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- Antique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
- Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
- Set in the future where people live in peace in a sealed bubble, they are divided into four levels - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and deviants who cannot conform to the society. Elizabeth is from a Beta family and her father wants to pair her off with Bindon a civil servant with prospects. Elizabeth however is in love with Jon a modest rocket pad official. When Elizabeth's father decides to have her mind altered to remove feelings for Jon, the lovers escape the city and discover fresh air and the beauty and cruelness of nature for the first time.
- Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
- The story of General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
- An aging actress Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Sorin and son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion she brings with her Trigorin, a successful novelist. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed, the sophisticates continue on their way.
- Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
- As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
- In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
- Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
- Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.
- The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
- John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.
- In fifteenth-century France, a teenage peasant girl leads the army to victories against the English after claiming she has heard the voices of saints.
- The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island - but a storm brings visitors from the past.
- Lonely people in a quiet hotel find their lives shaken up by the arrival of the glamorous, assertive Helen Lancaster.
- A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
- Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
- Highly-placed Romans plot the murder of Julius Caesar.
- In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
- A long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence of a handsome young tutor complicates and sensitizes the savage domestic tensions which arise as the secret emotions of members of the family are shockingly revealed.