Gerald W. Alexander

A documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.

After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.

When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.

세계대전 중인 1940년. 카리브해 작은 섬 마르티니크는 나치에 동조하는 정부와 프랑스 레지스탕스의 싸움으로 조용할 날이 없다. 그러나 미국인 해리 모건 선장은 오로지 사람들에게 배를 빌려주고 돈을 받는 일에만 관심있을 뿐 전쟁에 대해서는 중립을 지킨다. 그러나 “성냥 있어요?”라는 말로 시작된 젊은 미국 여성 마리와의 인연으로 모든 것은 달라진다. 그녀에게 호감을 갖게 된 모건이 그녀를 안전하게 고향으로 돌려보내기 위한 자금 마련을 위해 프랑스 레지스탕스 리더를 돕기로 한 것이다.

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.