Based loosely on "The Canterbury Tales", the movie follows the story of a young peasant squire, William Thatcher (Heath Ledger), who, after the death of his master, Sir Ector, takes the road with his buddies, Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat Falhurst (Alan Tudyk). Along the way, they encounter an obscure writer, Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany). William, the underprivileged commoner, decides to assume the identity of a knight and asks Chaucer to fake his genealogy papers. Under his new title, Sir Ulrich of Liechtenstein, William has to prove his noble birth at the country's tournaments. Gallant and determined, William wins jousts on the trot. However, where there is success there is envy. Count Adhemar of Anjou (Rufus Sewell), a dangerous rival, is able to learn William's true identity and ruin him. Adhemar and William will meet face to face in the decisive joust.
'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other.
Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?
Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed!
She is Kate McKay (Meg Ryan), a single, career-driven 21st century woman who has a deep yearning to achieve great success in the challenging corporate world. She deserves happiness as much as anyone else on the earth. He is Leopold (Hugh Jackman), the Third Duke of Albany, a charismatic, genteel and handsome bachelor. He also dreams of finding true love. But when Leo is inadvertently transported through a portal from 1867 to modern-day New York, they meet each other and immediately become involved in a romantic relationship.
In the branches of Axis, a tree rising 100 miles into the clouds, there is a village inhabited by human-like dwellers. One of them is Kaena (voiced by Kirsten Dunst), a young girl who dreams of the world with blue clear sky and plentiful fresh water. When Axis’s sap almost runs dry and it grows weak, it seems to Kaena that Axis is calling her for help. In defiance of her tribe's taboos the adventurous and rebellious Kaena starts on her journey beyond the confines of the village to seek help. She finds herself in the weird and wonderful world inhabited by mysterious creatures! At the end of her courageous quest Kaena will unravel a terrible secret...
This erotic drama of an explicit content filmed by Larry Clark (director of a shocking movie of 1995, "Kids") uncovers the personal world of the four teenagers - three boys and one girl. They have various family problems living in Visalia, CA and face the difficulties of becoming adults. Tate (James Ransome), Claude (Stephen Jasso), Shawn (James Bullard) and Peaches (Tiffany Limos) are doing things their parents not think they even know about. Welcome to the forbidden world of the first-time desires, risky sexual experiments and violence; "Ken Park" is a skater park name where a classmate of the main characters commits suicide in the very beginning of the movie. The film was noted at numerous grand festivals in Europe and USA but its explicit content made it almost unsuitable for the distribution in the US.
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.
The once-beautiful planet Krull falls a victim to the all-powerful, formidable monster, The Beast (voiced by Trevor Martin), and his vile cohorts, the Slayers. Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), the son of King Turlord (Tony Church), and Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony), the daughter of King Eirig (Bernard Archard), make up their mind to marry and thus unite their rival kingdoms into a cohesive whole against the villainous invaders. But during the wedding ceremony, the Beast and his army of darkness attack the palace, kidnap the gorgeous princess and hide her in the Black Fortress. Both kings and their numerous armies are murdered and the castle lies devastated. The courageous Prince and his companions, Ergo the Magician (David Battley), Emerald the Seer (John Welsh), Titch (Graham McGrath), Rell the Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), and Torquil (Alun Armstrong), the leader of a band of ten escaped convicts, set off in search of the fortress to rescue his bride from the jaws of the gruesome monster.
In this comedy drama is based on the true story, a group of teenager students stand up for their rights against the Principal Weller (Julie Bowien), who is an ambitious but hard-headed leader of Booker High school. She is going to run for the superintendent's chair, so she needs to project the image of a no-nonsense leader. She begins to turn the screws on: prohibits a girl to recognize National Safe Sex Day distributing condoms, and turns out two boys who are caught kissing in the hallway between classes. Students have an ally teacher helping them to struggle despotism, who soon gets fired for questioning Weller's authority. Together the students organize the student body to take on Weller and make real change at their high-school.
Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating...
The disturbing psychological drama discloses the truthful story of Canada's most notorious and abhorrent spouses, Paul Bernardo (Misha Collins) and Karla Homolka (Laura Prepon), who seemed to be absolutely no different from other families in the country. On the outside they appeared gentle and kind, and, like most average couples, had a house, a pet, lots of buddies and a skeleton in the cupboard. As the saying goes, beware of a silent dog and still water. These two proved to be sociopaths who kidnapped, sexually abused, and murdered three young girls, one of whom was Karla's younger sister. Violation and murders are appalling, there is no denying it, although there is even more shocking thing. How could Karla love such a monstrous man as Paul? Why did she become his accomplice? How could she commit a gruesome atrocity with her own sister?!
When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the danger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends.
After David Lamont (Marc Blucas), a horror novel agent, moves into a luxury penthouse apartment, he finds himself haunted by an anonymous villainous stalker. First David receives photos depicting a hair-raising crime scene that apparently has taken place in his new home. Some time later, he begins receiving videotapes documenting every step he takes and every move he makes. With the aid of his assistant Rebecca Fay (Shiri Appleby), the paranoia-gripped agent desperately tries to discover the identity of the insidious stalker.
When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next king: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?
Two sex-obsessed teenage boys, Kevin (Harry Enfield) and his longtime buddy Perry (Kathy Burke), haven't yet lost their virginity. If they don't pick up girls soon, they will go crazy. As dance music fans, they find an outlet in creating great music mixes. But then they come up with the idea of taking a holiday trip to Ibiza inhabited by top DJs and hot babies. Armed with condoms and sunscreen, the guys go to the sunny island, hoping to succeed in bedding some babes and meeting their idol, superstar DJ Eyeball Paul (Rhys Ifans), in order to give him their demo tape.
This comedy follows the misadventures of two childhood friends, Charlie Carbone (Jerry O' Connell), a New York hair stylist, and Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson), a musician and a magnet for bad luck. Once they get involved in shady dealings of mafia boss Sal (Christopher Walken) and have to travel to the Australian Outback to deliver a large sum of money to Sal's associates, Mr. Smith (Marton Csokas). The assignment is not as easy as it seems to be. First the guys enjoy their trip, but soon their good mood is replaced by fear when they accidentally injure a kangaroo. Trying to revive the poor animal, they decide to put Louis’s lucky red jacket on the kangaroo and to take a picture of it. Luckily, the kangaroo comes to its senses. On the other hand, unfortunately for the travellers, the unreasonable beast, with the money-containing-jacket on, skips away and is lost to sight in the jungles. Louis and Charlie, panic-stricken, team up with a smart American wildlife expert, Jessie by name (Estella Warren), to chase down the kangaroo in order to retrieve the mob cash.
12-year-old Justin Schumacher (Jamie Kennedy) had only one passion – breakdancing. In 1986, while performing in the school talent show, Justin received a serious head injury and lapsed into a coma. Twenty years later, he wakes up only to find that things have changed so much in the world. His childhood sweetheart, Jennifer (Maria Menounos), is engaged to marry his grade school nemesis, Kip (Michael Rosenbaum). His parents, Marty (Christopher McDonald) and Sylvia (Debra Jo Rupp), are up to their ears in debt accumulated as a result of his long-term hospital treatment. Now Justin must do his utmost to revive his dance career and win his dream girl's heart.
