Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete. Trying to reclaim a buried treasure before its lost forever underneath a lake, the three make their way to Everett's homestead. Along the way, they meet a conniving one-eyed Bible salesman, a blind prophet, a trio of sexy sirens, and a man who sold his soul to the devil. In their race to reach the treasure before it's flooded, they end up crashing a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, help a sensitive Baby-Face Nelson rob three banks in two hours, and even have enough time to put out a best selling record as "The Soggy Bottom Boys."
Everyone knows that police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is the toughest and smartest cop in New York City. He is one of those people who are ready to work themselves to the bone to fight for justice. This time Shaft is out to put away a spoiled preppie, Walter Wade (Christian Bale), who killed a young black student. Shaft arrests the perpetrator but he is soon set free on 200-thousand dollars bail and escapes to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade secretly returns to the United States and gets a bust. When Wade's father (Philip Bosco), a wealthy tycoon, posts a million dollars bail for his son once again, Shaft throws his badge and leaves police to lead his personal vendetta against Wade. Teamed up with his eye-catching fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), Shaft must find barmaid Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), who was an eye witness to the racially-motivated murder. Meanwhile, Wade asks his cellmate Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a Dominican drug lord, to kill the only witness of his crime. Hernandez, in his turn, gives a graft to two corrupt officers to find the girl.
A group of scientists, led by the brilliant and ambitious inventor Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), accepts the Pentagon's assignment to formulate a serum for invisibility. After creating a formula and testing on animals, Caine doesn't report his success to the military and decides to be the next guinea pig for the experiment. Unfortunately, the antidote fails to work, and Caine is unable to regain his visibility. But he eventually finds out the advantages of his new found power: he can spy on other people, penetrate anywhere, indoors and out, and commit any crime with impunity. In order to prevent his co-workers from sharing the terrible truth to the military, Caine begins killing all the witnesses one by one.
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) moves to California and lives alone in the woods being worn-up emotionally after the tragedies of her past. Meanwhile, a new horror movie 'Stab 3' based on Sidney's true story is being produced. The reality and the scriptwriters' fantasy mixes when the actors are murdered just in the same order they die in the movie. Having an experience of dealing with killers, Sidney can't keep out of the events and tries to help the police to find the new maniac who darkens her life.
Kate Wells (Famke Janssen) is a magazine journalist who is given an impossible assignment to write an article on love and sex by the end of the day. Kate has no choice but to reminisce about her past romances. Kate experienced her first love at school. But it was unhappy love ending in break-up with classmate Bobby Norton. She lost her virginity to her high-school French teacher. With the years, the number of her sexual partners was a bit shocking: Kate had had 13 lovers when she met artist Adam Levy (Jon Favreau). However, the longer people live together, the more they irritate each other. Her miscarriage and regular domestic quarrels made them split up. Depressed and devastated, Kate met charismatic B-movie actor Joey Santino (Josh Hopkins) at a sex-shop while buying a vibration toy for her "female friend". On the same day they became lovers. Their love affair totally based on sex didn't last long. Kate resumed dating other men but, to her surprise, Adam decided to come back into Kate's life. At first Kate resisted but soon agreed to reunite... Love and sex...
This modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells about two rival crime families. These are African-American and Chinese gangs struggling for power over Oakland. When Chinese crime lord's son Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is murdered, bad news reaches his older brother Han Sing (Jet Li), an ex-cop who without a second thought breaks out of a Hong Kong prison to track down Po's killers and avenge his death. In the United States while investigating the murder, Han meets Trish O'Day (Aaliyah), the rival ganglord's daughter who wants nothing to do with her father (Delroy Lindo) or his shady business. Han and Trish fall in love with each other and team up to continue the search for justice.
Shortly before the playoffs, the Washington Sentinels and their cheerleaders have gone on strike for more money. To put their nose out, the owner of the NFL football team, Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden), brings in self-retired head coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to hire a team of substitute players. The replacement team is comprised of Daniel Bateman (Jon Favreau), a violent SWAT leader; Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), an ex-convict, who can outrun bit can't catch a football; Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), a Welsh soccer player who can kick a soccerball the full length of the playing field; Jahmal Abdul Jackson (Faizon Love) and André Action Jackson (Michael Taliferro), stout gangster rapper brothers; Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine), a Japanese sumo wrestler. Among them is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former Ohio State quarterback who has to become the ragtag team's captain. Charming blonde Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), the head cheerleader, assembles a group of former strippers to encourage the replacements and kindle their fighting spirit. "Glory lasts forever, " Falco says to his team players. His plan of the game seems to be flawless. Their power is their unpredictability...
When moving up to the 7th grade, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) doesn't even suspect that his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet (Kevin Spacey), will change not only his life forever but lives of many people all over America. Having assigned his students to come up with an idea of world improvement, Eugene Simonet at first doesn't take seriously Trevor's utopian plan. The precocious Trevor reflects that you can make the world better by doing a favor for a stranger and by that stranger paying it forward with good deeds for three other people. Trevor starts to follow his own philosophy of life and helps local outcast Jerry (James Caviezel) to open a new chapter. His next recipients whom Trevor wants to bring together are his single, overworked, alcoholic mother, Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt), and the lonely Eugene with a scarred face.
Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) leads a cut-and-dried life working as a nightshift attendant in a gas station and trying hard to make a clean break with his past filled with alcohol and drugs. His pregnant wife, Cloe (Rebecca Gayheart), supports him but his boring job and effort to give up his addictions drive him bonkers. But a mysterious stranger who once stops at the station unexpectedly enters Michael's life. Under the pretence of Los Angeles nightlife research for his new novel, the charismatic Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller) seduces the gullible and susceptible Holloway to plunge into sinful pleasures of nightbars, stripclubs, fight clubs and S&M dungeons... However, Michael soon begins to suspect his new buddy to be a psychopath and even a serial killer.
The movie tells an intriguing story about dark and dangerous streets of Essex, where drug, guns, and murder are quite natural for many people. Jason Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss who gets out of jail and comes back to Essex so as to regain his power over the town's criminal underworld. Locke is a half-psychotic, hot-tempered man who can kill anybody in his way without a moment's thought, and besides, he is so suspicious that doesn't trust even his wife, Lisa (Alex Kingstone). However, to claw back his old influence is no easy matter as it seems to be...
A young Mexican woman Maya crosses American border into LA illegally where her sister Rosa works as a maid in one of the city's largest corporations. Surrounded by the big business machinations, the sisters try to organize a janitorial union. A chance meeting with a passionate American activist Sam leads Maya to a confrontation with their employers. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa and Maya's lives change radically,their interests may be set to collide.
According to an ancient prophecy, Ash Ketchum (Veronica Taylor), a young Pokemon trainer, is destined to save the world from chaos and total destruction. It is not going to be an easy task; he can see rocks ahead. Fortunately, Ash has faithful friends he can always rely on. Expect incredible, breathtaking adventures of Ash, his true old buddy Pikachu (Ikue Ootani), his new pal Melody (Amy Birnbaum), and his traveling companions Misty (Rachael Lillis) and Tracy (Ted Lewis).
In 1958, four top Air Force pilots from Team Daedalus, Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), William Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland) and Reverend Sullivan (James Garner), were ready to be the first Americans in space. But due to intrigues they were grounded and fell into total oblivion but a chimpanzee named Mary Ann was given the honour of flying into space. Now, 40 years later, a malfunctioning Russian communications satellite is about to fall out of orbit at any point. There are only three weeks to avert a calamity and the only man who can fix its operating system is Frank Corvin, the satellite constructor. NASA wants to recruit Frank for a special mission but he agrees to place the satellite in orbit on condition that he can take his old team.
Raj Lukla (Chaim Girafi) flies from India to America in order to visit his nephew Andy (Ajay Naidu). Malevolent fate brings him and Las Vegas mobster Victoria Galletti (Mercedes Ruehl) together on board the plane. Being chased by police, Vic stashes one million dollars cash in Raj's luggage and then sends her henchmen to retrieve the booty. However, things don't go the way she wants it to. Andy's dog named Socrates (Sarge) discovers the money first and hides it somewhere. But Socrates keeps silent...
In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...)
Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait.
A university professor, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), finds a pile of letters for the former lodger of his apartment. The letter author is a woman prisoner named Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski) who has served 6 years of 30-year sentence for the murder of her lover's wife. Intrigued by the contents of the letters, Burke makes up his mind to visit Lydia in prison and falls in love with her at first sight. Lydia asserts that she is innocent. After a while she somehow contrives to escape from prison and darkens his door. In order to stay out of jail himself the professor takes persistent attempts to collect the evidence and prove that his mistress has been the victim of a frame by her ex-lover.
The historical drama tells a breathtaking story about real heroes of the Cold War. In October, 1962 the world poised on the brink of the war for thirteen tense days. People in the East and the West lapped up every report about the course of alarming events that threatened to result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Due to those fateful days the world learnt the names of such politicians, diplomats and soldiers as Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, General Curtis LeMay, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy and many others.
Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn't accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.
Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) is a 30-year-old yoga instructor whose years go never to return. All her efforts to succeed in business and find her significant other are still in vain. The only soul mate with a shoulder to cry on is her best childhood friend, Robert Whittaker (Rupert Everett). He is a successful landscaper and a bright, witty, responsive person who can always help by word and deed. He would be a perfect match for Abbie if he weren't a gay. However, their friendly relations take a different twist when, after drinking too many cocktails one night, they black out and can't remember what happened between them, but Abbie soon turns up pregnant. Will they find a way out of this delicate situation?
On March 5th 1873, two Scandinavian women living on the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. The first woman was hacked by an ax, the second one was beaten and strangled. The third woman, Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), managed to survive by hiding in a sea cave. Later she identified the murderer to the police. It was Louis Wagner (Ciarán Hinds) who was condemned to be hanged for his crimes. A century later, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Thomas Janes (Sean Penn), his wife, Jean (Catherine McCormack), a photojournalist, his stepbrother, Rich Janes (Josh Lucas), and Rich's girlfriend, Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley), travel to the same Isles on a yacht. Jean doesn't spend time only enjoying the sea and the sun but investigating the mysterious double homicide. The storyline shifts between the present and the past as the two different narratives of Maren's life, the eyewitness of the murder, and Jean's seemingly perfect life, interweave in the suspenseful movie.
