When a four-year-old girl, Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien), goes mysteriously missing in Dochester, one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods, and the local police fail to solve the case, her aunt, Beatrice McCready (Amy Madigan), turn to two private investigators for help. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly start an investigation as they have little experience with this type of case. But they succeed in getting on the trail of the girl's abductors due to criminal contacts. They discover that Amanda's drug-addicted mother, Helen (Amy Ryan), and her boyfriend cleaned out one of the local drug dealers who in revenge kidnapped the kid. They promise to pay him back in exchange for the girl; however, the switch goes horribly awry. Patrick and Angie come to realize that they have taken on the perilous job but their professional arrogance forces them to see it through.
With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.
When jealous superior officers transfer London's successful constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) to the remote sleepy town of Sandford, he tries to accommodate himself to a seemingly crime-free life in the village as well as to his oafish partner, Danny Butterman(Nick Frost). However, a series of ghastly crimes that rocks the town make Nicholas realize that Sandford is not what it seems at first glance. Angel and the overzealous Butterman set out to solve the murder cases.
All his life schoolteacher Frank Sears (Johnathon Schaech) has carried with him a strange scar given to him by his mother before she committed suicide. The markings lead Frank to a top secret Cold War military project where an unstoppable, malignant organism is unleashed. Unaware that the creature feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, the army prepares to deploy its most sinister of all weapons - a nuclear bomb. Facing certain global catastrophe, Frank discovers his father had a diabolical connection to the creature's origin. With a ticking nuclear clock, Frank, along with the help of a hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn (Erica Leerhsen), must confront the grim reality that only he is capable of stopping this living hell.
Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) — a respectable family man, a prosperous businessman, a generous philanthropist, one of so-called pillars of society — wins Man of the Year awards. The old saying goes that still waters run deep. Earl has a secret life full of terrific things. He is a brilliant and diabolical serial killer who manages to conceal his double life from his family and avoid being caught by police thanks to the efforts of his cunning alter ego Marshall (William Hurt). He is too wide awake to be caught napping. But one day Mr. Brooks ends up embroiled in the sinister agenda of an opportunistic, voyeuristic photographer, Mr. Smith (Dane Cook), who has accidentally witnessed the sadistic crime and now wants to adopt Earl's methods so as to become a killer himself. Meanwhile, hotshot police detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is on Earl's trail...
Justine (Nina Dobrev) is a teenage girl who lives a normal life, loving her mother, dating a boy... until one day she becomes an unwilling accomplice of a robbery. Moreover, the robbed store is the one Justine's mother (Jennifer Grant) works in, and the robbers are Justine's troublesome boyfriend (Steve Byers) and his brother. The girl suffers morally being torn apart between revealing the apalling secret to her mother and sending her boyfriend to jail.
When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police's apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose
Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect (Kelly Reilly) becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house. And when the neighbouring farmers take against the unborn child, it's her very survival that is threatened.
David (Nick Barton) convinces his friends that there is money-for-the-taking buried at his uncle's Ranch and that he can lead them to it. His cousin Ashley (Estella Gomez) warns them that the place has a grim history, but the promise of riches is all too enticing. In trying to find the money, they uncover something buried within us all and one by one they mysteriously disappear.
In her mid-twenties, Tory Bodeen returns to the small Carolina town of her childhood, where her best friend Hope was murdered in an unsolved assault. Tory is blessed - or maybe cursed - with the ability to see events in the past and present, and although at the time she knew what has happening to Hope, she was unable to prevent it or to see who the assailant was. Her father, a righteous religious fanatic, remains a suspect. As the anniversary of Hopes death approaches, Tory resolves to face her demons with the help of childhood friends - her cousin Wade, Hope's sister Faith, and Hope's brother Cade, who still carries a torch for her. Will friends be enough?
Hitchcockian film noir/thriller set in the exclusive resort community of The Hamptons. Trophy husband Davis Meyers meets local investigator Linus. Davis Meyers' ill-fated attempt to produce an heir leads to infidelity, murder and tragic consequences. Classic film noir in the style of the '40s and '50s.
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine. He embarks upon this journey guided by the roots of a plant, leading the way and the main subject of attention of the REZO.
Montag the Magnificent (Glover) is a master illusionist who performs at underground venues, selecting female volunteers from his rave-like audiences. To their hysteria, it appears he's dismembered their bodies, but his sleigh of hand has fooled them. However, female bodies show up dead from the same wounds performed on stage. Investigators are baffled, and the chase to find the killer begins.
You've got mail! Every time young college student Sam hears the sound of her email box a nightmare begins. Driven by terrifying hallucinations and with no one to trust Sam finds herself on the verge of insanity. Confronted with a mysterious murder she tries to break the hideous circle. The truth, however, becomes even more blurred and reality, phantasms and nightmares draw her into a dark abyss...
An adaptation of Richard Price's novel "Freedomland" portrays a single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) who thinks her son is dead after he is disappeared. She tells police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a terrible story of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides two towns. She claims that her child was kidnapped by an African-American. This reveals the long-existing racial animosity between two towns...
A Denzel Washington's tough cop struggles against a perfectionist bank robber Dalton (Clive Owen). Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a well-planned siege, and the people inside become unwitting pawns in an airtight robbery. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) is having something to protect so he has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster) who turns the situation to be even more unstable.
Seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue is taking place in Michael Caton-Jones' sequel to a classic erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven. The story begins when Catherine Tramell, a brilliant and ageless Sharon Stone's character, falls in the river having sex with the famous sport star. Dr Michael Glass is involved to perform a psychiatric check of seductive Tramell who became the suspect again as the soccer star had died in the accident. Having moved from San Francisco to London, Catherine did not lose even a bit of her success as a famous best-selling writer and as a pernicious temptress, so Dr Glass soon felt the power of her bewitching sexuality and her grasp being slowly drawn into a labyrinth of Tramell's intrigue.
An outstanding symbologist Robert Langdon is brought in to decrypt the strange cipher found near the dead body: Louvre curator is killed inside the museum leaving numerous symbols and clues to be solved. Police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, a granddaughter of the curator murdered helps Langdon in his inquiries and he unveils some stunning secrets leading to an ancient society which keeps its mysteries for much more the one thousand years. The pair sets off on a dangerous quest through France, London and Scotland, collects clues in attempts to crack the code and reveal its shaking secrets.Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou starring in this famous screen version of Dan Brown's bestseller.
The L.A. of a not-too-distant future suffers a surge of drug abuse involving a new ultra-addictive and eventually brain-damaging substance simply named "D". Bob Arctor is an undercover narc leading a double life, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever normal existence he had for a "D" user/dealer career. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting stress.
