Riveter "Chesty" O'Connor and his best friend "Droopy" join the US Navy to annoy O'Connor's nemesis, Chief Petty Officer "Biff" Martin. O'Connor gets himself court-martialed for being AWOL while visiting Martin's sister Dorothy. Disgruntled at his treatment, O'Connor angrily derides the Navy and finds himself ostracized by his fellow sailors in the USS Arizona.
Brooks Wilson is a busy man, juggling his work as a commercial artist with a marriage to Selma, and two young daughters Lizzie and Hannah. He also has a girlfriend on the side, Grace, who wants him to commit to her, but he cannot do it. Brooks is trying desperately to land an elusive account from Lepridon, but this is seeming harder to achieve than he thought.
In 1956 a group of passengers stranded at Budapest Airport during the Hungarian uprising are taken in a bus towards the frontier with neutral Austria. From there they intend to drive to Vienna. A sick man in the back seat, who claims to be an Englishman called Flemyng, seems known to an aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Ashmore, sitting in the front seat.
Johnny Jones, a native of Vienna, Austria who escaped after its annexation by Nazi Germany, is having an affair with the married Barton Kendrick, a publisher. One night an officer from the Department of Immigration finds her and tells her that she will be deported because her temporary passport expired three months ago. The investigator tells her that if she can be married within a week, she can stay.
Christmas film, Drama, family film, holiday-themed film, romance film
Shelby Haygood is played by Sarah Lancaster and lives in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains with her parents. They have a simple farm life and its all Shelby has ever known. At 17, her ex-boyfriend Mason, played by Alan Powell, left her to pursue a career as a country singer.
In early 2020, an exhibition opening for artist and art dealer Jonathan Wigglesworth takes place in Los Angeles. He attends without his wife and meets his lover, lecturer Clarissa Cranes, as well as their friends, the Hasselberg couple. The exhibition is well-attended, and everyone is in good spirits, unaware that life-altering changes are about to unfold.
Busy ad executive Gwyneth Hayden has been unsuccessful in love. After a friend's recent engagement leaves her as the only single woman in her group, she sees a television advertisement for the dating website Christian Mingle and decides to sign up. She confesses to her co-worker Pam that she hasn't been to church in years despite having been raised Christian, and before going on a date with Paul, she buys The Bible for Dummies and Christianity for Dummies.
Viennese Baroness Teri von Horhenfels relieves the boredom of her marriage to her rich but dull older husband with love affairs. One day, she meets both her husband and a current lover, Paul, at an exclusive jewel shop, where the baron is to buy her an extravagant, diamond ring. While the shop owner and he retire to haggle over price, her tedium is lifted by the arrival of a suave jewel thief and his gang.
A disillusioned impoverished high school dropout, Doris Mae is forced to do most of the grunt work on her family’s dirt farm. While returning from errands, her truck breaks down, and she hitches a ride with an escaped mental patient who decides to take her with him to his cabin hideout when she talks about how miserable her life is. Known to her only as Kubla Kahn and rechristened Cristabell by her captor, Doris Mae is alternately regaled by his poetry, regal manners, and imagination – and subjected to his violent mood swings, mostly triggered by her sassiness and escape attempts.
Two college graduates find themselves back home in Long Island stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor and frustrated about their life's perspectives, while their friends move on, struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
During World War II, American sergeant Larry Nevins is blinded by a German sniper while fighting in North Africa. He is taken to a Pennsylvania hospital for other blinded soldiers, where he struggles to accept his disability. Though initially despondent, Larry is taught to orient himself and walk the grounds and in town by memorization and with use of a cane.
In the 1880s, followed by bill collectors, the Healy Dramatic Company arrives in Cheyenne to play at the west's grandest theater. Tom Healy's troupe includes performers Angela Rossini, Della Southby, Lorna Hathaway and Doc Montague. After a creditor arrives, Angela risks herself and the night's receipts in a poker game with gunslinger Clint Mabry but loses.
Elle Daniels has dreamed of being a famous singer-songwriter for as long as she can remember. On the day of her audition for Berklee, the plane her parents are travelling in crashes. Crushed, Elle moves in with her uncle, Allen, who runs a small, independent record company called Spunn Records.
In Vienna, Captain Karl von Raden (Conrad Nagel) purchases a returned ticket to a sold-out opera and finds himself sharing a loge with a lovely woman (Greta Garbo). Though she repulses his first advance, she does spend an idyllic day with him in the countryside, where romance blossoms. Before Karl can return to duty, his uncle, Colonel Eric von Raden (Edward Connelly), the chief of the secret police, assigns him an important mission to deliver secret plans to officials in Berlin, but he also warns his nephew that the woman he just met is Tania Fedorova, a top Russian spy.
The film follows Brad, the successful owner of an art gallery he co-owns with his girlfriend Diane. He is also a serial womanizer who treats his one night stands as nothing more than conquests to be won and discarded the next day. This frustrates Diane, who wants him to propose.
Zoe is an almost 30-year-old woman who owns an unsuccessful waxing business on the same street as Paul's adult video store. She lives in a tiny home on her landlord's land, but is unable to pay her rent in a timely manner. She takes a Polaroid of every person that she has sex with.
Ill and with only six months to live, a man named Manuel has one thing left that he wants to do, which is to find his beloved Corazon. His family has its own problems, with his son Rod is still mourning his wife's death, while grandson, Kyle has recently been dumped by his wife Peggy. Manuel embarks on his search in Ilocos but is unable to locate her.
Vicky Lowndes loses her first husband, Bill Cardew, when he is lost at sea, presumed drowned, and declared legally dead. The lonely widow is comforted by Bill's best friend and publishing business partner, Henry Lowndes. Six months later, she marries Henry.
The film revolves around two stories; the upcoming wedding of Lizzie and Guy, and a second story in flashback of Guy's previous relationship with Jenny. Guy and Lizzie meet when Guy delivers a pregnant stray cat to Lizzie's house, as he believes her to be the owner. They begin a whirlwind romance and plan to get married within six months of meeting each other.
Melville Goodwin (Kirk Douglas), a decorated U.S. Army general, is appointed chairman of the Joint Atomic International Commission by the President. But headstrong Dottie Peale (Susan Hayward), a high-powered media mogul, wants a close friend of her father's to get the position.
In 1890s New Orleans, Dr. Mark Lucas wrongly believes that Barbara Beaurevel has refused and betrayed him after they had planned to elope. Mark returns from South America accompanied by Corinne, a woman whom he married for her beauty but not for love, still carrying a grudge against Barbara.
Set in a present that feels more like the past, awkward Harry Dobbs is an inept private detective surrounded by mysterious and dangerous dames. Among them is his angry girlfriend, Doris, and the suspicious women he encounters on his latest case. In a nightclub, the sultry Miss Dolan hires the private eye to follow her lover, Rick, who might be trying to kill her.