In the silent film era, Rainbow Studios executives figure they are losing revenue to a rival studio because they do not have Rudolph Valentino. Led by studio head Adolph Zitz, they decide to hold a contest for the World's Greatest Lover in order to find a star to combat Valentino's popularity. Rudy Hickman is a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, but aspires to become a Hollywood star.
New York cartoonist Duffy Bergman marries gourmet chef Meg Lloyd. Meg wants to have a baby. Duffy agrees, but after unsuccessful attempts, Duffy encourages her to focus on her career and come back to the child issue later.
Talented New York painter Harry Donovan is an expert of copying famous artists' paintings, but is struggling to become a legitimate artist in his own right. Until now, he has avoided detection by forging third and fourth tier masters, but that is about to change. Frustrated by the cancellation of an exhibition of his paintings, Harry accepts a job forging a long lost Rembrandt for $550,000 from three art dealer clients—Alistair Davies, Ian Hill, and Agachi—against the wishes of his artist father who wants his son to give up forgery and concentrate on his own work.
A bar girl from Hawaii, a religious zealot, and a love-struck Marine struggle with sin and salvation just after World War II while Sadie Thompson kicks out several songs, including "Blue Pacific Blues".
Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous world of politics and in the process, learn a thing or two about love.
Harry Bliss runs a guard dog service and is going through counseling with his wife Adele. A serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles, so when the apartment of classical singer Joan Spruance is ransacked and she starts receiving threatening phone messages, Joan moves into the Hollywood Hills home of her sister Andy Ellerman. Joan does not feel safe at Andy's home because she is harassed by Andy's ex-lovers.
In the aftermath of World War I, Inge Altenberg, an orphan from Snåsa Municipality, Norway, arrives in America to a very cold reception. The parents of immigrant farmer Olaf Torvik remain in Norway, where they met her. Dialogue reveals that the four of them have worked out an agreement that allowed her to emigrate to America for the purpose of marrying Olaf.
In 1940s Nazi Germany, a young Jewish woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her own life by seducing the young doctor who performs medical experiments on prisoners. Decades later in the year 1993, that same woman (Jacqueline Bisset) is living in New York City and married with two grown sons. The two siblings have developed differently under a mother with a long history of erratic behavior.
The film opens with Harmony (Basinger) driving down a long, winding road, the music of Elvis playing on the radio. She feels that her life is empty and artificial. She is a traveling cosmetic saleswoman, setting up "Pink Lady" training seminars in the western portion of the United States.
The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. Xen owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.
Jenny Stewart, a Broadway diva with a fiery temper and a demanding attitude, is frustrated with the rehearsals for her new musical, "Evening with Jenny." By day, she rewrites dialogue, rearranges music and redesigns her costumes, while cutting down to size anyone who gets in her way. But alone at home, she cries herself to sleep. When her rehearsal pianist quits and is replaced by Tye Graham, Jenny is initially irked.
Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy, war film
In the kingdom of Fortunia, a narrative unfolds, blending elements of fairy tale and adventure. Following the tragic loss of his beloved queen during childbirth, the noble king remarries, uniting with a beautiful yet malevolent queen who harbors envy towards her stepdaughter, Snow White, for her unparalleled beauty. As Snow White matures, tragedy strikes anew with the untimely demise of her father on her 17th birthday, leading the wicked queen to imprison her stepdaughter out of jealousy.
Jennifer Morgan is a young painter, who has secluded herself from the world since being raped two years earlier. At a family party, she meets Chris Gallagher, who falls in love with her. She is reluctant to be intimate with him, but he convinces her to marry him, and she hopes to let go of her traumatic past.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Young Tory Bodeen (Forlani) is blessed - or maybe cursed - with clairvoyance. Her childhood best friend, Hope, is murdered and she leaves town. Years later she returns to open a retail store.
Jen and Mel run "The Breaker Upperers", an Auckland agency for people who need help breaking up with their partners. Using unorthodox means, such as impersonating police officers to inform a woman, Anna, that her husband has died and his body has gone missing, while in reality, he is hiding in their car. The two women have been friends since their twenties, after finding out that they shared a boyfriend, Joe.
Susan Berlanger is a professional flautist in Philadelphia who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around. She is all set to enter into a lavender marriage with her gay investment banker friend Frank Bantam in order to help him hide his sexuality so he can get ahead in business and get a big promotion, but decides not to when she realizes that the marriage won't meet her (or his) sexual needs. Shortly afterwards she accepts the offer to travel to Europe on a concert tour.
November 9, 1965: Margaret Garrison is a stage actress who has spent her career starring in virginal roles, although she would relish the opportunity to play someone more savory, such as an Italian prostitute, at least once before she retires. When a blackout shutters her current Broadway play for the night, she returns home unexpectedly and discovers her architect husband Peter being overly attentive to attractive reporter Roberta Lane. Infuriated, she heads to the couple's weekend house in Connecticut and takes a concoction to fall asleep.
Zachary Stone is a firefighter who lives in the houses that he renovates on the side, avoiding making any of them his home. He and his current girlfriend, a superficial model named Blair, agree that neither wants a long term commitment like a family or pets. Zachary saves a cat outside his house from harassed by a dog, and grudgingly accepts as the cat decides to live with him, slowly accepting the cat as a welcome pet.
Basil recalls his younger days when he and his ennobled British family live at their Cornwall estate of Windermere Hall. His father, Frederick, is a firm believer that people should know their place in society. Clara Fairfax is an orphaned daughter of Basil's father's friend, and comes to live with Basil's family.
A small-town soldier, Joe Allen, on a 48-hour leave, meets Alice Mayberry in crowded Pennsylvania Station when she trips over his foot and breaks the heel off one of her shoes. Although it is Sunday, Joe gets a shoe-repair shop owner to open his store and repair her shoe. Alice asks Joe where he is going, and he says he is on leave but has no definite destination while in New York.
Francis and Marie, two best friends in their 20s living in Montreal, first meet Nicolas at a dinner party. After meeting up with Nicolas at a coffee shop, Francis and Marie both feign lack of interest in him. Over the next couple of weeks, the three form a close friendship, meeting up regularly and even sleeping together in the same bed.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, romantic comedy
Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a young woman working in a television network under a woman known only as The Boss (Helen Mirren). She receives a recording from her fiancé Jim, who has been sent as part of a small production crew to Iceland to investigate a Monster that lives there. Determined to find her fiancé, Beatrice convinces her boss to send her to Iceland, but her plane crashes.
Quinn (Simon Helberg) and Devon (Melanie Lynskey) have been a couple since high school. Quinn works at a flower shop, and Devon teaches at the local university. Kelsey (Maggie Grace), Quinn's coworker, tells Quinn she's in love with him.
Life in the Arizona Territory in early 1861 is hard, but Phoebe Titus, the only American woman in the pioneering community of Tucson, is up to the challenge. She catches the eye of Peter Muncie, a handsome young man with a wagon train passing through on the way to California. He begins courting her but tells her that he is not ready to settle down in one spot.