Året er 1943, og Mahitos mor omkommer under den amerikanske bombingen av Tokyo. Familien flytter ut til landsbygda, men den 12 år gamle gutten strever med å finne seg til rette på sitt nye hjemsted. En dag dukker det opp en mystisk hegre. Det viser seg at fuglen kan snakke, og den leder Mahito inn i en parallell verden der moren hans fortsatt lever...
Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
Da Aileen Wuornos, en emosjonelt skadet prostituert, skyter og dreper en sadistisk horekunde begynner hun reisen som Amerikas første kvinnelige seriemorder.
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
Den nyvalgte president Nelson Mandela innser at uvante virkemidler må til for å lege sårene i et dypt splittet land. Sammen med kapteinen på det middelmådige rugbylandslaget setter Mandela det høyest mulige sportslige målet: en VM-tittel.
Han trenger symbolsaker for å få fortgang i prosessen. Presidenten fatter interesse for det utskjelte landslaget i rugby, kjent som Springbok. Det har vært de hvite sør-afrikanernes lag, men Mandela vil gjøre laget folkekjært på tvers av rasegrensene. Presidenten tror at laget kan vinne VM i 1995, som faktisk skal arrangeres i Sør-Afrika. Problemet er bare at Sprinbok i beste fall er middelmådig. Mandela trenger motiverende drahjelp. Den får han fra de innerste sirkler, i form av landslagskaptein Francois Pienaar. De to umake lederne finner tonen og et felles mål. Men kan et VM-gull bli mer enn håp og drømmer?
Captain Phillips er et psykologisk drama som skildrer hendelsene da det amerikanske lasteskipet Maersk Alabama ble kapret av somaliske pirater i 2009. Filmen er basert på en sann historie og skildrer spenningene når skipets kaptein Richard Phillips blir tatt til fange av den somaliske lederen Muse. Etter at Muse og mannskapet hans har gått til væpnet angrep på Phillips’ skip, slippes det løs krefter ingen av dem aner rekkevidden av.
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
En telefonselger følger en medarbeiders råd og klatrer raskt på rangstigen – inntil suksessen skaper en rekke etiske og jobbmessige utfordringer for ham.
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they're only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiancé.
A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the tireless support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials pursuing the boy for deportation.
I dette japanske dramaet, satt på 1700-tallet, kjemper samurai krigere hverandre i deres søken etter en mester i kjølvannet av en Shogun-mandert desentralisering. Et potensielt offer er tvunget til å utføre ritualet med et treblad. Familien hans forsøker å dekke opp hans degraderende dødsfall.
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.