Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.

A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.

Hannah, the headstrong rebel of seven siblings, tries to avoid the preparations for her parent's wedding anniversary, but her charming brand-new lover Victor sort of drags her along, and soon proves an ideal son-in-law, which arouses mixed feelings in her. The sister in law who for years tries to fit in but always felt ignored gets a fit because Victor is immediately invited to chip in and join the anniversary river cruise, so they take over the organization from her. Yet when he confides in her the bunch is miserable at communicating, she claims he can't judge after just one evening and seems suddenly uncertain whether to stay with Victor who proves quite patient and understanding...

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.

When Master Tak, an old martial arts master, disappears, his best student, Jet, steps in to find him. However, when he learns that Tak's life is in danger, he decides to protect him at all costs.

En ekspert i kærligheden skal lære storhertugindens generte søn forførelsens kunst, men havner i en skandale – og sin egen romance.

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Da New York-parret Cooper (Dennis Quaid) og Leah Tilson, (Sharon Stone) vil starte på en frisk, flytter de med deres to børn, ud på landet i et stort gammelt hus. Huset skal renoveres og da den forrige ejer tilbyder at hjælpe, siger de ikke nej. Snart får Cooper mistanke om, at der er onde hensigter bag tilbuddet, og at huset gemmer på en dyster og skræmmende hemmelighed. En hemmelighed som den forrige ejer vil gå langt for at bevare!

John Cusack er Lane Myer, en normal dreng med en unormal familie. Hans mor laver elendig mad og syr tøj af hjorteskind ved juletid. Hans lillebror går ud med tarvelige kvindemennesker, og hans far slås med avisbudet. Værst af alt, hans veninde Beth slår hånden af ham til fordel for en ulækker skiinstruktør. Så møder Lane en sød udvekslingsstudent, som bor hos familiens laskede naboer. Med hård konkurrence fra naboens søn sætter Lane sig for at vinde hendes hjerte.

Meget har ændret sig siden Vada gav Thomas J. sit første kys. Hendes far har giftet sig igen. Hendes stedmor er højgravid, og Vada har måttet rykke ud af sit værelse for at give plads til den lille. I skolen får Vada til opgave at skrive om en interessant person, hun aldrig har mødt. Og snart er Vada på vej til Los Angeles for at grave i sin afdøde mors fortid. Det bliver begyndelsen på et vidunderligt eventyr - og et møde med Nick og kærligheden.

Piloten Frank Towns, der arbejder for olie-selskabet Geodel, er netop gået i luften med sit C-119 fragtfly fuld af borebisser, der har været i Gobi ørkenen for at lukke et tørlagt oliefelt. Med kurs mod Beijing får Towns imidlertid problemer og flyet styrter, dybt inde i den stegende hede ørken. Og da borebisserne ikke er Guds bedste børn, vil ingen savne dem, så de skal ikke regne med at Geodel finansierer en redningsaktion. Towns og kollegerne må i stedet forsøge det umulige: At bygge et fly af resterne af det gamle, inden heden, tørken og de ubarmhjertige sandstorme gør det af med dem.

Med Anne Hathaway og Jessica Chastain. Efter en tragisk ulykke bliver to kvinders mangeårige venskab revet fra hinanden af paranoia. Midt i smerte, skyld og hemmeligheder afslører en psykologisk kamp den mørkere side af den moderlige instinkt.

Richard Løvehjerte dør under korstogene, og det er pålagt hans tro bueskytte Robin Longstride at bringe kongekronen hjem til England. Han afleverer den afdøde Sir Loxley's sværd til dennes enke, Lady Marion, hvis far overtaler Robin til at blive og hjælpe de fattige bøndere, som bliver plaget af den nye konges urimelige skatter.

Bill Whitney bor i Beverly Hills med sine forældre og søster. Men han føler, at han ikke rigtig hører hjemme der, og han fortæller sin psykolog, at han ikke stoler på sin overklassefamilie. Hans værste mareridt bliver til virkelighed, da han en aften kommer hjem til en fest, som er frygteligere end hans vildeste fantasier.

Fremtiden ser ikke for lys ud for unge Ritchie Valens og hans familie, der tjener til livet ophold i Californiens plantager. Men Ritchie er et jern med en guitar, og efterhånden lykkes det ham at kæmpe sig ud af fattigdommen og mod stjernestatus. Men vejen er lang og forhindringerne mange.