In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
Just abans de Nadal, Steve Mason, el dependent d'una botiga, descobreix que una de les clientes -una bella vídua mare d'un nen- és una "espia". Després de desemmascarar-la, la deixa marxar, cosa que li costa el lloc de treball. Tots dos tenen una cita, que no senti gaire bé Carl, un pretendent de la dona. Qui està realment content és el nen, perquè no vol Carl com a padrastre.
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She learns that she is pregnant and inquires about him at various hospitals, with no success. She reads of his engagement and becomes acquainted with another girl with a situation like her own.
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Adaptació d´un musical basat en una novel·la de Margaret Landon. El 1862, Anna Leonowens, una institutriu anglesa, arriba al palau reial de Siam per fer-se càrrec de l'educació dels fills d'un autoritari monarca, que, captivat per la seva gran personalitat, la converteix en el seu confident.
Twenty years ago, Sardar Rajpal killed his brother and fled his hometown with his adopted daughter. Once settled, he asked his estranged wife to send their son on the misleading promise of employment. When two young men with the same name show up, both claiming to be there for the job, a baffled Sardar is forced to work out the imposter and his motive, while his daughter gradually develops a soft spot for one of them.
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.
A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the rare kindness of strangers.
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
El 1943, una jove, vídua, decideix de fugir de Roma amb la seva filla per trobar la calma del seu poble. El cos expedicionari francès, dirigit pel general Alphonse Juin, constituït sobretot per soldats marroquins, algerians, tunisians i senegalesos de les colònies franceses, és declarat culpable de crims de guerra als voltants de la regió de la Ciociaria a Itàlia. Destrucció de pobles, robatoris i violències, però sobretot violacions en massa (i assassinats) es multipliquen al voltant del Monte Cassino. Les xifres varien entre 700 i 2.000 dones violades, i aproximadament 800 morts. Aquests fets han rebut a Itàlia el nom de marocchinate (literalment « marroquinades »).