Wealthy French playboy Toto Duryea is irresistible to women, but is in love with none of them. According to Monsieur Rancour, to Toto "every woman is like a new dish to be tasted." When he is finally and instantly smitten with American Diane Churchill, he has great difficulty proving to her and her father that he truly loves her. Finally, he convinces her that he is sincere; Mr.
On New Year's Eve in the city of Bath, Dr. Steven Monks diagnoses a mystery patient with smallpox and triggers a citywide quarantine to contain the outbreak. His commitment to the task is affected by the deterioration of his marriage following his clandestine affair with a family friend.
thumb|thumbtime=10|Dancing Sweeties (1930) Bill Cleaver is a conceited dancer who spends all his free time dancing. He leaves his partner "Jazzbo" Gans, after seeing Molly O'Neil in the dance hall. He enters the waltz contest with Molly and ends up winning the first prize.
Alex is a married Junior Leaguer with a penchant for interesting shoes. Her Junior League chapter's annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, an AIDS hospice that recently opened in her home town of Azalea Springs, Texas. Alex and her League friends, including her friend Sloan, tour Hope House.
Judge Hardy has been appointed chairman of a special committee in Washington, DC. The Judge's daughter Marian is intoxicated by Washington's social life, while son Andy falls for a pretty daughter of a French diplomat. Thus, the judge is obliged to juggle his committee duties with his efforts to keep his children from making fools of themselves.
Poutou, the daughter of Gousti Bagus, is in love with Nyong. She attends a barong dance depicting a mythical struggle between a demon and men but is only interested in Nyong, who is present in the crowd of spectators. Nyong is invited to the home of Gousti Bagus and Poutou the next day.
Sam Smith, a bright, ambitious, handsome bellboy at a five-star hotel, has big dreams of running his own restaurant with his childhood friend. On a seemingly ordinary day, he suddenly finds himself in a life-or-death hostage situation with the radiantly beautiful Mary and her spirited elderly boss Charlie while running an errand at one of London's most exclusive jewellers. Against the backdrop of an armed jewel robbery that goes badly wrong, hostages Sam and Mary discover their true feelings for each other when flung together by deadly circumstance.
When jockey Chris Kirby is fatally injured in a horse race, he gets his best friend, gambler Adam Black, to promise to take care of his teenage daughter, Evelyne, who has been raised apart from her father. Unbeknownst to Adam, Evelyne had been led to believe that Adam is her father in correspondence between parent and child. Adam is unable to tell her the truth; his butler and friend Bill Murray tries and fails as well.
Dozie's elder brother, Nonso, continues his romance with Deirdre, Dunni's bridesmaid. Nonso takes Deirdre on a date in Dubai and accidentally proposes marriage to her. After a disastrous traditional engagement ceremony in Lagos, Nonso's family and Deirdre's aristocratic British family reluctantly agree to a wedding in Dubai.
Abby Morrison has lived a sheltered life. She has had an imaginary boyfriend named Sy since she was five. Abby is an artist with a passion to paint and usually makes paintings of Sy and visions what he looks like.
Joe Bascomb chases con man Harry Lambert to Mexico City, after Harry apparently swindled him (and some friends) in an oil stock scam back in the United States. Joe's ex-girlfriend, Mary has hired Harry as her agent, and is going by the name 'Montana', passing herself off as a toreador. When Joe encounters Harry at a bullring arena, he also sees Mary, who is in the ring.
Claire Elwood runs to her car and speeds away. Phyllis Holmes chases after her in her own car, but crashes into a truck. She is taken to the hospital, where her head is heavily bandaged.
Tom, a gardener at Kingston Bagpuize House, falls in love with Anya, a Polish au pair. He is agonisingly slow at making a move to win the heart of Anya, so the whole village comes together to help speed things up.
Three oddball friends attend Benjamin Franklin High School in Rhode Island. Jill is punk and overweight at 250 pounds, Matt comes from a poor background and only has one eye, wearing a skin-colored eyepatch, and Elmo, who is short and unattractive, is gay. When Matt and Jill begin to date and explore their teen sexuality, Elmo feels even more isolated.
Estranged sisters Isobel and Marion are forced to reunite when their father dies and they must decide how to handle Katherine, their young, alcoholic, mentally unstable stepmother who has been left nothing but the rural home in which they were raised. Isobel and her lover Patrick own a small graphic design company that is struggling to stay afloat. Her sister suggests she and her born-again Christian husband Tom help them expand the business by finding investors and making Katherine a partner responsible for finding new business.
An adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel of the same name about a middle aged housewife who feels her life is going nowhere, Charlotte Emory, plans to withdraw all the money from her bank account and leave her husband, a minister who has been taking her for granted for years. Then a young bank robber, Jake Sims, grabs her at gunpoint, takes her hostage and they make their getaway on a bus.
Fitz Wynn, a truly talented but overly satisfied stage actor, wants to star in a new movie written by his wife Lily. She does not feel her Fitz is right for the part, and explains to him why and what she is looking for in the role. Fitz proceeds to orchestrate his own transformation into Roberto Terranova, a blonde Italian who seems to be exactly what Lily wants.
In 1900, a young Han Chinese woman named Xue'er (Ying Zhen) narrowly escapes being sacrificed to a river god during a severe drought. She flees into Tibet, where she is rescued by Gesang (Shao Bing), a Tibetan herdsman, and his elderly mother, who give her the Tibetan name "Xue'er Dawa". The two fall in love and begin a new life in a peaceful Tibetan village.
Akin is hired to work a summer job on a farm owned by Jeremiah and his daughter Sarah. As he arrives at the property, he removes his wedding ring before getting out of the car, and tells the other two he is single and has no children. He is given a room to live at the farm for the summer.