Abu Saree sends his daughter Naima to work as a servant in Cairo to help him with life expenses. She educates herself by watching elementary school lessons from the kitchen window, so she outperforms the house owner's son, who, as a result, closes the window to prevent her from studying. However, her father tells her he will marry her off to one of her relatives, so Naima runs away to start a new educational journey.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis.
Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script.
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body.
Popular movie trailers from 1994
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1994:
On Christmas Eve, a Glasgow grandmother tells her grandchildren the story of how she met Elvis Presley in March 1960 when he stopped off at Prestwick Airport on his way back from Germany to America.
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man.
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself.
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker.
Peter Sandmann, the charming owner of a marriage institute, is a brilliant matchmaker. His problem: all the candidates would love to share a table and bed with him straight away, but the lively mini-playboy is extremely reluctant to exchange rings.
Toward the latter part of his life, George Balanchine talked about creating a "dictionary" of his technique, a visual reference for the students of ballet.
