17세기 이탈리아, 바이올린의 장인 부조티(이렌느 그라지올리)는 곧 아이를 얻게 될 꿈에 부풀어 있다. 그러나 평생의 반려자였던 아내는 아이를 낳다 목숨을 잃고, 절망한 부조티는 채 식지 않은 아내의 피를 받아 '레드 바이올린'을 완성한다. 사랑과 절망이 섞인, 세상 어디에도 없는 명품. 이 레드 바이올린은 소유한 사람을 파괴적인 매력으로 끌어 당기며 세계 곳곳을 떠돈다. 바이올린에 집착하던 어린 천재는 심장마비로 죽고 바이올린을 연주하며 성적인 환희를 느끼던 음악가는 자살한다. 300년 후, 레드 바이올린을 손에 넣기 위해 경매장에 모여 든 사람들은 마침내 바이올린에 얽힌 비밀을 알게 되는데...
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.
A young British girl journeys to Paris to go to college, and is determined to find the man of her dreams and fall madly in love. However, things don't work out quite the way she planned.
Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.
