The Good in the Worst of Us (1915)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 13M
Director : William Humphrey
Sinopsis
Crime drama where Minnie's past overtakes her. She flees Jim to escape his bad influence. Jim shoots a man down in a burglary and demands that Minnie helps him flee.
Es la víspera de Navidad en Wichita (Kansas). Charlie Arglist (John Cusack), un picapleitos experto en negocios más bien turbios, y su compinche Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) acaban de estafarle más de dos millones de dólares a Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid), el capo de Kansas City. Pero lo que Charlie realmente desea es fugarse con la espectacular Renata (Connie Nielsen), que dirige el club de strip-tease The Sweet Cage. (FILMAFFINITY)
A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.
Arsene Lupin es un ladrón sin preocupaciones, robando a la aristocracia parisina a través de su encanto formidable. Su encuentro con una aventurera hechizante, la condesa de Cagliostro, transformará el ratero novato en un ladrón de altos vuelos. Lanzado en el rastro del tesoro perdido de los reyes de Francia, que ambiciona una hermandad oscura realista, el joven virtuoso multiplica golpes de brillantez: un ataque a un tren que va a toda velocidad, persecución en las catacumbas parisinas, espectacular vuelo en la catedral de Rouen... Pero su misión se verá afectada por su pasión ciega por la condesa venenosa...
La vida de Nick Beam no podría resultar peor. Descubre que ha estado viviendo una mentira y se encuentra al borde de un ataque de nervios. Así que cuando T. Paul, un ratero, intenta robarle, resulta ser la gota que colma el vaso. Sin nada que perder, lo secuestra para darle una lección.
OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.
Las lluvias torrenciales han convertido la localidad de Huntingburg en un caos. Totalmente sumergida bajo el agua, la ciudad es evacuada por el sheriff. Lo que este no sabe, es que no lejos de allí, una banda de atracadores está planeando asaltar el furgón blindado que transporta la totalidad de los fondos locales y que también ha quedado atrapado por las aguas. A partir de ese momento se desarrolla una caza humana, en la que están implicados los atracadores, los conductores del furgón y una joven, cuya intención es salvar de la catástrofe la histórica Iglesia del lugar.
The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan.
A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.
Director Charles Lamont's 1955 comedy, about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life, stars Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jacqueline de Wit, Richard Deacon, Robert Burton, James Bell, Marjorie Bennett, Leon Tyler, William Fawcett and Mimi Gibson.
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Tras el fracaso de su último negocio y para no perder a su mujer, George Lester decide, junto a un amigo, robar los planos de un invento diseñado por un pretendiente de su esposa.
The stories of poor people living in a neighborhood in Athens and their difficulties.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a "Girl Bandit," no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually grinning Creighton Hale. Mabel seems a little livelier in this film than in some of her other late works. In the very first scene we find her hitch-hiking, and she's forced to make a mad dash for cover when Hale's car nearly hits her. Soon they team up and crash a swanky party in a mansion to steal a jewel from the host's safe.
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
