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Two old women who happen to be pickpockets stole money from Simon, the taxi driver. The police are unable to find the thieves, so Simon decides to find them himself. In his search he sinks deeper and deeper into the Hungarian crime world. He becomes a criminal and then his rampage begins until the unpredictable climax.Read More »
A woman recovering from a domestic-violence relationship finds out that her former partner still wants her–even if it means killing her.Read More »
A girl’s bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.Read More »
Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff), a young divorced woman and recovering alcoholic, moves into a Manhattan apartment that seems a bit too secluded to be true. It is: Upstairs lives Charlotte Bancroft (Ally Sheedy), a woman with a wall of obliviousness who can turn even an ‘apology’ into a guilt trip, Charlotte persists in making Joyce’s nighttime hours a living hell. As the torture continues, Joyce starts to lose her grip on her job, her health and her sanity. It’s a heck of a price to pay for having your own place.Read More »
An American tourist on vacation in Turkey is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn’t want; then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.Read More »
Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He’s approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially it’s against some people Nash has no trouble believing are corrupt, but as the scope of the sting widens to include some of his friends, he tries to get out. That’s when the agent threatens to reveal information that would embarrass Judge Nash if he doesn’t continue.Read More »
A woman is walking alone through an abandoned city. She approaches the forbidden zone and tries to pass through. Everywhere the Morning Patrol and deceptive traps are watching. The city itself is alive but uncontrolled. Computer voices warn non-existing inhabitants to leave the city. The communication system works… cinemas show films… classic faces of a past era flash across TV screens. She is confronted by one of the few survivors guarding the city. They will come close to each other ; they will try to recall the past. Together they unravel their tangled memory – threads of this catastrophe and decide to penetrate the zone together ; They are linked by the bonds of violence and death since no other behaviour is possible in this kind of world. Is there an end? Is there hope and any future since no person that was allowed through ever returned to tell us whether the freedom of the sea exists. The fugitives encounter increasing dangers… A story of love in this unbearable world… what point can it have?Read More »
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Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Mike Farrell star in this clever and wry mystery-thriller reminiscent of such Hitchcock high-adventures as “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest.”
Set in a Rocky Mountain ski resort, honeymooning Harry Kenyon (Farrell) reports his wife Chris is missing to the idiosyncratic police chief, Lt. Rudameyer (Gould). Unexpectedly, Mrs. Kenyon turns up in the company of a priest named Father M acklin (Fred Gwynne), from whom she says she sought solace after an argument with her husband. But the startled Kenyon claims that this woman (Kidder) is not his wife. Maybe she’s not, but th efacts convince Rudameyer that she is an that Kenyon is off his rocker. Is she really his wife? If she’s not, what is she up to? The answers li in a series of plot twists in this brilliantly acted and cleverly written thriller.Read More »
After breaking up with her boyfriend Sam, engineering designer Maggie falls in love with a very romantic and mysterious Roy Calvin. But soon he turns to be a violent man and makes Maggie’s life a hell.Read More »