Two Iranian teenagers in love want to get married, travel to the US to get a green card and live there, but their parents object. With not enough money saved, they pin their hopes on winning the state lottery to fund their trip, but tragedy derails their plans.
Four brothers live happily together as a joint family. But when misunderstandings arises between them, they need to overcome them to live happily again.
Nina is a sexy female cop whose personal life is in turmoil after she kicks out her cheating husband and begins a tentative affair with her ex-partner. FBI Agent Royce taps Nina to perform an undercover operation at a modeling agency suspected of using models as couriers when passing government secrets, where an informant worked before being murdered. Nina manages to get a job at the agency, but at first struggles to get along with her new boss, the other models and her FBI contact. After a few shoots, things start to warm up between Nina and the others, and she eventually gets invited to a special "party" where an illegal exchange may take place.
Joe and Ella Mae Hamilton, having just moved into a new neighborhood, are confronted by an angry, jeering mob of whites outside their house. Joe thinks back on his life. According to press materials, the film's story was based on an idea "expressed by [United Steelworkers of America Union, distributor of the film] President David J. McDonald in a speech on civil rights given by him" in Los Angeles in September 1956.
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.