Sir John Falstaff and Justice Shallow walk through the snow, then to a warm fire inside Shallow's home in Gloucestershire, as the two reminisce. King Henry IV of England has succeeded Richard II, whom he has killed. Richard II's true heir, Edmund Mortimer, is a prisoner in Wales, and Mortimer's cousins (the Percys) Northumberland, Worcester, and Northumberland's son Henry Percy (called "Hotspur") demand that the king rescue Mortimer.
Biography, Drama, historical film, Historie, war film
Doctor Jan Żabiński is director of the Warsaw Zoo, one of Europe's largest, assisted by his wife, Antonina. On 1 September 1939, the bombardment of Warsaw begins. Antonina and her son Ryszard survive the German and Russian invasion of Poland and Warsaw is occupied by the Germans.
A prologue introduces the Nicklebys, country gentry who enjoy a comfortable life in the Devon countryside until the father dies and leaves his family with no source of income. Nineteen-year-old Nicholas, his mother, and his younger sister, Kate, venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas is horrified to discover his employers, the sadistic Mr and Mrs Squeers, run their boarding school like a prison and physically, verbally, and emotionally abuse their young charges on a…
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, Family Drama, romantic comedy, Social Drama, sport film
Dan Foreman, a 51-year-old advertising executive, is head of sales for a national sports publication. When Sports America is bought out by Globecom, an international corporation promoting “synergy”, Dan, his wife and two daughters, 16-year-old Jana and 18-year-old Alex, experience unexpected life-changing events. Dan is forced to fire several longtime colleagues and is demoted from head of sales to become the “wingman” of his new boss, Carter Duryea, a 26-year-old business school prodigy.
In 1857, forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens notices eighteen-year-old actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. Dickens later casts her, along with her mother and sister Maria, in his three-performance production of Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep at Free Trade Hall in Manchester for the benefit of the widow of Dickens's old friend, Douglas Jerrold. At a party following the performance, Dickens and Nelly share a moment alone.
With the birth of the prince Alexandros of Troy, the princess Cassandra has a prophecy that he would be the cause of the destruction of their city. Their father, the king Priam, orders him to be thrown from Mount Ida, but the servant tasked for it merely abandons him there, leaving his fate to the gods. He is rescued and raised by the shepherd Agelaus who names him Paris.
The Doctor, currently in his seventh incarnation, transports the Master's remains, from Skaro, to Gallifrey via his TARDIS. The Master had been previously tried and executed at the hands of the Daleks. En route to their destination and while the Doctor reads, the locked box with the Master's remains breaks open.
On April 14, 1865, five days after the Civil War ends with Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, and his wife, Sarah Weston, celebrate.
Superman and Lois Lane are romantically involved, but Lois is not happy with him not revealing his secret identity to her. While digging, workers from LexCorp unearth the spaceship of Doomsday, a genetically-engineered super-soldier that is highly hostile toward any life form it comes across. It massacres the digging crew and begins a rampage towards Metropolis, killing animals and humans on sight.
Action, Adventure, Drama, epic film, medieval film, swashbuckler film
King Edwin of Northumbria is killed during a Viking raid led by King Ragnar Lodbrok. Because Edwin died childless, his cousin Aella takes the throne. The king's widow Enid, however, is pregnant with Ragnar's child.
Part I - The Vision Captain Woodrow F. Call, having just buried his friend Augustus McCrae near Lonesome Dove in Texas, plans to return to his ranch, signposted as "Hat Creek Cattle Company", in Montana. Call sends word to Newt Dobbs that he intends to meet him in Ogallala, Nebraska at the home of Clara Allen, with a herd of wild Mustangs that he hopes to drive north to interbreed.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, fantasy film, Mysterie, Science fiction
GNN television journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams reports from Israel about a new technology which will allow food to grow in inhospitable environments. He interviews Israeli scientist Chaim Rosenzweig, and praises him for creating a miracle. Suddenly, Arab and Russian fighter jets fly overhead in a surprise air raid.
A rhythmic gymnast practices a routine set to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Afterward, she tells her coach that she would rather use a pop song, but he says she is not ready for pop and threatens to break her arms and legs if she questions him again. She apologizes.
Construction worker Vince Everett accidentally kills a drunken man in a brawl that he did not start and is sentenced to between a minimum of one to a maximum of ten years in the state penitentiary. His cellmate, washed-up country singer Hunk Houghton, incarcerated for bank robbery, teaches Vince some guitar chords. Hunk then convinces Vince to participate in an inmate show that is broadcast on nationwide television.
Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts, and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste. The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester, a British documentary filmmaker who is following the Roberts campaign.
Famed war photographer Isabelle Reed dies in a car crash. Three years later, a retrospective exhibition celebrating her work, as well as an article about her life and death, is slated for release. This puts her widower, Gene, in a crisis, as their younger son, Conrad, has no idea that she died by suicide.
Biography, documentary film, Documentation, Drama, musical film
The film narrative is focused on the life of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, who was found dead on 23 July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, at the age of 27 at her home in Camden, North London. The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting a 14-year-old Winehouse singing along with her long-time friend, Juliette Ashby, at the birthday party of their mutual friend, Lauren Gilbert, at a home in Southgate, London. The rest of the documentary shows the songwriter's life, in a chronological order from her early childhood, to her music career, which attained commercial success through her debut album, Frank (2003), and second, final album Back…
Adrienne and Matteo are a couple with a child and home together, experiencing strife within themselves. While driving away from a party, their arguing causes an accident that leaves them hospitalized. They each experience memories of their past involving trauma while in a surreal state.
While walking along the beach in his hometown, aspiring songwriter Jon Burroughs witnesses a man named Lucas trying to drown himself. As Lucas is taken to the hospital, Jon meets Don, who explains that Lucas was the keyboardist for a band called The Soronprfbs, which Don manages. After mentioning that he plays keyboards, Jon is invited to perform with them that night.
black comedy film, comedy thriller, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Dark Comedy, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
The quirky but down-to-earth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, encounter the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the deceased is, who was responsible for his sudden death, and what should be done with the body is "the trouble with Harry." Captain Wiles is sure that he killed the man with a stray shot from his rifle while hunting, until it is shown he actually shot a rabbit. Jennifer Rogers, Harry's estranged wife, believes she killed Harry because she hit him hard with a milk bottle.
During Prohibition, a drifter calling himself John Smith drives into the desolate border town of Jericho, Texas. He stops to let a Mexican woman named Felina cross the street, causing several Irish mobsters to surround and vandalize his car. Their leader, Finn, warns Smith against staring at "Mr.
The film largely follows the plot of the original play, albeit omitting certain dialogue and minor characters to fit the average length of a feature film. This version also makes no modern adaptations.
Recent parolee Michael Zane stops at a run-down desert motel outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He catches a boy, Jesse, stealing from his car, and chases him back to his mother, Cybil Waingrow, whom he seduces. The next day, four men arrive to pick up Michael: Murphy, Hanson, Gus, and Franklin.
Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England in the mid-1860s, the story features Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapproval from the local farming community. She employs a former neighbour, Gabriel Oak, as a shepherd.
