Hedda Gabler, trapped in a dull marriage to the scholar George Tesman, burns the manuscript of her former lover Eilert Løvborg and urges him to die “beautifully” with one of her father’s pistols.

David Strorm and a small group of telepathic children in a strict, mutation-hating community called Waknuk are hunted after their abilities are discovered.

Psychologist Kris Kelvin, on a research station orbiting the planet Solaris, is visited by a copy of his dead wife Rheya, created by the planet’s living ocean from his memories.

Robert Neville, who believes he is the last human alive after a plague turned everyone into vampires, learns that some infected people have created a new society.

The penal colony on the Moon wins its independence from Earth in a revolution led by computer technician Manuel “Mannie” Garcia O’Kelly, the professor Bernardo de la Paz and the self-aware supercomputer Mike, who drops rocks on Earth to force a surrender.

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Alice Howland, a Harvard psychology professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at fifty, gradually loses her memory, career and independence.

Five-year-old Jack and his Ma escape the shed where she has been held captive for seven years by a man they call Old Nick, after Ma has Jack fake his death.

Andrea Sachs, the overworked assistant to the tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, finally snaps during Paris Fashion Week and tells Miranda off in public after learning her best friend Lily has been in a car crash.

Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner who spent a year trying to lose weight, quit smoking and find love, discovers that her charming boss Daniel Cleaver is a cad and that the stiff lawyer Mark Darcy is the man who truly loves her.