A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) returnerer til sitt gamle hovedkvarter, hvor han oppdager at han er blitt beskyldt for et 16 år gammelt drap. Sjefen for hans gamle etterforskningsenhet, majoren Susan Turner (Colbie Smulders) har blitt arrestert for landsforræderi, men Jack vet at hun er uskyldig. Han må hjelpe henne med å rømme fra fengselet og avdekke den store, politiske konspirasjonene som truer livene deres. På flukt fra loven, oppdager Jack også en hemmelighet fra fortiden som kan endre livet hans for alltid.
Han var arvtageren til det tusenårige riket. Han var født til å herske i tråd med urgamle tradisjoner, men ingen forberedte ham på en verden i forandring. Tre år gammel bestiger Pu Yi Dragetronen for å bli keiser over flere hundre millioner kinesere. Hans liv begynner som et eventyr i “Den forbudte by” med tusenvis av tjenere, prakt og overflod, og gjenklangen av ritualer lyder i byens isolat. Han bevitner og deltar i forandringenes voldsomme stormer som blåser over Kina på 1900-tallet. Han er marionettkeiser og fange hos japanerne under den andre verdenskrigen. Han utsettes for Mao Tse Tungs maktovertagelse og kulturrevolusjonens voldsomheter, for til slutt å ende opp som gartner i en av Pekings parker.
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Oscar vinneren Jack Nicholson (Beste skuespiller i Gjøkeredet 1975) medvirker her sammen med Peter Fonda og Dennis Hopper (som også har regi), i denne utradisjonelle klassikeren som Time Magazine utropte til en av de 10 viktigste filmene i dette århundret. Opplev det ekte og usensurerte 60-tallet i denne uimotståelige blandingen av stoff, sex og tilbakelente politikere. Vi møter Jack Nicholson i en rolle han øyeblikkelig ble berømt for; en alkoholisert advokat som henger seg på to deltidspushere (Fonda & Hopper), med motorsykler som sin store hobby. I jakten på Den Amerikanske Drømmen, kjører de fra California til New York og får en smaksprøve på de sosiale forskjellene, samtidig som de utøver en intens søken etter meningen med livet. Nominert til Oscar (1969) for beste manus (skrevet av Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper og Terry Southern), forblir Easy Rider en klassiker ev de helt store og for publikum i alle aldre...
Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti Lung and his Kung Fu students patrol for criminals. Enter the rival Kung Fu school whom Ti Lung's students have beaten in a lion dance competition and then humiliated in a brawl. The rival school is joined by an opium dealing Kung Fu master who plans to turn the town into a community of addicts!
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
When a prominent official is murdered at a banquet honoring Charle Chan, the detective and son Lee team up to expose an opium-smuggling ring.
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn’s way in order to protect the very soul of China. Among them is the Westerner, White Crane, a spiritual master of the martial arts and protector of the innocent. Revenge is not in Crane’s heart—until a mercenary army storms the temple and slaughters the beloved female Grandmaster Myling. Out of the ashes of the temple ruins, Crane rises—with vengeance in his heart. Crane comes upon Jane Marshall, a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss Bingo Quo. But it’s Bingo’s dangerous professional ties to Kahn that draw both Crane and Jane deep into the Warlord’s lair. Now torn between the spiritual Wudang teaching and the cold-blooded life of an assassin, Crane is about the cross the fine line between justice and revenge.
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
China, the early 1930's: martial arts master Wen Biao discovers that his brother has been using their security company for illegal activities. A confrontation between the brothers leaves Web Biao missing and presumed dead.
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.