Viktor Navorski es un inmigrante balcánico que, al estallar la guerra en su país y quedar anulado su pasaporte, se encuentra involuntariamente exiliado en un aeropuerto de los Estados Unidos.
Un hombre amnésico es rescatado por la tripulación de un barco pesquero italiano cuando flota a la deriva en el mar. Carece de identidad y de pasado, pero posee unas serie de talentos extraordinarios en artes lingüísticas, marciales y de autodefensa que sugieren una profesión de riesgo. Confuso y desorientado, emprende una frenética búsqueda para descubrir quién es y por qué su vida ha tomado un giro tan peligroso.
La vida es perfecta para el profesor John Brennan hasta que su esposa, Laura, es acusada de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Durante tres largos años, John se ve condenado a sacar adelante a su hijo sin ninguna ayuda, a seguir dando clase en el colegio como si nada hubiera ocurrido y a reunir las pruebas necesarias para probar la inocencia de Laura.Pero su esposa está tan desesperada que intenta suicidarse. Después de esta traumática experiencia, a John no le queda otro remedio que idear un plan para ayudarle a escapar de la cárcel. Está dispuesto a dejar de ser quien es con tal de salvar a la mujer que ama.
Un desilusionado periodista emprende una peligrosa investigación sobre las intrigas políticas internacionales que facilitan la implantación de regímenes dictatoriales en algunos países africanos, lo que le hará vivir situaciones muy arriesgadas.
Una pareja que se encuentra de vacaciones en un lugar exótico se ve envuelto en una trama que llevará a la ejecución de un asesinato ritual.
When his father refuses to support his choice of a career, an aspiring chef tries to fulfil his dream by helping his grandfather run his small eatery.
Alison Pill interpreta a Emma, una guionista de cómics que trabaja en la historia de Edward (Gael García Bernal, Z), el hombre de sus sueños, un director de películas de acción bastante arrogante. Pero ahí no acaba la cosa. Edward graba una cinta sobre Michelle, una modelo brasileña (Mariana Ximenes) que, a su vez, escribe un libro centrado en una guionista de cómics. ¿Adivinas cómo se llama? Emma. Morelli adapta a la gran pantalla un guion firmado por Matt Hansen que, visto lo visto, suena a una mezcla de Más extraño que la ficción y Origen. Animación pop-art, la relación entre el creador y aquello que crea, Pill trabajando todos los días en una fábrica que diseña muñecas sexuales... A veces, la ficción supera a la mismísima realidad.
The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Köpenick and confiscated the city's purse.
Cuando la bailarina exótica Cassie se encuentra con un negocio de drogas que se ha echado a perder, ella roba el dinero y las drogas pensando que ahora tiene los fondos para hacer realidad su sueño de mudarse a París. Pero esperar tres días para obtener su pasaporte resulta más difícil de lo que pensaba cuando todos los que conoce, desde su ex novio, hasta su jefe drogadicto, su amante lesbiana, hasta el legítimo propietario del dinero, deciden participar.
En Los Ángeles, Carol, una ingenua y solitaria camarera aspirante a cantante, ve un anuncio sobre una oportunidad de trabajo en Tokio. Al viajar a Japón para trabajar en el club nocturno White Orchid, descubre una trama de prostitución en el club, que pertenece a la Yakuza. Sola, sin dinero y sin pasaporte, es protegida por Shiro, pero presionada por los gerentes Madame Mori y su marido Hatanaka para que sea receptiva a las propuestas de los clientes.
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Shikha Samuel (Rima Killingal) and Jayakrishnan (Vijay Babu) have eloped and made Uganda their home with the help of Advocate Firoz (Mukesh), who is practising law there. The couple is leading a happy life with a girl child of their own. Jayakrishnan is employed as a manager in a coffee shop and Shikha runs a designer boutique of her own. The tranquillity of their life is shattered when Shikha is arrested on the charges of committing two murders, one of the victim is the daughter of the local Mayor, who has pledged to keep her in jail for the rest of her life.
In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes
Simon is a young man who has decided to make quick money by smuggling narcotics. At a meeting with his contact they are ambushed by the police. Simon runs away but loses his wallet and so supposes that his identity must now be known to the police. Kalpak, the unscrupulous man who organizes this group of smugglers insists that he and Simon to leave at once. Simon agrees to cross the border illegally. Simon's girl-friend Lena and his brother Cvetko are involved in this operation by chance. They all leave together. Lena tries to persuade Simon to give himself up to the authorities, but the arguments of Kalpak, who uses the lost wallet as a threat, are stronger. In the attempt to cross the lake in a stolen boat they are chased by the police. Kalpak gets killed, Simon is wounded and the girl Lena drops the narcotics into the lake.
Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is fake. Now he must travel across Lebanon in search of his identity.
A prestigious Arabic speaker lost his passport. When she tries to leave the university where she gave her lecture, it begins an odyssey for her
A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two countries he can neither cross the frontiers nor get back to where he came from. He's forced to camp in the neutral area between the two countries, facing a lot of funny situations while there. The movie satirizes the ideology of Arab unity and cooperation at the state level.