Two estranged brothers, one a drug addict, the other, a schizophrenic, struggle to face their demons in the streets of Baltimore.
Eddie er en Poolhustler med talent, men også en dårlig attitude. Han udfordrer legenden Minnesota Fats til et spil, men han taber stort. Uden penge og uden venner må han genvinde sin selvtillid og sit talent.
Connected through a dark past incident, a teenage gay hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths again years later.
Midnight Cowboy blev belønnet med Oscars for bedste film, bedste instruktør og bedste manuskript, og kan desuden prale af, at Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voigt og Sylvia Miles alle blev Oscar-nomineret for deres præstationer. Dustin Hoffman er uforglemmelig som "Ratso" Rizzo, en snyltende, snusket, ubetydelig bondefanger med store drømme. Jon Voigt er fantastisk som Joe Buck, den smukke, naivt charmerende "cowboy" fra Texas, som er overbevist om, at han kan frelse New Yorks mange kærlighedshungrende kvinder. Disse to personer finder sammen i denne stærke og følelsesladede film om menneskeskæbner i storbyens jungle.
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
A documentary about a 78-year-old Indian woman in New York who is the world's most passionate theatergoer. Nicki Cochrane has been seeing a play every day for more than 25 years, acquiring free tickets using a variety of ingenious means.
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails to get the stroke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his older, wealthy girlfriend (whom he hooked up to pay for a lavish life in the big city), and the work he does for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.
Sultanens datter Jasmin vil ikke giftes med hvem som helst. Hun løber derfor hjemmefra og møder i byen Agrabah den tyvagtige gadedreng Aladdin. Imidlertid har Jafar, sultanen rådgiver, planer om at gifte sig med Jasmin for at tilrane sig tronen, og han gør alt for at spolere Jasmins og Aladdins spirende romance. Heldigvis får de hjælp af et flyvende tæppe og den magiske ånd Genie.
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.
Mike (River Phoenix) er en stille fyr, som blev forladt af sin mor som barn. Han lider af narkolepsi og er desuden homoseksuel. Han er forelsket i Scott (Keanu Reeves), der lever på gaden i protest mod sin velhavende familie, men som iøvrigt hævder, at han ikke er bøsse. Sammen drager de af sted for at opsøge Mikes mor, og undervejs på rejsen, som går fra Seattle til Idaho og videre til Italien, møder de en smuk ung pige, som de samler op.
Bree er en pæn, meget troende kristen dame, som lever et yderst regelret liv, hvis man altså lige ser bort fra, at hun i virkeligheden er en transseksuel mand. Bree har hele 2 jobs, hvor hver en øre bliver sparet sammen til den store kønsskifteoperation. En dag modtager hun et mærkeligt opkald. Det lader til at hun har en søn, som er et resultat af en kikset affære fra dengang, hun levede som mand. Drengen hedder Toby, er i ungdomsfængsel og har hårdt brug for sin fars hjælp.
In a small dusty town, the local pool shark is challenged by a mysterious lonesome hustler
Two hustlers are united on the run after an innocent robbery. They travel the country seeking to subsist at the cost of the ingenuity of people.
'Nightmare Alley' handler om Stan, der får job som alt-mulig-mand på et omrejsende karneval i starten af 1940'erne. Han viser hurtigt et talent for at læse mennesker, og kommer under oplæringen hos trick-clairvoyanten Zeena og hendes mand Pete. Stan får udviklet sig eget nummer, som han drager til storbyen for at optræde med. Men det bliver starten på en mørk og farlig rejse, da han slår sig sammen med en mystisk psykolog for at svindle flere af byens velhavende mænd. 'Nightmare Alley' er baseret på romanen 'Lykkeridder'.
Vincent er god til at spille pool. Rigtig god. Hans talent bliver opdaget af hustleren Eddie, der begynder at lære Vincent op i hustleriets svære kunst, men Eddie har også selv været poolhaj og bliver efterhånden misundelig på sin elevs succes. Et brud er uundgåeligt, men de to mødes senere under en turnering for at afgøre, hvem der er den bedste poolspiller.
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
Daniel cruises the Gare du Nord where Eastern European Boys hang out. One afternoon he plucks up his courage to speak to Marek, one of the boys and invites him to his home. However, next day when the doorbell rings, Daniel hasn’t the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.