George Bailey je čestný a skromný občan, ktorý vedie malú rodinnú banku, napriek pokusom silného bankára ho zničiť. Na Štedrý večer náhle zmizne veľká suma peňazí, hrozí mu, že vina padne naňho. To by znamenalo nielen úpadok rodinnej banky, ale aj veľký škandál. A tak sa rozhodne spáchať samovraždu, ale keď sa to chystá urobiť, stane sa niečo mimoriadne...
Charlotte Cantiliniová hľadala dlhé roky toho pravého. Teraz konečne našla muža svojho života Kevina Fieldse. Nanešťastie sa ukázalo, že jeho matka Viola je stelesnené zlo. Keďže Viola prišla o prácu v televízii, bojí sa že stratí aj svojho syna. Spolu so svojou asistentkou Ruby vymyslia diabolský plán. Charlotte sa ale nehodlá len tak vzdať a so svokrou nebude jednať ako v rukavičkách. Kto vyhrá boj o prvé miesto v Kevinovom živote?
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Mladá Paula Alquist sa vydá za pianistu Gregory Antona a odsťahuje sa za ním do domu, kde za záhadných okolností prišla o svoj život jej teta. Pohodu mladomanželov však začne čoskoro opadať. Každú noc Paula počuje čudesné zvuky na povale. Miznú rôzne predmety a Gregory upodozrieva svoju ženu, že ich kradne a schováva. Paula sa začína postupne psychicky rúcať...
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.
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
Ako by vyzeral váš život bez vás? Howard Wakefield je na prvý pohľad stelesnením úspechu. Má milujúcu ženu Dianu a dve dcéry, prestížnu prácu právnika z Manhattanu a pohodlný dom na predmestí. Napriek tomu sa ale vo vnútri dusí. Jedného dňa sa v ňom niečo zlomí a Howard sa ukryje v podkroví svojej garáže. Jeho rodina pátra po tom, čo sa s ním stalo, a on ich pozoruje z protiľahlého okna – špehuje svoj vlastný život ako niekto cudzí. Keď sa jeho dobrovoľná izolácia pretiahne dlhšie, než plánoval, Howard začne rozmýšľať o tom, či je vôbec ešte možné vrátiť sa a žiť rovnako ako predtým...
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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…
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown, and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
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.
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Psychiater David Young kúpil starý dom v Charlesburgu, ktorý kedysi patril krutému obchodníkovi s otrokmi. Práve tu sa David nasťahoval aj so svojou priateľkou Kate a jej synom Jasonom. Kate je speváčkou, snažiacou sa o úspešný návrat do hitparád, navyše je jeho bývalou pacientkou, ktorá sa ešte stále momentálne lieči z následkov nervového zrútenia. Krátko po príchode Kate zisťuje, že s domom nie je všetko úplne v poriadku. Začnú ju sužovať desivé sny a okolo nej sa dejú čudné veci. David jej však neverí a i ona samotná začína pochybovať o svojom psychickom zdraví. Vyčíňa v dome duch alebo je to všetko len výplod jej narušenej mysle?
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.
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.
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?
A super-model begins to question her glitzy, frenetic lifestyle when she awakes after a all night party to find a strange man in her bed. She sees a surfer riding the waves below, follows him to his tented camp on the banks of a river. 'Leatherlip' earns a living making leather goods and roaming around on an extraordinary 'trike' with his worldly goods and surfboard strapped on an overhead rack. They fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her, knowing only that her father lives on a boat on the West Coast...
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.
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.