High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Bennett Millerin ohjaamassa Capotessa keskitytään kirjailijan menestysteokseen Kylmäverisesti. Kirja on tosipohjainen raportti vuonna 1959 Kansasissa tapahtuneesta maanviljelijäperheen raa’asta murhasta ja surmatyön tehneiden kahden nuoren miehen kohtalosta.
10-vuotias montanalainen maalaispoika on keksinyt ikiliikkujan ja lähtee seikkailuntäyteiselle matkalle mantereen halki noutamaan arvokasta tiedepalkintoa.
In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' roll singer. But in his absence, a sinister, sunshine-hating owl prepares to take over.
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself.
Kolmesta lyhyestä tarinasta koostuva kauhuleffa, jossa on paljon komedian piirteitä ja runsaasti isoja nimiä näyttelemässä.
James L. Brooks muistetaan Oscar-palkituista elokuvista Hellyydenehdoilla ja Elämä on ihanaa. Elämänmakuista draamaa tarjoaa myös Spanglish – kielikukkasia, joka seuraa varakkaan kalifornialaisperheen ja meksikolaisen kotiapulaisen yhteiseloa.Elokuva alkaa nokkelana komediana, mutta venähtää lopulta tunteelliseksi perhedraamaksi. Poliittisesti korrektin leffan henkilöt ovat myös melko lailla arvattavia.
Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
Two female teachers and a male student hit with the inevitable disturbance of a coming whirlpool.
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there simply for rest and relaxation, while others act with different motivations. Multiple plot lines unfold simultaneously as different characters' stories are presented.
Illionoisissa, unisessa Haddonfieldin kaupungissa, yrittäjä Freddie Harris on valmiina rahastamaan uudella internet ideallaan nimeltään”vaaraviihde”, jossa tehtävänä on viettää Halloween- yö Michael Myersin ränsistyneessä lapsuudenkodissa. Hän on värvännyt seikkailun osanottajiksi 6 eri alan opiskelijaa, jotka ovat jo valmiina kohtaamaan kaikki kaameudet - ja korjaamaan palkintopottina olevat stipendit. Harris assistentteineen on puolestaan valmiina omiin Halloween yllätyksiinsä.