The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...
A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.
A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...
Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.
Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...
A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.
The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...
A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.
The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.