In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy. Was Hoxsey's recipe the work of a snake-oil charlatan or a legitimate treatment? Ken Ausubel directs this keen look into the forces that shape the policies of organized medicine.
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Denne filmen fremstiller krigens meningsløshet og ironi i skyttergravene under første verdenskrig. En kommanderende offiser i den franske hæren må håndtere et mytteri og en general på jakt etter heder og berømmelse etter at en del av styrken til offiseren trekker seg tilbake under ild under et angrep som er dømt til å mislykkes.
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Fjerde og siste gang Cary grant jobbet med Alfred Hitchcock var nettopp i North By Northwest, denne gnistrende gode spionthrilleren fra 1959. Grant spiller en reklamemann på Manhattan som plutselig blir kastet ut i en verden hvor spion står mot spion og ingen helt vet hvem som er fiende eller venn. Han blir selv kidnappet, anklaget for mord, jaktet på og - i en av filmhistoriens mest ikoniske scener - sprøytet ned av et småfly mens han er i fullt sprang over et jorde. North By Northwest er enkelt og greit et ekte mesterverk.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Etter å ha krasjlandet på den vulkanske planeten Mustafar leter Poe og BB-8 etter hjelp i Darth Vaders nifse gamle slott. Der støter de på en sleip hutt, en djerv mekaniker og Darth Vaders gamle tjener Vaneé som underholder dem med tre grufulle fortellinger knyttet til eldgamle artefakter og ikoniske skurker fra alle æraene i Star Wars.
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to humanity in a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research. As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book becomes increasingly well-known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
Jigsaw er død, men det stopper han ikke i å fortsette sine barbariske spill hvor døden ofte er den letteste utveien. Da SWAT-kommandøren Rigg plutselig blir bortført og nådeløst kastet inn i en rekke dødelige feller, blir det klart at Jigsaw trekker i trådene selv fra den andre siden av graven. Samtidig dukker det opp en rekke spor som sammen skaper det totale overblikk over Jigsaws bedrifter og avslører hans virkelige planer, som på rystende vis binder hans ofre fra fortiden, nåtiden og fremtiden sammen.
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.