Den hårdkogte Los Angeles-detektiv Lew Harper er i pengebekneb, så han siger ja til at finde den rige Elaine Sampsons forsvundne ægtemand. Det lyder som en simpel sag, men snart stifter Harper grundigt bekendtskab med underholdningshovedstadens mørkere sider.

Jina is the top employee at a credit card company call center. She avoids building close relationships, choosing instead to live and work alone – until she is suddenly tasked with training a new recruit.

I løbet af nogle dage udspilles på et gods en handling, der afspejler tiden, dvs. slutningen af 30'erne. En gruppe aristokrater leger med kærligheden og livet på randen af afgrunden, og dette spil har sin parallel i et tilsvarende, omend mindre elegant spil blandt tjenerskabet. Ikke blot herskabet kritiseres, tjenerskabet er ligeså snobbet og konventionelt.

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.

A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather. Without the Paternò knowing, he stages a big operation and is promoted. Fuming with jealousy, Giaco discovers that Vince committed a monstrous act during his stroke. The Gamache disown Vince and war begins.

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.

Lorna has been married to Jim for a year, but still hasn't been satisfied sexually. While Jim is working at the salt mine, she is raped by an escaped convict, but falls in lust with him. Meanwhile Jim's buddies are giving him a hard time about Lorna's supposed infidelity, not realizing how close to the mark they really are. Trouble starts when Jim gets home early from work because it's their anniversary.

François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.

This documentary is a case study of the multinational tentacles of the world's biggest bank, how it started and what its power means to everyone.

A cuckolded husband is oblivious to his fed-up wife and her lover in this farcical menage à trois.

During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Axel, der er fiskearbejder på havnen i New York, bliver af Paul slæbt fuld med ud i Arizonas ødemark, hvor hans onkel Leo skal giftes. Vreden over den ufrivillige udflugt forsvinder imidlertid hurtigt, da han møder den excentriske enke Elaine og hendes depressive steddatter Grace. Axel forelsker sig hovedkuls i Elaine, og dermed er gruppen af dagdrømmere komplet – en gruppe meget forskellige individer: Elaine arbejder med sit fly, hendes datter drømmer om at genfødes som skildpadde, mens Axel helst vil være eskimo. Samtidig stræber Paul efter drømmen om en skuespillerkarriere og Leo om et hav af cadillacer.

En teatertrup i det nazi-besatte Polen bliver involveret i jagten på en spion som kunne vælte hele resistancen, men snart går alt over gevind.

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.