In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

When his father refuses to support his choice of a career, an aspiring chef tries to fulfil his dream by helping his grandfather run his small eatery.

Under 2. Verdenskrig er en gruppe uregerlige britiske soldater sat i en af de allieredes fangelejre i mellemøsten. Den brutale Bert Wilson kører lejren med jernhånd, og fanger bliver sat til den ene meningsløse opgave efter den anden. Da fangernes talsmand Joe Roberts brokker sig, bliver han mål for yderligere straffearbejde. Men Joe er ikke sådan lige at knække og modstanden i lejren vokser.

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Susys mand Sam får ved en fejltagelse en dukke med hjem fra en rejse. Dukken indeholder narko, og ejermændene er naturligvis opsat på at få fat på den. De tror, at den blinde Susy ved, hvor dukken er, og presser hende til at tale.

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Gertrud er gift med politikeren Gustav og har et forhold til den unge musiker Erland. Før ægteskabet havde hun et forhold til digteren Gabriel. Alle tre er mænd for hvem arbejdet har højeste prioritet, mens det for hende er kærligheden. Derfor bryder hun med dem alle og vælger selvstændigheden. Mange år senere ser den gamle Gertrud sammen med vennen Axel tilbage på sit liv.

A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.

Pietro er lykkelig gift med Lara og er far til en 10-årig datter Claudia. Under en tur på stranden redder han en kvinde fra at drukne. Da han kommer hjem, er hans kone pludselig død. Med ét bliver hans liv domineret af en kaotisk stilhed. Pietro venter forgæves på en følelse af smerte. Hans omgivelser forsøger uden held at trøste ham. Kun langsomt begynder han igen få kontakt med verden omkring sig.

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies.

Den unge Robin besidder stærke telepatiske evner. Da skruppelløse videnskabsfolk i regeringen interesserer sig meget for disse evner, bliver Robin kidnappet under et iscenesat terrorangreb. Robins far, Peter, en tidligere regeringsagent, sætter sig imidlertid for at befri sin søn og allierer sig med gymnasiepigen Gillian, som også har telepatiske evner, for at finde Robin.

Baseret på W. Somerset Maughams roman er Secret Agent den anden i en triologi af Alfred Hitchcocks spionfilm (The 39 Steps og Sabotage). Handlingen foregår under Første Verdenskrig, hvor forfatteren Edgar Brodie (John Gielgud) opdager, at en hemmelig statslig enhed har iscenesat hans død. Han får herefter ordre på at tage til Schweiz for at dræbe en tysk agent. Han skal rejse under dæknavnet Richard Ashenden, og med sig har han den hemmelige agent Elsa Carrington (Madeleine Carroll). Sammen udgiver de sig for at være et ægtepar. De hemmelige agenter skal sammen med den professionelle snigmorder The General finde den tyske agent. Men det bliver ikke let.

De to skøre pothoveder, Cheech og Chong, får den idé, at de vil sælge is med en helt speciel blanding fra en is bil. Salget går strygende, og de bliver hurtigt rigere, end de nogensinde havde håbet på, men selvfølgelig veksler Chong alle deres penge til en værdiløs bankcheck, og Cheech bliver jagtet af en meget jaloux ex-tugthuskandidat. Deres eneste flugtmulighed er derfor at gemme sig på et sindssygehospital!

The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.