The title of the film refers to the duration of a relationship between Wall Street arbitrageur John Gray (Mickey Rourke) and divorced SoHo art gallery employee Elizabeth McGraw (Kim Basinger). John initiates and controls the various experimental sexual practices of this volatile relationship to push Elizabeth's boundaries. In doing so, Elizabeth experiences a gradual downward spiral toward emotional breakdown.
Pour cacher à sa femme Gisèle son infidélité de la nuit, Pierre fait appel à un détective privé particulièrement louche pour lui concocter un alibi. Un certain Robert Crémieux lui est ainsi présenté qui se fera passer auprès de Gisèle comme un ami d'enfance retrouvé le soir même et avec qui il aura passé la nuit jusqu'au petit matin.
The plot of the film is loosely based on the plot of Casablanca. Barb Wire is set in 2017 during the "Second American Civil War," rather than World War II. Many of the roles had their gender switched.
Sarah Barton (Dianna Agron) is a bored girl in a Nevada desert town who is looking for a way out after being fired from her job. When she meets Pepper (Paz de la Huerta), a seductive female drifter, Sarah is led down a dangerous path of illicit drugs and seedy strip clubs. When the two enter into a romantic relationship, Sarah is inspired to leave her old life behind and see who she can become.
Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) is a struggling actor who has lost his role as a vampire in a low-budget horror movie after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. He returns home to discover his girlfriend cheating on him, so Scully is left without a place to stay.
Ben, an aspiring artist, develops insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Suzy. To take his mind off Suzy and to occupy the extra waking hours he has recently gained, Ben begins working at a local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he meets colourful co-workers. Among them is his colleague Sharon, with whom he soon develops a mutual crush.
In the opening scene, twenty-four-year-old Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman) and Dan Woolf (Jude Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street as they are walking toward each other among many other rush hour pedestrians. Alice is a young American stripper who just arrived in London, and Dan is an unsuccessful British author who is on his way to work where he writes obituaries for a newspaper. Alice looks in the wrong direction as she crosses the street and is hit by a taxi cab right in front of Dan's eyes. After he rushes to her side she smiles to him and says, "Hello, stranger." He takes her to the hospital where Alice is treated and released. Afterward, on the way to his office, they stop by Postman's Park, the same park that he and his father visited after his mother's death. Pausing in front of the office before he leaves her and goes to work, he reminds her that traffic in England tends to come on from the right, and on impulse, he asks her for her name. They soon become lovers.
Daniela, mannequin international est appelée en urgence à Rome pour remplacer une collègue mystérieusement assassinée. Elle ne tarde pas à se rendre compte que la maison de mode dirigée par le comte Castellani avec laquelle elle est en contrat, est en fait une couverture dissimulant des activités de contrebande et d'espionnage. Lorsque Esmerelda, la maîtresse de Castellani est assassinée en marge d'une réception mondaine, Daniela se trouve mêlée bien malgré elle à une guerre entre agents secrets dans laquelle elle a du mal à démêler les intentions des uns et des autres.
A fallen foot tall Homunculus called Marvin (a part human/part reptile creature) is imprisoned in a birdcage by a vengeful lover who is bidding to become the world's most powerful vampire.
Marc Lambert, quarante ans, célibataire, organisateur de concerts et compositeur de musique contemporaine, souhaite acquérir une maison où il a séjourné quand elle était habité par son maître Charles Staedler et sa femme Suzanne qui fut un moment sa maîtresse. Hélène Muller, la trentaine directrice d'agence immobilière spécialisée dans le haut-de-gamme. lui fait visiter l'appartement. Un coup de foudre entre les deux personnages va naître suivi d'une liaison passionnelle. Mais Marc Don Juan mal repenti ne sait pas exactement ce qu'il veut et leurs rapports deviennent compliqués. Ils décident donc de rompre au cours d'un dîner d’adieu au cours duquel Hélène dira à Marc tout ce qu'elle a sur le coeur, mais quand Marc se rend au vestiaire du restaurant, une bombe éclate.
Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), a small-time American gambler newly arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, narrates. When he wins a lot of money cheating at craps, he has to be rescued from a robbery attempt by a complete stranger, Ballin Mundson (George Macready). Mundson tells him about an illegal high-class casino, but warns him not to practice his skills there. Farrell ignores his advice, cheats at blackjack, and is taken by two men to see the casino's owner, who turns out to be Mundson. Farrell talks Mundson into hiring him and quickly gains his confidence. However, the unimpressed washroom attendant, Uncle Pio (Steven Geray), keeps calling him "Mr.
Ray Ruby, who manages Ray Ruby’s Paradise, is worried about less tourists visiting the establishment so he decides to hold a lottery to bring them in. Ray is running out of money, but people expect to be paid, including the pole dancers. A landlady by the name of Lillian plans on using the spot for a Bed Bath & Beyond location if she does not receive rent money.
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister Louise around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.
Set in the poorer Naples of 1953, Adelina (Loren) supports her unemployed husband Carmine (Mastroianni) and child by selling black market cigarettes. When she doesn't pay a fine, her furniture is to be repossessed. However her neighbors assist her by hiding the furniture. A lawyer who lives in the neighborhood advises Carmine that as the fine and furniture is in Adelina's name, she will be imprisoned. However, Italian law stipulates that women cannot be imprisoned when pregnant or within six months after a pregnancy. As a result Adelina schemes to purposely stay pregnant. After seven children, Carmine is seriously exhausted and Adelina must make the choice of being impregnated by their mutual friend Pasquale (Aldo Giuffrè) or be incarcerated.
A Milanese gangster contacts Peppe (Gassman); he has identified him and his accomplices as the perpetrators of the bungled attempt at the Madonna street pawn shop.