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.
Elizabeth Sloane, lobbyiste influente à Washington, est recrutée par l’agence Peterson Wyatt, en vue d’un vote important au Congrès américain sur l’adoption d’une loi restrictive sur les armes à feu. Alors que son ancien employeur est le porte-parole d’un groupe conservateur qui prône le rejet de cette loi, Elizabeth et son équipe tentent de convaincre les sénateurs indécis de rejoindre les partisans de l’acceptation. Cet affrontement entre les deux camps donnera lieu à des stratégies agressives où les coups bas, quelquefois illégaux même, seront monnaie courante.
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.
À la suite d'un quiproquo, un homme d'affaires irascible et raciste, se retrouve confronté malgré lui à un règlement de compte entre terroristes d'un pays arabe. Afin se semer ses poursuivants, il se déguise en rabbin, après avoir croisé à Orly des religieux juifs en provenance de New-York.
When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.
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.
Lucky Kunene s'initie au monde du crime. Quand ses activités prennent de l'ampleur, il attire l'attention des forces de l'ordre et d'un puissant baron de la drogue.
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?