曾经是一名警察的汉斯(汉斯·希尔斯缪勒 Hans Hirschmüller 饰)因为被妓女诬陷而丢掉了工作,为了糊口,心怀大志的他不得不成为了一名水果小贩。汉斯无法取得心爱姑娘的父母的信任和赏识,已经到了成家年龄的他最终娶了名叫伊尔姆加特(伊尔姆·海尔曼 Irm Her mann 饰)的女人。
自打结婚后,汉斯的人生正式走上的下坡路,伊尔姆加特的粗暴和无礼为汉斯的不如意雪上加霜。汉斯得了心脏病,在住院期间,独守空房的伊尔姆加特耐不住寂寞,和邻居安策尔(Karl Scheydt 饰)之间发生了不道德的关系。出院后的汉斯已经无力再沿街叫卖水果了,改为摆水果摊。一次偶然中,他与战友哈里(Klaus Löwitsch 饰)重逢了,尽管哈里给汉斯一家带来了不少的快乐,但他依旧无法阻止汉斯走向绝望。
New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to ...
An earthquake in the Salton Sea unleashes a horde of prehistoric mollusk monsters. Discovering the creatures, a Naval officer and several scientists attempt to stop the monsters, but they escape into the canal system of the California’s Imperial Valley and terrorize the populace.
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
At 38, Thomas is at a crossroads in his life. His parents are nonstop guilt-inducers, his ex-wife is always on his back, and his son is far from inspirational. Thomas himself is almost too intellectual to survive daily life. The attentions of a straightforward English teacher seem to be a way out.