Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Earl Partridge, bătrân și bolnav, va muri în curând. Îi cere asistentei sale credincioase să-l găsească pe fiul pe care l-a abandonat cândva. Tânăra lui soție, care și-a râvnit averea, ar trebui să se bucure, dar nu reușește. Frank Mackey, tânărul guru catodic al seducției masculine, și-a construit un trecut și o viață. Dar cât timp poate rezista masca? Toate aceste vieți se împletesc pentru o zi ca oricare alta în însorita California.
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Arvid is an ordinary bank clerk who lives a rather unassuming life with his dear girlfriend. But his life is turned completely upside down when he bravely manages to avert a robbery against the bank where he works.
Într-o zi, în timp ce vizitează mormântul părinților săi, Pip vine în ajutorul unui evadat furând mâncare de la gardienii săi. Un timp mai târziu, băiatul este dus într-o casă ciudată, unde timpul pare să se oprească. Acolo întâlnește o bătrână sinistră și tânăra ei protejată, Estella, care îl fascinează. Aceste evenimente vor schimba pentru totdeauna destinul lui Pip...
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
A black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further complications arise due to the reappearance of Bjarne's intellectually disabled twin brother Eigil.
Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get acquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo can't cope with the pressure of becoming a father, leading to trouble with his pregnant wife and especially her brother.
Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
1989. Zidul Berlinului va cãdea în curând, iar lumea va deveni un loc mai sigur, în care va putea fi instauratã noua ordine mondialã. Dar în afara orasului Stuttgart, în Germania de Vest, la baza militarã Theodore Roosevelt, specialistul Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix), din Batalionul 31 de Aprovizionare, îsi dã seama cã Rãzboiul Rece începe sã frigã. Elwood este un ticãlos încântãtor, un recrut care a reusit sã transforme calvarul militãriei într-o înfloritoare retea de afaceri ilegale, mai mult din plictisealã decât din ambitie. Oficial, în timpul zilei este secretarul batalionului, si ascultã ordinele prostãnacului, dar generosului comandant Wallace Berman (Ed Harris). Pe de altã parte, Elwood nu se dã în lãturi de la nimic, de la furtul de la localnici pânã la procurarea de heroinã pentru nemilosul sef al Politiei Militare, sergentul Saad.
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
The people who live in Reza's village think of him as a simple minded young man. He transports passengers through the road which has been destroyed by flood on his motor bike when he meets a young girl who's the new teacher of the village school and falls in love with her. A love so pure that ends in driving him crazy and it seems like only a miracle can save him. "God is Close" is Vazirian's first feature film and it is about love from a spiritual point of view which ends to a miraculous experience.
To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientele, who depend on his keen eye and smug discretion. So when a heavy-metal musician dies mid-concert, Fairlane is on the case before the lights come up. But things turn shocking when radio personality Johnny Crunch hires Fairlane to find a missing groupie mere hours before he is electrocuted live on air.
Daniel, a biologist studying the disappearance of fish, is haunted by paternity. It is by looking for a woman who could be the mother of his children that he will come across a strange fish and discover what he really lacks: love.
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its absolute fullest out in this spectacular mountain town.