Quando Susan Turner, a Major do Exército que lidera a antiga unidade de investigação de Jack Reacher, é presa por traição, Jack Reacher, sabendo que ela é inocente, ajuda-a a fugir da prisão para descobrir a verdade por detrás de uma alta conspiração governamental, limpar os seus nomes e salvar as suas vidas. Em fuga, Reacher descobre um segredo do seu passado que pode mudar a sua vida para sempre.
Na década de 20, David Aaronson e Maximillian Bercouicz, dois amigos de origem judaica, crescem juntos cometendo pequenos crimes nas ruas do Lower East Side, Nova Iorque. Gradualmente, estes crimes assumem proporções maiores e a máfia judaica passa a ter tanta força que os amigos do passado se tornam rivais.
Herdeiro de uma tradição milenar, Pu Yi, foi o último Imperador da China, viu a sua vida irreversivelmente alterada por duas guerras mundiais e grandes mudanças políticas. Guiado pelo seu mentor inglês, é forçado a deixar as muralhas do seu palácio imenso e encontrar forças para construir uma nova vida num estranho mundo que sempre quis ver, mas nunca conheceu.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Dois membros da contra-cultura hippie no final dos anos 60 saem de Los Angeles e atravessam o país até Nova Orleans. Na viagem, encaram o espírito da liberdade, mas também muito preconceito. Primeira indicação ao Oscar para Jack Nicholson.
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Akemi é um líder dos dragões tatuados do clã Tachibana Yakuza. Em um duelo com uma gangue rival, Akemi corta os olhos de um oponente e um gato preto aparece, para lamber o sangue que jorra da ferida. O gato e a vítima perseguem a gangue de Akemi para se vingarem, deixando um rastro de meninas Yakuza mortas, suas tatuagens de dragões esfoladas de seus corpos.
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti Lung and his Kung Fu students patrol for criminals. Enter the rival Kung Fu school whom Ti Lung's students have beaten in a lion dance competition and then humiliated in a brawl. The rival school is joined by an opium dealing Kung Fu master who plans to turn the town into a community of addicts!
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
China, the early 1930's: martial arts master Wen Biao discovers that his brother has been using their security company for illegal activities. A confrontation between the brothers leaves Web Biao missing and presumed dead.
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
O cérebro do mal, Fu Manchu, trama o seu mais recente esquema para basicamente congelar os oceanos da Terra com o seu novo dispositivo diabólico. Opondo-se a ele está o seu arqui-inimigo, o britânico Dr. Nayland Smith da Interpol.
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn’s way in order to protect the very soul of China. Among them is the Westerner, White Crane, a spiritual master of the martial arts and protector of the innocent. Revenge is not in Crane’s heart—until a mercenary army storms the temple and slaughters the beloved female Grandmaster Myling. Out of the ashes of the temple ruins, Crane rises—with vengeance in his heart. Crane comes upon Jane Marshall, a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss Bingo Quo. But it’s Bingo’s dangerous professional ties to Kahn that draw both Crane and Jane deep into the Warlord’s lair. Now torn between the spiritual Wudang teaching and the cold-blooded life of an assassin, Crane is about the cross the fine line between justice and revenge.
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.