Quattro persone vestite da imbianchini entrano nell'affollata hall del Manhattan Trust, una succursale di un'istituzione finanziaria internazionale a Wall Street. Nel giro di pochi secondi, i rapinatori mascherati mettono la banca sotto un assedio pianificato con chirurgica precisione, e i 50 tra clienti e impiegati diventano involontari ostaggi di un furto inattaccabile.
Una smisurata e misteriosa sfera luminosa atterra tra gli alberi di Central Park e sotto gli occhi meravigliati dei newyorkesi. L'alieno che la abita e ne discende viene accolto da una pallottola di benvenuto, esplosa da un militare nervoso ed emotivo. Ricoverato d'urgenza e guarito con prodigiosa rapidità, l'alieno rivela sembianze umane e nome sotto una pellicola gelatinosa: è Klaatu, una creatura astrale precipitata dall'universo per avvertire l'umanità di un'imminente crisi globale. Dopo aver chiesto senza successo alla Segretaria di Stato degli USA di organizzare una riunione internazionale per comunicare al mondo il suo messaggio, Klaatu elude la sorveglianza governativa, deciso a dare una dimostrazione di forza convincente con l'aiuto di Gort, il suo gigantesco automa. Sarà l'amore di una mamma, la scienziata Helen Benson, a farlo desistere dall'impresa, concedendo agli uomini il beneficio del dubbio e la possibilità del riscatto.
Di ritorno da una visita ufficiale a Mosca, l'aereo del presidente USA è preso in ostaggio da terroristi che chiedono la liberazione del loro capo, il gen. Vadek, dittatore del Kazakistan e detentore di valigette nucleari russe. Minacciano di eliminare un passeggero ogni trenta minuti.
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30 and has just moved back to her rural home-town, and into a shed in her mother’s backyard. She spends her time working a menial job at a local boating center and hides in the depths of her imagination, making movies with her thumbs. Irritated by her childish behavior, Anna's mother insists that she move out of her shed and on with her life. When a troubled young boy starts hanging around, the two form an unlikely bond. Through their strange yet mutually beneficial friendship, Anna slowly begins to confront her perpetual state of arrested development.
Farleigh Knock has a knack for keeping beautiful things, like Dennis, around his home. So when Fairleigh gives Dennis an unthinkable ultimatum for his 30th birthday, Dennis goes from a kept boy to a lost man.
A serial killer is on the loose. There have been gruesome murders, with victims being ghastly dismembered and their severed body parts dumped in various locations. As the bodies keep piling up, the police remain in the dark without a single clue.
A middle-class family, on the surface happy and perfect, are close to disintegration due to the father's escalating alcoholism. After several years of failure and broken promises, they finally give him an ultimatum. However, they must soon recognize that the solution rests on everyone's shoulders.
On Junior’s nineteenth birthday, his father Uzu pays a surprise visit at his department, and discovers that Junior has not only been skipping classes but also running a comics blog. Uzu gives an ultimatum between his dream or the law degree and familial support. Junior chooses the former, so Uzu sends him packing. That was the last time Junior’s family saw or heard from him.
The Pianist must face an ultimatum: he has three days to learn the song of the spinning top or his soul will be claimed by a demonic spirit.
Two years after Christian defeated his dark half, Huntrabane, said dark half was resurrected by his younger brother, Josh, in a desperate attempt to find him when he was missing. Just hours after he finished filming the largest video in his YouTube career, Christian discovered that his dark side had returned and been planning to kill his brother on that fateful day. Now, he must face the most difficult decision in his entire life: resurrect his brother or obtain his freedom from his darkness.