An ineffectual science teacher William Lamb is hired by a school normally located in middle England (St Michael's) recently transferred because of Second World War evacuation policy to the remote Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Posing as (amongst many other things) an Old Etonian, Lamb settles down into his new surroundings and becomes acquainted with the various local Scottish traditions and legends that abound and strikes up a friendship with one of the other masters, Hilary Tisdaile. However, shortly after his arrival an ancient curse returns to Dunbain Castle.
Chan is on his way back from completing the London case—they always mentioned the previous case—to go on "vacation" to Paris, but this is just a way to make people think that he is innocently there. He is on a case for some London bankers and customers who say that some bonds from the Lamartine Bank in Paris are forged, so they hired Chan to solve the case. Chan is on his way to meet the new ward of the head of the Lamartine Bank, Paul.
The United States government is transferring $15 million to a bank in Manila owned by Johnny Duran. In America, Duran is approached by a man named Simpson and accepts a bribe to cooperate with Simpson's plan to steal the money. Simpson reveals that the plan involves recruiting a team of blind men to perform the robbery.
Bootleggers (also released as Deadeye Dewey and the Arkansas Kid) is a period piece crime comedy drama set in rural Arkansas. The first quarter of the film is set 1921, where 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father being murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. The film then skips forward to 1933 which details the adult Othar Pruitt and his partner-in-crime, Dewey Crenshaw, who make a living as moonshiners and cross-state bootleg runners.
Maurice Giraud is sent to New York to arrange for the Academy Ballet of America to come to Paris to compete for cash prizes at an international dance festival, but a cabbie takes him by mistake to the Club Ballé, a nightclub about to go under. The desperate owners of the club, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, know that an error has occurred, but see the invitation as a way out of their financial problems. To get some ballet into their nightclub act, they hire ballet teacher Luis Leoni and his star (and only) pupil Kay Morrow to teach their girls ballet on the boat crossing the Atlantic.
Charlie works for a company that is taken over by Walcott, who believes family values are a priority. Career-driven Charlie does a little fibbing when under the pressure of Walcott's standards, and believes she's in the clear. But when Walcott invites himself over for dinner, she borrows her friend's house and daughter and hires actor Buck to play her husband for the evening.
Suzanne is a successful realtor living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., with her weatherman husband Jeff. With Christmas just a month away, Suzanne and Jeff celebrate an imminent move to Hawaii; things can't be better with Suzanne as she giddily anticipates the move and her favorite time of year. However, after coming home one day to find her husband brutally murdered, Suzanne's life becomes filled with overwhelming grief.
After failing to establish himself abroad as a doctor, Vlad returns home to Romania, where he becomes convinced that his village is subject to vampire attacks.
Matt Grabowski (Paul Denniston) is an awkward young gay man whose life is falling apart. His boyfriend had left him three years earlier for another man. His sex life is reduced to eavesdropping on the exploits of his roommate who also leaves him and takes all the furniture.
Jeff Philips is working a dead end job at a call center. One day, Professor Lake, a member of a secret society, arrives at his apartment to tell him he is the last descendant of H. P.
As described in a review in a film magazine, Catherine (Negri), the Czarina of a small European country, decides to give audience in person to the French Ambassador (Malatesta) when she learns he is a favorite with the Parisian ladies. In the meantime, Alexei (La Rocque), a young officer in a border town discovers a revolution is in progress and hurries to the palace, forcing an entrance into the Czarina's presence. So impressed is she that she forgets the revolution and the Ambassador and bestows her favor on Alexei, who finds himself a popular favorite and is made captain of the royal guard.
thumb|thumbtime=26|Welcome Danger (1929) Botany student Harold Bledsoe is bound for San Francisco to help investigate a crime wave in the city's "Chinatown" district. Since Harold is the son of San Francisco's former police captain, municipal authorities hope he will be as skilled as his father in solving crimes. Also traveling to the city, but by car, are a young woman named Billie Lee and her little brother Buddy, who needs his lame leg treated in San Francisco by "the famous Chinese physician" Dr.
Alex is a quiet, unassuming schoolteacher whose students call him gay because he is unattached. His friend Paul is dating legal receptionist Claire, who has lawyer Eve for a friend. They contrive to have Alex and Eve meet, and from the start it is an uneven and quirky relationship.
Larry meets someone he believes to be a woman, but is actually a transvestite, who turns him into a dickanthrope, or "queerwolf" by biting him on the buttocks. A group of people who are members of a religious cult hunting the queerwolf discover the transvestite at Larry's apartment, and they also warn him about a curse. They later kill the original queerwolf with the only weapon known to kill a dickanthrope, a silver dildo.
Lance Valenteen manipulates three women, calculatingly getting them to adore him, shocking them, finally driving each into her former boyfriend's open arms. With the first, he suddenly becomes a machista, in the next publicly humiliates her and the last he terrifies the aerophobe with hang-gliding. Bill Smith enters Lance's "Mr Fix It" shop, seemingly for computers, but is interrogated to ensure he is truly lovesick.
The film follows Jane White (Kim Little), a teenager who is obsessed with television, and dreams of becoming a TV celebrity. She is insistent that her Father is a famous talk show host, and goes to lengths in order to appear as a guest on his show. This includes dressing as a transgender prostitute, where she meets Barney (Colin Mochrie), who aids her in getting a bus ticket to Chicago.
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black.
Salsa dancing and 'El Corazon', a London Salsa Club provide the backdrop for the love-inspired efforts of three unlikely romantics: Fergus (David Morrissey), who arrives in London from his native Liverpool, on a search for Maureen ('Mo') Docherty (Jane Horrocks), the high-school sweetheart he jilted years ago. Eddie (Jimi Mistry), the incompetent mugger who falls for Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack), the neurotic "absentee grave tender" (she tends the graves of loved ones for people who cannot). Frankie (Craig Ferguson), a hopeless romantic trapped in the fifties and still sharing a house with his ex.
Luke O'Brien (Bart Bronson), a washed-up salesman turned night law student, decides to sue Satan for 8 trillion dollars. On the last day before Luke files a default judgment, Satan (Malcolm McDowell) appears to defend himself. On Satan's legal team are ten of the world's best trial lawyers.
It's 1738, and Gracie Alden of the powerful Alden family fails to graduate from the college founded by her grandfather for the ninth year in a row, so he leaves the institution in his will to the first female of the family to graduate within 200 years. At the deadline, in 1938, another Gracie Alden, the last girl of the line, is having trouble with her studies, so she hires fast-talking Bud Brady to help her. Her efforts are opposed by woman-hating professor Hubert Dash and his secretary George Jones, who don't want to see their beloved college fall into the hands of an empty-headed nit-wit like Gracie.
