Lee Chandler ist ein schweigsamer Einzelgänger, der als Handwerker eines Wohnblocks in Boston arbeitet. An einem feuchtkalten Wintertag erhält er einen Anruf, der sein Leben auf einen Schlag verändert. Das Herz seines Bruders Joe steht still. Nun soll Lee die Verantwortung für seinen 16-jährigen Neffen Patrick übernehmen. Äußerst widerwillig kehrt er in seine Heimat, die Hafenstadt Manchester-by-the-Sea, zurück. Doch ist Lee dieser Situation und der neuen Herausforderung gewachsen? Kann die Begegnung mit seiner Frau Randi, mit der er einst ein chaotisches, aber glückliches Leben führte, die alten Wunden der Vergangenheit heilen?

Mame Dennis lebt ein extravagantes Leben und muss sich nicht viele Sorgen machen, da sie auf einem sehr weichen Finanzpolster sitzt. Doch dann passieren Dinge, die ihr Leben aus den Fugen geraten lassen. Ihr Bruder stirbt und sie muss sich fortan um ihren Neffen Patrick kümmern. Der lebt sich gut bei seiner Tante und deren Freunden ein. Doch Patricks Vater hat seinen Nachlassverwalter damit beauftragt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Patrick auch Anstand und Disziplin lernt. Dann kommt auch noch ein großer Börsencrash, durch den Mame ihr ganzes Geld verliert. Von nun an muss sie sich also um ihren Neffen kümmern und dafür sorgen, dass Geld ins Haus kommt. Doch irgendwie endet immer alles im Chaos...

Nisi (Halle Berry) und Mickey (Natalie Desselle) wollen ganz groß rauskommen. Sie haben ihren Job als Kellnerinnen und die langweile Kleinstadt satt und erfüllen sich einen Traum: Sie gehen nach L.A., um dort das große Geld zu machen. Ein Friseursalon mit integrierten Restaurant soll eine Marktlücke füllen und den beiden großen Erfolg bringen. Doch zu Anfang gibt es Anlaufschwierigkeiten und es klappt nicht alles so, wie es sich die durchgeknallten Mädels vorstellen.

Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religious, familial and sensual love become entangled.

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

A Mexican film noir revolving around a crime: the suicide of one of Diana (María Félix)'s lovers and the disposal of his body in order to avoid a scandal. Diana not only engineers the entire scheme, but drafts her two other suitors: her fiance Adolfo (Julio Villareal) and his nephew Miguel (Luis Aldas).

A nephew of three strange uncles loves a girl, but his uncles are against the marriage. A resourceful aunt takes the case and helps the couple.

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.

Rajinikanth, a veteran lawyer aspires to become the judge. But, the bar council promotes an undeserving lawyer to the post. Enraged by the system, he tries to seek his revenge by defending a murderer.

A self-made owner of a soft-drink factory decides to give the entire plant to his naive nephew as a present. Now, as two women vie for his attention, he is entangled in the theft of an ancient statuette. Who is friend, and who is foe?

Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.

Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.

An unemployed man (Kostas Chatzichristos), prone to endless amusements, economically sucks his uncle (Periklis Christoforidis) in order to satisfy his desires. His despair, when his uncle decides to stop the economic benefits, will lead him to sell some furniture of the house. He sells four armchairs and then he learns that in one of them were hidden precious jewels of the aunt. He looks desperately to find and to get them back, but he only discovers three of them, and in these there is no trace of jewelry. To find the fourth and lucky one, whose traces are completely ignored, he accepts partnered with a friend (Takis Christoforidis). He is transformed into an organized, consistent and good working man, and falls in love with his sister's partner (Stella Stratigou) and discovers that the fourth chair was held by his uncle, who set up this whole story to motivate him and make him active.