O que acontece quando um magnate de Wall Street encontra um vagabundo que sobrevive nas ruas? Descubra-o quando um pequeno vigarista troca de estilo de vida com um investidor já estabelecido, devido a uma aposta louca de dois homens abastados e poderosos...
Em meados dos anos 80, o grupo NWA, que integra Ice Cube, Dr. Dre e Eazy-E, emerge das ruas perigosas de Los Angeles, Califórnia, para revolucionar a cultura do hip-hop com a sua música e as suas narrativas sobre a vida no bairro.
Quando Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) e um amigo são acusados de assassinato eles decidem chamar Vincent La Guardia Gambino (Joe Pesci), um primo de Bill que é advogado, para defendê-los. Mas quando Vinny chega descobre-se que ele se formou há poucas semanas e nunca defendeu nenhum tipo de causa e, para piorar as coisas, Vinny vai medir forças com Jim Trotter III (Lane Smith), um experiente promotor, e também com Chamberlain Haller (Fred Gwynne), um juiz que não suporta seu modo de se vestir e de se comportar no tribunal. Mas Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei), sua extrovertida e bela noiva, resolve ajudá-lo a esclarecer o caso.
Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) é um veterano da Guerra do Golfo que retorna à sua cidade natal após se recuperar de ter recebido um tiro na cabeça. Jack sofre atualmente de amnésia, sendo que após ser acusado de ter assassinado um policial é recolhido a um hospital psiquiátrico. Lá o Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson) faz com que Jack tenha drogas experimentais injetadas em seu corpo, como parte de testes para um novo tipo de tratamento. Imobilizado em uma camisa de força, Jack constantemente é trancado por um longo tempo em uma gaveta de cadáveres no necrotério da clínica em que está. Completamente drogado, a mente de Jack consegue se projetar para o futuro, no qual conhece Jackie Price (Keira Knightley) e descobre que ele próprio irá morrer daqui a 4 dias.
Walter Davis (Bruce Willis) é um workaholic que se preocupa muito pouco a sua vida pessoal ou aparência, mas de última hora ele precisa de uma companheira para levar no jantar de negócios de sua empresa. Seu irmão então consegue um encontro com a prima de sua esposa, Nadia (Kim Basinger) que é nova na cidade e quer se socializar. Só que a moça tem um problema: perde totalmente o controle quando bebe.
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
O protagonista, um homem chamado Koistinen, procura num mundo duro uma pequena brecha pela qual possa rastejar. No entanto, tanto os seus semelhantes como o aparato da sociedade sem rosto fazem questão de esmagar as suas modestas esperanças, uma após outra. Um grupo de criminosos explora a sua ânsia por amor e a sua posição de guarda-nocturno por causa de um roubo, deixando Koistinen abandonado às consequências. E eis como Koistinen é privado do seu emprego, da sua liberdade e dos seus sonhos.
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon, he forms a bond with Leena, a dancer, and is falsely accused of her murder.
A young man’s life is suddenly and inexplicably derailed, as he finds himself at the mercy of automated ‘justice’.
Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison, she kills her.
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw gang. Brant finds out that 'Jones', one of the outlaws he has become friends with, committed the murder that Brant was sent up for, but has no knowledge that anyone was ever put in jail for his crime. Willing to forgive and forget, Brant doesn't realize that 'Jones' has not only fallen for the same pretty shopgirl Brant has, but begins to suspect that Brant is not truly an outlaw.
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Five friends are picked up as suspects in a political murder, and the cops detain one among them to save face in front of the media. To save him, the guy’s friend and a straightforward cop try to track down the real killer.
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.