Hollywood, 1926. At a raucous party at a producer's mansion, aspiring actress Nellie Laroy and maintenance man Manny Torres meet. The event is not only fun, but also with benefits for both: Nelly gets an invitation to shoot, and Manny takes home a drunken silent movie star Jack Conrad, and he asks the guy to work for him as an assistant. So both get on the set and begin to make a career in the movie: Nelly - in the acting field, Manny - as an assistant producer. In the meantime, progress is not standing still, and sound movies are gaining popularity.

1908, Qing Empire. Two-year-old Pu Yi becomes emperor of the Celestial Empire. The child emperor is treated like a deity. He can do everything but leave the palace. The wind of change that shakes the world outside its walls does not reach the Forbidden City. But the life of the last emperor of China turns out to be a part of the great history of the XX century.

In the middle of the 19th century, not Europeans but aliens from outer space arrive in Japan. Twenty years after the invasion, Japan is ruled by a puppet shogunate, which makes sure that unscathed patriotic samurai do not raise their voices against the aliens. Wearing katanas and other edged weapons is also banned. Former samurai Gintoki Sakata used to be among the rebels, but now he's done with saving humanity and is mostly lying on the couch when a rumor comes out that his childhood friend has been killed in a sword fight with an unknown samurai.

The movie takes place in the 19th century (1848) during the struggle of patriotic forces of Italy against Austrian rule. An accidental shell penetrates the wall of the prison, which a thief and bandit Cainazzo manages to take advantage of. While he was in prison, Italy became a testing ground for political strife and battles. Not knowing anything about politics, which he doesn't care about, Cainazzo gets into a series of funny but often scary adventures with Romolo, a baker from Rome, whose bakery was destroyed by a shell.

The return of the legendary master of the East to the battlefield. This time he will have to fight not in a tournament, but in the expanses of his country. Fong Sai-Yuk joins the Red Lotus secret society, which is fighting to overthrow the ruler of the Manchu dynasty.

But on the way to achieve his goal, he must pass not only through the corpses of his enemies, but also through the test of his feelings. The battle continues, and behind every dark corner there may be an enemy lurking.

Fong Sai-Yuk was the best kung fu master in Canton during the Manchu Dynasty. Fong is forced to enter a fighting tournament, the winner of which will win the hand of the beautiful Tin Tin.

The idea of marrying in this way seems dubious to him, especially since he will have to fight the bride's mother, the fierce Shyu Huan! Meanwhile, disaster looms over Fong's family: his father, a member of the Red Lotus Society, which is hostile to the Emperor, is in mortal danger.

Kingdom of Dahomey, 1823. The elite female detachment of the Agogja royal guard led by General Naniska is recovering women kidnapped by slave owners from the Oyo Empire, which threatens to provoke a war. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old girl, Navi, who does not want to put up with a cruel potential husband, is taken to the palace by her father as a gift to the king. Thus Navi finds herself among the newcomers being trained to join the ranks of the Agoji.

New York, 1933. World War I veteran Burt Berendsen keeps a small clinic and helps war crippled poor souls like himself. One day he and his best friend and coworker, attorney Harold Woodman, are hired by the daughter of their former commander to perform an autopsy on her suddenly deceased father, who has just arrived from Europe and was about to give a speech to a gathering of fellow soldiers. Burt and Harold had no idea how far this case would take them, and that they would meet their soul mate Valerie, a French hospital nurse with whom they had spent an unforgettable time in Amsterdam at the end of the war.

The impressive saga of black leader Malcolm X. He started out as a gangster in Harlem, fell into vice, but after going to prison, he was cleansed of his filth under the influence of the ideas of Islam. A very detailed and authentic portrayal of all the twists and turns of Malcolm X's life and struggle against racism, corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal in the camp of like-minded people.

The movie is dedicated to the theme of homoeroticism in the cinema of English-speaking countries. It is an essay on how unconventional sexual relationships have been shown on the screen, from Edison's silent film to such famous films as Philadelphia and Basic Instinct.