In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.
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Two novice gangsters who desperately want to prove themselves in the criminal underworld, kidnap the daughter of a respected boss for ransom. But of course, as is the nature of such events, nothing goes as planned, so this "physical" exchange, turns into an emotional one.
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Tales of a man who carries a Persian Onager in his blood, a mother who drips honey from her body, and a writer who believes pollination is the key to salvation.
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
“Russian Woe” is a musical adaptation of the classic Russian comedy “Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov. This tribute to a text well known to all Russians is full of humor and irony. All roles are played by young actors, shedding light on the political context of the time. The adaptation focuses on the social protests and romanticism of Griboyedov's time, satirizing post-Napoleonic Moscow society.
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes...
Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.
Boccaccio's famous Decameron brings ten beautiful stories told to pass the time by those who escaped certain death in Florence when the plague spread in 1348. The four medieval tales have been adapted by director Zdeněk Zelenka as a television love series. The result is an entertaining comedy with an excellent cast... The story of two young couples who become friends for better or for worse and resolve their mutual affection in a peculiar way in the spirit of a well-known saying. An eye for an eye - this is the title of a love comedy based on Dekameron, which was adapted for television in 1991 by writer and director Zdeněk Zelenka. He made a hilarious story in which love and infidelity have the main say, and in which a possible tragedy is sparked by wisdom, wit and good will.
An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.
An exhausted doctor with years of experiences in abortion surgery are caught in a quirky conversation with his patient, a struggling feminist novelist. From the conversation both manages to discovered something about each other and themselves.
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.