In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Um ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann zu entkommen, flieht Rose mit ihren vier Kindern von England nach Amerika und lässt sich dort auf dem abgelegenen Anwesen Marrowbone nieder. Doch das neu gewonnene Familienglück währt nicht lange, da Rose plötzlich erkrankt und wenige Tage später stirbt. Um dem Waisenhaus und einer Trennung zu entgehen, versuchen die vier Geschwister, den Tod der Mutter bis zum 21. Geburtstag des ältesten Sohnes, Jack, zu verheimlichen. Als sich Jack in ein Mädchen aus der Umgebung, verliebt und zudem der neugierige Anwalt Porter in Marrowbone auftaucht, wird es immer schwieriger, ihr Geheimnis zu bewahren.Jedoch ist das nicht das einzige Problem der Geschwister. Denn offenbar geht es in ihrem Haus nicht mit rechten Dingen zu. Schon bald macht sich eine unheimliche Präsenz bemerkbar und die Dämonen der Vergangenheit scheinen sie einzuholen!
Die Erbin eines Waffenimperiums verschanzt sich in ihrer labyrinthartigen Villa. Sie fürchtet die Geister der Menschen, die mit den Waffen ihrer Familie getötet wurden.
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Nach einem Dreifachmord in einer abgelegenen Stadt in Alaska freundet sich ein Ex-Rodeo-Champion mit einem einsamen Newcomer an, der einer brutalen Tätigkeit nachgeht.
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
A troubled veteran gets a chance at redemption by protecting a girl from an assassin after she witnesses a murder. Holding a shotgun with a single shell, he engages in physical and psychological warfare in a desperate fight for the girl's life.
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.
The year is 1949. A young Texan named John Grady finds himself without a home after his mother sells the ranch where he has spent his entire life. Lured south of the border by the romance of cowboy life and the promise of a fresh start, Cole and his pal embark on an adventure that will test their resilience, define their maturity, and change their lives forever.
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.