Į Vakarus pabėga KGB generolas Kosovas. Netrukus jis praneša, kad jo kolega generolas Puškinas rengia prieš vakarų agentus operaciją „Mirtis šnipams". Tačiau netikėtai Kosovas dingsta tiesiog iš specialiųjų tarnybų panosės. Ateina laikas įsikišti ir Bondui. Padedamas gražuolės generolo Koskovos meilužės Karos Milovi, jis užtinka dingusio saugumiečio pėdsakus. Kosovas pradėjo gudrų žaidimą su ginklų prekiautoju Bredu Vitakeriu. Jie ketina praturtėti prekyba naujausiais ginklais ir narkotikais. Ar Bondas jiems sutrukdys ir nubaus nusikaltėlius?...
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
1932 m. apniukusi lapkričio diena. Į sero Viljamo Mak Kordalo dvarą Gosford Parke susirenka grietinėlė. Svečiai pasirengę mėgautis prabanga, puikiais valgiais bei kitiems malonumams. Tačiau svečius išgąsdina nusikaltimas: šeimininkas randamas nebegyvas. Kaip juokavo britų kritikai, juostoje nusifilmavo visi aktoriai, kada nors gavę D.Britanijos pasą. Ir iš tiesų – pagrindinių aktorių čia per dešimtį. Visi jie susirenka į senovišką anglišką užmiesčio vilą pašaudyti fazanų. Ponai ir jų tarnai. Čia ir yra didysis filmo pasiekimas – išmoningai perteikti aukštuomenės ir patarnautojų santykiai, pirmas ir antras gyvenimo aukštai. Centrinė figūra – Williamas McCordle (Michaelis Gambonas), namo savininkas ir šiaip pasiturintis žmogus, kurio turtai rūpi visiems, išskyrus jį. Klausimas, kurį iškelia Altmanas – kiek toli gali nueiti kiekvienas jų. Atsakymas – trečiojoje epo valandoje.
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own.
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.
A wealthy landlord lives a decadent life with his wife and son. His passion – his wife would calls it his addiction – is music, and he spends a great deal of his fortune on concerts held for the locals in his magnificent music room. He feels threatened by his neighbour, a commoner who has attained riches through business dealings. His passion for music and quest for social respect are his undoing, as he sacrifices his family and wealth trying to retain it.
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
A young woman leaving the city for the countryside encounters the concept of voluntary work - new to her. She eventually does good, and charms the employer at the same time.
Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber, is visiting Hungary with his daughter, Mary. Various plans are devised to exploit the rich relative. The boldest of them all is the plan of Bálint Koltay, who directly pursues Mary's hand. However, the young ones fall in love with each other so deeply that Bálint stands by Mary even when the "wealthy" Gruber informs him that he's bankrupt. At this point, the only thing left to arrange is for Bálint, who poses as a landowner, to actually present a noble castle to his future father-in-law.
Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first love Jari arrives to the scene.