Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
En 1453, Constantinopla, la capital del Imperio Bizantino, es rodeada por los turcos otomanos. La ciudad no es más que una sombra de su antigua gloria. El Imperio Otomano ha ido creciendo y ahora, el ambicioso sultán Mehmet II lanza su campaña para acabar con el último vestigio del Imperio romano de Oriente y tomar Constantinopla.
El agente de la Interpol Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) y la agente del distrito de Manhattan Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) están dispuestos a llevar a los tribunales a uno de los bancos más poderosos del mundo, entre cuyas fechorías se encuentran el blanqueo de dinero, el tráfico de armas y el acoso a la clase política. Las investigaciones les llevan de Nueva York a Estambul, pasando por Berlín y Milán. Cuanto más investigan, más peligro corren sus vidas.
Thijs is a ripe-age Dutch tomato grower. His adult daughters plan to have him move in a skyscraper-flat, leaving home and professional life, but he takes his adolescent (half-)Moroccon grandson Omar's advice to refuse and keep living. Thijs even lets the cheerful rascal coach his love-life, which lands him on a blind date with Jacky, an energetic Flemish woman, who won't take no for an answer but turns up at his door-step till he consents, and soon drags him into evening life, preparing for a dance contest. Soon after Omar turns up, listless and lazier then ever, runaway from school and home. The obvious reason for the horny hound's hanging head is a girl: Mergal is foxy, Turkish and as smitten as he, but her burly big brother Erhan will only allow a boy to go steady with her who has proven himself his better on the field in the traditional manly sport of oil-wrestling. Now Thijs...
