La casualitat fa que un home i una dona tots dos madurs i casats coincideixin en una estació de tren. La seva inicial amistat aviat esdevindrà un amor tan intens com prohibit.
La Thelma Dickinson està casada amb un insuportable cretí que la tracta com una nena petita. La seva amiga Louise Sawyer treballa de cambrera en una cafeteria i somia amb casar-se amb el seu xicot músic Jimmy. Un cap de setmana decideixen fer un viatge totes dues per tal d'allunyar-se de la mortal rutina de les seves frustrants vides. La seva escapada, lluny de ser divertida, acaba sent una experiència plena de fets dramàtics.
A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ready and, in an emergency, is happy to make a house call himself to demonstrate his qualities in person.
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now Dee Rock – embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.
Diverses persones es creuen de manera atzarosa i fins i tot perillosa als parcs, piscines i carrers del seu barri. Una mare avorrida es fa amiga de Brad, un pare que es fa càrrec de la casa mentre treballa la seva dona. Larry, un amic de Brad, comença a inquietar-se per la presència als carrers d'un pedòfil acabat de sortir de la presó.
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
El 1965, en uns dies que està sola perquè té el marit i els nens en una fira, Francesca Johnson veu alterada la seva pacífica vida de mestressa de casa a causa de l'aparició de Robert Kincaid, un fotògraf de la revista National Geographic, que prepara un reportatge sobre els ponts del comtat de Madison. Durant quatre dies ella l'acompanya a localitzar els ponts i viu amb ell un idil·li agredolç que necessita recollir en el seu diari. Un cop morta, els fills el troben i són conscients de les il·lusions i la soledat que havia experimentat Francesca.
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Wonder Wheel ens situa a Coney Island als anys 50. La Ginny i el Humpty, són un matrimoni en crisi. A més, tot s'agreuja quan apareix la filla d'ell que està fugint d'un grup de mafiosos que la volen assassinar.
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Joanna Eberhart és acomiadada de la seva feina com a productora de televisió. Aleshores decideix donar un tomb a la seva vida, i es muda amb la seva família cap a Stepford, una petita vila perfecta.
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
Terror strikes when a heartbroken woman uses black magic to get her husband back.
La Sabrina sap que el seu marit li fa el salt amb l'Allie, una noia molt més jove, i decideix castigar-la. Llavors demana ajuda a la seva germana per segrestar l'Allie i tancar-la a les golfes de casa seva, però, quan la tenen allà, els plans es comencen a torçar: el marit de la Sabrina torna abans d'hora, la germana agafa por, la mare de l'Allie s'adona que ha desaparegut i demana ajuda al xèrif, l'Allie intenta escapar-se... Quan finalment el marit descobreix que la Sabrina té la seva amant segrestada a casa, l'home ha de decidir de part de qui es posa, i comença un joc de manipulacions i mentides que encara ho complica més tot.