During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
William O'Niel é um delegado espacial enviado a uma base de coleta de titânio. Ele investiga uma série de mortes misteriosas de mineradores e descobre que a produtividade dos trabalhadores está sendo estimulada por drogas perigosas.
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Quando sua filha se junta a uma companhia de balé, uma ex-dançarina é forçada a confrontar sua decisão há muito tempo de desistir do palco para ter uma família.
No auge da expansão geográfica do império romano, o general Lívio (Stephen Boyd) comanda a nova política do imperador Marco Aurélio (Alec Guinness), que quer a pacificação de fronteiras e a adoção para os povos conquistados uma certa autonomia. Mas Marco Aurélio acaba envenenado por Commodus (Christopher Plummer), filho ilegítimo que assume o trono e mergulha Roma no caos político e administrativo, o que dá origem à queda do Império Romano.
