Antroje 1951 m. pusėje Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) palieka Airiją ir pradeda naują gyvenimą Brukline, iš ten padėdama savo šeimai. Ją sponsoriauja Tėvas Flood ir Elis netrukus pripranta prie naujojo gyvenimo, darbo parduotuvėje bei buhalterijos studijų. Kai jai pradeda simpatizuoti italų ir amerikiečių kilmės santechnikas, ji smarkiai įsimyli. Po tragiško įvykio sugrįžusi namo moteris iš naujo užmezga ryšį su savo draugais, todėl nebežino, kuris gyvenimas jai svarbesnis.
Imigrantė, ieškanti amerikietiškos svajonės, priversta gyventi pensionate, kur patenka į košmarą, iš kurio negali pasprukti.
Prieš Abrahamo Linkolno nužudymą sulaikomi septyni vyriškiai ir viena moteris. Jie kaltinami pasikėsinimu į prezidento, viceprezidento ir valstybės sekretoriaus gyvybes. Vienai iš sulaikytųjų, – Merei Surat, priklauso pensionas, kuriame buvo planuojami šie nusikaltimai. Merę ginti teisme apsiima jaunas advokatas Frederikas Aikenas. Jis pamažu suvokia, kad moteris ne tik nekalta, bet ir pati tapo auka.
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
San Franciskas. Netolima ateitis. Krovininis laivas grįžta iš Honkongo su paslaptingu keleiviu vardu Toby Wong. Jis pabėgo iš korporacijos "Leung", ieškodamas laisvės Vakaruose. Tačiau Toby patenka į Viko Madisono gaujos letenas. Išsivadavęs iš Madisono gaujos, jis paima įkaitu girtuoklį Maliką Browundy ir važiuoja į Los Andželą. Kelyje jie susidraugauja ir Toby netgi moko Maliką kovos menų. Vieną dieną Malikas sužino, kad Toby turi implantuotą biomodulį, kuris jam suteikia jėgą ir greitį. Bėglį nori susigrąžinti korporacija "Leung"...
Jung-suk's wife runs a boarding house and he helps by cooking, doing laundry, and cleaning. He's under his wife's control, but he doesn't give up his dream of becoming an actor and eventually passes an audition. Sun-mi and Hyun-jung from the boarding house overhear him practice and mistake him for a wealthy man. They seduce him for his money and he falls for them...
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex.
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.