Based on Rebecca Miller's recently published book of short stories, "Personal Velocity" tells three tales of women as they escape their current situations. Segmented into three parts, Greta (Parker Posey), Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Paula (Fairuza Balk) have one thing in common, each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Ambitious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) aspires to being a doctor with his own practice. Unable to fund his studies himself, he woos the warm, supportive nurse Kristina (Olivia de Havilland), who has the financial resources he needs for him to realize his dreams. The couple marries and moves to a small town, where Lucas works as an assistant to Dr. Runkleman (Charles Bickford). However, after a series of betrayals, Lucas is forced to face life without the help of others.

Mad inventor Capt. Robur (Vincent Price) kidnaps a team on a government expedition to investigate a mysterious crater in Pennsylvania. The team is taken aboard Robur's spectacularly engineered air ship, the Albatross, which Robur plans to fly around the world to various military installations in his desperate desire to eradicate weapons of mass destruction, thereby bringing about world peace. The kidnapped team's leader, John Strock (Charles Bronson), responds by planning an uprising.

English engineer Jim Keogh (Michael Caine) and black anti-apartheid activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) go on the run together in 1970s South Africa after falling foul of the police. Aided by Shack's lawyer, Rina (Prunella Gee), the two attempt to make their way to Cape Town where Shack hopes to return a diamond stash to the African National Congress and in turn seek help from the Congress' leader, Wilby (Joe De Graft). Unbeknownst to the pair, they are being followed.

Advertising executive Gary Fenn (Roger Moore) is drawn into a complicated world of espionage after he hires the exotic Marla Kugash (Claudie Lange) to model for a campaign. Marla is in grave danger after she overhears details of an assassination plot, and she and Gary are forced to go on the run. Racing through swinging 1960s London and across the British countryside, the pair must try to avoid the killers on their trail and prevent the death of a notable African politician.

A cat burglar (Jennifer Beals) convinces the policeman (Powers Boothe) she loves to join her in a series of crimes.

Government officials track a computer whiz (Matt Lanter) after the teen plays a terrorist-attack simulator game.

Banker John Gray (Brian Bosworth) is hit by a car, and he awakens days later having lost his memory. He goes through the motions of his plush Arizona lifestyle but keeps having momentary visions of a violent past and a sinister figure he identifies as Thomas Payne (Brad Dourif). After his wife, whom he barely knows, is killed, Gray travels to Los Angeles and explores the criminal underworld, hoping to discover the truth about his identity - and to confront Payne.

Based on Rebecca Miller's recently published book of short stories, "Personal Velocity" tells three tales of women as they escape their current situations. Segmented into three parts, Greta (Parker Posey), Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Paula (Fairuza Balk) have one thing in common, each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Jerry (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), a new student at an elite Roman Catholic prep school, must face the freshman hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon (John Glover) pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie (Wally Ward), gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.

Lady Althea (Joyce Taylor) travels to the castle of Duke Eduardo (Mark Damon), where the two of them are to be married. But the handsome Eduardo has a horrible secret: A sorcerer's curse transforms him into a terrifying, wolf-like beast every night. When Eduardo's scheming cousin, Prince Bruno (Michael Pate), learns of this secret, he tries to seize the throne by turning the townspeople against the beast. Only the love of Lady Althea can save the duke and break the power of the curse.

Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn), a middle-aged businessman, grows weary of his middle-class life and his family. The stress gets so bad that Walker flees his responsibilities and takes to the open sea in his boat. A storm destroys the vessel, and he winds up stranded on a Caribbean island. Once there, he mixes with the locals and falls in love with a younger woman, Elizabeth Moore (Leila Barry). But Walker starts to feel the strain of his new life and wonders if he made the right decision.

Music teacher Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) works with children at a state mental hospital. Although often at odds with the autocratic director, Dr. Matthew Clark (Burt Lancaster), about teaching methods, she quickly bonds with her students, particularly 12-year-old Reuben (Bruce Ritchey), whose parents, Sophie (Gena Rowlands) and Ted (Steven Hill), left the boy at the institution following their divorce. As the students practice for a Thanksgiving pageant, Jean questions the parents' decision.

Maj. Cargill (Richard Basehart) is accused of aiding his captors while held in a North Korean prison during the war and brought up on charges of treason. Col. William Edwards (Richard Widmark) has been assigned to defend the major in his court martial, but it's not an easy case for the colonel. More than a dozen witnesses are prepared to testify against Cargill, and the major himself admits his guilt. But Edwards begins to suspect that the major is innocent and covering up for someone else.

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart (Ving Rhames) meets 12-year-old Niki (Jessika Quynn Reynolds) and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda (Alfre Woodard). Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.

As an elaborate joke, the wealthy Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) hires actor William McFly (Cliff Robertson) to play his personal assistant and invites three of his old flames, including Texan socialite Mrs. Lone-Star Crockett Sheridan (Susan Hayward), to visit him. Claiming to be on his deathbed, Fox has motives that remain unclear, and things take a surprising turn when one of the guests is found dead. As Inspector Rizzi (Adolfo Celi) investigates the crime, the plot of the mystery thickens.

Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) rent rooms in Mother Peep's shoe in Toyland. When Mother Peep can't make her mortgage payment to evil Silas Barnaby (Harry Kleinbach), he attempts to blackmail her into having Little Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry) marry him, despite the girl's attachment to Tom-Tom Piper. Stannie and Ollie offer their assistance to Mother Peep, Bo-Peep and Piper, and later enlist an army of wooden soldiers to battle Barnaby's cave-dwelling bogeymen.

Tyrannical TV star Jerry Biffle (Phil Silvers) wants to boost the sagging ratings for his comedy series. What better way to do that than by casting a couple of hot young bodies - Sally Peters (Judy Lynn) and Cliff Lane (Danny Scholl) - as eye candy for the viewing public? The plan gets complicated when Jerry falls for Sally, who really loves Cliff. Adapted from the hit Broadway musical, "Top Banana" is notable for filming the actual stage production on the original sets.

Jerry (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), a new student at an elite Roman Catholic prep school, must face the freshman hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon (John Glover) pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie (Wally Ward), gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.

Lady Althea (Joyce Taylor) travels to the castle of Duke Eduardo (Mark Damon), where the two of them are to be married. But the handsome Eduardo has a horrible secret: A sorcerer's curse transforms him into a terrifying, wolf-like beast every night. When Eduardo's scheming cousin, Prince Bruno (Michael Pate), learns of this secret, he tries to seize the throne by turning the townspeople against the beast. Only the love of Lady Althea can save the duke and break the power of the curse.

Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn), a middle-aged businessman, grows weary of his middle-class life and his family. The stress gets so bad that Walker flees his responsibilities and takes to the open sea in his boat. A storm destroys the vessel, and he winds up stranded on a Caribbean island. Once there, he mixes with the locals and falls in love with a younger woman, Elizabeth Moore (Leila Barry). But Walker starts to feel the strain of his new life and wonders if he made the right decision.

Music teacher Jean Hansen (Judy Garland) works with children at a state mental hospital. Although often at odds with the autocratic director, Dr. Matthew Clark (Burt Lancaster), about teaching methods, she quickly bonds with her students, particularly 12-year-old Reuben (Bruce Ritchey), whose parents, Sophie (Gena Rowlands) and Ted (Steven Hill), left the boy at the institution following their divorce. As the students practice for a Thanksgiving pageant, Jean questions the parents' decision.

Maj. Cargill (Richard Basehart) is accused of aiding his captors while held in a North Korean prison during the war and brought up on charges of treason. Col. William Edwards (Richard Widmark) has been assigned to defend the major in his court martial, but it's not an easy case for the colonel. More than a dozen witnesses are prepared to testify against Cargill, and the major himself admits his guilt. But Edwards begins to suspect that the major is innocent and covering up for someone else.

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart (Ving Rhames) meets 12-year-old Niki (Jessika Quynn Reynolds) and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda (Alfre Woodard). Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and welcomes the two women into his life. But when Wanda becomes romantically involved with her drug dealer, Silas, it may endanger Niki and threaten to destroy the makeshift family.

A car salesman is framed for the murder of a police officer when he refuses to sell stolen vehicles for gangsters.

Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy (Peggy Cummins) and Gino (Herbert Lom), who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

An expert chess player, Stanislaus Pilgrin (Maximilian Schell) is also an unrepentant cad and schemer. Looking for a way to inherit a fortune, Stanislaus marries Dr. Michele Wolf (Ingrid Thulin), a rich Jewish widow. Later, however, he becomes involved with his wife's stepdaughter, Fabienne (Samantha Eggar), resulting in a complicated web of seduction and deception that ends in murder. Will the duplicitous Stanislaus succeed in getting Michele's money?

An asylum escapee (John Ireland) meets a waitress (Mercedes McCambridge) and hides on a turkey farm; supposedly he killed someone.

Ordered to help secure a heavily defended Japanese island during World War II, Captain MacDonald (Cornel Wilde) and his Marines land on "Beach Red" and proceed inland against stubborn, murderous resistance. MacDonald is supported by his tough-as-nails gunnery sergeant (Rip Torn), soulful Private Egan (Burr DeBenning) and a group of stalwart Marines who try to block out the horrors that surround them by remembering the women they love back home.

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift - a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America - an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) and Dorita Evita Perez (Marisa Tomei) are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela (Anjelica Huston), whom he hasn't seen in decades.

A very smart monkey who is studying to be a magician overestimates himself and comes to learn humility.

Reporter Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans) works at a successful newspaper, the Star, but does not respect the publication. After sharing his thoughts about a moral and just newspaper at a local pub, he inspires his colleagues to join him in starting a new paper, the Globe, which is an instant hit. However, the publisher of the Star, Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), will not give up her readership easily and orders sabotage on the Globe - even as Phineas begins to fall for her.

Recruited for a kidnapping, a deported gangster (George Raft) ends up busting a Communist spy ring for a Mountie (Edward G. Robinson).

A car salesman is framed for the murder of a police officer when he refuses to sell stolen vehicles for gangsters.

Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-convict who takes a job as a construction-supply trucker. He soon befriends Lucy (Peggy Cummins) and Gino (Herbert Lom), who help him adjust to the fast-paced, competitive nature of the dangerous job. Red (Patrick McGoohan), the company foreman, encourages the truckers to drive as fast as possible in order to complete more trips, while he pockets the extra money. Yately finds himself torn between beating Red's driving record and exposing his crooked schemes.

An expert chess player, Stanislaus Pilgrin (Maximilian Schell) is also an unrepentant cad and schemer. Looking for a way to inherit a fortune, Stanislaus marries Dr. Michele Wolf (Ingrid Thulin), a rich Jewish widow. Later, however, he becomes involved with his wife's stepdaughter, Fabienne (Samantha Eggar), resulting in a complicated web of seduction and deception that ends in murder. Will the duplicitous Stanislaus succeed in getting Michele's money?

An asylum escapee (John Ireland) meets a waitress (Mercedes McCambridge) and hides on a turkey farm; supposedly he killed someone.

Ordered to help secure a heavily defended Japanese island during World War II, Captain MacDonald (Cornel Wilde) and his Marines land on "Beach Red" and proceed inland against stubborn, murderous resistance. MacDonald is supported by his tough-as-nails gunnery sergeant (Rip Torn), soulful Private Egan (Burr DeBenning) and a group of stalwart Marines who try to block out the horrors that surround them by remembering the women they love back home.

In the midst of the Mariel boat lift - a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America - an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) and Dorita Evita Perez (Marisa Tomei) are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela (Anjelica Huston), whom he hasn't seen in decades.

The career of horror icon Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) ends in scandal when his fiancée dies under mysterious circumstances. Freed from the mental hospital where he had been committed, the recovered Toombes and screenwriter Herbert Flay (Peter Cushing) intend to revive his most popular character, Dr. Death, for a television series. But the dead bodies start piling up - all of them killed in ways that mimic the victims in Toombes' films - and to clear his name he must find the real killer.

A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.

After a funeral, several college friends reunite in a cemetery and reminisce about the former life of the deceased. The celebration starts to go too far after they get drunk and begin dancing on graves, and as a result, each of them becomes haunted by malevolent spirits.

Magician Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) is still deeply depressed two years after the death of his beloved wife, Lenore (Hazel Court). One day, he's visited by Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre), who has been transformed into a raven after losing a duel to Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff), an evil wizard. After Craven transforms Bedlo back into a human, Bedlo claims to have seen Lenore's ghost at Scarabus' castle, prompting the two to head to Scarabus' castle to seek Craven's lost love.

Vincent Price stars in three horror stories. In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Dr. Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) reanimates his long-dead fiancée. In Rappacini's Daughter, psychotically over-protective father Giacomo Rappacini (Price) injects his daughter, Beatrice (Joyce Taylor), full of poisons that kill anyone she comes into physical contact with. Finally, in The House of the Seven Gables, Gerald Pyncheon (Price) moves into his cursed family mansion with his new wife.

In the wake of a devastating earthquake, a former U.S. marshal (Jimmy Smits) fights thugs terrorizing an isolated Los Angeles community.

During the 1950s, Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) is a British journalist stationed in Vietnam to cover the growing unrest. While in the country, he begins an extramarital affair with a beautiful young Vietnamese woman, Phuong (Giorgia Moll). However, their romance is interrupted by Alden Pyle (Audie Murphy), an idealistic American economist in Vietnam on an aid mission. When Pyle proposes to Phuong, Fowler accuses him of secretly dealing weapons.

When drifter Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) arrives in a southern town, he catches the eye of the married Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani) and the oversexed alcoholic, Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward). Both vie for his attention, with Lady Torrance emerging victorious, offering Xavier employment in her general store, while her cancer-stricken husband is bedridden upstairs. After impregnating Lady Torrance and butting heads with friends of her husband, Xavier must make a crucial decision.

The career of horror icon Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) ends in scandal when his fiancée dies under mysterious circumstances. Freed from the mental hospital where he had been committed, the recovered Toombes and screenwriter Herbert Flay (Peter Cushing) intend to revive his most popular character, Dr. Death, for a television series. But the dead bodies start piling up - all of them killed in ways that mimic the victims in Toombes' films - and to clear his name he must find the real killer.

A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.

After a funeral, several college friends reunite in a cemetery and reminisce about the former life of the deceased. The celebration starts to go too far after they get drunk and begin dancing on graves, and as a result, each of them becomes haunted by malevolent spirits.

Magician Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) is still deeply depressed two years after the death of his beloved wife, Lenore (Hazel Court). One day, he's visited by Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre), who has been transformed into a raven after losing a duel to Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff), an evil wizard. After Craven transforms Bedlo back into a human, Bedlo claims to have seen Lenore's ghost at Scarabus' castle, prompting the two to head to Scarabus' castle to seek Craven's lost love.

Vincent Price stars in three horror stories. In Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Dr. Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) reanimates his long-dead fiancée. In Rappacini's Daughter, psychotically over-protective father Giacomo Rappacini (Price) injects his daughter, Beatrice (Joyce Taylor), full of poisons that kill anyone she comes into physical contact with. Finally, in The House of the Seven Gables, Gerald Pyncheon (Price) moves into his cursed family mansion with his new wife.

In the wake of a devastating earthquake, a former U.S. marshal (Jimmy Smits) fights thugs terrorizing an isolated Los Angeles community.

Ron Catlan (Charlton Heston) isn't the same football player he used to be. When the aging Saints quarterback injures his knee, the situation quickly gets worse. On the field, he contends with his injury and a talented rookie (Richard Elkins) who further threatens his career. Off the field, he alienates his wife (Jessica Walter) as he turns to drink and pursues an affair with a young woman (Diana Muldaur). The former champion struggles to hold on before he plummets to the bottom.

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality.

Eight young women from the Vassar College class of 1933 rush out into the world to find exciting lives, but discover nothing is quite as they dreamed. Rather than blazing trails in art, science and literature, the friends are each variously burdened with disappointing relationships, children, aging parents and unemployment. Kay Strong (Joanna Pettet), the center of the group, gradually loses faith in the promise of their lives and, as war approaches, becomes unhinged.

Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.

After many love affairs, a promiscuous young social leader tries settling down to a normal married life.

In the wake of a brutal assault suffered at the hands of a red-bearded stranger, Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is grappling with her own sanity. To heal her scarred psyche, her therapist (Ronny Cox) urges hypnotherapy, which causes her to face gruesome truths from her past. Not long after getting entangled in a sordid love triangle with twin brothers, Alex (Steve Railsback) and Cole (also Railsback), Angie is lured into a twisted trap that threatens to unravel what little sanity she has left.

Disgraced former police officer David Burke (Ed Begley) is looking for a way to make some quick money. When he decides to rob a bank, he calls on mean ex-con Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) and black entertainer Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to help him pull off the heist. Johnny is reluctant to agree but is forced to reconsider because of his significant gambling debts, while racist Earl balks because of Johnny's involvement. Ultimately, though, they must work together to get the job done.

Ron Catlan (Charlton Heston) isn't the same football player he used to be. When the aging Saints quarterback injures his knee, the situation quickly gets worse. On the field, he contends with his injury and a talented rookie (Richard Elkins) who further threatens his career. Off the field, he alienates his wife (Jessica Walter) as he turns to drink and pursues an affair with a young woman (Diana Muldaur). The former champion struggles to hold on before he plummets to the bottom.

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality.

Eight young women from the Vassar College class of 1933 rush out into the world to find exciting lives, but discover nothing is quite as they dreamed. Rather than blazing trails in art, science and literature, the friends are each variously burdened with disappointing relationships, children, aging parents and unemployment. Kay Strong (Joanna Pettet), the center of the group, gradually loses faith in the promise of their lives and, as war approaches, becomes unhinged.

Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.

After many love affairs, a promiscuous young social leader tries settling down to a normal married life.

In the wake of a brutal assault suffered at the hands of a red-bearded stranger, Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is grappling with her own sanity. To heal her scarred psyche, her therapist (Ronny Cox) urges hypnotherapy, which causes her to face gruesome truths from her past. Not long after getting entangled in a sordid love triangle with twin brothers, Alex (Steve Railsback) and Cole (also Railsback), Angie is lured into a twisted trap that threatens to unravel what little sanity she has left.

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief (Brian Keith) and a vacationing television writer (Carl Reiner), while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta) leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland), Handleman (Forest Whitaker) and Van Dorn (Lea Thompson), he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.

Teenager Joan Abbott (Gale Storm) is a sensation after singing the jingle for Crunchy-Wunchy cereal, and she's primed for big success. But Abbott has her heart set on attending college. Much to the horror of her uncle/agent, J.P. (Herbert Heyes), she breaks her contract and disappears, changing her name to Susie Smith and enrolling in a university in the Midwest. Meanwhile, the ad agency behind the jingle sponsors a search, and students all over the country start snooping around for her.

When an elusive group of thieves commits a string of robberies across Europe, the British prime minister enlists the expertise of bumbling sleuth Inspector Clouseau (Alan Arkin). To complicate matters, the crimes are suspected to be connected to a Scotland Yard dirty cop, so Clouseau must save the day all on his own. However, he finds himself in a tricky situation when he is kidnapped and the robbers use a mask of his own face to conceal their identity while they continue to rob banks.

Matchmaker Etienne Pimm (Charles Boyer) makes his living by pairing European aristocrats with rich Americans, and his latest match is between Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau (Ricardo Montalban) and affluent heiress Millie Mehaffey (Hope Lange). Unfortunately, Ducluzeau, handsome and titled as he is, needs some help in acting aristocratic. Luckily, John Davis (Glenn Ford) is on hand to teach the Duke how to behave like the high-society man he is, at least until Davis and Mehaffey meet.

In 1902, Soll (Robert Duvall), a Texas plantation owner who depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace (Lukas Haas), a young boy who works the fields to raise money for his deceased father's headstone. Soll, however, is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. Meanwhile, Soll's relationships with the African-American cons working the farm are complex and informed by both racism and compassion.

An East German athlete (Elke Sommer) pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall and falls for a wily American (Bob Crane).

The same actress (Silvana Mangano) plays five different women in five sketches by five Italian filmmakers.

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief (Brian Keith) and a vacationing television writer (Carl Reiner), while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta) leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland), Handleman (Forest Whitaker) and Van Dorn (Lea Thompson), he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.

Teenager Joan Abbott (Gale Storm) is a sensation after singing the jingle for Crunchy-Wunchy cereal, and she's primed for big success. But Abbott has her heart set on attending college. Much to the horror of her uncle/agent, J.P. (Herbert Heyes), she breaks her contract and disappears, changing her name to Susie Smith and enrolling in a university in the Midwest. Meanwhile, the ad agency behind the jingle sponsors a search, and students all over the country start snooping around for her.

When an elusive group of thieves commits a string of robberies across Europe, the British prime minister enlists the expertise of bumbling sleuth Inspector Clouseau (Alan Arkin). To complicate matters, the crimes are suspected to be connected to a Scotland Yard dirty cop, so Clouseau must save the day all on his own. However, he finds himself in a tricky situation when he is kidnapped and the robbers use a mask of his own face to conceal their identity while they continue to rob banks.

Matchmaker Etienne Pimm (Charles Boyer) makes his living by pairing European aristocrats with rich Americans, and his latest match is between Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau (Ricardo Montalban) and affluent heiress Millie Mehaffey (Hope Lange). Unfortunately, Ducluzeau, handsome and titled as he is, needs some help in acting aristocratic. Luckily, John Davis (Glenn Ford) is on hand to teach the Duke how to behave like the high-society man he is, at least until Davis and Mehaffey meet.

In 1902, Soll (Robert Duvall), a Texas plantation owner who depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace (Lukas Haas), a young boy who works the fields to raise money for his deceased father's headstone. Soll, however, is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. Meanwhile, Soll's relationships with the African-American cons working the farm are complex and informed by both racism and compassion.

Picked up for murder, a working girl (June Havoc) recalls the man (Cesar Romero) behind her downfall.

When a robbery in New Orleans ends in disaster, the mercurial burglar Dova (Matt Dillon) escapes with his cohorts to a seedy, nearby bar. Capturing all those inside, the criminals trade barbs with the establishment's feisty bartender Janet Boudreaux (Faye Dunaway). The pub becomes highly volatile, however, when the police encircle it; as it turns out, they were already there surveilling another of the bar's patrons, a suspected illicit arms trafficker named Guy Foucard (Viggo Mortensen).

A rebel leader educates a Dominican Republic woman (Salma Hayek) about the abuses of a corrupt dictator (Edward James Olmos).

A barroom floozy (Beverly Michaels) tempts her boss (Richard Egan) to leave his wife and run off to Mexico.

Irish Republican Army member Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) rigs a bomb to destroy a British army convoy, but the plan goes wrong when the trucks allow a school bus to pass. Now, Fallon wants out. He's through killing for the cause, but in order to secure safe passage to the U.S., he'll have to take one more job: eliminating rival terrorist Krasko (Stanley Beard). Unfortunately, a priest (Bob Hoskins) complicates matters by witnessing the hit, but Fallon believes he knows how to keep him silent.

A Los Angeles policeman (Lou Diamond Phillips) hunts a killer (Jeff Kober) brought back from the gas chamber by Satan.

Filmed in the small French city of Thiers, François Truffaut's episodic comedy-drama concerns one of the director's favorite subjects: childhood. A class clown stalls the teacher long enough to avoid answering a question, a toddler ends up on a high window ledge, a little girl announces to the neighborhood that her parents are punishing her, and the new boy in school hides his poor, abusive home life in these intertwining stories illustrating the joys and sorrows of growing up.

Sgt. Truman (Stanley Baker), a policeman who deals with juvenile delinquents, visits the Murphy household after a theft by the young twins, Mary and Patrick. There he meets their older sister, Cathie (Anne Heywood), and soon begins a romantic involvement with her. However, Cathie's brother, Johnnie (David McCallum), is the leader of an infamous local gang, and doesn't like to see his sister with a cop. Gradually, Truman starts to see a link between Johnnie and a string of local arsons.

A small-town doctor (John Beal) cannot stop taking the pills that turn him into a fanged killer.

Picked up for murder, a working girl (June Havoc) recalls the man (Cesar Romero) behind her downfall.

When a robbery in New Orleans ends in disaster, the mercurial burglar Dova (Matt Dillon) escapes with his cohorts to a seedy, nearby bar. Capturing all those inside, the criminals trade barbs with the establishment's feisty bartender Janet Boudreaux (Faye Dunaway). The pub becomes highly volatile, however, when the police encircle it; as it turns out, they were already there surveilling another of the bar's patrons, a suspected illicit arms trafficker named Guy Foucard (Viggo Mortensen).

A rebel leader educates a Dominican Republic woman (Salma Hayek) about the abuses of a corrupt dictator (Edward James Olmos).

A barroom floozy (Beverly Michaels) tempts her boss (Richard Egan) to leave his wife and run off to Mexico.

Irish Republican Army member Martin Fallon (Mickey Rourke) rigs a bomb to destroy a British army convoy, but the plan goes wrong when the trucks allow a school bus to pass. Now, Fallon wants out. He's through killing for the cause, but in order to secure safe passage to the U.S., he'll have to take one more job: eliminating rival terrorist Krasko (Stanley Beard). Unfortunately, a priest (Bob Hoskins) complicates matters by witnessing the hit, but Fallon believes he knows how to keep him silent.

A Los Angeles policeman (Lou Diamond Phillips) hunts a killer (Jeff Kober) brought back from the gas chamber by Satan.

A high-school bookworm (Barry Gordon) rivals a football star (Jon Voight) for a cheerleader (Lada Edmund Jr.), and finally has his day.

Disgusted with human evolution, a foul mouthed monster (Robert John Burke) kills anyone who crosses his path. When a news crew sent to investigate the monster disappears, a guileless young woman (Sarah Polley) is dispatched to follow up on the story. She befriends the monster and becomes his only hope in ending his life of misery.

Sicilian women plan to rid their village of a sexy American midwife (Angie Dickinson) by making her job obsolete.

Genial Puerto Rican widower Abraham Rodriguez (Alan Arkin), known as "Popi" to his preteen sons, grapples with poverty and hardship in their Spanish Harlem neighborhood. Desperate to provide his sons every opportunity to succeed, and noting the reverence with which Americans treat Cuban immigrants, Popi lights upon a wild scheme. He sets his boys afloat in a boat off the coast of Florida, confident that they will be "rescued" as Cuban refugees and adopted by wealthy patrons.

When teenager Watts Davies (Will Rothhaar) decides to take up go-kart racing, he finds a new pursuit and begins to reconnect with his father, Vic (Randy Quaid), whom he has been clashing with since the death of his mother. As Vic, a former racer himself, teaches Watts how to compete, the young driver begins to fall for Dahlia (Amanda De Martinis), an attractive and rebellious local girl. Though things are improving for Watts, he still must face formidable opponents on the racetrack.

Los Angeles police Detective Lloyd Hopkins (James Woods) gets in trouble with his superiors for his insubordinate ways. When Lloyd realizes that he's on the trail of a serial killer, he is told not to pursue the case, but he presses forward anyway, fiercely intent on catching the murderer. Eventually, his investigation leads to a feminist bookstore where he falls for Kathleen McCarthy (Lesley Ann Warren), a beautiful aspiring writer. Can Kathleen help Lloyd solve the case?

From her window, Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) sees a neighbor, Albert Richter (George Sanders), murder a young woman. When Cheryl goes to the police, they cannot find any evidence because Richter has hidden the body. Cheryl persists in her claims without evidence, leading concerned policeman Larry Mathews (Gary Merrill) to worry that she is becoming obsessed. After Richter becomes aware of Cheryl's accusations, he conspires to make it appear that she is insane.

Desiring control of the kingdom, an evil wizard, Pendragon (Torin Thatcher), devises a cunning machination to usurp the throne. By abducting Princess Elaine (Judi Meredith) and forcing her to marry him, Pendragon will coerce the king (Dayton Lummis) into abdicating his power. When Pendragon sends a giant to kidnap Elaine, a simple farmer, Jack (Kerwin Mathews), witnesses the abduction, and bravely slays the beast. Undeterred, Pendragon has more power and creatures at his disposal.

A high-school bookworm (Barry Gordon) rivals a football star (Jon Voight) for a cheerleader (Lada Edmund Jr.), and finally has his day.

Disgusted with human evolution, a foul mouthed monster (Robert John Burke) kills anyone who crosses his path. When a news crew sent to investigate the monster disappears, a guileless young woman (Sarah Polley) is dispatched to follow up on the story. She befriends the monster and becomes his only hope in ending his life of misery.

Sicilian women plan to rid their village of a sexy American midwife (Angie Dickinson) by making her job obsolete.

Genial Puerto Rican widower Abraham Rodriguez (Alan Arkin), known as "Popi" to his preteen sons, grapples with poverty and hardship in their Spanish Harlem neighborhood. Desperate to provide his sons every opportunity to succeed, and noting the reverence with which Americans treat Cuban immigrants, Popi lights upon a wild scheme. He sets his boys afloat in a boat off the coast of Florida, confident that they will be "rescued" as Cuban refugees and adopted by wealthy patrons.

When teenager Watts Davies (Will Rothhaar) decides to take up go-kart racing, he finds a new pursuit and begins to reconnect with his father, Vic (Randy Quaid), whom he has been clashing with since the death of his mother. As Vic, a former racer himself, teaches Watts how to compete, the young driver begins to fall for Dahlia (Amanda De Martinis), an attractive and rebellious local girl. Though things are improving for Watts, he still must face formidable opponents on the racetrack.

Los Angeles police Detective Lloyd Hopkins (James Woods) gets in trouble with his superiors for his insubordinate ways. When Lloyd realizes that he's on the trail of a serial killer, he is told not to pursue the case, but he presses forward anyway, fiercely intent on catching the murderer. Eventually, his investigation leads to a feminist bookstore where he falls for Kathleen McCarthy (Lesley Ann Warren), a beautiful aspiring writer. Can Kathleen help Lloyd solve the case?

In San Francisco in the 1970s, a serial killer calling himself The Scorekeeper sends taunting notes to the police and media after each of his kills. Although the case is long closed, obsessed detective Jon Lucca (Edward James Olmos) still suspects the wrong man was named as the killer. Learning he has only weeks to live, Lucca meets with Lloyd Ward (George Dzundza) - the man he has long been convinced is the murderer, but never had enough evidence to arrest - intending to force a confession.

Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a prosperous real estate tycoon who lives in Dublin with his wife, Jane (Kim Cattrall). Hoping to bring his profits and his career to new heights, Liam takes out a large bank loan with the prospect of building a new stadium. But, when his request for development is turned down by the city, his life stumbles into a downward spiral. More disturbing than his crippled assets is his mysterious double whom he keeps seeing around town.

An Italian king (Jack Palance) rivals a Gothic general (Guy Madison) in war and in love for a Gothic princess (Eleonora Rossi Drago).

During the Napoleonic Wars, retreating Spanish forces shove a powerful cannon off a cliff to prevent the French from stealing it. The British send Capt. Anthony Trumbull (Cary Grant) to help the Spanish recapture it. When he arrives in Spain, Trumbull finds the cannon secured by Spanish rebels. As Trumbull and the rebel leader Miguel (Frank Sinatra) struggle to transport the cumbersome cannon through the mountains, the British officer falls for beautiful Spaniard Juana (Sophia Loren).

Intent on enhancing mankind's ocular ability, the brilliant Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) invents a formula that allows him to see wavelengths of light outside the normal human spectrum. When his funding is suddenly threatened, Xavier tests the formula on himself despite the protests of his colleague Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van der Vlis). While the formula proves initially useful in a variety of minor tasks, Xavier soon finds himself able to see things that no man was meant to see.

Young South African cameraman Anton van Heerden (Sean Bean) and aging British journalist Charles Rutherford (John Hurt) team up to gather information about an apparent Namibian serial killer. In a country ruled by a minority white government, Nhadiep (Lesley Fong) seems only to murder other blacks. His proximity to the strange and horrifying crimes causes Anton to contemplate his role as a privileged white man in a continent where millions of blacks are oppressed.

Amoral Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) pursues young heiress Dorie Kingship (Joanne Woodward) in the hopes of getting his hands on the fortune amassed by her father (George Macready). But after Dorie succumbs to Bud's charms and becomes pregnant as a result, he fears she'll be cut off by the family and murders her in a fashion that makes it look as if the poor girl committed suicide. When Bud tries to cozy up with Dorie's grieving sister, Ellen (Virginia Leith), she begins to suspect his intentions.

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

In San Francisco in the 1970s, a serial killer calling himself The Scorekeeper sends taunting notes to the police and media after each of his kills. Although the case is long closed, obsessed detective Jon Lucca (Edward James Olmos) still suspects the wrong man was named as the killer. Learning he has only weeks to live, Lucca meets with Lloyd Ward (George Dzundza) - the man he has long been convinced is the murderer, but never had enough evidence to arrest - intending to force a confession.

Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a prosperous real estate tycoon who lives in Dublin with his wife, Jane (Kim Cattrall). Hoping to bring his profits and his career to new heights, Liam takes out a large bank loan with the prospect of building a new stadium. But, when his request for development is turned down by the city, his life stumbles into a downward spiral. More disturbing than his crippled assets is his mysterious double whom he keeps seeing around town.

An Italian king (Jack Palance) rivals a Gothic general (Guy Madison) in war and in love for a Gothic princess (Eleonora Rossi Drago).

During the Napoleonic Wars, retreating Spanish forces shove a powerful cannon off a cliff to prevent the French from stealing it. The British send Capt. Anthony Trumbull (Cary Grant) to help the Spanish recapture it. When he arrives in Spain, Trumbull finds the cannon secured by Spanish rebels. As Trumbull and the rebel leader Miguel (Frank Sinatra) struggle to transport the cumbersome cannon through the mountains, the British officer falls for beautiful Spaniard Juana (Sophia Loren).

Intent on enhancing mankind's ocular ability, the brilliant Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) invents a formula that allows him to see wavelengths of light outside the normal human spectrum. When his funding is suddenly threatened, Xavier tests the formula on himself despite the protests of his colleague Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van der Vlis). While the formula proves initially useful in a variety of minor tasks, Xavier soon finds himself able to see things that no man was meant to see.

Young South African cameraman Anton van Heerden (Sean Bean) and aging British journalist Charles Rutherford (John Hurt) team up to gather information about an apparent Namibian serial killer. In a country ruled by a minority white government, Nhadiep (Lesley Fong) seems only to murder other blacks. His proximity to the strange and horrifying crimes causes Anton to contemplate his role as a privileged white man in a continent where millions of blacks are oppressed.

When a coed is humiliated by a group of sorority sisters, she is urged to get even by unleashing her psychic powers.

Based on the classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe and directed by legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, this thriller features Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, a man who believes his family to be cursed by incurable madness. So sure is he of his family's doom, that when his sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey) announces her engagement to Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon), Roderick will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage and keep the Usher bloodline from continuing.

Verden Fell (Vincent Price) is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion (Elizabeth Shepherd), Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery - learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

Victorian Sir Joel (Basil Rathbone) prepares for his wife's brain surgery by practicing on locals supplied by a Gypsy (Akim Tamiroff).

Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Doctor Watson (Andre Morell) meet with a certain Dr. Mortimer (Francis De Wolff), who tells them of the legend of the "hound," born out of a murder committed by Sir Hugo Baskerville centuries ago. Explaining that Sir Charles Baskerville recently died in the same location as Sir Hugo, Mortimer expresses his deep concern that Sir Henry, the heir to the Baskerville estate, will also fall prey to the evil hound's curse. Holmes sets out to investigate.

American Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has taken his family to the jungles of Brazil, where he has been hired to design a dam. Unexpectedly, a native tribe abducts his son, Tommy (Charley Boorman). Bill spends an entire decade looking for Tommy, only to discover that the boy has adopted the ways of the indigenous people he's been living with. Bill tries to convince his son to return to his family, but their reunion is interrupted when another group of natives attacks Tommy's tribe.

This film tells the riveting true story of brazen bad girl Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward, in an Academy Award-winning performance), a perpetual offender who tries to go straight but is sent to death row after being implicated in a murder. When journalist Ed Montgomery (Simon Oakland), whose initial newspaper articles on Barbara's crime played up her recklessness, becomes convinced that she may be innocent, he begins a desperate campaign to save her from the gas chamber.

A moon capsule containing important information accidentally lands in the possession of a remote African tribe, and the American government sends Matt Merriwether (Bob Hope), an expert on Africa, to retrieve it. But Washington is unaware that Matt, the "expert," is only a writer reaping the benefits of his uncle's reputation. When he arrives in Africa, Matt realizes that he's in too deep when he meets two secret agents (Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams) who are also searching for the capsule.

Renowned for his courageous deeds as a youth when he slew Goliath, David (Jeff Chandler) inadvertently incurs the wrath of King Saul (Basil Sydney), who is jealous of the hero's popularity. In order to provide peace of mind for the Israelite king, Saul's scheming counselor, Doeg (Peter Arne), encourages the ruler to have David killed. David, aided by his friend Jonathan (David Knight), who is Saul's own son, attempts to survive without overtly clashing with his own people.

When a coed is humiliated by a group of sorority sisters, she is urged to get even by unleashing her psychic powers.

Based on the classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe and directed by legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, this thriller features Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, a man who believes his family to be cursed by incurable madness. So sure is he of his family's doom, that when his sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey) announces her engagement to Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon), Roderick will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage and keep the Usher bloodline from continuing.

Verden Fell (Vincent Price) is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion (Elizabeth Shepherd), Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery - learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

Victorian Sir Joel (Basil Rathbone) prepares for his wife's brain surgery by practicing on locals supplied by a Gypsy (Akim Tamiroff).

Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Doctor Watson (Andre Morell) meet with a certain Dr. Mortimer (Francis De Wolff), who tells them of the legend of the "hound," born out of a murder committed by Sir Hugo Baskerville centuries ago. Explaining that Sir Charles Baskerville recently died in the same location as Sir Hugo, Mortimer expresses his deep concern that Sir Henry, the heir to the Baskerville estate, will also fall prey to the evil hound's curse. Holmes sets out to investigate.

American Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has taken his family to the jungles of Brazil, where he has been hired to design a dam. Unexpectedly, a native tribe abducts his son, Tommy (Charley Boorman). Bill spends an entire decade looking for Tommy, only to discover that the boy has adopted the ways of the indigenous people he's been living with. Bill tries to convince his son to return to his family, but their reunion is interrupted when another group of natives attacks Tommy's tribe.

A pair of soldiers find romance an antidote for the unusual passions of two beautiful aliens bent on conquering Earth.

In order to receive a fortune in stolen gold bullion, master criminal Aldo "The Fox" Vanucci (Peter Sellers) needs a coastal location. So he poses as a famous movie director, using his drop-off point, a sleepy Italian town, as the "setting" for a new production. But the shrewd plan threatens to come undone thanks to Vanucci's movie-mad sister, Gina Romantica (Britt Ekland), and the fictional production's star: egocentric, nearly forgotten matinee idol Tony Powell (Victor Mature).