A tale about the pathetic relationship between a law-abiding man and his likable, childish, unstable, dangerously criminal, sleepwalking brother. It all leads to chaos and murder.
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A distinguished professor of astrophysics finds his well-ordered life-style blown asunder after he is forced to take in a recently widowed, pregnant bubble dancer.
A portrait of Papua New Guinea, a society clutched by Australian colonialism and hovering uneasily between its head-hunting past and Western civilization, at the time of the nation’s independence festivities.
A man murders his overbearing grandmother for her money, then frames his mild-mannered younger brother for the crime.
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. He wants to have a pass to get a job and start anew, but without a job he doesn’t get a pass; and without a pass, he doesn’t get a job. He gets into the net of Prussian bureaucracy, and can’t see a solution. Until he enters a small Second-Hand Shop, and sees a Prussian Uniform that fits him like a second skin…
Laura and Katy White are the teenage daughters of a humble bank security guard. As a single father, Mr. White struggles to keep the girls on the straight and narrow. While Katy is engaged to the town football hero, Laura has started dating the secretive Al Simpson. Despite the fact that the young man has no visible means of support, he treats the wholesome girl to expensive lingerie and all-nighters at the jive bar. Suspecting that Simpson is a criminal, Laura worries that her sister may be in danger. When Al asks Katy to steal Mr. White’s gun, the stage is set for tragedy.
The story is about Roger Cunningham and his unpleasant British wife Valerie Cunningham they have been married for ten years, and Edwin and Philipa for seven. During that time they spent every social hour together, But each is living a Double life. When camping one weekend, the four get stranded. Arguments arise, and secrets begin coming out: accusations of affairs, marriages of convenience, and homosexuality (all are shown in flashbacks).