Jimmy Kilmartin har en fortid som alkoholiker og håndlanger for et forbrydersyndikat i New York, men har nu udstået sin straf. Jimmy forsøger at opbygge en lovlydig tilværelse med sin familie, men ryger alligevel tilbage bag tremmerne. Han stikker deltagerne i et kup og fanges mellem syndikatet, delstatspolitiet og FBI. Ingen spiller med åbne kort, og Jimmy må iscenesætte sit eget dobbeltspil for at gøre sig fri af fortiden.

Tanken om at skulle binde sig gør Jack Singer skrækslagen, men tanken om at miste sin forlovede, Betsy, er endnu værre. Han fatter mod og lover at tage det store spring og sige ja i Las Vegas. Men da han indgår et dårligt væddemål på $60.000 med gangsteren Tommy Korman, begynder situationen at tilspidses. Den eneste måde, hvorpå Korman vil glemme gælden, er hvis Jack indvilliger i at låne ham Betsy resten af weekenden. Det er imidlertid endnu et dårligt valg for Jack, for Korman har planer om at beholde Betsy for altid.

Ingemar bor sammen med sin bror og sin syge mor. Han har ret hårdt lige nu, men ikke så hård som Laika, hunden der er sendt ud i rummet. Ingemar er sendt på landet for at tilbringe sommeren med sin mormor. Der møder han en række personer, der forsøger at ændre ham.

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

Vi følger fire dristige mænd, der vokser op i 20'erne; den charmerende Lucky Luciano, den dygtige forhandler Meyer Lansky, skørtejægeren Bugsy Siegel og den diplomatiske Frank Costello. Fra deres ringe opvækst og diverse religiøse baggrunde knytter de et bånd, der fører dem til tops i underverdenen.

In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.

Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.

New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert.

Han blev snigmyrdet ved højlys dag. I 2017 blev Kim Jong-nam, halvbror til Nordkoreas diktator Kim Jong-un, forgiftet og slået ihjel i Kuala Lumpurs lufthavn. Drabet blev optaget af sikkerhedskameraer og viser to kvinder, der presser nervegift ind i hans øjne. Kvinderne siger, at de var hyret til at optage en prank-video. Men hvad er sandheden?

After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

Broadcast on RAI television in 1967, this charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush on a girl reveals director Ermanno Olmi’s love and respect for the dilemmas of everyday people, along with an early example of the kind of stylistic and narrative experimentation seen in his later work.

When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.

Three generations of New Orleans prostitute fight the FBI and each other. Based on a true story.

A mother and wife is on the brink of an attack. Hengameh Tahareh Ghaziani lives with her husband, her son and daughter in a middle class neighborhood, and spends his days taking care of their needs.

The morning Stella decides to take her own life, a stranger knocks at her door claiming the guest room he booked for the night. Surprised but charmed by this man who seems to know her very well, Stella decides to let him in. But when Sandro, the man who broke Stella's heart, joins them at home, this odd situation turns immediately into chaos.