Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined. Director Altman tells his story at a leisurely pace, beautifully recreating the eccentricities of small town life in this sweet-natured tale.
Independent filmmaker Chris Waitt attempts to interview his ex-girlfriends to find out why they dumped him. This revealing and humorous documentary sees the slacker filmmaker go on a sexual and emotional odyssey in a desperate quest to solve his innumerable problems.
Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she's hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop?
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing.
Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow.
The dramatic thriller is based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), an apolitical oil refinery foreman in South Africa who witnessed the authorities’ conspiracy and subsequently became a leader in the struggle against apartheid.
A close friend of the President and his family are murdered aboard their yacht in the Caribbean, setting off a chain of events that leads Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of the C.I.A., into a dangerous confrontation with the Colombian drug cartel.
The animated sequel of the adventures of Riddick (Vin Diesel) and his companions Imam (Keith David) and Jack (Rhiana Griffith). The threesome is captured by the spaceship of Antonia Chillingsworth, a woman who loves to catch the wanted criminals and freeze them making the statues of human flesh. Riddick and his friends have to fight the great army of Antonia's warriors not to become the displays in her on-board collection.
In 1536, a talented alchemist named Umberto Fulcanelli (Mario Iván Martínez) fleeing the Inquisition arrived in Veracruz, Mexico and invented an insidious device that granted its owner eternal life, as well as an agonizing thirst for human blood. The alchemist lived four hundred years until he was buried to death under debris of the collapsed wall. Many years later, the golden scarab-like device called Cronos falls in the hands of antiques dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) but it soon becomes apparent that there is more than one person wanting to become immortal.
Set in the 1940s, the era of general interest in hypnosis, the story follows CW Briggs (Woody Allen), a veteran insurance investigator, and Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt), a new efficiency expert. He is a cocky successful investigator who solely relies on his own instinct. She is a self-confident bright woman who has a secret affair with the married boss, Chris Magruder (Dan Aykroyd), and feels lonely. They don’t get along until one night at their colleague’s birthday party at a nightclub he and she are hypnotized by a magician, Voltan (David Ogden Stiers), to fall in love with each other. After the trance, with no memory of it, Briggs and Betty are implacable enemies again. However, the two begin committing robberies while under the hypnotic power of the Jade Scorpion.
Stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are wealthy prep school students and unscrupulous, manipulative socialites who have only a few things on their minds: how to satisfy their vicious desires, who to take revenge on and who else to choose as a sexual and emotional toy. When the lady-killing self-confident Sebastian and the cynical seductive Kathryn playing fast and loose with their peers' affections get bored with stale intrigue plots and banal declarations of love, they devise an ingenious heinous plan. Sebastian's challenge is to seduce the new headmaster's daughter, the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). The calculating Kathryn makes a wager. The stakes are high: if "Casanova" fails, she will get his vintage Jaguar car; if he succeeds, he will get one night of unbridled passion with Kathryne he lasts for since their parents married.
Conan was still a child when he saw his parents murdered and his village burned by a horde of savages, lead by the semi-god Thulsa Doom. They took him to the north, where he grew up working like an animal, and was later sold as a slave. His master trained him to be a warrior, and made a fortune by using him in fights. But there comes one day, when he gives Conan his freedom, and the chance to take his revenge after so many years.
Sometimes a random phone call can be the last chance to stay alive. Kim Basinger stars as a kidnapped woman who places a call on her cell phone. A young man receives a call on his cellular and figures out that the calling women is kidnapped and her family is under a deadly threat. Situation becomes more complicated when it turns out to be the women don't know where she is and the cellular's battery is about to die.
Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men.
Mel Gibson is a New York taxi driver, who has a strange habit. He makes complicated scenarios of conspiracies and publishes them in a newsletter sent out to five recipients. He keeps doing that, until something unbelievable happens: One of his "conspiracy theories" turns out to be real, and so he finds himself chased by the man hiding behind the whole thing.
Dispirited over losing his job after the 9/11 tragedy, American accountant Terry Allen (Peter Krause) spends his days sending out resumes and watching programs about his country's war on terrorism. When an Islamic chemistry graduate student named Gabe Hassan (Khaled Abol Naga) unexpectedly moves in next door, Allen's quiet existence is shattered. When he sees Hassan taking out his rubbish in the dead of the night and receiving frequent visits from a variety of Middle Eastern men, he becomes obsessed with harrowing suspicions that his odd new neighbor is a terrorist. From that point on, he spies on Hassan, examines his trash, desperately reports on him to the police and slowly goes out of his mind. As both his wife Marla (Kari Matchett) and cynical FBI agent Tom Hillary (Richard Schiff) are skeptical about his conspiracy theory, Allen realizes he must take matters into his own hands.
Constantine, a supernatural detective, teams up with Angela, a skeptical policewoman to disclose the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, during her investigation Angela figures out that contemporary Los Angeles is inhabited by the world of angels and demons. Constantine was born with an ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons in human appearance, and tried to get rid of this gift committing suicide. Back from the hell against his will, sending the devil's warriors back to the depths, he hopes to earn his way to salvation.
