A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.
Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is an unruly cop from Detroit whose friend Mikey (James Russo) is murdered right in front of his eyes, by a man called Zack (Jonathan Banks). Axel doesn't hesitate to follow Zack to Beverly Hills, California, while Beverly Hills police seems to be rather reluctant about the case. So, Axel talks to his friend Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher), an art gallery associate, who is very helpful because, as appears, her boss has certain connections with the criminal world and is related to the murder.
During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.
After the yakuza clan is annihilated in a bloody war, the sole survivor, Aniki Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano), flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles so as to find his long lost younger brother, Ken (Kuroudo Maki), a smalltime drug dealer. In America he is confronted with an alien, menacing world where crime lords have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle for domination. Ruled by the yakuza code of honor, Yamamoto takes over the LA underworld.
The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
A young Mexican woman Maya crosses American border into LA illegally where her sister Rosa works as a maid in one of the city's largest corporations. Surrounded by the big business machinations, the sisters try to organize a janitorial union. A chance meeting with a passionate American activist Sam leads Maya to a confrontation with their employers. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa and Maya's lives change radically,their interests may be set to collide.
Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham.
Anime-inspired direct-to-DVD anthology film. Comprised of six short stories, from diverse creators, including Academy Award-nominated Josh Olsen (A History of Violence), Batman Begins writer David S. Goyer, and comics scribe Brian Azzarello. It's planned for a release window of two to four weeks prior to the release of The Dark Knight, and would bridge the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
Based on a true story, the gruelling drama revolves around Bobby Kent (Nick Stahl) and Marty Puccio (Brad Renfro), two teenagers who have been close friends since their childhood. They are involved in an eccentric relationship. A pathologic sadist, Bobby cruelly abuses Marty, the naïve galoot who can't stand up for himself. When it seems to Marty that his cup of bitterness is filled to the brim, he decides to put a stop to Bobby’s gruesome continuous tortures, once and for all. To take revenge, he teams up with other peers, who are also fed up with being bullied by Bobby, and plots to murder him...
The suspenseful crime drama revolves around Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a successful NYC radio personality who hosts a night show called "Street Walk" where she relates the sentimental stories of her beloved city. One day while walking their dog in a nearby park, Erica and her fiancé David Kirmani (Naveen Andrews) get assaulted and beaten with pipes by a gang of violent thugs. The brutal attack leaves David dead and Erica in a three-week coma. Unable to cope with fear for her own life and driven by revenge, Erica illegally purchases a handgun and begins stalking the night streets to track down the perpetrators responsible for the murder of her beloved.
The Scandinavian mighty warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) has got orders from King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) to protect his realm from a marauding ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover). Beowulf leads his brave crew of soldiers into a fierce battle with the monstrous troll. After defeating the evil creature, Beowulf incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie) who slays his men in revenge. The courageous warrior sets out to kill the monster's mother who takes the form of a beautiful, extremely sexy woman and promises him wealth and power if he makes love with her. Beowulf succumbs to temptation and sleeps with her but in doing so he procreates a new curse, a dragon that is far fiercer, far more powerful than Grendel...
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin.
A 32-year-old British woman named Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) indulges in bad habits, especially smoking, drinking and overeating, and has no scruple in saying what crosses her mind. The worst thing is that she is single and can't find the right man. Her caring parents (Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent) try to bring her into contact with their neighbors' modest son, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), but Bridget is attracted to her handsome boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). She eventually arrives at a decision to turn over a new leaf, to work off her excess weight and to keep a diary in which she will record her achievements. However, making dreams come true and finding true love turns out to be much more difficult than expected...
Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a high school basketball player. His life centers around the basketball, and his dream is being a basketball star. Once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of New York, and together with his friends they take drugs for which they steal, rob and even kill. As the time pass, Jim's situation becomes worse. It looks like he will never get out from the his drug addiction.
The boogeyman is a nocturnal ghostlike creature, tales of whom are used to scare misbehaving kids. This bone-chilling thriller centers on a young woman named Laura Porter (Danielle Savre) who is haunted by ghastly visions of a monstrous boogeyman that lives in her closet and tries to attack her every night. Determined to quit herself of fear, the woman voluntarily goes to mental hospital to receive treatment under the care of Dr. Jessica Ryan (Renée O'Connor).
A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father.
Detective Nick Curren (Michael Douglas), conducting the criminal investigation of a rock star murder, is to interrogate the suspect - Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), the woman writer who is a famous authoress of her shocking novels. She is blonde, bisexual, seductive, suspective and obviously dangerous - as well as invulnerable to all attempts to accuse her of the murder. But one of her novels contains the description of the same murder. Besides, Tramell was a lover of the killed guy, and what is more, his breathless body was found on the bed which was evidently a place of a hot sexual battle. Curren finds himself slowly involved into the web of Catherine's intrigue; he can only guess at her guilt. Is he doomed to be the hero of her next novel?
The soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith completes the striking thriller.
Big Jake McCandles is on the trail on bandits in this action drama that stretches from Texas to Mexico. It's 1909, and the Old West is giving way to modern times. When the outlaw gang led bu vicious John Fain raids Jake's ranch and kidnaps his 8-year-old grandson, Jake's wife, whom he hasn't seen in 18 years, sends for her husband to rescue the boy. While the law gives chase in rickety automobiles, Jake saddles up with an Indian scout, a faithful dog, and a box of money. But paying ransom isn't Jake's idea of good old frontier justice.
