Raymond Woods, a junior manager in a bank in the City, is becoming increasingly bored of his life as it takes a downhill tumble. First he finds out that he has missed the promotion opportunity at work by his bad tempered and disapproving boss, Strothers, and then he catches his wife a couple of days before Christmas having an affair with Strothers. (MISSING:) There is a plot detail left out here.
Maria and Paul, a couple in their forties, and their young daughter travel through Spain with Claire, a younger woman. On their way to Madrid, they stop in a small town and learn that a local man who has killed his wife and her lover is on the loose in the area. There is a massive thunderstorm and the group has no choice but to stay in the town's only hotel, which is jammed beyond capacity with other travelers in the same situation.
Katyusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Dimitry. Dimitry finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katyusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
Sarah Hatfield, a young, ambitious nightclub dancer, falls in love with and marries Kenneth Post, the millionaire of her dreams. As she tries to change herself to fit in with the ladies of high society, her husband suspects she is "misbehaving" with lecturer Piermont Rogers. So they divorce and Sarah moves to a remote country lodge.
Drama, Melodrama, romance film, romantic comedy, silent film
In Seville, the King of Spain is shocked by the depths of depravity and sin his people have sunk to. He decides to visit the town when a carnaval is organized in order to redeem it. One of its inhabitants is Rosita, a beloved street singer praised by the townspeople for her talent.
The film opens showing a small New York City apartment building at night, where a young couple on the top floor are seen arguing. Charlotte (d'Abo) throws a bag out of her window, with some contents landing on the window sill of downstairs neighbor Joseph (Mueller-Stahl). Joseph takes some of the items, which includes a locker key, and by the next day, Charlotte and her boyfriend Eddie (Adrian Pasdar) have apparently vacated the premises.
Having just been sent away to live with his uncle and aunt in Indiana, teenager Sparke Thornton (Lon McCallister) has a penchant for trouble. At first, he is not satisfied with the arrangement, and continues to express his rebellious behavior. Already on his first day, he plans on running away, but crossing a harness racing track convinces him to stay in Indiana.
Mia, a celebrated writer of romantic-comedy films, is at a turning point in her life which makes it difficult for her to believe that love could last. Everything comes to a head when Ethan returns, only for her to find out that he has become a cynic of lasting love because she broke his heart.
Jane comes to believe her husband Ken is having an extramarital affair with his secretary Kitty. To give him a taste of his own medicine, Jane secretly takes a job as secretary to womanizing architect Bernard Dexter, who, unbeknownst to Jane, has a business relationship with Ken.
In Czarist Russia, Ivan Markov (John Barrymore), a patriotic peasant youth, rises through the ranks after earning the admiration of a celebrated military leader, the General (George Fawcett), who commissions him a lieutenant. Ivan falls hopelessly in love with the General's daughter, Princess Tamara (Camilla Horn), but she is already engaged to a pompous officer, Captain Egorov (Ullrich Haupt), a snobbish member of her father's staff. At a grand ball, the princess spurns Ivan with cold disdain.
As described in a film magazine review, Vera, a princess engaged to a Russian nobleman, falls in love with Feodor, a young boatman. A revolution breaks out and the threatened princess is saved by the boatman, and brought to an inn as his wife. Here they are both captured by the royal army, where the woman’s former sweetheart makes her dance for the drunken soldiers.
Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and making things out of bones, for which he boils a neighbor's dead dog. He is visited by an old friend who is dying of ailments and thus commits suicide, leaving a million dollars in a suitcase. A woman claiming to be interested in Algernon's Egyptologist great-grandfather pretends to be in love with Algernon, and he almost falls for it.
The Danish wine seller Christian receives the divorce papers of his wife Anna, who works in Argentina as a sports agent. Since their 16-year-old son Oscar is supposed to visit Anna, Christian decides to fly along to convince his wife not to divorce him. However, she already has a relationship with the Argentinian football star Juan Diaz, who is about to play the most important Argentinian football game, the Superclásico.
During World War II, three highly decorated USAAF officers return to Washington, D.C. after a combat tour in Europe:Major Robert "Bob" Collins (Robert Cummings), Captain W. "Shakespeare" Anders (Don DeFore) and Lieutenant R.
A series of intertwining tales involve "pleasure seekers and pleasure providers" during the course of one night in Geylang, Singapore's red-light district. There are three distinct stories, united only by the presence of characters from all the stories in a streetside eatery: Jonathan, who has yet to lose his virginity, is escorted around Geylang by his army buddy, Kiat, who wants to help his friend make his passage into manhood. The two men visit various brothels, where the touts bestow the various qualities and nationalities of their women, who hail from China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and elsewhere.
The story, said by Nabokov to be semi-autobiographical, is of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré who has been displaced by the Russian Revolution. Now living in a boarding house in Berlin, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Maschenka, is the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, Alfyrov, and that she is on her way to rejoin her husband. This knowledge, combined with the incessant recitation of his memories of old Russia by another boarder, Podtyagin, sends him into a state of reverie.
Zach (Gutierrez) is a rich boy forced to find and keep a job after a major blunder in a company he set up. He ends up working for Evelyn, whom he discovers to be the boss from hell. In the long run, he sees her for who and what she really is.
The film follows Marinella (Torres), a European royal who longs for an independent life by plotting a royal visit to the Philippines and then escaping her security detail. In the Philippines, she accidentally meets Alex (Muhlach), a jeepney driver who agrees to let her flee and work as a housemaid in exchange for food and shelter; the two soon fall for each other, but Marinella's life as a royal threatens to pull them apart.
There are references throughout the film to contemporary world events. The story begins in pre-World War I France with a silent, black-and-white sequence where a man operating a Lumiere movie camera in a park charms a woman into turning the crank. After she bears his child while he's enlisted in the French army, he is killed in action, leaving the woman and their son with his posthumous medals.
Bernie Fishbine (Jason Alexander) first sees Theresa Garabaldi (Nia Peeples) in his neighborhood candy store, where he frequently buys chocolate kisses. Then they meet at the bus stop and take the same bus route every evening. For Bernie there is immediate kismet and when Theresa mentions to him she performs on piano in her uncle's Italian restaurant, he decides to go watch her.
Despite the disapproval of his radio manager, a disc jockey chooses to play the blues instead of their regular country music. While he is doing so, different listeners tune in. Each of them have various personal problems.
Winthrop Peabody Jr. and his friends prepare to frolic into the night before he must begin work the following day at his father's department store. Before departing, Winthrop Peabody Sr.