From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
When Nuri accepts her best friend, Yuni, as Anton's new wife, Nuri makes a magical pact to win Anton's love again, and Yuni does things that go beyond the boundaries of their friendship.
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, seductive former fiancee visits.
A married couple decides to rent out the extra room in their house to an attractive young woman who moves in armed with a set of filthy schemes.
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.