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- Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
- A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.
- A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
- A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
- A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
- A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long-range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
- Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.
- Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.
- An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.
- Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, would Kishan return the favour?
- In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
- The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
- Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
- Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson. Unfortunately, it triggers aggressive behavior in Billy which he directs toward John.
- Mr. Grothe, a German high school teacher tries to reach his problem kid Nico.
- When a band of sheepherders decide to settle on cattle land, the neighboring cattlemen warn them to move on, but their leader refuses, sparking a feud in which the cattlemen set fire to the sheepherders' homes. In retaliation, the Sheepherder, although in love with the Cattle King's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. Finding the Sheriff's daughter impregnated and deserted by the Cattle King's daughter's fiancé, a villainous Easterner, the Sheepherder provides her shelter and compassion. He then abducts the Cattle King's daughter to nurse the sick woman. The cattlemen track them to the cabin, where all is revealed; the bank robbery is forgiven in terms of repayment for the destruction of the sheepherders' homes, and the Cattle King's daughter, realizing the infamy of her fiancé, accepts the love of the Sheepherder.
- A montage of some home movies taken by Archie Stewart (1902-1998), an early enthusiast in taken 16 mm sound films of his family. We see his daughters, Mary and Anne, playing in the aftermath of a January, 1936, snowstorm. Next, indoors, the girls bring in a birthday cake and sing to Archie. He has Anne read to him from a children's book, and a year later, has her read aloud to show her progress. Anne and Mary dress up Pat the family dog in a dress and scarf and hold a tea party, chattering away. Archie's high-pitched voice provides narration on and off camera.
- A nine-year-old girl in rural India, exploited by child labor, must find a way to pursue her dream - how to read and write. She has one last chance when an educated man comes to town.
- Enterprise encounters a hyper-giant star. While there, they make first contact with the Vissians, a technologically sophisticated race with three genders. While making quick friends, and eagerly learning about the advanced technology, Trip gets curious about the Vissians third gender, known as the Cogenitor, who is crucial in the Vissian reproductive process. Against the wishes of the Vissians, Trip befriends the Cogenitor and encourages it to defy its cultural boundaries, which the Vissians are made aware of, and are angered by.
- During a botched robbery Willie falls down an elevator shaft. In the hospital they discover he's illiterate and try to help him learn to read and move beyond a life of crime. But his partner in crime doesn't want him talking to the cops.
- Mitch and Andy escort their friend Slim's kid sister to her far backwoods home town. Not so easy, as the girl has a mind of her own and is the one who really turns out to be in control of the trip.
- A NEW WORLD: After the death of her mother, Inés Suárez lives in Plasencia together with her sister Asuncion and her authoritarian grandfather. There she meets Juan de Malaga, a merchant with whom she falls in love and with whom she marries after escaping from the family home and traveling to Seville, a lively and prosperous city, gateway to the 'New World.'
- Time passes in the colony. Jonathon begins to have genuine feelings for Mary, thinking of the future he learns to read and write. Greville expands his empire and is prepared to eliminate anyone how gets in his way