Johnny Clay planlægger at lave et sidste stort kup for derefter at trække sig tilbage for at leve et borgerligt liv med sin kæreste Fay. Sammen med en gruppe småforbrydere tilrettelægger Johnny detaljeret et den kup mod en galopbane. Men i planlægningen er der ikke taget højde for den menneskelige faktor.
Det sker sjældent, at tre af de største kvindelige Hollywood-stjerner er med i samme film. Endnu sjældnere, at alle tre forsvarer deres roller så hudløst og brillant, at man vanskeligt kan fremhæve én uden at være uretfærdig mod de to andre. Men det mest usædvanlige er, at vi her har en stor, flot, stjernespækket Hollywood-film!"Urban:"Uden at overdrive sine virkemidler sniger filmen sig ind på os tilskuere og rører og river i følelsesregisteret. 'The Hours' er en historie om livet og døden. Kærligheden og smerten. Tag godt med lommetørklæder med i biografen, og sæt tid af til eftertanke!"Berlingske Tidende:"Elegance, trodsig humor og bevægende følsomhed, og den er en berigende, dybt tilfredsstillende oplevelse!
Jimmy 'The Saint' (Andy Garcia), ex-gangster i gang med et nyt og mere ærligt liv, skylder den tidligere gangster-boss 'The Man With the Plan" (Christopher Walken) en tjeneste. Jimmy og fire ex-kumpaner har imidlertid mistet håndelaget, og hvad der ellers skulle have været en nem opgave, løber af sporet og ender i en sand katastrofe. Gruppens dage er talte, da fejltagelsen 'belønnes' med en håndfuld dødsdomme underskrevet af 'manden med planen'. Et sandt kapløb mod tiden og diverse lejemordere kan begynde.
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world.
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art with complex geometric patterns called kené. These patterns also have corresponding songs, called icaros, which are integral to the Shipibo way of life. This documentary explores these unique art forms, and one Shipibo family's efforts to safeguard the tradition.
Tomás, desperate, knocks insistently on the door of a lonely house. Nobody opens it. When he leaves the place, he sees some bushes moving and goes into a wooded path. Along the way, from his memories, he faces several episodes of fear in his life until he reaches the exit of the path, which takes him back to the door of the house. Tomás enters and talks with a woman (who represents death), at which point he decides to face his fears.
After May 1968, they experimented with communities, squats or free love, with the hope of real change. Today, at retirement age, they live in new places and promote ways of living better and growing old together. What if they were right, these former protesters whose utopias have been muted by triumphant individualism?
Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains. Until, that is, Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences for the whole clan.
Travel the longest railway in the world. Stories and destinies of ordinary Russians who met by chance on the Moscow-Vladivostok train. A kaleidoscope of passengers' stories develops into a social portrait of modern Russian society, and the endless road turns into a metaphor of a country that is constantly moving somewhere.
Anyone carries something with them, something that can be short and painful, sweet and long, and strange and lovely, but it does not matter. What’s important is Life. And the Moon which sees everything