In early 19th century New England, an attractive unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to deceive and control the men around her.

Noera is heading to work after drinking all night with a friend when he meets Marcia, a young biker heading towards Los Angeles. They abruptly get involved in a car chase and Marcia ends up retrieving a locked metal box from one of the pursued vehicles. Within it, a dark sphere. Many people want the orb at any cost forcing Noera and Marcia to desperately run away while trying to figure out what exactly is the strange object they are carrying.

A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.

New to town, a bullied teenager discovers a doll, riddled with pins, in her backyard shed. She soon comes to believe that the doll holds supernatural powers.

Steve Thompson er en hårdtarbejdende og hæderlig lastbilchauffør, som har en svaghed for sin ekskone Anna. Anna er imidlertid en uberegnelig lykkejæger, som nu er gift med en berygtet gangster. Da denne opdager, at Steve og Anna har holdt stævnemøde, overbeviser de ham om, at de kun mødtes for at få hans hjælp til at røve en pengetransport, så hæderlige Steve må planlægge et røveri eller dø.

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Jeff Bailey arbejder på en benzintank i en lille by, da hans fortid en dag indhenter ham. Han får besked på at mødes med gambleren Whit Sterling. På vej til mødet fortæller han kæresten Ann sin historie. Engang var han privatdetektiv og blev hyret til at finde Sterlings elskerinde og bringe hende tilbage til ham.. Det lykkedes for Jeff, men da han mødte hende, glemte han alt om sin opgave... Imens, i nutiden, er Jeff på vej til mødet, der næsten med garanti er en fælde.

Den midaldrende husmor Terrys liv bliver vendt på hovedet, da hendes mand pludselig flytter til Sverige med sin sekretær. Snart begynder Terry at føle sig tiltrukket af mandens bedste ven, den tidligere baseballstjerne Denny, men kæmper med alle kræfter mod romancen. De fire teenagedøtre har dog andre planer.

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

To gangstere ankommer til den lille by Brentwood, New Jersey. De lægger ikke skjul på, at deres mål er at dræbe en mand kendt som 'Swede'. De finder ham hurtigt, men overraskende nok gør han ikke spor modstand. Det bliver op til forsikringsmanden Jim Reardon at undersøge drabet nærmere. Han opsøger og interviewer de folk, der kendte Swede og optrevler derved en tragisk historie, der naturligvis involverer en kvinde.

Barpianisten Al Robert tager på tommelfingeren fra New York til Hollywood for at finde sin kæreste Sue. Turen bliver skæbnesvanger for ham. Han tages op af den rige Haskell, men da han dør under bilturen overtager Al Haskells identitet af frygt for at blive anklaget for mord.

Verden ligger for Marcus Messners fødder. I 1951 starter den intelligente jødiske arbejderdreng fra New Jersey på et lille konservativt universitet i Ohio for at undgå at skulle kæmpe i Koreakrigen. Hans familie har store planer for ham, men ikke alt går som planlagt. Marcus forelsker sig nemlig i sin smukke klassekammerat Olivia Hutton, og han kommer ikke godt ud af det med universitetets dekan Hawes Caudwell. Marcus må derfor kæmpe for sin fremtid og tage en svær beslutning.

Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her new lover, and he seems uninterested in learning about her, but the long sessions of lovemaking are something else entirely. Feeling out of control, Marie is increasingly repelled by her own actions. Psychologically, she struggles to reconcile her torrid encounters with Bill and mundane domestic chores such as bathing her son. Moreover, she finds herself incapable of hiding her adulterous behavior, rather she comes home with scratches and hickeys all over her body, to the devastation Francois.

Joseph Sargents klassiske actiondrama fra 1974 handler om en bande bevæbnede mænd, der kaprer et undergrundstog i New York og holder passagererne som gidsler. De fire mænd spilles af Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo og Earl Hindmand, mens Walter Matthau spiller Transit Chief Lt. Zachary Garber, der skal forsøge at forhindre en frygtelig katastrofe.

Med en kønt ansigt og pæn udbetaling er det ikke svært for frk. Wonderly af få detektiverne Spade & Archer til at beskytte sig. Men Archer bliver dræbt samme aften, og nu er det op til hårdkogte Sam Spade at redde trådene ud. Inden længe er Spade draget ind i et dødsensfarligt spil, hvor en gruppe forbrydere vil gøre alt for at få fat i en figur af en ridderfalk.

En ung kvinde gifter sig med en charmerende mand, og flytter ind i det hus, hvor hendes tante blev myrdet. Snart begynder mystiske ting at ske, og hun begynder at tvivle på sin egen forstand, men er hun vitterligt ved at blive sindsyg, eller er der noget mørkere på spil.