George Bailey er en tilsyneladende lykkelig familiefar, der inderst inde føler, at hans liv er forfejlet. Ingen af hans drømme er blevet realiseret, og den årelange kamp mod byens hensynsløse rigmand ser ud til at slutte med et totalt nederlag. George overvejer at begå selvmord, men hans skytsengel vil gøre alt for at overbevise ham om, at hans liv ikke er så mislykket endda - at det er herligt at leve.
Den smukke Charlotte ”Charlie” Cantilini har i årevis været på jagt efter den perfekte ægtemand – men uden held. Hun har næsten opgivet håbet om livet i tosomhed – lige indtil hun bogstavelig talt støder ind i manden Kevin. Kevin er lige den fyr, som Charlotte altid har drømt om at møde - han er charmerende, kærlig, beleven og succesrig. Charlotte og Kevin forelsker sig hovedkulds i hinanden, og Charlottes lykke synes fuldendt, da Kevin frier til hende – lige indtil hun møder sin kommende svigermor, Viola. Viola er sindssyg bange for at miste sin søn og beslutter derfor, at hun vil være verdens værste svigermor og forsøge at skræmme Charlotte væk – med alle midler. Sammen med sin husholderske, Ruby, lægger Viola alle mulige fælder for Charlotte i forsøget på at få hende til at løbe skrigende bort. Men Charlotte giver ikke op så let - snart smider hun fløjlshandskerne og går i infight med den besidderiske Viola – og det går ikke stille af sig
Howard Wakefield har en af de der hårde dage, hvor alt går galt, og pludselig tager han en drastisk beslutning: Han gider ikke de faste rutiner mere. Han gider ikke sit job, sin søde kone Diana, eller sine to døtre. Så Howard vender ryggen til sit liv. Han melder sig simpelt hen ud! I al hemmelighed flytter han ind på loftet over sin garage, og her kan han så i ro og fred betragte sin familie og sit hus uden at skulle tage ansvar eller tage stilling til noget.
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
En ung kvinde gifter sig med en charmerende mand, og flytter ind i det hus, hvor hendes tante blev myrdet. Snart begynder mystiske ting at ske, og hun begynder at tvivle på sin egen forstand, men er hun vitterligt ved at blive sindsyg, eller er der noget mørkere på spil.
Texas. Den energiske, men naive Dignan drømmer om at lave tyverier og overtaler sine to venner Anthony og Bob til at være med. Efter en vellykket røveri mod en lille boghandel tager de ud på et hotel ved grænsen, hvor Anthony bliver forelsket i stuepigen Inez. Efter nogen tid tager de tre amatører videre for at udføre et job sammen med en af Dignans forbindelser, den tilsyneladende professionelle forbryder Mr. Henry.
‘Love & Mercy’ er den klassiske fortælling om den plagede skabersjæl. Beach Boys-frontmanden Brian Wilson var den kreative drivkraft bag popmesterværket Pet Sounds fra 1966, men kort efter pladens udgivelse tabte han kampen til sig selv og røg ud i et langvarigt stofmisbrug. I de sene 80’ere fik han dog has på misbruget og lancerede en solokarriere. Det er intet under, at Wilson får en biopic med ’Love & Mercy’, da historien om det musikalske geni har alle ingredienserne til et inspirerende larger than life-portræt: Den overvældende succes, den personlige deroute, det rørende comeback.
Pepa’s følelsesliv er i kaos. Hendes elsker, Ivan, har lige slået op med hende - pr. telefonsvarer. Tilmed viser Pepa’s potentielle nye lejere sig at være Ivan’s søn og dennes kæreste. Og livet i den store Madrid-lejlighed bliver ikke mindre tumultarisk, da Pepa’s neurotisk veninde Candela flytter ind - eller da Ivan’s jaloux eks-elskerinde dukker op, direkte fra sindssygehospitalet.
Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra, Charlie seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Henrique can't get over his breakup from Gabriela and, even a year later, he's so devastated that he can't get excited about anything or anyone else. To put an end to his suffering, he decides to take his own life, but as he doesn't have the courage, he hires a company of hitmen who have just one rule: Once signed and paid for, there is no turning back. However, after signing the contract, Henrique and Gabriela cross paths by chance and she discovers that she wants to get back together. Desperate to find out who will be his executioner, Henrique becomes involved in a path full of tense and miraculous situations in order to save himself and finally be with the woman he loves.
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown, and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Kate's a single mom rock star recovering from a nervous breakdown; David is her psychiatrist turned lover. After David buys an old Charleston mansion and Kate and her son move in with him, strange events occur including the discoveries of a secret hidden attic and the diary of the murderous slave trader who owned the home. Kate hears a piano playing by itself and sees the ghost of the slave trader who once lived there. Their relationship is strained by the bizarre events as Kate's sanity is again questioned as she insists what she's seen is real...but is it?
A wealthy woman, vacationing in Acapulco with her stuffy husband, stumbles upon evidence that she is being stalked by an international jewel thief and murderer.