Robert Thorn und seine Frau Katherine erwarten ihr erstes Kind. Doch bei der Geburt stirbt das Baby, und die in einem römischen Krankenhaus tätigen Priester bieten Thorn an, stattdessen ein zur gleichen Zeit geborenes Kind, deren Mutter angeblich bei der Geburt gestorben ist und das keine Verwandten haben soll, zu adoptieren. Thorn stimmt nach anfänglichem Zögern zu, denn er weiß, wie problematisch für Katherine das Wissen um die Fehlgeburt wäre. Nichts ahnend ist Katherine überglücklich über den scheinbar gemeinsamen Sohn, den die beiden Damien nennen. Doch der Junge erweist sich schon bald als der personifizierte Antichrist. Schreckliche Dinge geschehen in seiner Gegenwart und viele der Dinge, sind nicht mit natürlichen Überlegungen zu erklären. Und schon bald müssen auch Robert und Katherine um ihr Wohl bangen, denn Damien scheint nichts und niemand stoppen zu können.

Peter Parker ist nicht gerade angesehen an seiner Uni, denn er ist schmächtig und ungeschickt, was seine Chancen beim Mädchen seiner Träume, Mary Jane nicht gerade erhöht. Als er eines Tages jedoch von einer genmanipulierten Spinne gebissen wird, wacht er am nächsten Morgen auf und findet seine Sinne geschärft vor und entwickelt auch weitere übermenschliche, aber sehr spinnenähnliche Fähigkeiten. Nachdem er damit zunächst sein Traummädchen beeindruckt hat, wächst er schon bald zu dem maskierten Helden Spider-Man heran, spätestens als ein Superschurke namens Grüner Kobold, der die Mr.Hyde-Variante des Wissenschaftlers Norman Osborn ist, die Stadt bedroht.

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

Die amerikanische Botschaftergattin Katherine Thorn erwartet in einer römischen Gewitternacht ihr erstes Kind, doch das Kleine kommt bei der Geburt angeblich ums Leben. Und da ihr Gatte Robert um die liebe Ehefrau äußerst besorgt ist, lässt er sich von einem zufällig anwesenden Priester kurzerhand ein Kuckuckskind unterschieben – niemand Geringeren als Luzifer Junior, der im Auftrag seines Vaters die Weltherrschaft erobern soll. Schon bald kommt es in der Nähe des kleinen Damien zu mysteriösen Todesfällen.

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.

Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.

A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.