During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
En mann vandrer gjennom en voldsom storm og søker ly på et spisested. Men personalet synes det er vanskelig å forstå ham, han er midt i en manisk oppblussing. Mannen heter David Helfgott, og han er en strålende konsertpianist som ble spådd en strålende fremtid da han som vidunderbarn spilte som ingen andre. Men barndomstraumet fra hans forferdelige far kastet ham ut i psykisk lidelse, og resten av livet skulle bli en kamp for å gjenoppdage sitt indre geni.
Et Japan herjet av økonomisk nedgang, kaos og en ungdomsgenerasjon ute av kontroll ruller dommedagstungt inn i det nye millenniet. Staten smeller jernneven i bordet og griper inn i et forsøk på å få bukt med rebelske og voldelige skoleelever. Den radikale reformen Battle Royale innføres: hvert år velges en tilfeldig skoleklasse ut, dopes ned og transporteres til en øde øy. Der utstyres de med eksplosive halslenker, matrasjoner og hvert sitt tilfeldige våpen. Deretter er oppgaven enkel: drep alle andre! Det er ingen regler. Alt er lov. Men det er bare én vinner - den som fremdeles står levende igjen til slutt. Og som en liten ekstra motivasjonsfaktor for å få blodtørsten på topp: er mer enn én fremdeles levende etter tre dager detoneres halslenkene, og alle dør.
Rahul Subramanian's stand up comedy solo 'Kal Main Udega' is filled with unrelated topics, no transitions, inconsequential takes on consequential subjects and also a bit of mildly bad dancing.
Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.
The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.
Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ends when sex enters into a relationship. Determined to prevent this from happening with his latest love-interest—a sexy young woman named Fanfan (Sophie Marceau)—he decides that platonic love is the solution. Despite the wonderful, romantic, and inventive ways Alexandre finds for them to spend time together, Fanfan is left disappointed by his refusal to make love to her. Their exciting relationship becomes jeopardized by Alexandre's unwillingness to change his new approach to love.
After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.
Survivalist Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, to find that the little town has been shaken up again by morphing, man-eating Graboids.
Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo.