La coppia perfetta del liceo, lei reginetta di bellezza, lui campione della squadra di calcio scolastica, scoppia. Per scommessa, il ragazzo afferma di poter trasformare una studentessa bruttina in regina del ballo.
Sotto il pavimento di una grande casa nella campagna di Tokyo, vive la quattordicenne Arrietty con la madre e il padre. Sono una famiglia di “rubacchiotti”, alti dieci centimetri, che prendono in prestito dagli umani tutto ciò che serve loro per sopravvivere ma in piccolissime quantità, in modo che nessuno se ne accorga e possa scoprire la loro esistenza. Arrietty, però, in una delle sue incursioni nel giardino della casa viene vista da Sho, un ragazzino umano di 12 anni che soggiorna lì, presso la zia, in attesa di una rischiosa operazione al cuore. Nonostante la cosa scateni il terrore nei genitori, che si preparano immediatamente a traslocare, Arrietty capisce di potersi fidare di Sho e tra i due nasce una breve ma importante amicizia.
Willie T. Stokes è il salace e poco ispirato Babbo Natale di un grande magazzino che proprio non riesce a essere cortese con i clienti. Per di più dietro quell'ingombrante costume rosso si cela uno scassinatore che si limita a compiere un solo colpo grosso all'anno, proprio durante la notte di Natale. Quando i clienti svuotano il centro commerciale diretti a casa, Babbo Natale e il suo intraprendente elfo - Marcus, il socio nano di Willie - svuotano la cassaforte e filano via con il prezioso bottino. Quest'anno, però i due lavorano a Phoenix e il loro furto è messo in pericolo da un direttore particolarmente irritante, da un furbo detective, da una bella ammiratrice di Babbo Natale e da un ingenuo, assillante e strambo ragazzino di otto anni che ha deciso che Willie - per quanto velenoso, acido e cattivo possa sembrare - è il vero Babbo Natale...
Nelle case, all'interno dei muri o sotto il pavimento vivono molte famiglie del popolo dei rubacchiotti (in originale borrowers, letteralmente "chi prende in prestito"). Queste piccole persone vivono nelle case di ognuno e prendono piccoli oggetti in prestito come ditali, spille e qualsiasi altra cosa che gli occorra senza farsi scorgere dagli umani che ignorano la loro esistenza.
Un cow-boy conduce una carovana composta da 150 donne, da Chicago fino alla California, dove sono attese da altrettanti uomini, che pur non conoscendole le sposeranno. Le donne, appartenenti ai ceti più svariati, sapranno affrontare le insidie del viaggio con spirito indomito. Alcune non raggiungeranno mai la meta.Saranno le donne a scegliere gli uomini. Hanno ognuna la fotografia del prescelto e passano in rassegna davanti a quel branco allupato, che esse sanno domare con un semplice gesto.
Family adventure based on Mary Norton's classic children's books about a race of tiny people who live under the floorboards, resourcefully surviving by borrowing bits and pieces from the large residents who dwell above. After being discovered by 'human beans', borrower Arrietty and her parents are forced to leave their home while attempting to evade the clutches of obsessive scientist Professor Mildeye.
Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for human flesh. Now with the help of a wisecracking cook and a sexy film geek, the part-zombie Quinn must stop the plague before it can infect the entire nation. Who holds the shocking secret behind this blood-crazed carnage? And what happens when Quinn stops gnawing on raw steak and starts chomping on the hot chick?
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
Cabot deve far ritorno a Gor, dove il trono sembra essere insidiato da Xenos, il sommo sacerdote. Anche la regina Lara però ha grandi ambizioni.
Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.
A small town is overrun by ankle-biting-blood-sucking DWARF Vampires. Things get complicated when the vertically-challenged coffin-creepers get their itty-bitty hands on a sword with the blood of the last slain Tall Vampire. With this relic, they can create a super-race of SHAQ-sized Draculas out of any tall human. Now, the half Vampire / half Human, Drexel, is the town's - and the world's - only hope to stop the countryside invasion of the mini-Demons. There are no SHORT fixes to this TALL problem.
The Insane Clown Posse heads back to the Wild West in this prequel to BIG MONEY HUSTLAS. Nothing happens in the dusty town of Mud Bug without the approval of gambling magnate Big Baby Chips (Violent J), and the locals turn and run when his henchmen come out to play. But when swaggering sheriff Sugar Wolf (Shaggy 2 Dope) teaches the locals to fight back, Big Baby Chips and his gang head for the hills in a hail of gunfire.
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland, determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking police force. He appeals for assistance from wealthy plantation tycoon Carl Van Molder, who owns nearly half of the island and wields a great deal of influence over the population. Van Molder has made the study of parapsychology his life's work and believes in the secret powers of the mind. He warns Labesch not to interfere with this forgotten island's ancient ways. Also visiting is Van Molder's niece, Annabella, a temperance crusader who wants her uncle to help fund the International Anti-Saloon League. She falls in love with handsome police lieutenant Andrew Wilhelm
An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.
Weng Weng plays an agent, code-named “00” who works for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in pursuit of an arch villain, Mr X, whose white sock covered head is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan’s pointed hoods. When Mr X holds the Philippines for ransom two businessmen, Maolo and Simeon, pay his demands. Weng Weng suspects foul play and goes deep undercover to reveal the true identity of the mysterious Mr X.
Juanita barely escapes her mother-in-law's wrath. Maria also puts a curse on Juanita and one of her daughters, Julia Rose. The curse was that they will encouter a lifetime of bad luck. But Maria blesses the otehr daughter, Jenny Rose with good fortune. Series of appalling events and revelations unfold as their lives intertwine.
Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and control. Yet among them rises a new warrior, destined to shape the aeons which will follow -- a man who stops at nothing to achieve his ends, and for whom courage is the only commodity