Elizabeth (Kim Basinger) é uma bela e sexy mulher que trabalha em uma galeria de arte e se envolve com John (Mickey Rourke), um rico homem. Eles se envolvem rapidamente e começam a praticar jogos sexuais cada vez mais intensos, que torna o relacionamento cada vez mais complicado e difícil de ser controlado.
Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets in deeper when he falls for her sister, and invents a twin brother to be her beau; and deeper still when his fiancée's ex-husband comes looking for revenge.
Narra a história de Pecker(Edward Furlong), um fotografo amador de Baltimore, que usa como assunto de suas fotos todos freaks e losers da cidade. Um dia ele é descoberto por uma dona de galeria de artes de Nova York, vivida por Lili Taylor, que resolve fazer uma exposição das fotos de Pecker. Ele acaba se transformando na nova sensação artística da cidade. Mas sua fama repentina irá mudar o comportamento de todos a sua volta, principalmente dos espectadores que não deveriam ter nada com isso.
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in the city, she stays with her older sister, Martine, who in many ways is the exact opposite of Louise: she lives in a fashionable neighborhood, is cold to others, and has snobby friends, while Louise lives in a small town and is thoroughly unpretentious. Louise's apparent happiness -- and similarities to their mother -- gradually gets on Martine's nerves.
A painter in the throes of a creative block finds inspiration thanks to a fascinating and mysterious gallery owner, but he can't expect the shocking consequences of their encounter.