Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money and are looking for a job. They finally find employment working in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.

Vietnam-veteranen Majestyk har grundlagt en melonfarm, men mafiosoen Renda ødelægger hans høst. Majestyk bliver rasende, og nu er der optræk til hævn.

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.

In the Dominican Republic, Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. She is learning a few words in English and dreams of being a Sanky Panky to marry an American tourist to move to the USA with a VISA and have a better life. He calls his friend Giuseppe, who is a hotel manager in Bávaro, and applies for a job entertaining children but hoping to find a wealthy tourist. Genaro meets the beautiful Martha, who has come with her aunts Dorothy and Helen, to forget her fiancée after calling off her wedding. Genaro calls his best friends, Chelo and Carlitos, to go out with the aunts and experience it alone with Martha. Martha only speaks English and Genaro only knows a few words of English, but everything goes as planned until Martha's boyfriend arrives at the resort and complicates everything.

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.

Den benhårde privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe bliver hyret af en døende general til at holde øje med hans datter, Carmen. Det viser sig hurtigt, at Carmen er kommet i dårligt selskab og er langt længere ude, end hvor hun kan bunde. Intriger og mord følger i tætte stimer, alt imens Marlowe bliver trukket ind i overklassens og underverdenens dekadente virkelighed. Men der skal mere til at slå verdens sejeste detektiv ud.

Winfried rejser fra Tyskland til Bukarest for at besøge sin ambitiøse datter, Ines. Besøget er ikke videre vellykket, men han giver ikke op. Iført paryk, falsk gebis og jakkesæt udgiver han sig for at være forretningskonsulent og coach. Hvad der herefter følger, er alt andet end ligefremt, men de to opdager nye, overraskende sider af sig selv og hinanden.

Gelsominas fattige mor sælger hende til den brutale og dominerende gøgler og stærkmand, Zampanò. Hun skal arbejde for ham som klovn, og de slår sig sammen med et omrejsende cirkus, hvor Zampanò møder sin gamle rival, klovnen Matto, og et trekantsdrama udvikler sig. Gelsomina og Matto udvikler følelser for hinanden, og han foreslår at de stikker af sammen, men det nægter Gelsomina. Som et trofast kæledyr vil hun ikke forlade Zampanòs side. Til sidst eksploderer Zampanòs voldsomme temperament en gang for meget, hvilket får tragiske konsekvenser. Giulietta Masina var gift med Federico Fellini, og her instruerer han hende som Gelsomina i La Strada, filmen der gav dem begge international berømmelse. Den anerkendte, italienske filmskaber, Federico Fellini, trak på sine egne erfaringer fra sin cirkusbaggrund i denne klassiker fra 1954. Fellini har siden stået bag beundrede værker som La Dolce Vita og 8½.

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

Pigen Wendy Darling bor sammen med sine forældre og små brødre i det kyske edwardianske London. Wendy elsker at fortælle historier og tryllebinder sine brødre i timevis om den legendariske pirat Kaptajn Klo, som ikke frygter noget - udover lyden af et tikkende ur. Men Wendy har endnu en begejstret fan, der holder af hendes historier - drengen Peter Pan, der hver aften rejser fra sin elskede Ønskeø for at lytte til Wendy. Men Wendys forældre er ikke begejstrede for hendes historier, og hendes far har derfor forbudt hende at fortælle flere. I stedet skal hun forberede sig på at blive voksen! Wendy får dog lov til at fortælle sine historier én sidste gang, og netop den aften beslutter Peter Pan at tage Wendy og hendes brødre med på en eventyrlig og fantastisk rejse til Ønskeøen...

Med søde drømme om en skuespillerkarriere i bagagen lander Betty i Hollywood, hvor hun har lånt sin tantes tomme hus som base i sin søgen efter lykken. Men huset er ikke tomt. En fortumlet og forslået kvinde har søgt tilflugt i bygningen. Hun husker kun brudstykker af nattens begivenheder. Noget med at hun sidder i en bil... at chaufføren sigter på hende med en pistol... at de pludselig bliver ramt af en anden bil. Resten er uklart og tåget. Eneste spor er en pung propfyldt med dollars. Sammen starter de jagten på sandheden. En søgen, der bringer dem i nærkontakt med hårdkogte gangstere, slibrige filmfolk og andre udskud i Hollywoods mørke afkroge.