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Due amiche diventano, una volta cresciute, rivali in amore.

Il newyorkese medio Jim vive con una moglie malata, ma amorevole. Tuttavia, un improvviso crollo dell'economia lo porta a perdere ogni cosa. Colmo di rabbia, Jim medita vendetta per la vita che gli è stata portata via.

An ex-Special Forces soldier gets thrown back to medieval times to fulfill an ancient prophecy and ends up finding redemption for his own battlefield experiences.

A mother, a daughter and a stranger from another land are thrown together on an unexpected road trip that takes them on a journey of love, humour and redemption.

Honest Man: the Life of R. Budd Dwyer is a movie about politics and corruption, suicide and survival. Four years in the making, it explores the scandal that led an honest, hard-working man to take his own life. This independently produced feature-length documentary follows Budd Dwyer, a Pennsylvania politician who infamously committed suicide at a televised press conference. The film chronicles Dwyer's meteoric rise to political power and examines the bribery scandal and subsequent trial that pushed him to his breaking point. Honest Man also delves into the controversy and consequences of the uncensored airing of Dwyer's death on television stations worldwide. Honest Man reveals a story that has remained untold for over 24 years. The film features exclusive new interviews, including William Smith, the man whose testimony convicted Dwyer, and Dwyer's widow Joanne--her last interview before her death in 2009. Was Dwyer venal, or a victim? Did he kill himself because he couldn't live with being guilty, or because he couldn't live with being innocent? Honest Man allows audiences to judge for themselves.

Twenty years later, Gregory, now an English teacher, is approached by a student suspicious of a local businessman's activities. Obsessed with her, he ignores a colleague's romantic interest while investigating the case.

Two young men hope to fulfill their dreams by hitting the open road in a classic American car they have lovingly restored. Taking along the sultry divorcee with whom one of them has fallen in love is an idea bound to cause tension.

Domestic is a story about people who eat the animals they love and animals who love people unconditionally. A rabbit, a hen, a cat, a dog and a dove pass through the lives of the main characters and influence their evolution.

When Pip, a pampered and snobbish puppy, gets separated from his owners on an African safari, he is forced to adapt a new way of life in the jungle where he learns that caviar and manicures can never bring the same happiness as friendship.

A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.

An opportunistic congressman schemes to have his much younger wife killed, but she's already a step ahead of him.

Set in Johannesburg, JUMP THE GUN follows the tangled lives of six very different working-class characters, formerly kept apart by apartheid and now all striving to succeed in the new "rainbow nation". United by their command insecurities, both physical and financial, the film follows their struggle to discover their niche in this brave new world where opportunity beckons, but violence is always lurking.

The history of the martial arts film genre.

Will is seen as a farm hand who is so lazy that any sort of work makes him sick. A "naturalist" offers him a job photographing "wild beasts" in their native haunts and the rest of the comedy deals with his very funny efforts in this direction.

Dorothy, given five hundred dollars to buy her engagement ring, loses the money in a black and white taxi. Seeing a baby show at which a first prize of five hundred dollars is offered, she steals her janitor's baby and wins the money. How she then tries to return the baby without being seen and caught, finally falling into the taxi her sweetheart is returning home in, and discovers it is the taxi in which she left the money, forms the action.

Percy and Ferdie are official care-takers of children whose mothers are shopping in the department store. A very pretty girl leaves her young baby with the boys and Percy, who is holding the child, suddenly sees his sweetheart outside the store. Not wishing her to find him with a child in his arms he ties the baby to a bunch of balloons. While he is talking to his girl, another child comes along and swaps her doll for the baby, which she puts in her little carriage. Percy, unaware of the change, after a few minutes makes a grab for the baby only to find the balloons sailing up way beyond his reach.

Pop Tuttle, as owner of the only bus line in Plum Center, discovers that he has a competitor, Nosey Nichols. Pop and Nosey race to meet "yesterday's train" which is just arriving and all the passenger's patronize Nosey's new bus until they discover a fair passenger in Pop's bus. Then they all transfer. Nosey loosens the nut on one of the wheels of Pop's bus and when it comes off Nosey drives up and gets the trade. Undaunted Pop gets a kid to throw a polecat into Nosey's bus and once more the passengers return to Pop's, Tillie, the Great Dane, supporting the broken wheel on a wheelbarrow.

Snub is a tenor that the town plots to get rid of. To do this they start a movie actor contest and make him the winner of a prize trip to Hollywood. He departs, under pressure, and a year later finds him returning to his home town, a triumphant star. He makes a personal appearance at the theater during the showing of a film in which he rescues everybody in the cast. The folks are so enthusiastic over Snub's horsemanship that he is chosen to ride "Nitro" at the horse race next day, but Snub cannot ride at all.

Colonel Heeza Liar, the little animated cartoon cutout, has a scrap with the artist because he doesn't want to work at night. But the artist says that he must stay, so the Colonel tries to get revenge by dumping a jar of paint on him. Then when the boys are having a lunch the Colonel jumps into the prop room and climbing into a toy balloon which he has draped with chiffon he proceeds to scare the boys. How he succeeds in frightening them and also a passing policeman provides the balance of the action.

A clever short combining the little cutout cartoon of Colonel Heeza Liar with actual photographs of the artist and the staff of the art department. The Colonel hears the boys reading about a desert island that contains treasure and gets himself radioed to the nearest ship from which he sails to the island in a bottle. The cannibal chief tries very hard to cook him but the Colonel escapes and dives off a cliff only to be swallowed by a fish which after a supposed lapse of time is caught by the artist and his friend who are on a vacation. They are much surprised to see the Colonel and hear about his adventures.

Cliff is a clerk in a country store. His girl and the inevitable rival keep him busy trying to please the first and get the best of the latter. But the principal comedy centers around a drunk who nearly drives Cliff frantic by insisting on sampling his cigars by biting them in half.

A husband returns home, affectionately greets his wife who helps him in removing his coat and hands him his smoking jacket. As she is about to hang up the coat the photograph of a woman falls from the pocket. The wife is heartbroken. Her better half offers an explanation but it won't go. She begins packing her belongings and is going "straight home to ma." The man, enraged, leaves the room and goes to his bedroom looking perplexed and sheepish. Thinks hard for a few moments; hits upon a scheme. Getting out a poison bottle he draws the cork, smells contents, shakes his head, "not for mine," then places the bottle on the the stand. Works up some lather in his shaving cup, dabs some on his mouth, then with a grin drops on hands and knees, and shouts madly. The door flies open, the wife rushes in, is horrified to discover her husband writhing on the floor. The schemer rolls his eyes, blows a few bubbles prostrated; finally a light dawns upon her. Dropping her husband's head, she arises, looks into the shaving cup and is satisfied with her investigation. She grabs the poison and runs hysterically from the room. The man cautiously opens eyes, sits up, and discovers the poison bottle is missing. The wife meanwhile enters the living room, removes the cork from the bottle, sprinkles some of the contents on the floor, powders her face a ghastly white, stretches out stiffly in a chair and shrieks. The man hears his wife's cries, rushes out and into the room where she is apparently unconscious, realizes that he has gone too far with his joke, takes a pistol from a drawer of his desk, determined to end it all. The "unconscious woman" seeing the move, jumps to her feet throws the weapon upward, the bullet going into the ceiling. With the discharging of the revolver the scene is changed from the "chamber of Horrors" to the room directly above where a countryman vaults from his bed and circles the room tightly clasping the part of his person where the stray bullet has lodged. He crawls cautiously around the room, discovers hole through the floor, and, peering through it, he sees the two "suicides" fondly embracing each other, glad that they are alive. In the room above, the countryman is seen carrying his water pitcher towards the aperture. Below the husband tears up the photo, bends over his "life-partner" to take a kiss of forgiveness when the water from above gets there first.

A woman is about to lose the mortgaged ranch through a scheming villain. But the hero wins a cross-country race with the girl's prize mare. The villain has cut the saddle straps, but riding to a bareback finish, the hero thus outwits him. Later the bad man lures the girl to a deserted shack, and again the deputy sheriff proves more than a match for the other.

The subject opens in the reception room of a mansion on Fifth avenue in New York, where a birthday gift of a handsome diamond necklace is bestowed' on the daughter of the house by the fond father. Among the guests assembled there is a clever rogue who determines to gain possession of the beautiful gift, and by a cleverly arranged plan succeeds in his purpose. After the robbery is discovered a detective bureau is at once employed to investigate same, for the daughter and family cannot conceive the origin of the enormous loss. A clever young woman, in the service of the agency, detailed, in company of a special officer, to work on the case. She and her confederate pursue the only clue affable, namely: the disappearance from New York of one of the visitors the reception. This clue proves worthy of pursuit, as is shown when they locate the villain in a Western mining camp, where he is known as a professional gambler. To avoid suspicion of her real errand the daring young woman detective secures a position as the new "school marm" of the camp. She so exercises her charms of beauty and coquetry that the gambler immediately becomes submissive to her attractiveness and falls extremely in love with her and obtains, as he imagines, her consent to become his wife; though her acquiescence is purely to further the detail of her mission. The school house is gaily decorated or the coming event and all the town's people are there as guests. The room, in triumphant gusto, appears; then the bride, resplendent in a handsome wedding gown. All is ready for the ceremony when the bridegroom, planning a surprise, produces the precious necklace of his theft and fastens it about the neck of his fiancee. In an instant all is confusion, and before the gambler can interpret the situation he is safely under arrest by the supposed minister, who in reality is he special officer. The bride, who was to be, explains the proceeding, which is immediately followed by a show of admiration for her artful wiles, she is the triumphant one and the villain is exposed. With the necklace in her possession our brave and praiseworthy heroine returns to New York and restored the jewels to their rightful owner and receives a godly reward for her courageous and successful research.

A quartet of young men are drinking in a cafe, when the smallest of the four begins to boast of his powers at the oars. A defy is immediately hurled, and soon they are at a boathouse, where the boaster hires a jolly boat. He almost loses his balance at the outset, and when he finally takes the oars up he begins to splash about helplessly, but the tide carries him out. He rows into the midst of a throng of bathers and they splash him with water; rowing near to a float he upsets into the water a photographer who is about to take a picture of the scenery. Still he is floundering clumsily at the oars. A police motor-boat goes out on his trail, and they follow him, catching up with his boat very near to a waterfall. They are just about to place him under arrest when he rows to the brink, and the next moment is shooting down the rapids. The police launch turns back. After many more escapades as a result of his novice oarsman-ship he works himself into the way of a derrick which is in operation at the water front; its giant hook grapples the boat and lifts it in the air, the occupant tumbling into the water. Police, workmen and civilians jump into the water to rescue him, his jibing comrades having been alarmed spectators of his various misfortunes.