25 år efter at en række brutale drab chokerede den lille by Woodsboro, er en ny morder på spil. Iført den ikoniske Ghostface-maske har personen udset sig en ny gruppe unge for at genoplive fortidens blodige hemmeligheder. Til undsætning kommer tre rutinerede kræfter, som har været oppe imod Ghostface af fire omgange før: Den evige overlever Sidney Prescott, betjenten Dewey Riley og journalisten Gale Weathers.

England, 1932. Sirl William McCOrdle og Lady Sylvia har inviteret en række venner til jagtselskab på deres landsted. Det er en alsidig forsamling med blandt andet en grevinde, en krigsveteran, et matineidol og en amerikansk filmproducent, samt deres personlige tjenestefolk. Under den pæne og festlige overflade viser der sig at være en række hemmeligheder, og pludselig står selskabet midt i et mordmysterium.

Inspireret af den sande historie om Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Bologne er den uægte søn af en afrikansk slave og en fransk plantageejer og stiger hurtigt i graderne blandt den franske kulturelite som violinist, komponist og fægter. Undervejs oplever han både ulykkelig kærlighed og et brud med Marie Antoinette og hendes hof.

På en kvægranch langt ude i vestens storslåede landskaber stræber både den gode stedsøn Owen (Burt Lancaster) og den egoistiske og usympatiske søn Lee (Robert Walker) efter at føre familiens kvægdrift videre. Men deres rivalisering drejer sig ikke kun om kvæg og om at opnå faderens gunst, men også om den kønne Lily (Sally Forrest), som er servitrice på den lokale café.

En mor efterlader sit nyfødte barn i en limousine. På en seddel bønfalder hun ejeren om at tage sig af drengen. Men bilen bliver stjålet at tyve, der smider barnet i skraldespanden. Heldigvis finder en vagabond den lille dreng, som han tager til sig. Fem år senere er moderen på den grønne gren som operasangerinde, og hun sætter sig for at finde sin søn.

Kong Louis 14. (Pierce Brosnan) styrer Frankrig med hård hånd, men han har mange fjender, og derudover trykker alderen. Da en trofast rådgiver foreslår en mulighed for at gøre kongen uddødelig, slår han til. For at opnå dette skal en havfrue indfanges, og hendes livskraft skal flås ud af hende under en solformørkelse. Midt i dette projekt ankommer det unge musikgeni Marie-Josephe (Kaya Scodelario) til hoffet uvidende om, at hun i virkeligheden er kongens datter!

Den dramatiske kærlighedshistorie mellem dronning Caroline Mathilde af Danmark og Johan Struensee, kong Christian d. VII's livlæge. Caroline og Johan drømmer begge om et bedre liv for Danmarks befolkning, og gennem hans indflydelse på kongen formindskes aristokratiets magt, og samfundsreformer bliver indført i landet. Det er dog kun et spørgsmål om tid, før hoffet atter genvinder magten over deres syge konge. Filmen er uegnet for mindre børn.

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up.

A single mother struggles to raise her only daughter on her own.

På sin fars dødsleje giver den unge Karl Victor von Sendlingen sit ord på aldrig at begå den samme fejl som sin far og gifte sig med en pige under sin egen stand – et løfte der får fatale konsekvenser.

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

An untouchable girl is found dead with her illegitimate child, the child is adopted by a postman, a high caste Hindu. No one knows the true identity of the real father of the child, until the child real father, also an upper caste Hindu acknowledges paternity. As the story unfolds, the real father becomes agitated by guilt and anguish and then finally questions his previous actions. The film ends with the Masters own resolutions and true acceptance of his own child and self.