Când exponatele Muzeului de Istorie Naturală din New York, care prind viață în timpul nopții, încep să se comporte ciudat, Larry, nou-promovat ca director de operațiuni pe timp de noapte la Muzeu, trebuie să afle care este cauza. Tableta, care aduce la viață creaturile în mod magic, a început să putrezească și singura modalitate de a remedia acest lucru poate fi la Muzeul Britanic . Larry, care va face orice pentru a-și salva „familia” din muzeu, împreună cu fiul său Nick și exponatele muzeului, călătoresc de la New York la Londra, unde trebuie să descopere secretul tabletei.
Un fost polițist și familia lui sunt ținta unei forțe malefice care folosește oglinzile ca o poartă către casa lor.
Un paznic de noapte la o companie de automobile blindate din sudul Statelor Unite organizează unul dintre cele mai mari jafuri bancare din istoria Americii.
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.
Doinel se înrolează în armată, dar e destituit pentru insubordonare. În scurt timp, el se angajează ca paznic de noapte într-un hotel și, după prima tură, e deja concediat. Apoi acceptă să fie detectiv particular și se îndrăgostește de doamna Tabard.
Filmul prezintă povestea supraviețuirii a doi imigranți care află că totul este de vânzare în lumea interlopă a Londrei. Membri invizibili ai clasei muncitoare londoneze, exilatul nigerian Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) și menajera de origine turcă Senay (Audrey Tautou) muncesc într-un hotel din vestul Londrei care este un paravan pentru afaceri ilegale. Într-o noapte, Okwe face o descoperire șocantă care îi pune pe cei doi într-o dilemă imposibilă și care testează limitele a tot ceea ce cunosc. Distins cu numeroase premii la festivalurile de film europene, inclusiv succesele repurtate în cadrul festivalurilor de film de la Londra și Veneția, filmul este un thriller urban absolut fascinant și imposibil de uitat.
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
Adela, a former radio personality, celebrates her 80th birthday. Alone, and without support, she longs for the family and stability of years gone by. Mundane events take on heightened meaning as Adela gauges her life against those of the sea of humanity. Adela is about the quiet moments in life that can fill us with either joy or sorrow.
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Janneke has been working as a volunteer in palliative terminal care for over twenty years, both in the hospice and in people's homes. In The Night Watchman we see Janneke both in her daily life and while waking. Scenes in which surprising parallels and paradoxes show Janneke's position in her life and how they seem to embrace death at first sight.
CORDUROY (Live Action--Based on the book by Don Freeman) Corduroy longs for someone to take him home from the department store. He thinks that finding his lost button may help, so he searchers the store when no one is around. Will Corduroy find the button on his adventure?
A little cat must take his sick father's place as night watchman, but is bullied by a tough mouse and his gang, leaving the rest of the mice free to eat all the food and stage a musical floor show.
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
In this musical short, two night watchmen hear songs performed in a haunted pawn shop.