Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan is sent to the barbaric north as an emissary, because he fell in love with the wrong woman. In AD 922, this usually meant goodbye forever. Shortly after the party ran into exploring Vikings and befriended them, a young boy reaches the camp to call the warriors home: The Wendol, creatures of the Mist, have started attacking their homeland, killing and eating everyone in their way. The oracle forces a thirteenth warrior to accompany the Vikings, but this must not be a man from the north. Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who quickly is nicknamed Eban, first does not feel comfortable with the strange men of the north, but when he finds out that the Wendol really exist, he bravely fights alongside the Vikings in a battle that can't be won.
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye.
Jim (Jason Biggs) es virgen y está preocupado por su situación. Luego que sus padres lo descubren tratando de ver un canal pornográfico, el jovencito se une a un grupo de amigos y, juntos, prometen tener su primera experiencia antes de la noche de graduación.
For New York's most powerful and toughest gangster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) killing a man is like having a cup of tea. But the relentless mobster has been having panic attacks recently. He can't sleep at night, feels nervous fairly often and even sheds a tear; every kid evokes tender emotions in him; and killing people is out of the question. He obviously has stress symptoms.
It's so fortunate for him that one day Dr. Ben Sobel's car collides with his car. Realizing he needs professional help, Paul wants the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) to restore his psychological balance and his lost vitality within two weeks, before a major mobster meeting. Ben surely isn't very enthusiastic about helping him as he himself turns to be a spineless and uncertain man. Who would like to have a mob boss patient who is used to solving problems with a gun and has been tailed by all FBI agents for years?
The movie is narrated by an ordinary, lonely, spiritually empty office employee (Edward Norton) who suffers from chronic insomnia and tries to escape from his humdrum existence. In an attempt to find comfort, he begins attending different disease support groups where he meets a charming but gloomy young woman, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who is a pretender as the narrator is. While traveling on business, he encounters a more intriguing personage – Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic and cunning soap salesman. According to his perverted philosophy, self-perfection is the destiny of the weak and the only thing worth living for is self-destruction. They become fast friends and form an underground club where aggressive young men give vent to their frustrations in violent bare-knuckle fighting. But when Fight Club starts a cross-country expansion, the narrator makes a shocking discovery...
Five British best friends are living for the weekends. The sexually paranoid Jip (John Simm) works at a clothes shop. His black buddy Koop (Shaun Parkes), an aspiring hip-hop DJ, sells discs at a record store and Koop's girlfriend, Nina (Nicola Reynolds), who failed to enter college, works at a fast food joint from 9 till 5. But the daily sight of burgers literally makes her retch and she quits her job. Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington) is an independent blonde who doesn't think much of men. Moff (Danny Dyer) is the only person who doesn't work. He earns money by supplying his friends with drugs. The director presents the viewer with the characters, depicting youth's fears, complexes, and lack of self-confidence. The link between them is that they hate having to work. They are all obsessed with sex and find an outlet in drugs, drinking, clubbing, and dancing to wild music. The only way to escape from the humdrum of their daily lives, their dead-end jobs, and the establishment is to try to relax during the weekend turned into an explosive mixture of house music, sex, ecstasy and marijuana.
Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) calls three insomniac volunteers, Eleanor Vance (Lili Taylor), Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Luke Sanderson (Owen Wilson), to participate in a sleep disorder study which is supposed to take place in a huge sinister deserted mansion with a terrifying past. It was built 130 years ago by a textile tycoon, Hugh Crain (Charles Gunning), for his beautiful wife Carolyn (Hadley Eure) and his kids who died aborning and now haunt their house. The research subjects soon are shocked to discover that they are actually selected for an experiment on human fear.
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary...A year later their footage was found. (4 more taglines...)
In October of 1994, 3 students go into the woods to find the Blair witch. They find wooden dolls. When the last ray of light leave the forest. The forest is left black. Then, everyone mysteriously disappears. Then a year later, A thousand of film cans, tapes and footages were found. They are combined and made into "The Blair Witch Project"
Two cops on the trail of a brutal killer. They must see as one, they must act as one, they must think as one, before the next victim falls. (1 more taglines...)
After an accident in a tunnel, a forensics expert (Denzel Washington) is left as a quadriplegic who is able only to move his head and one finger. Setting his finger to a computer, he is able to manipulate his environment with the help of a loving nurse (Queen Latifah). Even so, fearing seizures that could leave him a vegetable, he plans his "transition" with the help of a hesitational doctor friend. That all changes when he is confronted with clues from a serial killer that obviously are pointed to forensics investigation. The case clearly re-invokes his interest in life. A sharp, young cop's quick thinking saves the first crime scene. Recognizing her talent for forensics, he brings her (Angelina Jolie) unwillingly into forensics detection. Through radio contact, she becomes his eyes and legs on the scene. Michael Rooker also appears as the police captain, who has bungled earlier killings by the serial killer and is more interested in the press than in good police work. Ed O'Neill and Luis Guzman are support staff who aid Washington and run interference with Rooker.
Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show "Galaxy Quest" was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They're wallowing in despair and at each other's throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.
The stirring movie revolves around an ace British secret service agent code-named The Eye (Ewan McGregor) who is assigned to shadow his boss’s socialite son and investigate what trouble he has run into. The Eye finds out that the son is in a relationship with Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a gorgeous woman with the tragic past and the mysterious present. What a strange kind of woman she is, now a cold-blooded, blackmailing killer, now an unhappy, lonely, lost little girl! The Eye finds it tough to complete his mission, as the enigmatic criminal’s beauty, combined with her seductiveness, draws him into an abyss of obsession. Strangely enough, he becomes her guardian angel, protecting her from arrest and other perils. Will he be able to disengage himself from the web of passion?
Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconscin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it will destroy humanity. An abortion clinic worker who is a relative of Christ, a wisecracking 13th apostle, a stripper/muse, and mischievous mall rats Jay and Silent Bob band together to stop them.
An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows.
The touching movie is narrated by Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), an old man who lives in a nursing home and recollects his job as the head guard on Cold Mountain Penitentiary's Death Row, also known as the "Green Mile" for the green linoleum flooring leading from the jail cells to the electric chair. Paul has watched over a variety of killers but he has never before seen someone like John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gigantic African-American man who is convicted of the rape and murder of two 9-year-old sisters. Despite his formidable size and strength to kill anyone, he seems to be a good-natured, polite, childlike man who is deathly afraid of the dark and is able to perform miracles of healing terminally ill people. When Edgecomb and his fellow guards, Howell (David Morse) and Stanton (Barry Pepper), discover that Coffrey hasn't committed the crimes for which he is sentenced to death, they are forced to make a difficult choice...
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a father and a husband, suddenly finds out that he does not want to live his quiet and correct life any longer. He finds himself falling deeper and deeper into the hopeless depression, struggling against a mid-life crisis that affects his relations with the family. Burnham's rebelling daughter Jane (Thora Birch) hates him. His bitchy wife (Annette Bening) can't bear his new manner of living at his own taste. Eventually, he becomes to be obsessed by a viciously innocent and cute school-mate (Mena Suvari) of his daughter. Meanwhile, Jane meets a strange boy next door, whose warlike military father is obsessed by homophobic spirits. The movie is really touching, dramatic and poetically aesthetic, focusing attention at the social life disharmony and the delicate beauty surrounding us.
Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life—in what he thinks is the year 1999—until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life—the "Matrix"—to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth.
A mysterious African-American warrior nicknamed Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives in solitude, communicating with the outside world via homing pigeon, and faithfully serves a small-time mobster, Louie (John Tormey), who once saved his life. He blindly obeys his master, performing dangerous missions that are generally connected with assassination. When his recent murder is witnessed by the big boss' daughter, Louise Vargo (Tricia Vessey), the mafia group decides to put Ghost Dog away so as to conceal their involvement. The gangsters keep the track of all the lofts in town and kill Ghost Dog's pigeons when they eventually find his hut. Ghost Dog realizes that he is given the toughest assignment to slay the entire mafia or, otherwise, they will kill him and his master, so he starts wiping out his many adversaries.
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females anyway, writes an offensive column without researching the subject thoroughly. The next day, Ike gets fired by his publisher (and former wife), because he went too far and faked the facts, which real journalists don't do. Ike's only way back into the business now is to do a fact-based report on Maggie and her upcoming fourth wedding attempt, which Ike predicts to fail again. So, as he circles her like a vulture his prey-to-be, Maggie's opinion of Ike sinks below zero. Not only is Ike waiting for her to fail again but the whole town is poking fun at Maggie about her mistakes. But that is a point which Ike doesn't like.
Set in the late 18th century, England, the story revolves around Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a New York constable who is charged with investigating a series of mysterious decapitations which take place in a godforsaken small village called Sleepy Hollow. The locals are terrified, for they strongly believe in the legend of a monstrous Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken). They claim that the sinister ghost of a Hessian soldier rides out of the night, attacking innocent victims and returning to the Underworld with their heads cut off. Crane, the highly educated man believing only in logic, is certain that it is a ruthless serial murderer who wanders in the nearby woods. But when he launches his investigation, he encounters terrifying, inexplicable phenomena.
Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter.