Σε μια μετα–αποκαλυπτική Αυστραλία, όπου η βενζίνη και το νερό αποτελούν το κυριότερο αγαθό, συμμορίες άγριων πολεμιστών κατασπαράζουν όποιον βρεθεί μπροστά τους. Mια ομάδα ανθρώπων που κατέχουν μεγάλη ποσότητα καυσίμων και επιθυμούν να ξεφύγουν από το νόμο της ζούγκλας, προσπαθούν να οργανωθούν για να επιβιώσουν με τη πολύτιμη βοήθεια του Mad Max.
Ο Αότσι, ένας καθηγητής γερμανικών, συναντά τον παλιό του συνάδελφο Νακασάγκο. Στη διάρκεια ενός δείπνου, συναντούν μια όμορφη γκέισα που λέγεται Κόινε. Έξι μήνες αργότερα, ο Αότσι μαθαίνει ότι ο Νακασάγκο έχει παντρευτεί και ότι η γυναίκα του Σόνο μοιάζει με την Κόινε. Ύστερα από λίγο καιρό, ο Νακασάγκο έχει πάρει τους δρόμους, συνοδευόμενος στα ταξίδια του από την Κόινε. Σε μια επιδημία γρίπης η Σόνο πεθαίνει, αφού προηγουμένως έχει γεννήσει το γιο του, Ναγκασούκο.
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Then a corruptible influence enters his life.
Nico's hundrum daily existence simply cannot compete with the fantasy life he leads the world's most popular MMORPG METANOIA, as the swashbuckling vagabond Zero, together with his companions: the spiritist Mang Ernie, renegade chi-master K'mao, apprentice weapon-smith Sumpak, folk hero Ahdonis and the beast master Cassandra, they explore Metanoia's vast virtual landscape in search of untold on-line fortune and glory! As the malevolent force surfaces and threatens to destroy everything they hold precious, the fate of two worlds rests upon the shoulder of one very unlikely champion. One who must first find way to burst out of his shell and discover the true hero within-before it's too late!
Tough-as-nails adventurer, Neil Stryker, faces immeasurable odds when he comes face to face with a bizarre EVIL CULT preparing for the apocalypse! Armageddon comes, all right, but not in the form that they expected. Their book of prophecy did not anticipate the arrival of Stryker.
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
When two former top orienteers end up in a snowstorm in Lapland wilderness, they face an impossible orienteering task: how to reach your destination when you can't tell earth from sky?
Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
After the plague, the famines have come, and a man expelled from the last habitable zone wanders the desert wondering if he'll ever see his son again.