Home alone: Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Jingle all the way: Desperate to buy a hot-selling toy, a father endures a frantic last-minute shopping spree...

"In 1979, a high-profile burglar shot a cop, was apprehended, and then disappeared without ever being prosecuted. Forty years later, after the wounded cop's suicide, his son, Preston Campbell, is convinced there's been a cover-up that allowed his father's attacker to go free. At first, Hayes dismisses Campbell's outlandish conspiracy theories. But when a mysterious Cold War connection to the burglar emerges, the investigation heats up, and Hayes discovers...

Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens. The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope. Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian. The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman. Ever in my heart: a German...

The red balloon: A French boy named Pascal discovers a stray red balloon in the streets of Paris. Pascal and the balloon become fast friends and share many adventures. White Mane: A young fisherman living near the Rhone River in the vast plains of the Camargue in France wins the confidence of a wild stallion named White Mane. Bim, the little donkey: This spirited adventure follows two boys - one poor and good hearted, the other weathy and spoiled...