Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
Based on a true story, the movie tells about the rise and fall of king of the porn industry John C. "Johnny Wadd" Holmes. He was considered to be the most famous porn star in the 1960s and 1970s. He acted in more than 2,000 smutty movies and had intercourse with more than 10,000 women. After his star fading Holmes (Val Kilmer) became hooked on drugs that led to his involvement in a homicide at Wonderland Avenue in Los Angeles in 1981. Four people were brutally murdered, beaten to death with lead pipes by Holmes and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth).
In the 1950s, the comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are at the height of their popularity. Their performance at America's night clubs is a stunning success; they have hordes of fervent devotees, money, and fame. Their patron looks after the golden boys so that they can have anything they care to ask for. Their round-the-clock telethon continues until a mysterious incident leads to the break-up of their partnership. Fifteen years later, young journalist Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) decides to lift the veil of mystery and get to know the whole truth from Morris and Collins' own lips. But she unexpectedly becomes swept into a swirling vortex of passion, lust, deception and betrayal...
In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead.
Chic life and mysteriuos death of Bob Crane, an actor, is still stunning the minds despite the fact he died in 1978. He was a sex addict, and a permanent client of the most dissolute strip clubs; female form was the favorite object of his interest as a photographer. After he met a camera operator John Carpenter, he's got accustomed to the video, and, at the same time his marriage and the entirely life went to the road to ruin. As he used to tempt his fate, he could not escape it and died from the tripod strike on his head.
The historical drama follows the adventures of poet, courtier and debauchee John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), also known as the Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. We observe him leading a dissolute life, having an ardent romance with aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), enjoying the company of his favorite prostitute Jane (Kelly Reilly), drinking heavily, and writing ribald satirical poems and an outrageous play ridiculing King Charles II (John Malkovich). His defiant behavior ultimately begins to irritate his surroundings, from his wife Elizabeth Malet (Rosamund Pike) to the very monarch...
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty...or so they thought? When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they're stranded...or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren't pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre.
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.
Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who's now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them...
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe's past relationship with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge.
Samantha Goodman (Kate Greenhouse) is an attractive thirty-something woman who is married to a writer, Dave Goodman (Gordon Currie), and works as a psychiatrist at an institution for the criminal insane. For many years everything in her life seems to be coming up roses. Then suddenly the whole world begins crumbling and disintegrating about her ears. Her incurable brain tumor starts to grow at an alarming rate. Feeling totally stressed and needing to get away from it, she decides to spend the weekend at a winter cottage in the woods, where her husband is working on editing his latest book with the assistance of her younger sister Melody (Iris Graham). It knocks Sam back on her heels when she notices that there is something in the nature of an incipient love affair between Dave and Melody. To make matters worse, Sam's weekend is ruined by an invited guest who turns out to be her former patient, Harlan Pyne (Aidan Devine), a violent sexual offender. Convinced that he has been unethically experimented on, Harlan takes revenge by compelling the family to participate in his diabolic game that is a sort of psychological and physical tortures.
Welcome to a near future world where cloning has run amok, free relationship between a man and a woman is forbidden by genetics laws, and travel from city to city is severely restricted. A Seattle insurance fraud investigator named William Geld (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shanghai to figure out who is forging and smuggling 'papelles', identity documents that allow people to travel. But when he gets on the trail of Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), a charming woman who is supposedly responsible for the forgeries, he becomes deeply infatuated with her. He conceals her crime and enters into an illicit affair with her. Back home, William can't help thinking about Maria. He returns to Shanghai only to find that she will be severely punished for a Code 46 violation. Desperate, William is determined to leave no stone unturned to save his flame.
Lucy Harmon is a 19-year old American girl who is the daughter of poet Sara Harmon. After Sara commits suicide, Lucy travels to Italty and visits her mother's friends, Diana and her husband, Irish artist Ian, where Lucy wants a picture of her painted. Lucy decided to return to Italy to reunite with Nicolo Donati, a Italian boy she once fell in love with four years ago, when she last visited Italy. But reuniting with Nicolo isn't the only reason why Lucy decided to return to Italy, Lucy is on a personal journey, as she sets out to solve a mystery in her Mother's diary and discover who her father is who conceived her 20 years ago. Lucy's journey leads her to befriend Alex, a play-writer who is dying of cancer whom Lucy thinks may be her father or her father could be the artist who makes statutes from trees and sets out to loose her virginity as Diana and her daughter Miranda's boyfriend Richard become intrigued by her.
After the untimely death of their granddad (Donald Sutherland), German-American brothers Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske) travel to the Old Country to spread his ashes. On arrival in Munich they discover that it’s Oktoberfest, an autumn festival that is famous for the consumption of beer. The brothers, who remember their roots and, like all Germans, are big beer drinkers, are eager to compete in Beerfest, the so-called Beer Olympic Games which take place during several days. Although their German cousins shoot their desire down in flames, Tod and Jan are not in the least embarrassed to enter the contest but are soon beaten. Determined to get their revenge, the guys return home and assemble a team of inveterate beer guzzlers to train strenuously for next year’s competition. All they need to receive the Beerfest honors is healthy liver and strong will to win.
A usual ad in a newspaper can become the beginning of the true nightmare. Elli Jones (Bridget Fonda), a modeler, had found not only a shy lodger, but a woman, who began to imitate her style, manners and even the life. This suspense drama tells that still waters run deep: who seemed a shy, timid person, in reality is... you'd better watch yourself, who she is.
Jennifer Jason Lee plays Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson here.
Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat.
Three couples are competing to win the title of the Most Original wedding of the year. This contest is being conducted by Antoni and Vivien, who are the publisher and editor of the most prestigious wedding magazine in the UK named Confetti. The couples are Joseph and Isabelle, an addicted tennis enthusiasts, wanting a tennis-themed wedding; Michael and Joanna are a naturist couple going to pass their marriage without any clothes; and the third couple are Matt and Sam wanting their nuptials musically-themed. All the dialogue in this British comedy was improvised by the movie cast during the filming. Starring: Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Steven Mangan, Olivia Coleman, Robert Webb, Mark Heap, Felicity Montagu and Jimmy Carr as Antoni.
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye.
