After starring in a dozen or so HBO Special Presentations, comedian George Carlin has amassed a substantial body of work in the cable channel's vaults. Personal Favorites is a greatest-hits package, a selection of some of Carlin's best moments on HBO from 1977 to 1998 and, not coincidentally, some of his most enduring comic routines from any medium.

En af håndlangerne har en banan, og det tager ikke lang tid, før de andre opdager det, og så går jagten igang!

Paris - Monte Carlo. Fantastiske Herbie deltager i dette imponerende racerløb med Jim Douglas bag rattet. Herbie forelsker sig omgående i en konkurrent. En smuk blå Lancia, kørt af den dejlige Diane, som Jim Douglas lige så omgående forelsker sig i. Mens racet er i fuld gang, stjæler to tyve en berømt diamant fra et museum og skjuler den i Herbies benzintank. En afsindig jagt udspilles, da Herbie fortsætter mod målet, skarpt forfulgt af de to tyve, der selvfølgelig vil have byttet tilbage.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.

Lovens lange arm rækker ud efter William H. aka Billy the Kid og hans bande. Heldigvis har Billy held til at befri dem, og de forsøger sammen at flygte til Mexico. For at fange og dræbe banden hyrer kvægkongen John S. Chisum en gruppe rigtig hårde negle, der bliver anført af Billys gamle ven Pat Garrett. Gruppen sætter straks efter Billy og Co.

Mens Gru er væk, skal håndlangerne hjælpe med at indrette hjemmet, så det bliver hyggeligt.

Everyone's favorite St. Bernard returns in this family film about man's best friend. Richard Newton, his wife Beth and kids Brennan and Sara shove off in their camper for a road trip. Along the way, they gain a new passenger: slobbery Beethoven. The Newtons plan to return Beethoven to his owner -- but not before he turns hero when a pair of thieves enter the picture.

Dengang Eddie Murphys popularitet var på sit højeste, lavede han to stand-up shows: Delirious fra 1983 og Raw fra 1987. Det var før, han begyndte at tale med dyr og klæde sig ud som fede mennesker. Dengang, hvor han var et af de varmeste navne i filmbranchen. I sin sædvanlige, provokerende stil, og uden at lægge bånd på sig selv, udleverer Murphy alt og alle med en gang bandende, svovlende, sjofel humor, som kun de færreste moderne stand-up'ere kan præstere.

A serial killer and the detective who tracked him down find themselves in an unexpected stalemate.

Denne gang må vores helt op i mod Joe McIntock, overhovedet for en klan af irere, der afpresser en hel by for penge. På overfladen er det for at udbygge byen, men i virkeligheden planlægger han at score hele fortjenesten selv.

A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.

After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...

The story of Charlotte Brown,a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove, she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours,she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. Charlotte's customers are her only hope. The clock is ticking as we see the desperate young mother dealing with one eccentric customer after the next, displaying her charming vulnerability and inspiring strength through all the chaos. With her feet firmly planted on the ground, Charlotte maintains her focus and attempts to beat the clock and save the day.

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.

A group of friends try to defeat an evil king, and meet some quirky characters along the way.

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...