India, 1947: In the final days of British rule, Victoria Jones, the beautiful daughter of an Indian mother and an English train engineer, is serving in the British Army. She returns on leave after four years to her childhood home in the fictional town of Bhowani, north-western India, where supporters of Mahatma Gandhi are campaigning for Indian independence while communists, led by a revolutionary known as Davay, foment riot and sabotage. She becomes reacquainted with a childhood sweetheart also of Anglo-Indian heritage, rail traffic superintendent Patrick Taylor, and also with Colonel Rodney Savage, a British army officer whose Indian…
Polly Parrish, a saleswoman at Merlin's, a New York City department store, receives notice that her seasonal position will be terminated after the Christmas season. Walking to lunch, she sees a woman leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Afraid the baby may roll off the steps, Polly picks it up.
Terpsichore, one of the Nine Muses of Olympus, is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair of Air Force pilots who crashed on Mount Parnassus. She asks permission from Mr. Jordan to go to Earth and fix the play.
Oxford professor, world-renowned writer and confirmed bachelor C.S. Lewis (Joss Ackland) finds himself famed and admired from the success of his recently published series of Narnia books for children. One day, Lewis receives a captivating letter from an American woman, New York divorcée Joy Gresham (Claire Bloom).
Biography, Drama, Historie, Melodrama, romance film
The Earl of Essex returns in triumph to London after having dealt the Spanish a crushing naval defeat at Cádiz. In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and his consuming ambition. His envious rivals include Sir Robert Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Walter "Tex" Warner (Wendell Corey), a seasoned country and western bandleader past his prime, and his manager and love interest, Glenda Markle (Lizabeth Scott), work for the campaign of Texas gubernatorial candidate Jim Tallman. During a campaign stop in the town of Delville, Deke Rivers (Elvis Presley) and a workmate deliver an order of beer. While they are unloading, the workmate talks to Glenda about Deke's singing ability, which Glenda jumps on to revive the sagging interest in the event by using local talent.
Phil Blackwood is an American mystery novelist who has fallen into a rut with predictable plots and declining sales. He is floundering attempting to write a new novel, well behind schedule, and wastes time watching trials in court, where he is known as a regular among other spectators. Blackwood is stunned when he sees a dazzling Romanian murder suspect named Nina Ionescu arraigned in the court.
Former artist Art Dodge is struggling to keep his art gallery open, unable to pay bills, his assistant Gloria or his artist Manny. To survive, he reads the obituaries and tries to convince the widows that the deceased purchased a painting shortly before dying. When Art tries this scam with mobster Gene, whose father just died, he tries to have his henchmen beat him up.
In New York, 1935, Broadway star Kitty O'Kelly is dumped by her boyfriend after drinking heavily ("Down in the Depths"). Italian gambler Johnny Spanish wins a poker game and returns to his shabby downtown apartment ("Tomorrow"). Spoiled heiress Brooke Carter returns to her hotel suite after a night out, only to be given an official notice by her maid Elizabeth, saying they will be evicted unless she settles the bill ("Which?").
Comedy, comedy television program, romantic comedy
Thea Clayhill is about to lose her position as secretary to the very cranky publisher Jerry. She decides to lie about being pregnant to save her job, after seeing on an episode of Law & Order that it is discriminatory to fire a pregnant woman. The plan works, and she gets to keep her job.
Perfume magnate Hillary Kramer loses her company and is financially ruined when her accountant embezzles from her and flees to South America. Among her few remaining assets, she finds a management contract with an inactive boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to force Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon, who is now a driving instructor, back into the ring to recover her losses.
In 1924, Richard and his father Melville walk through the woods where Melville shows his scientific inspiration for Richard. In 1934, Richard and Arline are in high school and their romantic relationship starts. The story jumps to his college years and Arline getting sick with lymphatic tuberculosis.
Benjamin (Morris Chestnut) is an aspiring songwriter who attempts to break into the music business by giving a copy of his recording track of a Christmas album to a rap artist named J-Jizzy (Charles Q. Murphy). Nancy (Union) is a divorced mother, who is too busy taking care of her three children to take care of herself.
Adventure, Cartoon, Fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, musical film, romance film
War and famine have destroyed the glory of the old Kingdom of Corazion since the story of how a princess was discovered by a pea became lost. It is written that if the Legend of the Pea is lost, the Kingdom will fall under the reign of the 18th king, who happens to be the selfish and greedy Prince Laird. With the help of the royal raven Sebastian and the young Prince Rollo of Arveya, Laird's noble and kind younger brother, Prince Heath, is crowned King by being the "first" son to enter the throne room.
During World War II, the submarine USS Thunderfish, under the command of Commander John T. "Pop" Perry, while on a special mission to the Philippines, is charged with rescuing a group of nuns and children, including a newborn infant nicknamed Butch, and transporting them to Pearl Harbor. On their way, the crew sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes malfunction, exploding halfway to the target.
College student Kyle breaks up with his boyfriend Marc, accusing him of flirting with other men. Shortly thereafter Kyle, Tiffani, and Gwen, his friends and classmates, become attracted to Troy, a muscular farm boy from Troy, Illinois, who poses nude for their art class. Troy befriends the group and confides in them that he has slept with both women and men, but is reluctant to embrace any gay feelings.
Following a short opening sequence in which a henpecked husband finds relief from his wife's nagging by using a sex doll, the film's presenter introduces a quartet of stories concerning adultery and infidelity. The first concerns Lisa, a flirty, mini-skirted, office secretary, who seduces married fellow office worker Chris. The second story involves Liz, a gold-digging model, who becomes involved with a married and rich tennis player, including seducing him in his private jet, but then leaves him when his divorce from his wife Flora leaves him penniless.
Jess is a sweet-natured but driven lawyer who puts her career ahead of her personal life and marriage to her artist husband, Ryan. The couple is on the verge of their first wedding anniversary and, though they are happy, the thorn in the side of their relationship is Ryan's younger brother Roman. Where Ryan comes across as an honest and sweet man, Roman is the direct opposite.
In the Bronx in 1959, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Vincent "Vinnie" Vacarri is informed by his best friend and piano accompanist, Gino "G.G." Pilato, of their upcoming time slot at a recording studio, while working at his family's restaurant. After fighting with the mobster who owns the studio, he later tells his mother he lacks the necessary looks and charisma to be a singer. Inspired by observing his friend Tomaso DeLorusso charismatically playing saxophone at a New Jersey nightclub, Vinnie convinces him that he is destined to be a headline act.
Ella Peterson works as a switchboard operator at the Susanswerphone answering service. She can't help breaking the rules by becoming overly involved in the lives of the subscribers. Some of the more peculiar ones include a dentist who exuberantly composes song lyrics on an air hose, an actor who emulates Marlon Brando and a little boy for whom she pretends to be Santa Claus.
Sunny Ann Davis is a seemingly ditzy blonde who works as a cocktail waitress in Washington, D.C. She rents a small room in the home of a gay couple, has a lousy love life and drives a rust bucket of a car that she cannot afford to repair. The car breaks down, blocking the route of a diplomatic convoy that is traveling to the White House.
Friends Hermie (an aspiring artist), Oscy (a jock), and Benjy (a nerd) graduate from high school in the spring of 1944, under the looming threat of World War II. At a post-graduation party, Hermie and Oscy are startled when Benjy tells them that he has enlisted in the Marines. While Hermie and Oscy spend their summer vacation working at a loading dock, Benjy goes to Boot Camp.
Annabelle, a lonely widow, plans a trip around the world, with her husband's ashes in tow, to visit the places they loved in the movies. Eventually, she arrives at the Inn near Loch Fyne, run by Howard, a Scotsman. In the first stop on her planned journey, the two meet and their lives are changed forever with a second chance at love.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, thriller film
As Credit International bank teller Kaitlin Nest prepares to end her shift, a customer, Tripp Kennedy, approaches her and requests to have a $100 bill broken up into a specific configuration of coins. As he flirts with her, the bank is simultaneously stuck up by two groups of criminals; three high-tech professionals - Darrien, Weinstein and Gates - and two unmasked rednecks - "Peanut Butter" and "Jelly." While the trio wants to rob the vault, the duo simply wants the ATMs. A bystander named Jack Hayes is fatally shot and a crossfire gunfight is initiated.
