A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Nick Naylor er Big Tobaccos fremste talsmann og forkjemper for røykernes og sigarettprodusentenes rettigheter i USAs nypuritanske samfunn. Han er utstyrt med talegaver som kan "omvende" selv den mest ihuga antirøyker til en storrøyker av dimensjoner!
The blood orchid - a rare flower that could hold the secret of eternal life and be worth a fortune to the company that finds it first. Led by a pharmaceutical research team, a scientific expedition sets out to go and explore deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling through rainstorms to make their way upriver, the group encounters poisonous insects and a ferocious crocodile, only to discover they're being stalked by an even greater danger: a gathering of giant anacondas. Heat-sensing, fifty-foot-long flesh eaters that will go after anyone that crosses in their path.
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
Arthur Bishop er en leiemorder kjent for å kunne jobben, men da hans mentor blir drept, kommer avdødes sønn til ham med hevntanker, og et sterkt ønske om å lære faget.
Befolkningen i den lille byen Cedar Creek, California er i ferd med å bli syke, alvorlig syke. Et dødelig virus, som stammer fra de afrikanske regnskogene, er kommet på avveie. Ingen vet akkurat hvor viruset befinner seg, men man vet at det er svært farlig, og svært smittsomt. Trusselen om en ukontrollert epidemi er tilstede. Dr Sam Daniels, som oppdaget viruset i Afrika, utkjemper en kamp mot tiden for å finne en utvei som kan stoppe spredningen av viruset som truer med å drepe hundre tusener. Han varsler sin eks-kone Robby, som arbeider ved et nasjonalt senter som skal hindre epidemier å spre seg. Men av uforklarlige grunner blir de begge bedt om å stoppe sitt arbeid. Sam og Robby ignorerer sine overordnede og setter i gang jakten på et anti-virus, men møter sterk motstand fra en høytstående militær offiser som for enhver pris vil holde viruset, og dets historie, strengt hemmelig for befolkningen.
"60 MINUTES" produsent, Lowell Bergmann, vil lage en sak om tobakksindustrien. Han treffer Wigand, en tidligere sjef hos tobakksprodusentene Brown & Williamson som egentlig fikk sparken. Han hadde meninger man ikke skulle ha. Wigand er redd for å fortelle hva han vet til TV; at tobakkprodusentene tilsetter avhengighetsstoffer i sigarettene. Han frykter for seg selv og sin familie for de som lever av at sannheten ikke kommer frem. Og de er mange og mektige.
An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each other.
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.
Norma og Arthur Lewis står i fare for å miste alt da Arthur mister jobben. De stilles overfor et moralsk dilemma når en mystisk boks dukker opp ved inngangsdøren. Reglene er enkle - åpner de boksen og trykker på knappen kommer de umiddelbart til å bli rike. Men prisen er at det innebærer døden for et tilfeldig utvalgt menneske de ikke kjenner. De har 24 timer på seg til å fatte sitt livs vanskeligste beslutning. Nervepirrende, stjernespekket thriller fra regissøren av Donnie Darko og manusforfatteren av I Am Legend.
Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.
Mediefagstudenten Angela skriver hovedfagsoppgave om vold i mediene. I sin søken etter voldsfilmer kommer hun over en såkalt snuff-film. Oppdagelsen bringer henne i livsfare.
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
Julie is an English student assigned to write a paper about "nudity in the 80s". A bit overwhelmed at first she takes on the project by visiting a nudist camping with her boyfriend. But while she learns about nudity and nudism, her boyfriend struggles to keep up.
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.