Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into 'The Family,' he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive, eventually starting a gang war.

A scientist gets involved with an obsessive female colleague and has to try to resolve the affair without destroying his marriage.

A poor young father in postwar-ravaged Rome who finally finds work putting up Rita Hayworth posters around town, only to have his precious bicycle stolen the first day on the job. In a light moment as the father and his young son chase after the thief, the boy attempts to relieve himself against a wall, and his father lets him know they don't have time for that. In another scene, the father tracks the thief into the kitchen of a brothel.

The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

After Billoo's widowed mother, Kamla, passes away, he goes to live with Parvati and Shankar, and their three children, Ravi, Jyoti and Pinky. Billoo watches as Shankar gets killed by a goon, Than Than Tiwari, and swears to avenge this after fulfilling his responsibility of looking the rest of the family. First he drives a cycle-rickshaw, then makes sacrifices and purchases an auto-rickshaw to ensure that Ravi gets a good education and becomes a Collector, and that Jyoti and Pinky get educated and married. Jyoti then gets married to wealthy Vijay and moves out, while Pinky becomes abusive and befriends Munna Tiwari. Things get worse after Ravi decides to marry wealthy Nisha T. Mirchandani, refuses to study any further and moves out. But more shocks and trauma are to follow after Nisha becomes pregnant and decides to keep Parvati as her maid, takes-over Parvati's ancestral home - thus not only rendering Billoo homeless, unable to marry Asha, his childhood sweetheart, and never be able to fulfill his vow of vengeance.

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).

Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.