Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, who have an incestuous relationship at the insistence of the dad; and, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who sleeps out in the shed, has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman of middle age comes to town looking for a dead private eye. And why does dad keep calling Jimmy, "little boy blue"?

The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

琳达作为女人，生活似乎表面上很理想，她愉快地嫁给菲尔，一个心理医生。但空气中淡淡的不满已经开始蔓延到她的关系，当菲尔安排琳达聘请肖恩（乔什 - 哈洛威），他的病人之一。作为一个助理，她发现自己第一次受到诱惑。 琳达冲动地与肖恩发生关系，然而，肖恩，不愿意给她这么容易，他对她的吸引力很快成为一个危险的痴迷。

梅黛夫人因为她喜欢的男人爱上了自己的干女儿塞 西儿，而心生恼怒，她有个常年追求她未果的情人瓦尔蒙，他们有个属于他俩的密室，墨绿和深红的沙发对列，印象深刻。她为了报复那个男人而与瓦尔蒙达成了卑鄙的性计划，她要瓦尔蒙去追求她的干女儿塞西儿，令她在新婚之前怀孕。而如果瓦尔蒙得逞了，她才会与他共度一夜。
瓦尔蒙在进行的途中，梅黛夫人亦不寂寞，凭着徐娘半老的风韵，继续耍玩着年轻小伙子，手段高明，丝毫不心软。而瓦尔蒙为了证明自己的魅力，本性难移地一边勾引着塞西儿，一边勾引着端庄虔诚的杜伏夫人。

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.

1979 film by Roman Polanski

1993 film by Wim Wenders

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.