Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
Richard Hannay, en canadisk rancher på ferie i England, flygter fra en teaterforestilling efter en skudepisode. Under sin flugt bliver han antastet af en rædselsslagen kvinde, der trygler Richard om hjælp. På hans hotelværelse fortæller hun ham, at hun er en britisk spion, hvis liv er i fare. Hun er blevet truet af internationale agenter, der forfølger hende. Richard er sikker på, at hun er sindssyg, indtil hun næste morgen igen banker på hans dør, dødeligt såret, med en kniv i ryggen og et kort i hånden. Inden hun dør, mumler hun noget om "39 trin" til ham. Han opdager nu, at hun virkelig blev forfulgt, og at han nu også forfølges. Men det lykkes ham at undslippe. Han tager det første tog til byen, der stod på kortet, som kvinden havde i sin hånd. Richard finder ud af, at han nu er efterlyst for mord, og han må finde en måde, hvorpå han kan bevise sin uskyld.
John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man) har instrueret denne spionhistorie, der hævdes at være baseret på en virkelig begivenhed. Timothy Hutton spiller en falleret studerende, der er desillusioneret over sit lands, USA's, regering, og med hjælp fra en narkomisbrugende ven (Sean Penn) stjæler han hemmelige dokumenter for at sælge disse til Sovjetunionen. Det får katastrofale følger for dem begge.
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.
Hopper, a Vietnam vet riddled with PTSD is taken under the wing of a charismatic undercover CIA agent, Reese, promising him a newly repaired mind. Unbeknownst to the vet, he'll be treated less like a patient, and more like a test subject.