This is the first feature film about the life of a hand (named Handy). After a lifetime spent with its owner (a bad writer) Handy decides to detach from the human body in order to prove that a stand alone hand can be the best writer ever...but the consequences of this action are going to affect all the other hands in the world...
Nevada, 1885. Kauboji Gil Carver (H. Fonda) i Art Croft (H. Morgan) stižu u mali grad. Stigne vijest kako su razbojnici ubili mjesnog stočara Larryja Kinkaida i oteli njegovu stoku. Najratoborniji mještani formiraju grupu za linč, koja odluči krenuti u potragu i sama presuditi razbojnicima. Arthur Davies (H. Davenport) moli ih da odustanu ili barem pričekaju šerifa, no Kinkaidov prijatelj Farnley (M. Lawrence) i nekadašnji vojnik bojnik Tetley (F. Conroy) raspiruju gomilu. Nakon kratke potrage osvetnici pronalaze trojicu ljudi: Donalda Martina (D. Andrews), Juana Martineza (A. Quinn) i Halvu Harveya (F. Ford). Iako zarobljenici tvrde da su nevini, razjarena gomila priprema omče za vješanje...
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
A Jewish pawnbroker, a victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism.
An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
"A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
Left by her fiancé for another woman, Ava joins the circus to reclaim her forgotten wildness.
Grupa avanturista želi iskoristiti njemačku podmornicu iz Drugog svjetskog rata za izvođenje vrlo velike pljačke; 'Kraljicu Mary' koju planiraju opljačkati na otvorenom moru.
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his daughter, who changes her career more often than her clothes, has begun dating a man old enough to be Leonard's father! On top of it all, the government has asked him to come back and save the world again.