Before the marriage, Tang Shi Min treats Zhang Jing Fen with care and attention, but after the marriage, Min is pleased with the business, but leaves his wife alone. After the marriage, Min is very pleased with his wife, but she is not happy with her. Fen's tactics of 'three obedience and four virtues' and 'crying and hanging' are unable to make Min change his mind.
Before the marriage, Tang Shi Min treats Zhang Jing Fen with care and attention, but after the marriage, Min is pleased with the business, but leaves his wife alone. After the marriage, Min is very pleased with his wife, but she is not happy with her. Fen's tactics of 'three obedience and four virtues' and 'crying and hanging' are unable to make Min change his mind.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the "Golden Lotus." Men pursues the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing's jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, death, and depravity. Does karma or enlightenment await anyone?
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.