Tragiškai žuvus partneriui, detektyvas Skotis jaučiasi kaltas dėl jo mirties. Jis ima paniškai bijoti aukščio, kankina depresija. Skotis pasitraukia iš detektyvo darbo. Netrukus į jį kreipiasi senas bičiulis Gevinas, kuris nerimauja dėl savo žmonos Madlen, turinčios polinkį į savižudybę. Šiaip ne taip Gevinas prikalbina buvusį detektyvą sekti moterį ir apsaugoti nuo galimos nelaimės. Žiūrėdamas į Madlen, galerijoje sėdinčią priešais moters portretą, detektyvas pastebi, kad ji panaši į moterį iš paveikslo. Paaiškėja, kad tai Madlen promočiutė, kuri nusižudė būdama tokio paties amžiaus. Sekdamas paslaptingąją Madlen, Skotis ją įsimyli, tačiau jam vėl tenka susidurti su savo baime.
The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.
An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother was exterminated.
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.
Soo-hyun, who has recently moved into a new house, buys a used washing machine through a second-hand app but finds out it doesn't work. Annoyed by the seller's irresponsibility, she leaves a comment calling the seller a con man, and reports it to the police. Little does she know that the seller is a psychopathic serial killer who uses an online second-hand market to lure his victims. Her comment renders his hunt for a new victim all but impossible so she becomes his next target. She starts receiving obscene phone calls, countless unwanted food deliveries, and strange men knocking on her door looking fora good time. A trip to the sender's address proves deadly serious when the police and Soo-hyun find a man's dead body.
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.