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Hollywood star Howard Spence has seen better days. Today, he lives off his former fame. After another night of heavy drinking, he flees the set of the Western he is currently filming and rides off into the sunset like one of the heroes he has played throughout his life. His first refuge is with his mother in Elko, Nevada, whom he hasn't seen in ages. But he doesn't stay there long when she tells him that he may have a son he never knew about. This seems like a ray of hope to Howard. Maybe his life wasn't completely meaningless after all, maybe there is a place where he belongs somewhere. So he sets out to find this son and discovers a whole life he has missed out on in a small town in Montana. He finds love he thought he had lost in the waitress Doreen, and even a daughter no one knew about. If only it weren't for that persistent insurance agent who is determined to get Howard back on the set of his Western.

It is 1944 and Martha Dacre is a typical suburban housewife trying to keep her family together during wartime. Her strength is tested most when news comes that the ship which carried her sons-in-law has sunk. She must keep the spirits of her anxious daughters up as they wait for any news.

In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.

After Bob Lansing is peripherally involved in a nightclub scrape (at which he meets Montana rancher Marge Holt), Bob's father sends him west with his chauffeur, Ben. After having been stripped of their clothes and robbed of their automobile, they are mistaken for rustlers and again meet up with Marge, who recognizes Bob but wishes to make his life difficult for him, at least for a while, as retribution for the nightclub incident. Nevertheless, Bob, deciding to help Marge end the rustling of her cattle, infiltrates the gang, brings the rustlers to justice, and hears Marge ask him to remain.

Aggravated by the meddling of Lucille Weymouth, her disapproving Park Avenue mother-in-law, Broadway actress Lola Allen quarrels with her weakling husband John. After they reunite, the couple visits a nightclub, where a brawl breaks out and John is killed by "Checkers" Fraley, Lola's former underworld lover. During an acrimonious custody trial, Mrs. Weymouth testifies that John was about to separate from Lola before he was murdered, and this revelation convinces the judge to award Mrs. Weymouth complete custody of Lola's baby boy Tommy. Despondent, Lola, who is unable even to visit Tommy, finds work in a children's day nursery, which is run by kind Mrs. Warren. When Mrs. Weymouth dies five years later, a physician sends Tommy to Mrs. Warren's nursery under a false name. Unaware of his parentage, Tommy forms a close friendship with little Pat Collins, whose father Hugh, a widowed radio announcer, loves Lola but is unable to convince her to marry him. One day, Fraley, who has just escaped from prison, shows up at the nursery and, using threats of blackmail, forces Lola to hide him in the nursery attic. While playing, Tommy and Pat climb up to the attic, and Fraley takes them hostage and makes them stand over a trapdoor to prevent the police from shooting their way into the attic. Eventually, the children escape onto the sloping rooftop, where they are pursued by the gangster. During the chase, Fraley is shot and killed by the police. Tommy's identity is revealed to Lola, and Pat blesses Lola and Hugh's union.

A Member of Parliament, who had been reportedly killed in action during World War II, unexpectedly returns to his family, only to find that his wife has been persuaded to take his seat in the House of Commons.

Harriet, now an adult, narrates the story of her coming of age, growing up as a British national and as a daughter of a jute press manager in the Bengal region of India, they living in the big house on the banks of one of the holy rivers. At the time, she is the eldest of six siblings - five girls and one boy - with another one on the way and with her being significantly older than the rest of her siblings. As such, she spends much time with an honorary member of their family, a late teen - not quite an adult - named Valerie, also a British national and the daughter of the jute press owner. Another friend, who recently arrived home from her western schooling, is Melanie, the biracial daughter of British national Mr. John and his deceased Hindu wife. Both Mr. John and Melanie realize her difficult position, straddling both the Hindi and western cultures. Their small world is shaken up with the arrival of Captain John, Mr. John's cousin and an American ex-military man who has one prosthetic leg, the result of his time in the war. He is a somewhat sullen man who is running away from anything that reminds him of his time before his physical disability. Regardless, he has an effect on all three of Harriet, Valerie and Melanie in different ways, which nonetheless tests their friendships. In combination with other things that happen, this may provide Harriet with a bigger view of life in her coming of age.

Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced with an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?

Super-rich girl Jennifer has no proper value over money and nor any concern over the feelings of other people. Her father thus hires ex-cop Kit to protect Jennifer while she is made go broke and survive on her own in an old community crushed with shabby housing. Pretending to be the wealthy girl's Filipino driver Mario, Kit assists Jennifer to struggle in the slums to make a living.

Joe Sante wants to be the big man, and nobody is going stand in his way. In a world full of smoke, molls, shakedowns, muscle, and murder, Joe knows what he wants and how to get it. But can he disregard his poor old immigrant parents who are ashamed of his criminal life? Will he drag his sweet girlfriend into the life of the underworld? And most importantly, can Joe trust his mobster friends?

A love story in Israel in the 80's about an Arabic woman and a newcomer from Russia.

From an early age Jimmy Norwich suffered from "Magnamatitis", a rare and incurable syndrome that has transformed his body into a powerful human magnet. One day he sees his fortunes change when he meets the charming Lily. For both of them it is love at first sight and from that day on they are literally inseparable.

Academy Award-winner* Mary Astor (The Maltese Falcon) stars as a widow whose grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor in this charming, offbeat comedy directed by the legendary Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday, Naked City, Rififi). When Susan (Susan Peters) and Jeff Evans (Elliot Reid), the adult children of widowed author and lecturer Jo Evans (Astor), discover that their mother has fallen in love with staid professor Michael Kingsley (Herbert Marshall), they intervene to try to end what they believe is an inappropriate relationship.

A platoon of French soldiers and Laotian allies fight their way through enemy territory and dense jungle to meet up with their compatriots as the Indochina War grinds to a halt.

Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in Edo, where he has not set foot in three years.

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Every night's a party night in Hollywood. But to get into the party you have to get past the doorman. When it comes to the hottest nightclubs in L.A., the bouncers aren't just bouncers - they're called Knights. Dick Gueron is the best of the best - he runs the "Knight Club". When one of his best bouncers, Gary Grieco is offered a job at a rival club dick sees this as a personal betrayal and seeks revenge...

During the siege of Leningrad, Marat goes to the partly wrecked house of his parents, and finds Lika, a sixteen-year-old girl, who has sought shelter. They become friendly and fall in love, but are later joined by Leonidik, who is starving. They care for him, and shortly afterwards, Marak joins the Army, promising Lika that he will return. At the end of the war, Lika hasn't heard from Marat, except for a telegram on her birthday, and she now believes that he's dead, but he turns up suddenly. The situation becomes somewhat impossible, and Marat leaves. Leonidik and Lika marry, and thirteen years later, Marat again calls on them. Following a dramatic confrontation, Leonidik realizes that Loka's real love is Marat, and he gallantly walks out of their lives.

A distraught mother (Valerie Bertinelli) and a tabloid reporter (Rachel Ticotin) search for the woman's son, who was kidnapped by a black-market baby ring.

An ex-con with ulterior motives convinces the struggling inheritor of a sawmill to use convicts as affordable lumberjacks.