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In late 1989, angered by comments made by Liv Ullmann about Hong Kong's treatment of Vietnamese refugees, Rubie composes a letter to the actress. Passages from the letter are revealed throughout the movie as Rubie, her friends, and family come to terms with the impending handover to China, and decide whether to remain in Hong Kong or emigrate abroad.

Mici is the middle of seven sisters who all believe if a younger sister marries first, the older sisters are all doomed to be old maids. The older sisters conspire to have the younger, pretty Mici sent away to a convent school. Mici manages to slip away and attend a fancy party, where she meets Count Horkoy. They fall in love and to the delight of Mici's sisters, the Count also finds suitable husbands for all of them.

Major Dalberg was in the midst of a conversation with Courtney, detailing his meeting with Princess Dehra of Valaria, to whom he had introduced himself as Mr. Smith, also telling of the exploits of his ancestor, Hugo Dalberg, who, in 1777, left Valaria, against the King's will, to join Lafayette's forces in America, when suddenly he was called to the phone. Much to his surprise, it was the charming widow of his old friend. General Spencer, who pressed him to call before he left on his diplomatic mission to Valaria. Unable to refuse, he complied with her request, but was shocked at her peculiar behavior, which was especially untimely, as her husband's body was lying in state in the next room. Two weeks later, on his arrival at the court of Valaria, the King remarked upon the striking resemblance of the young major to the celebrated Hugo Dalberg, whose portrait hung in the throne room. On learning that the major was in fact a direct descendant of the celebrated soldier, he greeted him with enthusiasm. A few moments afterward, the Princess was announced, and was somewhat puzzled at her father's very cordial reception of the major, whom she only knew as "Mr. Smith of Washington," according to the card he had given her at the time of their first meeting some time before. Dalberg's charming manner, however, soon bridged this gap and their romance quickly blossomed, while his democratic ways so chinned the King that a grand-dukeship was conferred upon him, an act encouraged by the Princess. News of this event, coupling his name with that of Princess Dehra, reached Mrs. Spencer, and she immediately repaired to Paris. There, quite by accident, she met Archduke of Lotzen, heir presumptive to the throne, of Valaria. Recognizing Major Dalberg's portrait in a locket dropped by Mrs. Spencer, the Archduke followed up the acquaintance and finally secured her co-operation in a plan to undermine Dalberg's influence at the Court of Valaria. A bogus marriage certificate was secured, and, armed with this, it was arranged that she should go to Valaria and pose as Dalberg's wife. This plan was carried out, resulting in consternation at the court of Valaria. In spite of every effort to trip Mrs. Spencer into an admission that would clear his friend, Courtney failed, and so things remained until the night of the masked ball, when the Archduke of Lotzen picked a quarrel with Dalberg and an immediate duel was arranged for, which was interrupted by Princess Dehra's arrival on the scene. A few moments later, King Frederick and Courtney came upon the Archduke and Mrs. Spencer in a summer house. The few words they overheard confirmed their suspicions of the pair, and when Mrs. Spencer supplemented this with an emphatic denial of all claims upon Dalberg, the entire matter was cleared up to the satisfaction of all concerned with the exception of the scheming couple whose machinations had all but ruined a beautiful romance.

Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.

Mary Fitz Allen has three suitors, Arthur Barton, a young soldier, Robert Jardon, a barrister, and Lord Lester, already past middle age, but devoted to her. Her heart, however, is wholly Barton's, and while, being very gracious with Lord Lester, has an ill-concealed dislike for Jardon. Her mother is purse-proud and favors the suit of Lord Lester. Jardon sees Mary and Barton talking together in the garden, and from her words, gathers something of what has passed between them. Later, in the village inn, he makes a remark against Mary's character that Barton overhears and the young soldier knocks him down. Barton returns to the barracks, but is told that in falling Jardon had been struck on the head and is now dead. Advised by his companions to leave the country at once, Barton sends a note to Mary, assuring her that "he will never desert her," but will send for her as soon as he is safe in another land. Receiving the letter, Mary falls in a swoon. Mrs. Fitz Allen tells Lord Lester that she is taking Mary to the continent for a visit, and that the girl will probably be more willing to do her bidding and marry Lester on their return. Then she takes Mary to the home of an old family servant of the Fitz Allen's, and there Mary's child is born. The mother makes the old woman swear to keep from Mary the fact that her child is alive, and, later, when they return to their home, Mary has the double grief of believing her child dead, and her lover unfaithful to her, for Mrs. Fitz Allen takes possession of the three letters that Barton has written to her during her absence. It is now that Mary consents to marry Lord Lester. Meantime Barton has shipped aboard a vessel bound for America, but in a quarrel with one of the seamen, has been thrown overboard and drowned. Fifteen years later, Mary, now Lady Lester, is living happily with her husband, whom she has learned to truly love. Jardon is living in bachelor quarters, and Babette, a young French woman, who is infatuated with him, is an inmate of his house. All these years, Mrs. Fitz Allen has been paying for the care given the child by the old servant. Jardon, calling on Lord Lester, picks up and carries away with him a letter addressed to Mary's mother, written by the child's guardian, requesting more money with which to purchase clothes for her. Reading this at his home, Jardon immediately realizes the truth, and determines to compel Mary to listen to his protestations of love by threatening to expose her past life. Meantime, Jardon has turned the French woman out of his house, and she, suspecting that Lady Lester is her rival, obtains a position as maid in her house, in order to spy upon her. On the night that Jardon makes it thoroughly plain to Lady Lester that he knows her secret, he is visited, at midnight, by Lady Lester herself. He pleads with her, and finally threatens her, but she leaves him after declaring that she will tell her husband everything of her own accord. As she leaves the house, Babette enters, and goes to Jardon's bedroom. He orders her out, and in the quarrel which follows, she draws a revolver and shoots him dead. When the crime is discovered, Lady Lester's handkerchief is found in Jardon's hand, and she is suspected of being the murderess. Overhearing the detective talking with Lord Lester, she writes a note of farewell to her husband and goes away to the farm where her child is living. Almost at the moment that her note is handed to Lester, a telephone message to the effect that Babette has confessed to being the murderer, is received. Lord Lester, learning of his wife's whereabouts, sends his housekeeper after her with a message that he wants, not only his wife, but her child, to come to him.

singer and clarinetist Gerry Humphrys moved from Britain to Australia in 1957 and quickly became a popular and influential musicians. Humphrys led a trad-jazz combo, the Red Onion Jazz Band, and later The Loved Ones r&b group

Jacks Or Better is a Dark Comedy about a man who kills his wife in the kitchen so he can play poker in the living room.

An underworld criminal name JK is involved in terrorism as well as criminal activities, he also intervene in government affairs and is a crook in the book. When an honest police inspector Srivastav attempts to expose JK he is framed and evidences are tampered with so he is unable to prove his innocence, an as a result he commit suicide by hanging himself leaving his wife and son behind. Years later his son grows up an become a police inspector like his dad; inspector Vijay Kumar Srivastav; but is very much different from his dad by turning a blind eye to criminal activities, never serious with his job and accept huge sums of money to let off petty crooks. The talk of the town is a man in black clothing who calls himself "Shahenshah"; he operates as a Judge in the night, giving a verdict against his victims and killing them in a Executioner style. It looks like this man will get his hands on JK before the police does and might as well ruin the image of corrupt police inspector like Vijay Kumar Srivastav.

A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life and introduces him to a life of sin and corruption.

A documentary taking critical aim at Hollywood's abiding fascination with and fantasies about all things eastern. Juxtaposing film clips from the 20s through the 80s, HOLLYWOOD HAREMS explores the organization of gender, race, and sexuality in Hollywood's portrayal of the exotic east an indiscriminate fusion of things Arab, Persian, Chinese and Indian. In abridging cultural plurality and difference, these technicolor fantasies have worked both to shape and reinforce often derogative assumptions about peoples of the east while at the same time reinscribing the moral, spiritual, and cultural supremacy of the Anglo-European west. Official Selection at the Arab and Iranian Film Festival.