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 is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Zgodba se dogaja globoko v osrčju pragozda, kjer raste zelo redka rdeča orhideja, iz katere bi lahko naredili serum, ki pomlajuje in podaljšuje življenje. Skupina znanstvenikov se šele kasneje zave, da naloga dobiti to rdečo orhidejo, ki marsikomu lahko prinese tudi znaten kupček denarja, ne bo tako lahka. Orhidejo namreč čuva predator - anakonda, ki nikomur ne pusti na svoje ozemlje...
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 is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
Pred 30 leti pride v afriško vas, zdesetkano zaradi bolezni, ki jo povzroča smrtonosni virus, ameriški zdravnik. Čeprav pričakujejo pomoč, je vas kmalu zbrisana z obličja Zemlje z atomsko bombo. V sedanjosti pa se zgodba začne v carinski coni, kjer hoče mladi delavec ukrasti opico, ki je prišla okužena iz Afrike. Ker je ne uspe prodati, spusti opico na prostost, vendar je zanj že prepozno. Okužba se začne širiti in hitro začnejo prihajati poročila o primerih tudi iz Bostona in Kalifornije. Primer prevzame vojaški strokovnjak za viruse, dr. Sam Daniels (D. Hoffman), ki s svojo ekipo odkrije, da ta virus, imenovan mutaba, ubije v roku 24 ur, tako da utekočini notranje organe. Kmalu izvemo da je v zgodbo o virusu vmešana tudi vojska in celo, da je obstajal serum. Ker pa je virus mutiral, je edini način za izdelavo protitelesc ta, da najdejo izvor okužbe, torej opico, ki se potika nekje v divjini ...
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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 and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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.
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...
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.