Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Unos delincuentes armados secuestran un vagón del metro de Nueva York y retienen como rehenes a 17 pasajeros. A cambio de su liberación exigen que, en el plazo de una hora, se les pague un rescate de un millón de dólares; en caso contrario, amenazan con matar un rehén por cada minuto de retraso. Para entretener al inflexible jefe de la banda (Robert Shaw) hasta la entrega del dinero, el teniente de policía Garber (Matthau) tendrá que usar todo su ingenio.
Estados Unidos, en plena época de la Gran Depresión. En medio de un ambiente de terrible miseria, gentes desesperadas, de toda edad y condición, se apuntan a una maratón de baile con la esperanza de ganar el premio final de 1500 dólares de plata y encontrar, al menos, un sitio donde dormir y comer. Mientras los concursantes fuerzan los límites de su resistencia física y psíquica, una multitud morbosa se divierte contemplando su sufrimiento durante días.
Después de salir de prisión, un ladrón de bancos se da cuenta de que no ha perdido las ganas de robar.
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly instead.
Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) es un prestigioso escritor de novelas de intriga. Además, su pasión por los juegos de ingenio y las adivinanzas lo ha llevado a convertir su gran mansión en una especie de museo, donde se exponen los juguetes y mecanismos más extravagantes. Una tarde, invita a su casa a Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), amante de su mujer y propietario de una cadena de salones de belleza, para proponerle un ingenioso plan del que ambos podrían salir beneficiados.
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
A traveling salesman is lured by a precocious teenage girl to her shack in the desert for some sexual escapades. However, a scuzzy biker comes along and they both find themselves dominated and tormented by him.
Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.
A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.