På en bondegård bor pigen Tommelise, der ikke er større end en tommelfinger.Hun er lykkelig, men savner nogen på hendes egen størrelse.En nat kommer alfehoffet forbi. Alfeprinsen bliver forelsket og frier til hende?En skøn, klassisk tegnefilm fuld af figurer og dejlige sange.
Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
I begyndelsen af 1900-tallet besøger den unge Lucy Honeychurch Firenze på en dannelsesrejse. Her møder hun den spændende og lidt underlige George Emerson, som hun bliver stærkt tiltrukket af. Da hun vender hjem til England må hun vælge mellem hendes forlovede, den rige og røvkedelige Cecil, og den fængslende men fattige George.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Den lille by Fort Ruby bliver overfaldet af en gruppe røvere, der plyndrer og myrder løs, heriblandt pastor Goodnight. Hans datter Eula overlever angrebet og slår sig sammen med den hensynsløse sherif Rooster Cogburn i jagten på sin fars mordere.
Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton) er en alkoholiseret præst, der er blevet fradømt kjole, krave, og embede i sin kirke i Virginia. Nu arbejder han som turistguide i Mexico, og hans kunder er en gruppe ældre skolelærere - undtagen Charlotte Goodall (Sue Lyon) - hun er en teenager, der gør sit bedste for at forføre ham. Specielt om denne
Mellem to verdenskrige midt i 1930´erne, lærer frøken Brodie sine skolepiger om verdens mirakler med sprudlende entusiasme. Hvor elsket hun end er af sine elever, bryder den strenge skoleledelse sig dog ikke meget om hendes måde at lærer sine elever om sandheden og skønheden i kunst, historie, litteratur og sensualitet.
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.
Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than needlepoint. Enter handsome Morris Townsend, a dashing social climber with his eye on the spinster's heart and substantial inheritance.
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.