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.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Pienessä Minnesotan kaupungissa tv-ryhmä saapuu kuvaamaan vuotuista kauneuskilpailua. Aiemmin voittajaksi kruunattu Gladys Leeman haluaa varmistaa tyttärensä Rebeccan jatkavan jalanjäljissään. Oudot räjähdykset, putoavat lamput ja asuntovaunun palo toimivat todisteena tästä. Leemanit ovat kuitenkin pitäjän rikkain suku, joten poliisit katsovat asioita hieman läpi sormiensa. Kaikesta huolimatta, Rebeccan kovin kilpailija Amber Atkins ei ole valmis luovuttamaan - ei ilman taistelua...
Willard Stiles tekee ties kuinka monetta vuotta tyhjänpäiväistä työtä ilman urakehitystä, eikä hänellä ole ystäviä tai tulevaisuutta. Hänen elämänsä tuntuu toivottomalta - kunnes hän tekee hyytävän havainnon: hänellä on voimakas yhteys kellarissaan tulvivaan rottalaumaan. Kaveri, jota on koko ikänsä kohdeltu rotan lailla, on nyt valmis vastaiskuun... alkaen esimiehestään.
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
An emerging rock band, managed by industry vet Jimmy Kleen, strike a deal with record executive Rick Roland. Things take a sinister turn when the band's lead singer, Rachel, and her mother Barb are struck by lightning and killed. Rachel is brought back to life, but she is different than before. Lightning courses through her veins and she uses her new strange electrical powers to drain the life from men, turning it into electrifying stage performances, but just how far are the band willing to go to make it.
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
A 12 year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about “going for the gold”.
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
Thomas Haemmerli is about to celebrate his fortieth birthday when he learns of his mother's death. A further shock follows when he and his brother Erik discover her apartment, which is filthy and full to bursting with junk. It takes the brothers an entire month to clean out the place. Among the chaos, they find films going back to the 1930s, photos and other memorabilia.
