Los Angelesissa asuva kuusitoistavuotias Poppy Moore on ökyrikas ja itsekeskeinen hemmoteltu kakara. Hurjien juhlien mennessä pahasti penkin alle Poppyn isä päättää lähettää tytön englantilaiseen sisäoppilaitokseen parantamaan tapojaan. Poppy haluaa epätoivoisesti paeta, ja yrittäessään tulla erotetuksi koulusta amerikkalaisprinsessa kohtaa vertaisensa: brittitytöt ja -opettajat, jotka eivät suvaitse hänen oikkujaan. Vihdoin Poppy tajuaa, että pahan tytön keinoilla ei pitkälle pötkitä. Uusien ystävien ja kämppistensä avulla hän ryhtyy toteuttamaan lopullista pakosuunnitelmaansa. Samalla hän huomaa, että hänen olisikin syytä jäädä...
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
Massoud Amir Behrani elää unelmaansa valheen nojalla. Iranista muuttanut, entinen Šaahin eliittipiirin jäsen kykenee hädin tuskin elättämään perheensä, kunnes hän näkee tilaisuutensa pakkohuutokaupattavassa talossa. Talon väärin perustein menettänyt Kathy Lazaro päättää taistella kodistaan, mihin hintaan tahansa. Vähitellen Hiekan ja sumun talo paljastaa huolestuttavan totuuden: turmion lähde saattaa olla toivomme, ei vihamme.
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Seksuaaliväkivallan uhria syytetään epäoikeudenmukaisesti hyökkääjänsä murhasta. Häntä puolustaa eläköitynyt asianajaja, joka kyseenalaistaa Intian raiskauskulttuurin.
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
This ensemble comedy follows the Pullham University Bluecocks, a small liberal arts college with a Division III football program (the lowest division in the NCAA). When the head coach unexpectedly dies, the future of the flailing football program is in jeopardy, as they have not had a winning season in decades. In a desperate attempt to create some media attention for the athletic program and the university, President Georgia Anne Whistler hires known lunatic and felon, Coach Rick Vice, for what could be the football programs final season.
When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.
The story of Tommy Marino and his association in The Marino Family, covering his relationship with his partners, Papa Louie and Leonardo.
Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease increasing racial tensions.
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.
A timely film exploring the confrontation between a feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow and her family and a billionaire trying to become the most powerful man in the world.
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.
The king of the jungle, after a well spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse.
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.