Eva sætter sine egne karriereambitioner til side og fokuserer på sit nye familieliv. Hun føder sønnen Kevin, men forholdet mellem mor og søn er problematisk fra starten. Da Kevin bliver 15 år gammel, gør han noget, som er så irrationelt og utilgiveligt, at hele samfundet vender sig imod ham, imens Eva prøver at tackle sin sorg og skyldfølelse. Har hun nogensinde elsket sin søn? Og bærer hun en del af ansvaret for Kevins forfærdelige handlinger?
Den vanærede journalist Michael Finkel er blevet fyret efter en historie, der gik helt galt. Ved et tilfælde finder han ud af, at Christian Longo, en mand der er anklaget for at have myrdet sin familie, under sin flugt har givet sig ud for at være Finkel. Det fascinerer Finkel og får ham til at opsøge Longo i fængslet. Først charmerer Longo ham, men som tiden går, begynder Finkel at indse, hvor farlig den mordanklagede mand egentlig er.
Joseph er en mand som plages af et voldeligt og selvdestruktivt raseri. Han får en ny chance i form af Hannah, en selvopofrende kvinde der sidder fast i et destruktivt forhold.
Bernie (Jack Black) er bedemand i et lille samfund i Texas og kendt for sit gode humør og gode naboskab. Det undrer derfor alle i byen, da han bliver nær ven med den aldrende, utilnærmelige enke, Marjorie (Shirley MacLaine), og omgivelserne tror ikke deres egne ører, da Marjorie findes myrdet – og Bernie anklages for mord. Filmen er baseret på en sand historie.
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
A young couple, Renée and Pierre, take a room at the Hôtel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after shooting Renée, Pierre lacks the courage to finish the job and flees. Another guest, Monsieur Edmond, rescues her. When Renée gets out of the hospital she is hired as a waitress at the same hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renée is still thinking of Pierre.
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. For his family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the abyss of the US justice system, however, this David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with his health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors pulling out all the stops to extradite him, the clock is ticking.
The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.
Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is still felt that some individuals can be reformed. At Won Wron, Case Worker Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men through giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors - beautiful, fearsome proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic wedge tailed eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible.
The film takes on Ali, a member of a wealthy family, and his shared infatuation with a night club worker by the name of Tülay. Ali and Tülay want to get married. Though Ali’s father disapproves of the union at first, he eventually gives in. But the owner of the night club that Tülay works at, Ejdar Hasan, also has his eye on her. Hasan proposes a large sum of money to Tülay as a measure to convince her not to get married to Ali. When Ali’s father ups the offer, Hasan resorts to other plans. The day of the marriage, Hasan and his men cut off the wedding motorcade. In the conflict that arises, Ali’s father is killed. In retaliation, Ali kills a few of Hasan’s men, and lands himself in prison. During the transfer from the courthouse to prison, Ali escapes in order to exact his revenge
A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.
Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny.
Documentary looking at the culture of three motels and their owners who remain untouched by homogenization and corporatism, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Florence, Arizona; and the semi-ghost town of Death Valley Junction, California. Everyone has an unusual story to tell.
