Narra la historia del esforzado socorrista Mitch Buchannon y su choque de carácter con un bravucón socorrista novato. Juntos, descubren una trama delictiva local que amenaza el futuro de la Bahía.
El coronel Terry Childer (Jackson), un condecorado oficial veterano de Vietnam y Líbano, es acusado de asesinato por el Ejército. Como abogado defensor elige al Coronel Hays Hodges (Lee Jones), un camarada que le debe la vida.
John Rabe era un hombre de negocios alemán que tenía contactos con el gobierno nazi. Sin embargo, tras la invasión de China por los japoneses, libró de la muerte a más de 200.000 chinos durante la masacre de Nanking (1937-1938). Basada en hechos reales.
Wayne Dobie, un fotógrafo de la policía, salva la vida del jefe de la mafia, Frank Milo. Éste, en agradecimiento le ofrece la compañía de Gloria, una de sus empleadas. Pero Wayne no quiere aceptar los favores de Frank y, además, no está seguro de cómo debe actuar con la chica.
An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.
Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces, she is witty, funny, the life of the party. Too busy to realise that deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack, and Daphne is forced to confront the inevitability of a much-needed change in her life.
A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
Little Cesario, a clumsy, and not too bright, St. Bernard puppy, is the junior member of a family of decorated life-savers.