A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Året er 1979, den iranske revolusjonen nærmer seg sitt klimaks. Militante grupper stormer den amerikanske ambassaden i Iran, der de tar 52 amerikanere som gissel. I kaoset greier seks av gislene å unnslippe og søke tilflukt i hjemmet til den kanadiske ambassadøren. Vel vitende om at det bare er et spørsmål om tid før gislene blir funnet og drept, kommer CIA-ekspert Tony Mendez opp med en risikabel plan for å få de seks trygt ut av Iran. Planen er så vanvittig at den bare kunne skjedd på film ... Den særdeles kritikerroste thrilleren Argo er basert på virkelige hendelser som i flere tiår var ukjente for offentligheten.
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers before each segment.
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Superpolitimann Frank Debrin er på farten igjen. Han er i hvert fall super når det gjelder å dumme seg ut. Det får han anledning til i fullt monn siden han nå opererer i Washington DC, blant presidenter og annet fintfolk. Han blir denne gangen innvolvert i en sak der skumle mennesker bytter ut presidentens miljøpolitiske rådgiver. Hvem vil vel ha en miljøvernforkjemper i en slik stilling? Mye bedre da og erstatte ham med en dobbeltgjenger som vil at folk skal kjøre mere bil, bygge nye kjernekraftverk og fyre med mere kull. Uheldigvis for de slu forbryterne er Jane Spencer - Debrins tapte kjæreste - PR-sjef for den kidnappede miljømann. Og dermed blir til alt hell og all ulykke Frank satt på saken.
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.
Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.
A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient Asian artifact.
Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away from her. The journey takes the dwarves to a depressive, rhyming Pinocchio and the omniscient wizard Helge, among others, and all the way to the world of humans.