In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
In den 70er-Jahren stehen die Republik Korea und der koreanische Geheimdienst, die KCIA, unter der absoluten Kontrolle des diktatorischen Präsidenten Park. Kim Gyu-pyeong, Direktor der KCIA und rechte Hand des Präsidenten, wird in die USA gesandt, um dort die Veröffentlichung der Memoiren des ehemaligen KCIA-Direktors Park Yong-gak im Zuge der „Koreagate“-Untersuchungen zu verhindern. Doch die Autobiografie seines Vorgängers enthält einige prekäre Informationen, die Kim an der Regentschaft seines Präsidenten zweifeln lassen. Zurück in Südkorea fasst Kim eine folgenschwere Entscheidung…
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.
Im Südafrika des späten 20. Jahrhunderts wandelt sich das Apartheidregime zur Demokratie, doch der junge Lucky Kunene kann sich trotzdem kein Studium leisten, obwohl er die passenden Noten dafür mit von der Schule brächte. Also verlegt er sich mit seinem Kumpel aufs Carjacking und stiehlt den weißen Pfeffersäcken die Daimlers unter dem Allerwertesten weg. Nach einem Umweg über ein Taxiunternehmen kommt er auf die Masche, ganze Häuser zu stehlen und gewinnbringend weiterzuvermieten. Doch Luckys Glück währt nicht ewig.
A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.
Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies involvement. To compel him to sign a full confession, Inspector Muller encourages the suspect to get married for - he says - to move the jury. This being done, he lets Jean believe that he can spend a moment alone with his wife; but then, Inspector Borelli blackmails him: "If you sign your confession, you can spend a moment with her." After being beaten, Jean signs a confession. It is then that a new blackmail intervenes: "the name of the accomplice?", asks the inspector. But the thug refuses to denounce the latter and ends up refusing the bargain dupes. While the guards drive him back to prison, his wife cuts his veins, breaking the career of the bad policeman.
The profound impact of technology on the lives and identities of young deaf adults is explored in The Listening Project. Fourteen deaf people tell stories beginning with a childhood wide-eyed about sound, into the growing pains of adolescence and, eventually, their professional lives. Sometimes humorous, always tender, The Listening Project is a timely coming of age story, one we haven't heard before.
When I became deaf at the age of 23, I decided to get a cochlear implant. As I began to regain my memories of lost sounds, I asked myself: How does someone who doesn't hear listen?