In a metafiction version of the film divided into five days, the first day of the protagonists sees screenwriters Lars and Niels lose the only copy of a film script (Kommisæren Og Luderen, "The Policeman and the Whore", a reference to The Element of Crime). They begin to write a new script about an epidemic: the outbreak of a plague-like disease. Another protagonist is a doctor, Mesmer, who, against the will of the Faculty of Medicine of an unknown city, goes to the countryside to help people.
By late 1944, as the Allies march toward the Rhine, it is obvious that Germany will lose the war. American Colonel Devlin leads a military intelligence unit that enlists German POWs to cross into German territory and spy on their former comrades. The recruits include "Tiger", a cynical mercenary, and "Happy", a young, idealistic medical student.
In an unnamed New Mexico border town, nightclub promoter Jerry Manning hires a black leopard as a publicity stunt for his girlfriend, Kiki Walker, a performer there. Kiki uses the opportunity to upstage the act of her rival, Clo-Clo, by making an entrance into the night club with the leopard on a leash. Angered, Clo-Clo frightens the leopard with her castanets, and it escapes, fleeing into the night.
Cray Fowler, a young New Orleans lawyer running for congress, is filmed with a prostitute as blackmail. As he investigates, Fowler discovers some shocking secrets involving his father, his family's fortune and his own political advisors.
Penny Slot is a stripper in Las Vegas who aspires to become a professional dancer. She leaves Las Vegas to pursue her dream of joining the television dance competition Stardancer in Los Angeles. While hitchhiking to the city, she is robbed of her suitcase and left stranded.
A burglar, Scott Muller, teams up with his friend Buddy Calamara, a valet at a high-society restaurant. Buddy keeps an eye on Mickey and Ray Davis, a rich married couple, while Scott robs their home. One of the items Scott takes is a diary belonging to Mickey.
In Seattle, former CIA officer Nelson Crowe (Fishburne) is hired by Vic Grimes (Langella) for a position with his company nicknamed "The Toolshed." Grimes' firm employs people with intelligence service backgrounds to sell their talents with regard to extortion and corporate espionage to domestic and foreign corporations. Grimes' second in command, Margaret Wells (Barkin) begins working with Crowe and seduces him, enticing him with a plot to murder Grimes so they can take over the firm. The Toolshed's top client, Curl Industries, is being sued in a class action lawsuit in a case currently on appeal at the Washington Supreme Court.
Sidney Preston, a disgruntled White House aide, takes off with $4 million that belonged to the government. While on the run, he stops at a roadside diner in Arizona and has their world-famous chili, while flirting with the waitress. Two clumsy government spies named Fred and Bob are looking for Sidney.
In a cemetery, the Weird Sisters, three school girl witches, are destroying and defacing headstones and statues, while close by Lady Macbeth weeps beside a headstone marked "beloved son" and Macbeth stands by. The three witches plan to meet with Macbeth later, and leave the cemetery. Macbeth leads Duncan and his gang to a drug deal with Macdonwald and his men.
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett hopes to uncover the facts behind the unsolved murder of Sloan, an inmate at a psychiatric hospital. He convinces an expert psychiatrist, Dr. Fong, to coach him to appear insane when it involves relating imaginary accounts of incest with his "sister", who is impersonated by his exotic-dancer girlfriend, Cathy; though against her wishes, she is talked into assisting him by filing a police complaint, and his performance during the investigation convinces the authorities to incarcerate him in the institution where the murder took place.
Reed stands over his infant daughter with an ice pick, while his wife sleeps across the room unaware. He has an overwhelming desire to stab his daughter with the ice pick, but is able to push the urge down in the moment. Later, while calming the baby, she looks up at him and says, "You know what you have to do, right?".
Renegade KGB agents hijack a plutonium shipment inside the United States and use it to plant a nuclear device in the Saudi Arabian Ghawar Oil Field. They threaten to detonate it, thereby contaminating 50% of the world's oil reserve, unless Israel withdraws its settlements from the West Bank. In Washington, D.C., the American President contemplates starting a war with Israel, in order to save the world from a potential oil crisis.
The film begins in December 1916, at a lavish ballroom gathering just before the Russian Revolution, and moves to the 1917 February Revolution, the Imperial family's forced exile to Siberia that summer after Tsar Nicholas II's forced abdication in March, the late 1917 October Revolution, the Communist takeover, the start of the Russian Civil War, and then July 1918, when the Romanovs are executed. The film then revolves around a woman named Anna Anderson, who believes that she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the Tsar's youngest daughter. Anna first tells her story in the 1920s, when she was an inmate in a Berlin…
Ray Shane is an ex-vice cop trying to turn his life around after spending five years in prison on corruption charges. He works as the head of security for "The House of the Rising Sun", a strip club that secretly houses an illegal gambling den. During a night on the job, a masked gang hold him at gunpoint to rob the club of $300,000, ending with the club owner's son, Peter, getting killed in a shootout.
Action, fantasy film, Horror, thriller film, Western, Zombie
A group of disfigured people gather near a railroad in a desert where they are killed by a mysterious gunslinger named Aman (Wesley Snipes), who rips out the head and spine from one of the dead bodies. Nearby in the same desert, a group of criminals are waiting to be transported. Aman arrives, kills most of the guards, and frees one criminal called Fabulos (Riley Smith).
David Weinberg (Alan Rickman), a lawyer in his 50s, and his much younger wife Alexis (Polly Walker), drive through a torrential rainstorm to get the last ferry to their private island. They catch sight of an injured young man (Norman Reedus) at the side of the road, whom they reluctantly drive to the nearest town. Having missed their ferry, the couple checks into a motel, and take the next day's ferry.
When hired gun John Gant arrives in Lordsburg, the locals are terrified. The sheriff would like to arrest Gant, but the gunman always kills legally, in "self-defense." While the town speculates on Gant's target, Luke Canfield, a young doctor, greets Gant, unaware of his reputation. After Luke demonstrates his dexterity with a blacksmith's maul, Luke takes Gant on a tour through town.
In 1968, Sergeant First Class Buck McGriff and Sergeant First Class Albaby Perkins are two joint services Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents on duty in war torn Saigon. When a prostitute is found murdered they discover that the prime suspects are high ranking U.S. Army officers.
Noelle, an introvert California Masters of Fine Arts graduate student, accepts an invitation to a party by a handsome classmate she has a crush on, only to be lured into his room where he rapes her. The following night Noelle confronts her rapist and in a moment of rage, accidentally kills him. But, much to her surprise, an unexpected surge of inspiration will gradually fuel both her stagnant artistic expression and her thirst for revenge on those who have assaulted women.
fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
In 1905 Ireland, two carnies, Angus Shaw and his infertile wife Lily, encounter a Mr. Woolrich during one of their shows. Having heard that a mermaid will be on show, he is relieved to find that it is just Lily impersonating one.
Comedy, Comedy horror, Crime, Horror, mystery film, Noir, psycho-biddy, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
When teenage friends Libby Mannering and Kit Austin are home alone with Libby's younger sister Tess, they amuse themselves by randomly dialing telephone numbers and telling whoever answers: "I saw what you did, and I know who you are." Libby places a call to Steve Marak, a man who had just murdered his wife Judith and disposed of her body in the woods. Believing he has been found out, Marak wants to track down the caller in order to silence her. 180px|left|thumb|Advertisement from 1965 Marak's neighbor Amy, who is in love with him and had been trying to woo him away from his wife, listens in on the line while Marak is speaking with Libby.
On May 10, 1945, in a secret airport near Wurtzberg, Germany, Nazi scientist Dr. Josef Mengele, along with fellow doctors and soldiers, prepare to depart to an unknown location with a mysterious package in their possession. They are soon ambushed by the Allied forces, but successfully escape.
Pete Morgan manages Jefty's Road House for his longtime friend, Jefferson "Jefty" Robbins, who inherited the place from his father. Jefty is attracted to Lily Stevens, his new singer from Chicago, but Pete thinks she is just another in a long string of girls he will eventually have to send on her way when Jefty tires of her. For his part, however, Jefty is convinced that Lily is "different", even though she is playing hard to get.
