A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by the same people, who work for mobster Chucky, Stick gets a job as a chauffeur for millionaire Barry Braham and lies low. As he gets used to his new routine, Stick woos Barry's financial consultant, Kyle McClaren, but must fight back when Chucky's men come after him.
A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?
A sheep rancher's visit to the big city triggers a mischevious adventure with his teenage grandson.
A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.
Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
This is the story of a grownup who is looking for answers in the words and imaginations of children.
In the late 1960s, with the arrival of his bar-mitzvah, Michel was tasked with learning about his family's history.
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.
The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Little boy learns of his stepmother's infidelity and later witnesses a murder... but the shocks have thrown him into a hysterical paralysis, and it's almost impossible for him to communicate anything to anybody.