Intolerans och dess fruktansvärda konsekvenser, men även kärlekens universella språk, undersöks här i fyra historiska sammanhang av pionjären D.W. Griffith. Handlingen sträcker sig över 2 500 år och är förlagd till Babyloniska riket 539 f.Kr., Judéen omkring år 27, Frankrike 1572 och till det moderna Amerika 1914.

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

Den unga och gudfruktiga bondflickan Lily flyttar in hos sin faster i Berlin. Tvärs över gatan arbetar den fattige men skicklige skulptören Richard. Han övertalar Lily att stå nakenmodell för en staty. De två blir ett par, men Richard tvekar inför att binda sig med Lily, pga hans fattigdom. Då träder den förmögne Baron von Merzbach in i bilden. Det är han som har beställt statyn som Lili stått modell för. Nu vill han göra Lily till sin maka och ge henne allt vad heter bildning och finess. Men ingen frågar Lily vad hon vill.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

I 1800-talets slut möter vi den 17-åriga Effi, som gifts bort med en avsevärt äldre baron, en ärans man. Infållad i en disciplinerad överklassvärld kvävs Effis livsglädje snabbt. I sin hunger ger hon efter för en ung majors uppvaktanden. Effi fråntas sin dotter och förskjuts från familjen, alltmedan baronen kräver upprättelse. Och i denna värld kan en mans befläckade ära bara avtvås med blod.

Buzga the shepherd, an object of ridicule among his fellow villagers, discovers his painting talent and becomes famous. Their envy leads them to paint themselves and try to outperform him, but after realizing that only Buzga's paintings are valued, they decide to steal his works.

After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's electrician and a distant aunt, which will land her from myths and dreams to reality.

Selma, en ensamstående mor på den amerikanska landsbygden arbetar hårt på en fabrik för att spara pengar till den ögonoperation som är nödvändigt för att hennes son inte ska mista synen. Han lider av samma ögonsjukdom som hon själv bär på, och håller på att göra henne fullständigt blind.

Om den unge Nicholas Garrigan som kommer till Uganda på 70-talet och får tjänsten som personlig läkare till den karismatiske men hänsynslösa diktatorn Idi Amin. Till en början sveps Nicholas med av Amins starka personlighet och charm men liksom resten av världen börjar han sakta förstå att Amin inte är den räddare han påstår sig vara. Bakom fasaden döljer sig en våldsam diktator och Nicholas inser att hans eget liv hänger på en skör tråd.

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.

Animerad kortfilm i skuggteaterstil där en liten flicka lämnar sin vän den stora fågeln för att ge sig ut på äventyr men lockas in i skogen av dödens flöjttoner.

Efter att ha regisserat film i Europa återvänder nu Woody Allen till New York med komedin WHATEVER WORKS. Möt Boris, en vresig misantrop och en naiv, lättpåverkad ung kvinna på rymmen. När hennes stela föräldrar anländer för att rädda sin dotter, dras de snabbt in i en romantisk härva som slutar med att alla inblandade upptäcker att kärlek inte är något annat än en kombination av tur och förmågan att uppskatta WHATEVER WORKS.

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.

Brandy Clark känner sig pressad över att bli mer sexuellt erfaren innan hon börjar på college. Därför gör hon upp en lista på saker hon ska göra innan skolan börjar till hösten.

Sonen till en förmögen familj möter en ung psykiatrisk patient som levt isolerad hela sitt liv. Han tar med den naiva unga kvinnan hem till sin brors bröllop för att övertyga sin familj att han äntligen har ordnat upp sitt liv.

Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by malaise and infidelity, and the way the trauma of their breakup brings them back together. Jamie and Kacie have been dating for four years, and are separately beginning to feel the affects of malaise and disconnect. As they drift apart from one another and struggle to bridge the gaps growing between them, Jamie begins to develop feelings for another woman. After precariously flirting with infidelity, Jamie abandons this new pursuit and attempts to salvage his relationship with Kacie, only to discover that she too has fallen for someone else.