden, har Jim fundstændigt mistet kontrollen over sit liv. Nu lever han af sprit og cigaretter i et luset motelværelse blandt gangstere, ludere og stofmisbrugere. Som en sidst desperat handling for at komme til hægterne, bestemmer Jim sig for at gøre comeback. Men bokseringen er og bliver et sted hvor man hylder en vinder - og foragter en taber.

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

Overpolitibetjent Bannion er ved at efterforske en korrupt betjents formodede selvmord, da han pludselig får ordre om at stoppe. Bannion er opsat på at løse mysteriet og fortsætter med at grave i sagen, indtil en eksplosion, der var rettet mod ham, dræber hans kone. Han trækker sig tilbage fra politiet og finder hurtigt ud af, at det er den magtfulde gangsterboss Mike Lagana og hans koldblodige håndlanger Vince Stone, der står bag. Til slut står Bannion og Stone over for hinanden i et opgør på liv eller død.

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Den aldrende småforbryder Lou bilder sig ind, at han engang var en stor kanon tilbage i 'de gode gamle gangsterdage' i Atlantic City. Hans genbo, servitricen Sally, drømmer om et job som croupier i Monte Carlo. Da hendes mand, der nu venter barn med Sallys søster, kommer forbi med en ladning stjålen kokain, øjner Lou og Sally en chance for at få deres drømme opfyldt.

Gangsteren Charlie, der forelsker sig i den sexede lejemorder Irene. Da Irenes mand snyder Charlies arbejdsgivere, Prizzi-familien, for en ganske betydelig sum penge, hober problemerne sig op. For Charlie bliver sendt ud for at "rydde op". Irenes mand volder ham igen problemer, men svært angrebet af forelskelse undlader han at skyde Irene. Den slags svagheder ser Mafiaen ikke med milde øjne på.