Σε μια παραθαλάσσια πόλη, το Άμιτι, λίγο πριν την 4η Ιουλίου, ημέρα εθνικής εορτής των Αμερικανών, ένα νεαρό κορίτσι δέχεται επίθεση από καρχαρία. Η πόλη αναστατώνεται, αλλά λόγω της επερχόμενης εορτής κανείς δεν θέλει να λάβει μέτρα με το ρίσκο να χαλάσει το κλίμα. Αν και ο αρχηγός της αστυνομίας επιμένει να κλείσουν οι παραλίες, ο δήμαρχος αρνείται. Όταν ο αριθμός των θυμάτων αρχίζει να αυξάνεται, το κυνήγι του καρχαρία θα περάσει σε ιδιωτικά χέρια. Ένας ειδικός στους καρχαρίες και ένας έμπειρος καπετάνιος, αναχωρούν για να σκοτώσουν τον καρχαρία, πρωτού προκαλέσει κι άλλα προβλήματα.
Μια γυναικά κατηγορείται για φόνο όταν ο άντρας της εξαφανίζεται μυστηριωδώς και το ιστιοφόρο με το οποίο ταξίδευαν βρίσκεται «βαμμένο» στο αίμα. Τελικά οδηγείται στη φυλακή με μόνη «ψυχική» υποστήριξη το γιο της. Τα πράγματα όμως παίρνουν δραματική τροπή όταν ανακαλύπτει πως ο «νεκρός» άντρας της ζει και ότι όλα ήταν μια καλοσχεδιασμένη ίντριγκα με σκοπό να αποκτήσει την ασφάλεια ζωής των 2.000.000 δολαρίων. Με βάση ένα στοιχείο της Αμερικάνικης νομοθεσίας που ορίζει ότι δεν τιμωρείσαι για δεδικασμένο έγκλημα, ξεκινάει μια προσπάθεια να εντοπίσει και να σκοτώσει τον άντρα της. Μοναδικό εμπόδιο ο επιτηρητής της, που προσπαθεί να την αποτρέψει.
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.
Ένας πρώην Έλληνας πρωταθλητής καταδύσεων και ένας εκκεντρικός Γερμανός φοιτητής κάνουν ένα περιπετειώδες οδικό ταξίδι ανακάλυψης από το Μπάρι στη Βαυαρία.
A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Kaiyethum Doorath movie tells a flashback when Sachin (Shanu) is on his way to attend his lover's Sushma (Nikitha) marriage as he tells his past to the co-passengers on a ferryboat who gets hooked on to his love story. What happens at the marriage forms the interesting twist in this love story.
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another. It runs year round, never stopping. The footage was filmed on the Latvian-Belarussian border in the early 1990s - a time when the Soviet Union began to crumble and Latvia regained its independence.
A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.
A crazy, strange story about a ferry crew in western Norway and three Cubans in a shipwreck. While the ferry crew is fighting to avoid that the ferry M/F "Svelå" will be closed down, the Cubans who live in a shipwreck on the seabed are desperately trying to get in touch with the crew. Movie version, edited from the original 24 episode series.
Long-term partners Marc and Adrien live a seemingly perfect existence close to Lake Constance. Only whilst Marc is content to spend his days working for the local ferry service, Adrien yearns for the bright lights of Berlin and the clubs in which he hopes to realize his dream of becoming a musician. Yet life has a way of turning out not as you expect and here events culminate on a lengthy ferry crossing, one that sees Marc soon to spot Adrien onboard, complete with a one-way ticket and a car packed full of his belongings. Suffice to say that the stage is set for a traumatic farewell.
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the US and Canada. When the vessel comes under threat of ruin, a doctor, psychic and amusement park fanatic unite to save their beloved steamship from the scrapyard. Interweaving local lore and mythology, "Boblo Boats" explores the whitewashed history of amusement parks and one crew's crusade to bring back the memories.
A paraphrase on Eric M. Nilsson's film Djurgårdsfärjan from the early 1960s.