Eli Wurman is an aging, burnt-out Jewish publicist whose best days are behind him, and he wishes to retire from his line of work, but all he knows is how to hustle, cajole, threaten and persuade. The hazy mania of his everyday life is fueled by a steady stream of prescription drugs and alcohol. One night, Eli's last remaining "big client" Cary Launer—an actor considering a campaign for political office—entreats Eli to take care of his latest publicity mess, a dangerous liaison with Jilli Hopper, a hard-shelled, quick-tongued television actress with a soft center and a taste for illegal drugs.
Schoolgirl Tessa Hurst is raped on her way home from school. She is so traumatised she is unable to speak, despite the efforts of Dr Lomax. Some weeks later, another girl, Susan, is raped and killed.
Set on a secluded family farm, a mother (Colleen Porch) suffers a psychotic breakdown due to postpartum depression and after her husband, a truck driver, hits the road after only being home a day, she snaps, walking away with the baby to an upstairs bedroom. Jimmy (Ridge Canipe), the eldest son, trying to keep his younger brother and sister calm, starts cleaning up, but decides to check on his mother and discovers the horrible truth. His baby brother is dead and she’s preparing to also kill the rest of her children.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, neo-noir, Parody, thriller film
British writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out violent, sexually charged pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names such as "S. Odomy". King is approached to ghostwrite the autobiography of a mystery celebrity.
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits end up accidentally killing one of their own. Johnny, one of the robbers, goes to jail for five years. His ex-girlfriend, Gloria, holds him responsible for the death of her brother, the one killed during the robbery.
During a bank robbery a bank guard is shot and killed by one of the robbers, Harry Wheeler, who gets away with $250,000. Lona McLane leaves a movie theatre and walks to her car. The car will not start, and Paul Sheridan appears at her window.
In mid-1930s Iowa, Leonard Hill and Wesley Bruckner are seen being loaded into a paddy wagon to face life sentences in prison for the murder of Ellie Banner. Their mothers, Helen Hill and Adelle Bruckner fight a crowd to their car. In the car, Helen reveals that someone in the crowd cut the palm of her left hand.
In 1959 former British Major and mercenary Robert Dapes (Sean Connery) arrives in Cuba under General Bello's (Martin Balsam) orders as part of the dictator Fulgencio Batista's forces. He is to train the Cuban army to resist Fidel Castro's revolt. Before he even begins his task, he encounters an old flame, Alexandra Lopez de Pulido (Brooke Adams), whom he repeatedly pursues.
One night in London, the 15-year-old Jimmy runs through a housing estate begging passers by for help. Everyone ignores him. He enters the condemned Tower Block 31 and finds his way to the top floor, which is the only floor that is still inhabited as the tenants wait to be rehoused.
Hank lives at the Pink Motel and works as a guard at the high school. He enjoys fishing and raising his tortoises. He occasionally sees a vision of a man in an orange prison jumpsuit.
Bryce is a successful man who returns to his tiny hometown for a visit. While there, he runs into his old friend Nick. The two decide to go out for the night.
After a physics class in which she takes the same exam multiple times over, obsessively competitive college freshman Alex Dall sets out to join the Wellington College Novice Rowing Program. Shortly after the first training session, her thoughts become occupied with the sport - in particular with the consistent form practiced while rowing. Jamie Brill, another freshman taking up rowing as a means to attain a much needed athletic scholarship, is quickly labeled as the "best novice" on the team to the chagrin of Alex, further fueling the latter's obsessive drive.
When two people, David and Claire, leave a bus at the same stop, David follows Claire. She accuses him of stalking her. It is soon revealed that they are role playing and that they live together as boyfriend and girlfriend.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Big Al (Angus Macfadyen), and his girlfriend Kat (Milla Jovovich), are small-time crooks dealing in guns and stolen goods in Queens, New York City while also cleverly avoiding the NYPD and ATF. Vic (Sarah Strange), is Kat's friend and ex-lover who still has a crush on her and hates Big Al. Big Al is almost arrested in a police sting, but is released when they realize he is unarmed...as Kat was holding the guns.
Cathal (James Nesbitt) is a killer who is pursuing his former lover Mary (Kate Dickie). Mary, a woman who comes from an ancient and magical Celtic race, and her son Fergal (Niall Bruton) hide in an outlying district of Edinburgh and use magic to protect themselves, but Cathal is determined to outsmart them. Local residents begin to die at the hands of an unidentified force, but it is unknown if Cathal is the killer, or if is he trying to destroy the beast.
Vincent Gallo takes on a dual role in this Italian adaptation of the Kaspar Hauser legend. Kaspar, a mysterious youth who surfaced in Nuremberg in 1828 with limited speech abilities, remains an enigma with unexplained royal ties. In this surreal rendition by director Davide Manuli, Kaspar, clad in tracksuit and headphones, washes ashore on a nearly deserted island.
After her mother dies in a mysterious car accident, 17-year-old Megan Bower, daughter of a wealthy businessman, lives a reckless lifestyle. A year later, she is almost killed by a horse who has lost control, though she is rescued by Rich Gardner, a young college dropout who works at the ski resort owned by her father Cy. Grateful, she invites him to her party, where she thanks him again by being intimate with him in her father's bed.
Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
"a love triangle involving two English girls and a Japanese guy" In 1989 Tokyo, Japan, Lucy Fly is a young Swedish immigrant who is working as a translator at a manufacturing company, and is suspected of murder when her American friend Lily Bridges goes missing. The plot is sometimes shown in flashbacks, including some of Lucy's childhood, as well as scenes of her romantic relationship with Teiji and friendship with Lily. Teiji's hobby includes taking photographs of nature scenes such as water reflections and abandoned buildings.
The film begins with an unknown person hiding an axe covered with blood in the woods. It then focuses on Brian Hannigan, a teenager who contacts the police after the death of his adoptive parents, a double homicide. The investigators immediately see Brian as a suspect, because he was in the house when the murders occurred, is thought to have been too calm considering the circumstances, while also claiming to have heard nothing during the night his parents were murdered.
Biography, Drama, historical film, thriller film, war film
Set after the Nazi invasion of Denmark, the film focuses on the Holger Danske resistance group's Bent Faurschou Hviid (known as Flammen) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citronen). In a bar, Bent flirts with a woman, who identifies herself as Ketty Selmer and disturbs him by saying his real name. Bent follows and confronts her, whereupon she says she is a courier running messages between Stockholm and Copenhagen.
In November 1982, married couple Ray and Olivia return to their small town home, to find that their eight-year-old daughter, Maisie, has disappeared without a trace. One year later, after a memorial service, the family arrives at Ray and Olivia's house. In addition to the two of them and their son Noah, Ray's brother Billy, Olivia's sister Arlene and her husband Kenneth, the sheriff of a neighboring parish, and Olivia's widowed brother Morgan join for dinner.
The story is about a partially filled United States men's national soccer team plane, returning to the US from Brazil after a FIFA World Cup match, that crashes off an uninhabited Malaysian tropical island. After the crash, the coach and his wife, along with several players and the entire crew, are dead. The 15 survivors that reach the island find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon.