After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.
Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
Historien om den amerikanske forskeren J. Robert Oppenheimer og hans rolle i utviklingen av atombomben.
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride bygger videre på den mørke, romantiske tradisjonen fra hans tidligere klassikere Edward Saksehånd og Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Handlingen foregår i en europeisk landsby på 1800-tallet og følger Victor (Johnny Depp), en ung mann som forsvinner ned i underverdenen og gifter seg med en mystisk dødsbrud (Helena Bonham Carter), mens hans egentlige brud,Victoria (Emily Watson) venter forsmådd i de levendes verden. Selv om Dødens rike viser seg å være mer fargerikt enn hans egen, strenge oppdragelse, finner Victor ut at ingenting i denne verdenen – eller den neste – kan holde ham borte fra hans store kjærlighet. Dette er en fortelling om optimisme, romantikk og et temmelig livaktig liv etter døden, fortalt på klassisk Burton-vis.
Advokaten Kevin Lomaxskyr ingen midler. For ham er seier i rettssalen det eneste som teller, selv om han vet at de han forsvarer er aldri så skyldige. Med stor sjarm og karisma trollbinder han enhver jury og får sine klienter frikjent. Han har aldri tapt en sak. Til slutt blir han tilbudt jobb i det mektige advokatfirmaet til John Milton. Kevin føler at han er kommet til et paradis på jord - inntil han skjønner hvem han egentlig jobber for.
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.
Two small-town singers chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.