A bittersweet comedy about Charlie's adventures as part of a traveling circus.

To save the small country of Fridonia from bankruptcy, the wealthy widow Mrs. Tisdale agrees to donate $20 million toward that end. But only on the condition that Rufus T. Firefly, who is pursuing her, becomes the country’s leader. Firefly—a cynical and brash dictator—provokes the ambassador from

During the Great Depression, a game leads the wealthy, spoiled, yet charming Irene Bullock—along with her shrewish sister Cornelia—to the city dump, where they meet Godfrey, a homeless man. The encounter ends with Irene hiring him as her butler. While working for her, he discovers that the Bullocks

David Huxley is an eccentric paleontologist who has spent the last four years of his life piecing together a brontosaurus skeleton, bone by bone. The day before his wedding, fate—that mischievous force—brings him face-to-face with Susan, a restless young woman who immediately sets her sights on him

"Matyushek & Co."—a gift and souvenir shop on the corner. One of the employees is Alfred Kralik, a handsome young man who is in love with a girl he has never seen and doesn’t even know the name of (their “romance” began through a mailbox, via correspondence).

Tired of uncertainty and worldly passions, five Catholic nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, arrive in a remote Himalayan village to establish a school there. However, a breakdown in their relationship with a local white settler, Mr. Dean, the harsh climate, a growing longing for home, and, finally, a

War veteran Frank McLeod arrives at a hotel in Florida. The hotel is run by gangster Johnny Rocco and his gang. They are holding the hotel guests hostage. Frank tries to stop Johnny before he kills everyone in the hotel...

Two friends, Smitty and Herbie, make a living selling ties on the street illegally. When they spot a police officer, they decide to hide from him in a movie theater, unaware that it’s now a draft office, and after a series of misunderstandings, they’re stunned to discover that they’re now in the

A computer at the U.S. Department of Defense malfunctions, and the pilots of nuclear bombers receive orders to attack Moscow. Now the crews are forbidden from making radio contact; their sole task is to carry out the mission at any cost. The U.S. president has just a few hours to prevent the

After a thermonuclear strike during World War III, the surviving Parisians live in the underground catacombs. They attempt to travel through time in the hope of finding their descendants in the future and obtaining food, medicine, and power generators from them, “so that the past and the future may