Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria.
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains blind to his wife's selfishness-until his eyes are opened when he is implicated in a double murder...
Σικάγο, αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1930, εποχή του μεγάλου οικονομικού κραχ. Ο Τόνι Καμόντε, γνωστός ως «Σημαδεμένος», είναι ένας νεαρός γκάνγκστερ ιταλικής καταγωγής, που ζει μαζί με τη μητέρα και την αδελφή του την οποία καταπιέζει λόγω υπερπροστατευτικότητας. Γίνεται το πρωτοπαλίκαρο του Τζόνι Λόβο και τον βοηθά να ελέγξει τη διακίνηση μπύρας στο νότιο τμήμα της πόλης. Αυτό δεν αρκεί στον ατρόμητο Τόνι. Ενάντια στις διαταγές του Λόβο και λόγω υπέρμετρης φιλοδοξίας, θέλει να επεκταθεί και στο βόρειο τμήμα το οποίο ελέγχουν οι Ιρλανδοί. Ανάμεσα στους δύο άντρες δημιουργείται μια ρήξη, που επιδεινώνεται όταν ο Τόνι ερωτεύεται την καλλονή ερωμένη του αφεντικού του, Πόπι.
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
Cantinflas is the apprentice of a renowned scientist, Prof. Arquimides Monteagudo (Carlos Martinez Baena). But Cantinflas has the soul of a poet rather than a serious researcher, and he wants to find the formula that achieves the immortality of the roses. Nevertheless, after the death of Prof. Monteagudo, Cantinflas will be chased by a ferocious corporative group, who wants to steal the secret formula of a cheaper fuel named "carburex", because they think that our friend is the only person who knows the composition
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
Ο George Eastman, ένας άντρας της εργατικής τάξης πιάνει δουλειά στο εργοστάσιο του πλούσιου θείου του. Εκεί γνωρίζει την εργάτρια Alice Tripp και συνάπτουν ερωτική σχέση. Ο George θα πάρει σύντομα προαγωγή, θα αφήσει έγκυο την Alice και θα γνωρίσει τον έρωτα της ζωής του στο πρόσωπο της όμορφης και πλούσιας κληρονόμου Angela Vickers. Η Alice όμως γνωρίζει ένα μυστικό που μπορεί να καταστρέψει τον George και τον πιέζει για γάμο. Ο George τότε θα αντιδράσει με μια πράξη απελπισίας και οι εξελίξεις θα γίνουν απρόβλεπτες.
Ένας γοητευτικός και φιλόδοξος νεαρός ανακαλύπτει συνεχώς τρόπους να ανέρχεται κοινωνικά κι επαγγελματικά. Κάποιους έντιμους, κάποιους όχι και τόσο. Πρέπει, όμως, πρώτα να αποφύγει μια γυναίκα-αρπαχτικό.
Ένα ηλικιωμένο ζευγάρι (Tomi και Sukichi) αφήνουν το χωριό τους για να επισκεφτούν τα παιδιά τους στο μεταπολεμικό Τόκυο. Η υποδοχή τους θα είναι απογοητευτική: τα παιδιά δεν μπορούν να τους διαθέσουν χρόνο γιατί είναι πολύ απασχολημένα. Έτσι καταφεύγουν σε μια εύκολη λύση: τους στέλνουν σε ένα τουριστικό θέρετρο
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and his fellow Senators has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.