改革开放初期,罗心刚(杨在葆 饰)在广交会上发现本厂生产的凤凰牌产品无人问津,而本厂文革中遭冷遇的设计师申华(刘信义 饰)设计的产品却成了畅销货。罗心刚深受启发,他三顾茅庐请已被迫离厂的申华出山,同时纠正以前人们戴有色眼镜看人的错误观念。他决心走市场化道路,转变过去“皇帝女儿不愁嫁”的传统思想。罗的行动遭到传统势力的阻挠,别人认为他的行为背离了社会主义市场经济原则,面对种种困难,罗心刚始终坚持自已的信念。当看到共青团员巧珍(殷新 饰)因缺乏信仰脖子上带上十字架,他深感十年动乱在青年一代身上造成的信仰危机。改革是多方面的,且刻不容缓。在他人造谣告状,不得已面临下台的千人大会上,罗心刚说出了那段泣血的台词......
故事发生在人头攒动的大都市纽约,在这里,生活着一位名叫伊莎贝尔(艾米·欧文 Amy Irving 饰)的姑娘,在这个物欲横流的城市里,伊莎贝尔的特质则显得尤为珍贵,她是书店的店员,整日博览群书,对知识的渴望永无止境。 可是,正直善良的伊莎贝尔在她祖母的眼中俨然就是一位“问题少女”,因为已经到了成家年龄的她似乎并没有任何想要结婚的打算。就这样,着急的祖母风风火火地开始为伊莎贝尔物色起了对象,通过祖母的牵线搭桥,伊莎贝尔结识了名为山姆(彼得·里格特 Peter Riegert 饰)的犹太男子。山姆是一名小贩,他对秀外慧中的伊莎贝尔很快一见钟情,可是,伊莎贝尔却并不这么觉得。
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit. A silver-haired stranger observes. More women die, and thoughts of harming Irina give Oliviero new inspiration. What's Floriana's game and who's the observant stranger? Watching all is a black cat named Satan.
Exotic Eastern European beauty, Linda Allen, flies in to Los Angeles to track down the evil mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister. Meanwhile, the mobsters are trying to find a tape with information that would be incriminating to them. Linda's investigation deals with a pimp who may be the murderer she is after, and a helpful FBI agent who may not be the crime hunter he pretends to be. Cunning and deadly she is, but will she be up to the tangled web of corruption, violence, and death she falls into?
Without warning, millions of mysterious alien "doors" suddenly appear around the globe. In a rush to determine the reason for their arrival, mankind must work together to understand the purpose of these cosmic anomalies. Bizarre incidences occurring around the sentient doors leads humanity to question their own existence and an altered reality as they attempt to enter them.