Noboru Yasumoto streber etter en enkel jobb som personlig lege for en velstående familie, og er skuffet når hans første stilling etter medisinsk skole tar ham til en liten klinikk på landet under den barske legen Red Beard. Yasumoto gjør opprør på mange måter, men Red Beard viser seg å være en klok og tålmodig lærer. Han introduserer gradvis studenten sin for de uglamorøse sidene av yrket, og gir ham til slutt i oppdrag å ta seg av en prostituert reddet fra et lokalt bordell.
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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.
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky comedy. The outrageous, permanently spaced-out duo sells enough of their "specially mixed" ice cream to take the cash and realize their fondest dreams: new guitars, islands in the sun and beautiful women. But, of course, not everything goes as planned. While celebrating their wealth in a new wave Chinese restaurant, Cheech meets his long-lost love Donna, and promptly escorts her to her posh penthouse. He soon learns, however, that Donna's boyfriend, an ex-con named Animal, is on his way to her boudoir. Meanwhile, Chong has unwittingly exchanged all their money for a worthless bank check - and the only way to get it back is to escape into a nearby insane asylum.
To år har gått siden Jesse og Willy så hverandre sist. På en campingtur med fosterforeldrene finner Jesse sin gamle venn og de har det like fint sammen som før. Gleden får en brå stopper når en oljetanker går på grunn og Willys familie blir splittet og er i fare. Jesse, vennene Randolph og Nadine må hjelpe Willys søster som er full av olje. Willy sirkler sint og fortvilet rundt henne... Jesse må satse alt på at Willy stoler på ham for å kunne redde Willys familie.
McCoy er en meget vellykket og rik, hvit forretningsmann. Han har fått utlevert alt, inklusive en solid sosial plattform og et forhold til sexbomben Maria Ruskin. En kveld i Bronx hender imidlertid noe som snur livet totalt for McCoy. Maria føler seg truet av to fargede ungdommer og rygger McCoys Mercedes inn i den ene. Når gutten faller i koma utløser dette et ras av begivenheter. Presse, påtalemyndigheter og politikere kaster seg over den delikate saken. Oponionen hisser seg opp over at en av samfunnets støtter kanskje skal karre seg ut av en pinlig situasjon. Loven og politikerne må ta affære, særlig når pastor Bacon, en farget politiker, kaster seg inn i saken og roper "rasist" så snart anledningen byr seg.