The dull daily routine of an insurance agent, who listlessly drives down the highway every day and conducts customer meetings while longing for his family, becomes a metaphor for a life that has come to a standstill and is threatened with being crushed by loneliness.
With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.
In 1948, the Trouths are facing no income and the hottest summer on record. When their estranged son inexplicably returns, the apartment is full again - but is it big enough for the gambling, trauma, and substantial life insurance policy that comes in his wake?
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
A father intends to save the life of his own son, by paying out a new type of suicide life insurance.
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.
In the near future, a grieving wife struggles to accept her husband's return from the dead due to his "life" insurance.
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.
Thomas Winter crashes his sports plane into the sea off Corsica. His wife Julia is looking forward to four million marks in life insurance. During the settlement, an employee of the insurance company is remarkably helpful - too helpful for the taste of a detective and an inspector who don't really want to believe in an accident. And suddenly the man who was believed dead runs into his not-so-sad widow...
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We see Afiqah looking at herself in her bedroom mirror. She is wearing her graduation gown and fixes the cap on her head, taking in her appearance. She smiles at herself, then looks at a photo in a frame. It is a photo of Afiqah as a child with her father Roslan. She smiles a little sadly as she picks up the photo frame. Afiqah and her father Roslan are shown together in a flashback scene until Roslan was laid up in the hospital which has been set up for medical care. He lies in a hospital bed, with a nasal prong in his nose, and an oxygen tank by his side, he has terminal lung cancer. Amira (Roslan Wife) is by his side, wiping down.
Struggling bar owner Tony Marino and his partner, Bastogne take out a life-insurance policy on neighborhood drunk Michael Malloy. The pair then attempt to kill Malloy for the payout — only to discover Malloy is seemingly impossible to kill. As Marino’s increasingly desperate schemes continue to fail, the two men form an unexpected bond, building toward a haunting final act of sacrifice against the backdrop of Depression-era New York.
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
A small boy dresses up as a beggar for a fancy dress contest. In the meanwhile, there is a man who joins as a traffic police officer and finds his immediate reporting cop to take money from the poor.
The film is based on the stories of the classic Yakut literature Suorun Omolloon "Light in the Dark" and "Sordooh suha" and tells about the first rudiments of education in Yakutia, about the greedy desire of the Sakha people for knowledge, for light, about the first teachers-enlighteners, political messengers and priests.
In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.