Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?
Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.
Young American woman Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) falls victim to the same mysterious and relentless supernatural curse known as "The Grudge" that once afflicted her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who still managed to escape the ghost of the abandoned house in Tokyo. But now many people will be infected by the grudge and die a dreadful death. How long will the chain of victims be? Is there a force that can thwart the vengeful ghost?
In New York, when the unlucky newcomer Slevin arrives in the apartment of his friend Nick Fisher for a leisure time, he is mistakenly taken as being his friend, who debts money to two powerful bosses of the criminal world. He is pressed by The Boss to kill the gay son of The Rabbi, as a payback for the death of The Boss's son. Nick's next door neighbor Lindsay, who works in the morgue, tries to help Slevin and they fall in love for each other. Meanwhile, the cold-blood killer Mr. Goodkat is mysteriously helping both crime lords, while Slevin is also pressed by Detective Brikowski, who is chasing The Boss and The Rabbi. In the end, revenge is a dish best served cold.
The suspenseful drama revolves around Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), an aging gay who works as a late-night radio show host. When his program is on the air, Gabriel receives a phone call from a 14-year-old listener, Pete (Rory Culkin), who tells him the sad story of his hard life. As a child, Pete suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his parents who are serving time in federal prison now. After his parents' arrest his life, however, didn't become easier. Pete was adopted by a kind-hearted blind woman, Donna D. Logand (Toni Collette), but shortly afterwards doctors found that he had a terminal case of AIDS. The story of the little martyr evokes strong emotions in Gabriel, and he develops a friendly phone relationship with the boy. Eventually, Gabriel begins to have paternal feelings for the poor boy. But he soon discovers the bitter truth...
Police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) gets a letter from his ex-fiancée Willow (Kate Beahan), who left him ten years ago, on the eve of the wedding, without any explanation. In the letter she implores Edward to find her missing daughter, Rowan (Erika-Shaye Gair). Without hesitation, he travels to a remote island inhabited by members of a pagan community ruled by an elderly woman, Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), and discovers that they are going to sacrifice the young girl during a festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth" to improve their harvest. The events take a decidedly sinister turn when Edward sets out on his investigation to find the abducted girl and save her life.
This engrossing docudrama follows three young British Muslims Shafiq Rasul (Riz Ahmed), Rhuhel Ahmed (Farhad Harun) and Asif Iqbal (Afran Usman) who travel to Pakistan for a relative's wedding. By a strange quirk of fate they find themselves mistaken for Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives and captured by U.S. forces, while crossing the Afghanistan border. As a result, they are transported and held for three years in the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.
The dramedy follows Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) who is raised by his alcoholic father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), and his mentally unstable mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening). His mother deludes herself into thinking she is a fine poet, and unsuccessfully tries to publish her works, hoping to become famous. When the Burroughs' marriage ends, Deirdre commits her teenage son to the care of her psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox). From now the confused boy has to spend his adolescence in Dr. Finch's large and eccentric family.
A sumptuous mansion in a beautiful place seems to be a Garden of Eden. Dr. and Mrs. Mandrakis (Derek de Lint and Kate Jennings Grant) go away, leaving their two young kids in care of a babysitter, young high school student Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle). She whiles away the hours snooping around the house and trying on jewelry. What seems like an uneventful evening unexpectedly becomes her worst nightmare. At first, Jill gets a phone call from a menacing stranger (Tommy Flanagan) who asks if everything is okay. She goes upstairs to check the kids and finds them safe and asleep in bed. But the stranger keeps on calling and spooking the teenage girl. Her fear eventually escalates into panic attack. Jill desperately phones the police, only to find that the man who terrorizes her by making eerie phone calls is inside the house with her!
Everyone has a dirty little secret. Some people would like to bury their past forever but they don't manage to. On Independence Day five sidekicks, Colby Patterson (David Paetkau), Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin), Roger (Seth Packard), Zoe (Torrey DeVitto) and PJ (Clayton Taylor), play a seemingly harmless, foolish prank that results in an accidental death of one of them. The four friends stealthily dispose of PJ's dead body and swear to themselves to keep the incident a secret. But one year later, they receive anonymous messages indicating that someone else knows what they did last summer. Moreover, it becomes apparent that a mysterious stranger doesn't intend to confine himself to sending threatening messages. If they can't figure out the identity of the unknown avenger, their terrible secret will be buried forever together with their dead bodies...
The outrageous hilarious comedy chronicles the everyday wild pranks of four childhood friends who enjoy risking their lives for the sake of fun. Jarno "Mastermind", Jarppi "Daredevil", Jukka "Showman", Jarno "Mastermind", HP "Bonebreaker" are totally anarchistic guys who know neither bounds nor rules. From dawn to dusk the fearless Dudesons, along with their 500-lb pet pig named Britney, live their lives to the fullest by making indoor bonfires and performing dangerous motorcycle jumps.
In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn't stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them.
The satirical comedy centers on famous Kazakh television personality Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) who is assigned by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to travel to the USA so as to make a documentary about this 'greatest country in the world'. While in the United States, he sees an episode of Baywatch on TV and instantly becomes infatuated with sexy Pamela Anderson. Borat feels an urge to get married to her and, without thinking twice, sets out on a quest for the most desirable woman on Earth. On the way to California, he carries on gathering footage for his documentary and has a great many adventures while interviewing and interacting with Americans.
Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed.
In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.
Set in the sordid underworld of prostitution and gang crime in London, this violent and gory crime thriller follows two girls, middle-aged hooker Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) and 11-year-old runaway Joanne (Georgia Groome). After Kelly's pimp, Derek (Johnny Harris) coerces the underage girl to act against her will and have intercourse with a client, Duncan Allen (Alexander Morton), the girls become involved in a brutal stabbing of the old man. They leave him to bleed in the bathtub and flee to the railway station where they board a train for Brighton. When Stuart Allen (Sam Spruell), a merciless gangster, discovers his father dead, he orders Derek to find the girls within 24 hours. Otherwise he will lose his head...
The 1860s, the end of the American Civil War. Gideon (Pierce Brosnan), deft and experienced with a knife, is hiding in the American Rockies. Eventually, several mountain men, hired to hunt for Gideon, shoot and wound him. It appears that the hunt was organized by Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson), a Confederate officer who has been long craving for getting even with Gideon... But what is his sin?
Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a 65-year-old cynical, disdainful woman with a lot of experience under her belt. She is a formidable long-tenured history teacher at a London comprehensive school who is feared but respected by both her students and colleagues. A lonely old maid, Barbara unburdens herself to a diary, her only companion. The habitual course of events is changed by the appearance of a young art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), who charms both the faculty and her pupils, including the acerbate Barbara. She instantly takes the new teacher under her wing. For Covett, Sheba is more than a friend; she is the object of her sexual interest. Later, Barbara discovers that she is not the only one attracted to the beautiful Sheba. As it turns out, Sheba cheats on her older husband Richard (Bill Nighy) by having illicit amorous encounters with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), who is deeply infatuated with her. However, Barbara isn't going to take it lying down. She knows how to take advantage of it.
After the U.S. has installed a new democratic government in a small East European country, a group of well-armed communist rebels makes a coup attempt. In order to escape from the enraged insurgents, newly-elected president Yuri Amirev (Serban Celea) flees to the U.S. embassy, hoping to seek refuge there. Then the unrelenting insurgents assault the embassy and open fire, demanding Amirev's head. When Ambassador George Norland (Colin Stinton) is killed, it falls to his second-in-command, Sam Keenan (Jean-Claude Van Damme), to defend the besieged embassy and prevent the attackers from realizing their nefarious plans.
