复员军人保罗在回乡的长途汽车上结识一位美女维多利亚，她因未婚先孕无法面对身为葡萄园主的父亲，竟要求保罗权充一下她的新婚丈夫，以图在老派专制的家长面前蒙混过关。保罗先是拒绝，可后来还是动了恻隐之心。谁知，在相处中假夫妻动了真感情，爱情的种子迅速发芽成长。尽管有保罗的前妻和维多利亚的父亲从中作梗，但什么也阻挡不了有情人云中的脚步。

拉丁美洲的作品常常带着魔幻荒诞的色彩，影片故事正是发生在这里的墨西哥。艾莲娜是一个抚养三个女儿的寡妇，她的小女儿蒂娜（卢米·卡范佐斯 Lumi Cavazos饰）和青年佩德罗（马克·莱昂纳蒂 Marco Leonardi饰）相爱，但母亲却按照家族规矩，要把大女儿柔沙嫁给佩德罗，同时声明蒂娜要照顾自己直到归西。
佩德罗和柔沙结婚了。婚礼上，他向蒂娜吐露爱意，让蒂娜更加心伤。她的眼泪簌簌掉下，落到正在制作的菜肴上，于是，客人们竟然尝出了苦味。从此，蒂娜把自己压抑的爱意都融合在烹饪中，一家人的情绪竟随着她的烹饪心情或情欲高涨，或压抑阴沉。当蒂娜终于等来和佩德罗相守的日子，压抑已久的感情却化成了熊熊燃烧的烈火。

乔治（乔纳森·莱斯·梅耶斯 Jonathan Rhys Meyers 饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的富家大少爷，在母亲伊莎贝尔（玛德琳·斯托 Madeleine Stowe 饰）的放纵和娇惯之下，乔治的性格变得非常的自大和独断专横，不容许有任何违背自己意志的事情发生。
伊莎贝尔决定再婚了，而结婚的对象是一个名叫摩根（布鲁斯·格林伍德 Bruce Greenwood 饰）的男人，这令乔治感到非常的愤怒，因为他爱上了摩根的女儿露西（格瑞辰·摩尔 Gretchen Mol 饰）。乔治想尽了一切方法破坏摩根和伊莎贝尔的婚事，最终，不堪忍受的摩根带着露西离开了当地。一晃眼多年过去，年事已高的乔治对自己曾经的所作所为开始感到后悔起来。

A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.

1905年，那不勒斯。玛丽亚娜的伤寒刚刚痊愈，和她的妹妹一起住在一个地窖里。一天，一个年轻的导演来到她们居住的小村子，要在这里拍摄一部电影。玛丽亚娜不知不觉中成为了电影的主角，当影片在广场上放映时，所有的人都认出了她，这件事成为了一件丑闻。而她的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化。

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.

Sydney Clarke is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she suddenly gets angry and storms off. She wakes up in the middle of nowhere and gets a ride to a small New England town. There she meets and develops a friendship with Joyce, a waitress at a bowling alley. There she meets Ben, a steel mill owner, and later when she goes to get a job in that small town, she meets Ben again. Sydney becomes a nurse at the mill. All the men adore her. There they have many great times together, and Sydney realizes how important real friends are and that small towns are better than big name Hollywood.
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希妮克拉克是嬌生慣養的名演員，某天拍戲時她突然氣憤離場，她在鳥不生蛋的地方醒來，搭車去新英格蘭小鎮。在那裡她遇見保齡球館的服務生喬伊斯，兩人成為朋友；在那裡她遇見了一家鋼鐵坊的老闆班，隨後她在小鎮找工作時再次遇見班，希妮在鋼鐵坊擔任護士，所有男人都喜歡希妮，他們共度了一段快樂時光，而希妮也了解友誼的可貴，並發覺那個小鎮比在好萊塢成名重要多了。

A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.