2024-09-20
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he has fallen in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it has become a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. When he begins to help students, his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo his efforts.
In this quartet of neo-noir tales, a mysterious salesman narrates a tragic story of co-dependency, while a musclebound vigilante tears his way through the criminal underworld in search of his lost love. In another part of the city, a grizzled cop foils the ambitions of a child-killer, and an ex-prostitute evades her ex-pimp with the help of her new boyfriend.
At 38, Patrick is left in charge of his parents' naturist campground. When he loses his hammer, it becomes a quest for finding himself.
Harry Angel is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. Everybody that Angel questions about Favorite seems to meet a tragic demise.
Al Pacino made it onto the big stages from Broadway to Hollywood, but being extremely shy, he is still somewhat of a mystery. At the beginning of the 1970s, he got his first international success as Michael Corleone in The Godfather, which was followed by many leading roles. At nearly 80 years of age, Al Pacino continues to show his versatility by appearing both on stage and in front of the camera
The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China.
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
When Helen, a fiercely independent senior, is temporarily pressured into moving to a retirement home she discovers a clique of mean-spirited women and an amorous widower.
Following an attempt to take his own life, an aging actor (Al Pacino) becomes involved with a much younger woman, but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
After losing his job, middle-aged Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides to enrol at his local community college. When he starts to fall for one of his teachers (Julia Roberts), Larry's life is turned upside down. Directed by Tom Hanks and also stars Julia Roberts and Bryan Cranston.
December, 1942. Following their parents' arrest for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the war, young siblings Gerda and Otto are left on their own. When they discover two Jewish children hidden in their basement at home, all four have to embark on a desperate journey to reach neutral Sweden and safety.