Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Carpenter Pepe El Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita in an impoverished Mexico City neighborhood. He pursues a romance with the pretty Celia, but tragedy comes knocking on his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
On the night of a festival celebrating the brother-sister bond, a debt-ridden man from a small town in India secretly returns home to reunite with his sister and family while the threat of moneylenders looms large over the reunion.
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
A debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.
Se-hee is the most cold-blooded money-lender there is. She takes back her money from those who have borrowed it in the most evil of ways; she seduces a man for money and leaves him and his family in ashes. If someone has a better collateral than the money borrowed, she finds all means to stop that person from returning her the money and making it hers. There are two men next to her. In-ho is her money-line and business background and Yeon-woo is a regular guy who is adored by Se-hee. However, her right-hand man Min-yeong takes them away from her and she realizes everything in the world has a cost...
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.
A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
A college senior, Jesse, attempts to rescue his girlfriend Selene from the vicious cult that ambushed them along a lonely mountain road.
Here Comes Science is a 2009 children's album from Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants, packaged as a CD/DVD set. The album is (as the title suggests) science-themed, and is the third in their line of educational albums, following 2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s. It is the band's 14th studio album and fourth children's album. It was nominated for the "Best Musical Album For Children" Grammy.
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.