Michael Dorsey es un actor neoyorkino sin éxito. Además, en los círculos artísticos tiene fama de conflictivo. Como su mala racha no se acaba, un día toma una importante decisión: hacerse pasar por una mujer para encontrar trabajo. Consigue un papel, pero su nueva identidad le traerá no pocas complicaciones en su vida diaria.
William Munny es un pistolero retirado, viudo y padre de familia, que tiene dificultades económicas para sacar adelante a su hijos. Su única salida es hacer un último trabajo. En compañía de un viejo colega y de un joven inexperto, Munny tendrá que matar a dos hombres que cortaron la cara a una prostituta.
Después de ser expulsado injustamente de la Universidad de Harvard, el estadounidense Matt Buckner huye a la casa de su hermana en Inglaterra. Una vez allí, se hace amigo del encantador y peligroso cuñado de ella, Pete Dunham, y lo introduce en el inframundo del vandalismo del fútbol británico. Matt aprende a mantenerse firme a través de una amistad que se desarrolla en el contexto de este mundo secreto y, a menudo, violento. 'Green Street Hooligans' es una historia de lealtad, confianza y las consecuencias a veces brutales de vivir cerca del límite.
Una jovencita de mala reputación se fuga con un amigo homosexual. Su intención es llegar a California para buscar a su padre, al que jamás ha visto.
Rafael, torero de profesión, le brinda un toro a la famosa actriz Camelia, pero es cornado en esa misma corrida. La relación entre estas dos solitarias almas irá estrechándose, pero ella guarda ciertos secretos que poco a poco verán la luz, mientras el amor comienza a unir sus destinos.
Cuando comienza la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Mamie (Jane Russell), una atractiva prostituta de San Francisco, se instala en Hawaii. A pesar de que sus perspectivas parecen mejorar cuando se enamora de un escritor de ciencia- ficción (Richard Egan), tanto la guerra como su pasado complicarán la relación.
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women. In time, Pepito's coming of age intersects with the lives of the other islanders, whose beliefs and struggles become critical impetus to his maturity.
Sarah and Ayda are two close friends, one of whom was notorious and now they must work together to bring their conditions to normal, but they stand to where for their friendship?
An actress with a wild reputation finally settles down to a sedate and pleasant marriage. One of her former lovers, an architect, arrives to disrupt her happiness by renewing their affair. She humiliates this suitor in public with her rejection, and he seeks revenge, revenge that catapults her into tragedy.
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules is driven from his house when banker Rufus Moore ( Robert McKim ) forecloses on the mortgage. Offered shelter by Mercy Reed ( Margery Wilson ), a woman who in her youth naively sinned and has remained rejected by the community ever since, Jules begins to reform. Climbing his way back to respectability, Jules attends church with Mercy, causing a storm of protest. Moore's wife Agnes urges the mob to violence, and as they attempt to tar and feather Jules and Mercy, Mercy delivers an eloquent speech condemning Moore as her betrayer. The mob then takes Moore as their victim, leaving Jules and Mercy in peace.
An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).