Megastarul internaţional Dwayne Johnson interpretează rolul unui primatolog care și-a făcut un obicei din a ține oamenii la distanță. Singura legătură specială a lui Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) este cea pe care o are cu George, o gorilă extrem de inteligentă, de care a avut grijă încă de când s-a născut. Atunci când un experiment genetic dă greș, blândul animal se transformă într-o imensă bestie violentă. Situația devine într-adevăr dramatică atunci când sunt descoperite și alte animale care au suferit mutații similare. Pe măsură ce Nordul Americii este distrus de acești noi prădători, Okoye face echipă cu un inginer genetic discreditat pentru a găsi un antidot, în timp ce încearcă să evite o catastrofă globală și să salveze creatura care i-a fost cândva prietenă.
Faimosul semiolog Profesorul Robert Langdon este chemat într-o noapte la Muzeul Luvru unde un custode a fost ucis, lăsând în urma sa o urmă misterioasă plină de simboluri și indicii. Fiind în joc propria sa supraviețuire, Langdon, ajutat de agenta de poliție criptolog de profesie Sophie Neveu, descoperă o serie de secrete extraordinare care sunt ascunse în operele lui Leonard da Vinci, toate conducând la o societate dedicată păzirii unui secret străvechi, rămas ascuns timp de 2000 de ani. Cei doi pornesc într-o cursă prin Paris, Londra și Scoția, adunând indicii în timp ce încearcă cu disperare să spargă codul și să descopere secretele care vor zgudui chiar temelia omenirii.
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dume, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
Tomás, a birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino bird never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.
Ruben (Joren Seldeslachts) is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie (Halina Reijn) is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and along with Ruben shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?
Shida is the new kid in class in a private boarding school in Tanzania. He is shy, he has no self-esteem, he does not speak one word of English - the primary language in the school, and he suffers from albinism. Like most children with albinism in the country Shida was taken away from his parents to be protected from the witchcraft related killings. The film follows Shida during his first year at the new school where the rules are strict and tolerance low. He is trying his best to meet the demands. The school is a chance of an education and to escape a life on the bottom of society. With the help from his new friend Allan he is struggling to become better in school and to be accepted by the teachers and pupils.
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hunter to track it down and kill it.
The Badger is the story of a 40-year-old woman called Soodeh Sharifzadegan who faces a strange incident, right before her second marriage.
Agnes may not seem like someone with much to laugh about. For one thing, she has albinism - a lack of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes - and her appearance has provoked prejudice from family, friends and strangers since she was born. But despite all odds, Agnes refuses to lead a life of sorrow. This fascinating and inspiring documentary also shares the stories of seven other people's individual experiences of living their lives with albinism in Kenya, a predominantly black society. While each person's story is unique, they all have one thing in common: they know what it is like to stand out uncomfortably from the crowd.
Rejected by his father at birth, a boy with albinism navigates a childhood of bullying, tragedy and cautious hope.
This film chronicles the health and social problems that African albinos face and details the fight waged on their behalf by advocacy groups in Spain.
The 25th planet of the Cyrus Solar System, Vega is in danger, the 800yrs old Queen Mother is dying, afflicted by a disease we know as brain cancer. She has but a short time to live unless the part affected can be replaced. A select group of Aliens have been sent to earth to capture and bring back the part Affected-Medulla to be replaced and transplanted to the Queen Mother. It has taken them 4,5 light years to get here, now they have finally arrived.
It is not easy to be an albino in Tanzania. White skin is distinguishable and it burns quickly under the African sun. However, the constant fear is by far the worst part. According to local superstition, albino body parts bring wealth and luck; hence witch doctors pay generously for a leg or an arm.
Imagine how life must be for someone whose skin has no protection whatsoever from the sun. And now imagine living in a country that averages over 80% sunshine during any given year. Welcome to Paulus's life in Namibia.
Maria Ada is a famous urban legend that tells the story of a teacher who died leaving two sons behind while his ghost occasionally comes to life trying to recover them. Oscar and Jose, two friends and former classmates, tell about the tragic ghost apparitions and their constant bickering with an albino boy. A friend from the same classroom could only see the ghost, because in Equatorial Guinea they say that albinos have four eyes.