The story centers around Frances Benedetto (Mary Stuart Masterson), a victim of domestic violence. The movie follows Frances's relationship to her increasingly abusive NYCPD officer husband (played by Anthony LaPaglia), who has the police force on his side, and her eventual escape to Florida with her son (played by Will Rothaar). Eventually her husband finds them and attacks her. Her son's sports coach comes to the house when she does not pick her son up from practice on time and finds her beaten and bruised in the hallway. Meanwhile, her husband kidnaps their son. Five years later, she has married the coach and has a daughter, although she has never found her son. Her son meets up with his aunt by chance on the street, and Frances (her name now changed to Beth) receives a phone call from him.
Yamashita assassine sa femme adultère de plusieurs coups de couteau. Huit ans plus tard, on lui accorde la liberté conditionnelle. Il a dans l'idée d'ouvrir un salon de coiffure, dans un coin perdu de la région de Tokyo. Retapant une ancienne bâtisse de ses propres mains, Yamashita parvient à donner corps à son but, et le salon ouvre rapidement. Peu de temps après, il va, complètement par hasard, sauver la vie d'une jeune femme après une tentative de suicide. Celle-ci va bientôt lui demander de travailler à ses côtés. Malgré son appréhension, Yamashita acceptera, et la jeune femme apportera dans l'austère salon de coiffure cette touche de gaieté et de féminité qui manquait jusque-là. Yamashita continuera pourtant à se murer dans son mutisme, ne se confiant plus qu'à une anguille, recueillie quand il était encore en prison.
Suraj Kapoor is a single, wealthy young man. One day he meets Shubangi, and they fall in love. Shortly thereafter they marry and settle down to enjoy a harmonious married life. During their stay at a hotel, the couple are approached by a man who claims that Shubangi is his wife and her real name is Madhu. Suraj and Shubangi are shocked and ask him to leave, which he does.
Paul Hegstrom (Ritter) is a seriously disturbed family man who puts his wife and children through physical, mental, and emotional abuse. Drawing what he calls "courage" through a whiskey bottle, he severely beats his wife, Judy (Harley Jane Kozak) until one day his eldest daughter Tammy confronts him. Paul leaves the family home and moves in with his mistress, Beth French (Gibney) but hospitalizes her a short while later following another one of his violent rages. To avoid having to spend time in jail, Paul is forced to get psychological help to be able to overcome his problems.
Sam Harper, un sergent de l’armée américaine, est retrouvé mort au Koweït après un tir ami. Quelques semaines plus tard, son corps est rapatrié dans sa ville natale. Son cercueil est provisoirement placé dans la maison de sa sœur où son neveu, Jody, considère son oncle Sam comme un héros. A l’approche de la fête nationale américaine, Sam revient d’entre les morts pour punir tous ceux qui n’apprécient pas les valeurs de l’Amérique...
Lalita (Madhuri Dixit) catches the eye of JB (Raj Babbar) and he immediately falls in love with her and decides that he must have her. Her uncle Madhi arranges for them to marry but he is only doing this because JB is paying him to. When she refuses, JB kidnaps her and keeps her in his home until the day of the wedding. She is literally watched over by JB every day in case she tries to escape. On the day of the wedding, Lalita faints and uses this to escape. She also moves her mother away and barely escapes JB who assumes that she has been killed after he saw her being hit by a car. In fact, Lalita swapped her wedding dress with someone else, so the person that JB saw being hit by the car was not Lalita.
Dolores Claiborne est l'intendante de Vera, une vieille femme riche et méprisante habitant sur une île du Maine. Elle nous raconte ce qui s'est vraiment passé sur cette île lors de l'éclipse. Comment son mari Joe est mort de façon accidentelle en chutant dans un puits, comment la traitait sa patronne, ainsi que les problèmes rencontrés dans sa vie, comme quand elle est devenue tête de turc des gamins, enfants et jeunes de la ville, à cause du décès de Joe qu'on l'accuse d'avoir provoqué. Mais le détective John Mackey ne croit pas à sa version des faits. De son côté sa fille Séléna, journaliste dépressive, a des souvenirs différents de ceux de Dolores…
En épousant Chris, Jennifer pense avoir rencontré l'homme idéal. Mais derrière toutes ces qualités se cache un être possessif, manipulateur et violent...
The movie begins with an introduction from Teresa Stamper giving an interview about her ex-husband Paul Stamper and how he caught her when she wasn't looking and that she thought that he was a charmer.
One night in a small town, Peggy Wilson and her daughter Carrie get up and leave Peggy's abusive husband and Carrie's father, Buddy. As they try to leave, Buddy comes to the pickup begging Peggy to forgive him and asking Carrie to open the door. Unmoved by his pleas, Peggy points a gun at Buddy, telling him to stay away from her and Carrie as she drives away.