France, 18th century. A commoner, Jeanne Becue climbs the Parisian social ladder through the beds of aristocrats, including Count Dubarry and Marshal Richelieu. With the help of patrons, she reaches the very top: she draws the attention of the not-young but amorous King Louis XV. Jeanne, married to Dubarry for pro forma purposes, becomes a favorite of the monarch, causing her past complicated feelings among the courtiers and especially irritating the royal family.

On New Year's Eve, police inspector Antoine Galien, investigating the murder of two children, calls notary Jerome Martineau as a witness in the case. But at the interrogation it turns out that Martineau is suspected of murder....

This subtle psychological drama tells about a few days of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl in a difficult age of transition for her and others. Her older brother goes on vacation without her, this charming ugly duckling considers herself ugly, and then a famous concert pianist comes to town, and she is as old as the heroine herself. She is given the opportunity to get acquainted with the prodigy, she promises to take her on tour as a manager, but leaves, of course, without her.... And the "impudent girl" tortures all those she loves, those who are closest to her.

"Some people hear their inner voice very clearly and live as it tells them to. People like that go crazy. Or become legends." So begins the story of the Ludlow family, a fast-paced and romantic tale of three brothers, their father, and a young and irresistible woman who fatally changes the lives of each of them.

At the edge of the world, where ancient Maori tribes rule, there is no place for strangers. Here ancestral spirits are honored, blood is paid for with blood, and the heart of a beautiful girl can ignite a war. But the strangers have not come alone - they have God, medicine and gunpowder with them.

Fang, a professor of archaeology, goes with his students on an expedition where they find unusual artifacts. The professor begins having dreams as if he is a general of the Han Empire, and in which a jade pendant similar to the relics they find appears. Puzzled by these visions he goes deep into the Glacial Temple in search of a clue.

An ordinary working man discovers a mountain of bodies in the desert, a truck full of heroin and the tempting sum of two million dollars in cash. He decides to take the money for himself, and the result is a wave of violence that the entire West Texas police force cannot stop.

A red-haired, curly-haired beauty and a humble, penniless Irishman travel to the far West in search of happiness.

A Harvard Law graduate is invited to work on excellent terms at a small law firm. The young lawyer dreams of the heights of his career, but soon discovers that his firm serves the powerful mafia clans of Chicago. To refuse to cooperate with them is to sign his own death warrant. On the other hand, the FBI begins to follow him.

1906. Major Fossett, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, leads an expedition into the Amazon jungle where he hopes to find the Inca capital, the mysterious City of Z.