A married couple who work as pick-pockets decide to go straight and take a job as butler and maid for an eccentric couple who love flies and who won't tolerate killing flies.
An engineering executive is put out on the streets when his company is taken over. He is so traumatized by the incident that he loses his memory and finds a new life. But old memories haunt him and he can't avoid his destiny.
An aging advertising executive travels to the desert for inspiration in finding a name for a new perfume. While there, he meets an old flame who takes him on a voyage of self-discovery.
Recounts the fall from grace of Benito Mussolini during World War II and his final ditch appeal to Hitler for support before his ultimate demise.
A man claims to have reacquainted himself with an extraterrestrial being he first befriended as a child. The extraterrestrial portends doom for the human race because of pollution and war. This sensitively written, emotionally moving sci-fi tale tells of a boy whose extra-terrestrial childhood friend transforms his life. It also boasts some on-the-mark social commentary on the results of child abuse.
Five hundred years in the future, man has eliminated violence and violent thoughts in society. A violent man is reprogrammed to have placid thoughts. But when they need violence to protect society, he is asked to return to violence in order to save the world from invasion. This man with a violent nature finds an outlet as Earth's sole defender against attacking aliens.
A young woman and her father move into a Scottish manor house on the moors. The woman hears a mournful voice calling from a the ruins of a burned out house on the grounds. Her father, her doctor, and a priest investigate.
An executive assistant to a diamond broker strongly dislikes the sycophantic, arrogant sales manager his boss just hired. When he finds out the guy is actually a professional jewel thief, he is eager to help the police catch him.
A widower decides to marry his secretary and finds that she harbors a secret from her past that makes it impossible for her to love — and that she has a strong attraction to her dog.
A Russian school mistress has a scandulous love affair in pre-revolutionary Moscow.
Adaptation