When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Sam Lowry (J. Pryce) radi kao činovnik u jednom ministarstvu totalitarističke države koja se guši u silnoj birokraciji. Državom hara skupina takozvanih terorista koji se uporno bore protiv tiranske vlasti. Jedan od glavnih protudržavnih aktivista je Harry Tuttle (R. De Niro), pa vlast izdaje zapovijed za njegovo uhićenje. Zbog birokratske pogreške policija uhvati nedužnog Harryja Buttlea. Kako sustav ne želi priznati pogrešku, Buttle je smaknut, a Lowry se treba ispričati žrtvinoj obitelji. Na tom zadatku slučajno susreće djevojku Jill (K. Greist) koja mu se neprestano pojavljuje u snovima i mašti. Jill isprva ne želi razgovarati s Lowryjem vjerujući kako je isti kao i svi vladini ljudi, ali se ubrzo uvjeri u njegove dobre namjere. Kako se i ona nalazi na vladinoj crnoj listi, Lowry joj pokušava pomoći...
Avantura glavnog junaka Arthura Denta (Martin Freeman) počinje kada otkrije da je njegov prijatelj Ford zapravo vanzemaljac. Pošto mu Ford priopći kako će uskoro biti propast svijeta, te da se život može bez problema nastaviti i izvan Zemlje, Arthur se ukrcava na prvu svemirsku letjelicu. Za sretan put dobije knjigu koja će mu biti od velike pomoći na intergalaktičkom putovanju.
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
Istočna Njemačka, 1989.: ponosna socijalistica i majka mladog Alexa pretrpi srčani udar i padne u komu. Osam mjeseci poslije Njemačka Demokratska Republika više ne postoji i Alex mora napraviti sve kako njegova majka ne bi saznala istinu.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.
In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himself there, he enters the nightmarish world of the castle bureaucracy.
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?