Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.
The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.
General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind.
Det tyskbesatte Holland, 1945. I en sneklædt landsby drømmer Michiel på 14 om at slutte sig til modstandsbevægelsen. Da han hjælper en såret britisk faldskærmssoldat, får han sit ønske opfyldt. Men Michiels eventyrlyst forandres snart til frygt og desperation. Omstændighederne tvinger ham til at gribe til handling, men hvem blandt de voksne i landsbyen kan han stole på?
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Gøg og Gokke slår sig på hjemmebrænderi i forbudstidens USA, men da Gøg i sin salige uvidenhed prøver at sælge sprut til en politibetjent, havner makkerparret bag tremmer. Her får de problemer med Gøgs løse tand og en ilter lærer, før det lykkes dem at flygte til en bomuldsplantage.
I 2002 sendes CIA-agenten Valerie Plame's mand, diplomaten Joe Wilson, til Niger for at undersøge, om landet sælger beriget uranium til Irak. Joe konkluderer, at det ikke er tilfældet. Da George W. Bush alligevel vælger at invadere Irak, skriver Joe i en avisartikel, at det er på et falsk grundlag. Det bliver begyndelsen på et mareridt for ægteparret. For at straffe Joe er der nemlig nogen i Bush's regering, der lækker til pressen, at hans kone er spion.
A waitress who won't put out for her boss has the misfortune of quitting her job just as the bar is being robbed by a notorious thief...
A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
Sugar Ray driver en succesfuld natklub sammen med sin adoptivsøn Quick i 1930'ernes Harlem. Den hvide gangster Bugsy Calhoun arbejder sammen med en korrupt politmand og forsøger at presse Sugar til at betale bekyttelsespenge. For at får skovlen under Bugsy forsøger Sugar og Quick at spille en stor sum penge på en boksekamp, der arrangeres af Bugsys bookmaker. Sprøgsmålet er bare om Bugsy bider på krogen.
Scott Roper, som har talegaverne i orden. Hans velsmurte mundtøj og rappe replikker har gjort ham til en af de mest ansete betjente hos politiet i San Francisco. Med sine uortodokse men overbevisende arbejdsmetoder er han blevet styrkens bedste gidselforhandler. Ropers liv forandres, da han får en ny ung skydeglad makker Kevin, som han skal lære op. Samtidig står han overfor en ny opgave, hvor psykopaten Korda holder flere personer som gidsler. Gidseldramaet udvikler sig til et mareridt for Roper. Han skal både holde sin skydegale makker i en kort snor og samtidig holde øje med Kordas morderiske leg med menneskeliv.
At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.
I fremtidens fængsler er der ikke brug for gitre eller mure. I stedet forsynes fangerne med hver sin Wedlock, et elektronisk halsbånd der detonerer, hvis man forsøger at fjerne det - eller befinder sig mere end hundrede meter fra den hemmelige medfange, som man er lænket sammen med via Wedlock'en. Frank Warren dømmes til livstid efter at have iscenesat et raffineret diamantkup, gemt udbyttet og derfor forrådt af sine medsammensvorne. Men hurtigt lykkes det ham at finde ud af, hvem hans hemmelige medfange er, og flygter sammen med hende. I den vanvittige jagt, der nu følger, må Frank slås mod både politiet og medsammensvorne, samt holde rede på udbyttet, få fjernet sprængladningen omkring sin hals og dermed sin forhadte medfange - alt i mens hans vanvid til stadighed vokser. Frank Warren skal ikke "springes i luften" af sin Wedlock!
Den magtfulde tv-journalist John Tanner har inviteret sine venner og deres koner ud i sin weekendhytte på landet. Men CIA-agenten Lawrence Fassett får Tanner overbevist om, at en af gæsterne er russisk spion. Fassett sætter videoovervågningsudstyr op i hele hytten, og paranoiaen breder sig, efterhånden som Tanner aner, at han bare bliver brugt som brik i et indviklet dobbeltspil.
China O'Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to her father and the small town where she grew up. The peaceful town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organized crime. When her father, the town sheriff, is killed China decides to run for his position and clean up the town. The poll results spark a series of confrontations that finally decide who runs the town . . .
An agoraphobic woman notices a strange hole growing in a wall of her home as she fights off a growing illness.
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
Youssef's cousin Jamila is said to be forced into marriage, but at the henna evening the German groom is disfigured with baseball bats. Soon afterwards, Youssef and his fellow detective Anne Fuchs find Jamila's secret lover - dead.