Ujo asianajaja ihastuu amerikkalaiseen kaunottareen ja sotkeutuu tämän suorittamaan timanttivarkauteen. Naisen suunnitelmia sotkevat myös mielipuolisen macho poikaystävä ja änkyttävä eläintenystävä.
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
1970-luvun Los Angelesissa näyttelijäksi pyrkivä Cheryl toivoo nostetta uralleen ja ilmoittautuu deittiohjelmaan etsimään omaa napakymppiään, tietämättä, että kilpailun sujuvasanaisin ja kohteliain osallistuja on todellisuudessa sarjamurhaaja.
Texasilainen Charlie Wilson ei ole lainkaan kunniallinen tai kovin korkeaa moraalia omaava kongressinjäsen, jonka kanta määräytyy pääasiallisesti sen mukaan, minkälaista etua siitä on hänelle itselleen. Mutta jopa hän tuntee sisuskaluissaan pistoksen, kun rikas oikeistolainen seurapiirilady Joanne Herring lähettää hänet tutustumaan Pakistaniin, jossa 1980 luvun Afganistanin sodan seuraukset näkyvät tuhansien ja taas tuhansien ihmisten pakolaisleireissä. Kun Wilson saa selville, että afganistanilaisia vastarintataistelijoita avustetaan USA:sta nimellisellä 5 miljoonan dollarin vuosibudjetilla, hän alkaa vaatia muutoksia. CIA:n virkamiehen Gust Avrakotos, Herringin ja nokkelan assisstenttinsa Bonnie Bachin kera Wilson alkaa käydä ”omaa” sotaansa auttaakseen afganistanilaisia taistelijoita kommunismin vastaisessa taistelussa, ja jotta nämä pystyisivät suojemaan perheitään ja maataan ylivoimaisen neuvostovihollisen iskuilta. Elokuva perustuu Charlie Wilsonin omaelämänkertaan.
Annie Braddock haluaa ottaa collegen jälkeen aikalisän ja menee vauraan newyorkilaisperheen lastenhoitajaksi miettiäkseen rauhassa, mitä isona tekisi. Perheen hemmoteltu ja huomionkipeä poika Grayer jää täysin Annien kontolle kun äiti keskittyy omiin hyväntekeväisyysprojekteihinsa ja isä loistaa poissaolollaan. Hienostokodin vankina Anniella on täysi työ löytää aikaa orastavalle uudelle romanssille.
No job is too absurd for Jakob: in a glitter suit with stick-on sideburns, he sings Elvis Presley songs for crooning old ladies - not exactly the musical Olympics, but he needs the money. Now Jakob has the job of transporting a valuable stud ram to Norway by car, because the ram doesn't like flying. Just before he sets off, Jakob's long-forgotten lover Julia calls and announces the arrival of her-their-12-year-old daughter May. The stubborn teenager has taken it into her head to visit the father she has never met. So May has to come along to Norway too. However, with an angrily bleating ram in the back and an arrogant 'goat' in the passenger seat, Jakob has much more than he can cope with.
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.
Hereafter kertoo kolmesta ihmisestä, jotka joutuvat kohtaamaan kuolevaisuuden eri tavoilla. Matt Damon esittää Georgea, amerikkalaista duunaria, jolla on erityinen yhteys tuonpuoleiseen. Toisella puolella maapalloa ranskalainen journalisti Marie (Cécile de France) käy lähellä kuolemaa ja kokemus sysää hänen maailmansa raiteiltaan. Lontoolainen koulupoika Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren) menettää itselleen läheisimmän ihmisen, ja kaipaa kipeästi vastauksia. Jokainen heistä etsii totuutta omalla tahollaan, kun heidän polkunsa risteävät. Se, mitä he uskovat löytävänsä tuonpuoleisesta, muuttaa heidän elämänsä lopullisesti.
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is embarrassed to see their ruse exposed to the world by an overzealous television reporter. Now, Brad and Kate are left with precious little choice other than to swallow their pride and suffer the rounds.
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
Nearly a decade after a faulty product landed him in prison, an arrogant inventor is determined to restore his reputation and rebuild his fortune. But first, he has to convince his estranged daughter that he's worthy of a second chance.
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing they want more—a baby.
New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.