Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.

Jane Austen er 20 år. Hun kommer fra et langtfra velstående hjem. Derfor ligger i kortene, at hun skal gifte sig til penge, som det er kotume i 1790'ernes England. Men Jane tror på kærligheden, og da hun møder den unge irske jurist-elev Tom, så finder hun den. Problemet er bare, at hvis det unge par vil realisere den spirende kærlighed, så må de brænde alle broer bag sig.

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Irena Sendler er en katolsk socialrådgiver, der har sympatiserede med jøderne siden sin barndom, hvor hendes far, der var læge, døde af tyfus, som han havde fået ved at behandle fattige jødiske patienter. Da hun foreslår at man skal forsøge at redde jødiske børn fra ghettoen i Warszawa bliver hendes idé mødt med skepsis af hendes kolleger, hendes sognepræst, og selv hendes egen mor Janina.

In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Dorset, England i 1800-tallet. Den unge Bathsheba Everdene er ualmindeligt selvstændig for sin tid og har ikke lyst til at gifte sig med en mand, hun ikke elsker. Efter at hun arver en stor gård, kæmper tre bejlere kæmper om hendes gunst: den beskedne fårefarmer Gabriel Oak, den velhavende William Boldwood samt den hæmningsløse sergent Frank Troy, som blev svigtet ved alteret af tjenestepigen Fanny.

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.

Kærlighed kan være forvirrende og fyldt med fare for miskommunikation - hvis altså ikke du er Adam. For ham er livet altid sådan. Han er en flot, men uinteressant ung mand, som hele sit liv har levet en beskyttet tilværelse - indtil han møder sin nye nabo, den smukke Beth, som rusker op i hans hverdag med sjove, rørende og helt uventede resultater. Deres utrolige og gådefulde forhold afslører, hvor langt to personer fra hver sin virkelighed kan strække sig i deres søgen efter en ekstraordinær sammenhæng.

Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow) henslæber sit liv i starten af 1800-tallet med at leje Kirsten-Giftekniv for byens ugifte sjæle. Veninden Harriet (Toni Colette) står især for skud. Skønt hun har forelsket sig i en landmand, mener Emma, hun skal stile højere. Uden held forsøger hun at matche Harriet med unge mænd med stand og formue i behold. Emma indser først, at hun leger godt og grundigt kispus med alle impliceredes følelser, da hun selv bliver ramt af Amors pil. © Scope

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

I 1904 afprøver Carl Jung en tidlig udgave af psykoanalyse på den hysteriske ungmø Sabina. Hendes kvaler viser sig at have udspring i seksuelle drifter, hvilket får Jung til at kontakte den ældre doktor Freud i Wien. Et venskab udvikler sig mellem de to psykiatriske pionerer. Situationen kompliceres dog, da den frisindede Otto Gross overtaler Jung til at starte et SM-forhold til sin patient.

Henry James Hermin er et geni. Som etårig taler han i hele sætninger, og som tiårig går han på gymnasiet. Han er et reagensglasbarn og er vokset op alene med sin feministiske mor. Man kunne tro at det var selveste jomfrufødslen. Men da han opdager at han har en halvsøster, går han i gang med et detektivarbejde for at finde sin biologiske far. En masse post-it lapper udgør hans ledetråde.

In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, including both her father and his colleague Engels. In her privately life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.

I 1857 træffer den verdensberømte forfatter Charles Dickens for første gang Nelly Jones, en purung skuespillerinde. Flere "tilfældige" møder mellem de to fører til et romantisk forhold, som dog må holdes aldeles hemmeligt både for offentligheden og for Dickens' hustru. Nellys mor bifalder dog affæren, idet hun håber, at Dickens kan løfte Nelly op i borgerskabets øvre kredse.

Den unge franske kvinde Emma Bovary bliver gift som ung med den nyuddannede læge Charles Bovary. Hun fortryder snart, at hun gav ham sit "ja", fordi hun kan se frem til et kedeligt middelklasse liv i provinsen.

A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.