When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison.
The plot revolves around four characters. The thief, Albert Spica (Michael Gambon), is a stout man with a broad and thick beard. Brute and boorish, he abuses people, including his aristocratic and reserved wife, Georgina (Helen Mirren). Enslaved and humbled, Georgina enters into a liaison relationship with a gentle bookseller, Michael (Alan Howard). They have intimacy between meals in the kitchen of her husband's restaurant. When Albert gets to know about their affair, he and his men track down Georgina's lover and kill him in his book store. Having found Michael's dead body, Georgina plots her long-awaited vengeance. She brings the body to the restaurant's chef, Richard (Richard Bohringer), and asks him to cook it. She then presents her lover's roasted flesh to her vicious husband and suggests that he take a bite of it. Surrounded by Albert's other victims, the wife shoots him as soon as he cuts a piece of the flesh.
9-year-old naïve, tender-hearted girl Jessica Riggs (Rebecca Harrell) still believes in magic and Santa Claus despite numerous offensive ridicules of her peers. So when she stumbles across a deer with an injured leg in the heart of the forest, she is dead sure that it is Prancer, one of Santa Claus' "eight flying tiny reindeer." The compassionate little girl feels it her duty to help the wounded animal, therefore she keeps the deer in her barn in secret and nurses it back to health, aided by her troublesome older brother Steve (John Joseph Duda) and sympathetic doctor Orel Benton (Abe Vigoda). Jessica is intent on returning Prancer to Santa (Michael Constantine) when it gets well, but unfortunately her father John (Sam Elliot) finds the suffering animal and comes up with an idea of selling it to the butcher...
It's Christmas season and Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) promises his beloved wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) and his adorable kids, Audrey (Juliette Lewis) and Russell (Johnny Galecki), to make the most fun-filled and exciting celebration in their lives. He invites his long-estranged parents, Clark Wilhelm (John Randolph) and Nora (Diane Ladd), his Aunt Bethany (Mae Questel) and Uncle Lewis (William Hickey), and his wife's parents, Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and Francis Smith (Doris Roberts), to celebrate a great holiday at their house in Chicago. It should be noted that Clark answers his big family's expectations. In addition to traditional dishes, the Christmas menu includes an exploding turkey on the dinner table, the Christmas bonus bugaboo, the electrocution of a cat, and the police raid which gives zest to the holiday.
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) first meets Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) when they share a car ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. They repeatedly lose touch with each other but fate keeps bringing them together time and again. Their relationship blossoms into an abiding friendship which they value very much. They come to each other's assistance in emergencies and help each other in finding true love. But who would have thought that Harry and Sally would face the challenge threatening to ruin their close friendship?
The satirical documentary revolves around General Motors, a multinational corporation which betrayed those who believed in the American dream by closing its factories in the thriving town of Flint, Michigan in the mid-1980s. The closure resulted in the loss of 33,000 jobs and the economical devastation of the town. Filmmaker Michael Moore doggedly and unsuccessfully tries to meet and obtain an interview from General Motors Chairman Roger Smith who throws various obstacles in his way.
Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) lives in an average American suburban neighborhood, the 'Burbs, where people know absolutely everything about each other. The residents' peaceful existence is shattered when some strange new neighbors move into a tumbledown house next to Ray. The eccentric Klopeks spend midnight hours digging in their back yard and firing the huge furnace in the basement where weird sounds are heard from. When an old man of the neighborhood, Walter Seznick (Gale Gordon), mysteriously goes missing, the suburbanites start to suspect the bizarre family. Armed with guns, pickaxes and binoculars, they decide to visit the creepy house to figure out the Klopeks' secrets. They will make a really shocking discovery...
Jay Trotter (Richard Dreyfuss), an average cab driver and unsuccessful habitual gambler, has waited for a day when he will hit the jackpot. At length comes a day when Lady Luck smiles on him. His buddy Looney (David Johansen), who is also a cab driver, overhears his passengers' conversation and tells him about a fixed horse race and a horse that is supposed to win. Without thinking twice, Trotter heads for the track to back that horse and wins. In the hilarious excitement, he makes a bet again and miraculously wins again. And this is just the beginning of a streak of good luck.
Heathers are the three most beautiful and popular high school girls and their popularity never leaves Veronica (Winona Ryder) in peace. She'd like to take up the Heathers' social position but she doesn't want to bear with their arrogance. Veronica's new boyfriend Jason Dean (Christian Slater) turns out to be much more decided than she is. Soon, one of the Heathers was found dead with a suicide note near her.
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
In the sequel of 'The Fly', Seth Brundle's son Martin (Eric Stoltz) was born after his human-fly dad was killed by his mother who died in childbirth. The baby was adopted by his father's colleague, Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson). He is going to use the boy in his experiments and wait until the fly genes begin showing up. However, Martin doesn't like the idea of being an experimental animal. Together with his girlfriend Beth (Daphne Zuniga), he escapes and tries to turn into a normal human.
Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.
Two teenage slackers Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) living in a small town near Los Angeles are still in high school and about to get expelled in case they do not prepare well their upcoming history presentation. Failure will mean their separation and the collapse of their sweet dream to create a music band as Ted's father will sure send him to military school. A time traveller named Rufus(George Carlin) suddenly emerges from the future and gives the mishap guys a telephone booth so they can travel through time and succeed in this stupid history report. So, Bill and Ted gather up historical figures among whom are Socrates (Tony Steedman), Napoleon (Terry Camilleri), Beethoven (Clifford David), Zigmund Freud, and Joan of Arc (Jane Wiedlin).
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future. He is the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that's threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But a woman is kidnapped by the martial artist's evil nemesis while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads him right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment.
Jessie is an ageing career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past. So when Adam approaches Jessie with a scheme for a burglary he's shocked, but not necessarily disinterested....
Bob Russel, his wife Cindy Russel, and their three kids, 8-year-old Miles, 6-year old Maizy, and 15-year-old Tia, recently moved from Indianapolis to Chicago, and Tia resents Bob and Cindy for it because Tia, Miles, and Maizy were perfectly happy living in Indianapolis. Bob and Cindy are in bed one night when Cindy's aunt calls and tells them that Cindy's father has had a heart attack. Bob and Cindy immediately make plans to go to Indianapolis to visit Cindy's father. After hearing this, Tia angrily tells Cindy that Tia would have a heart attack too if her family moved away from her, then Tia slams her bedroom door in Cindy's face. With Cindy and Bob going to Indianapolis, the problem is who the babysitter will be. Even though Cindy doesn't like the idea, they choose Bob's brother Buck to babysit Tia, Miles, and Maizy. Cindy doesn't like Buck because she thinks Buck is a sloppy person who doesn't know how to do anything. While Cindy and Bob are in Indianapolis, Buck takes over the house, and Buck tries to do the best he can with the kids while he's having problems with Chanice Kobolowski, who has been his girlfriend for the past 8 years. Buck bonds with Miles and Maizy and wins their love, but Buck has problems with Tia as he tries to protect Tia from her boyfriend Bug, because unknown to Tia, Bug only wants Tia for one reason sex.
