Sucker (2015)
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Ben Chessell
Sinopse
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
When unsuccessful actress Clarissa returns to her hometown for a wedding and tries to impress her old friends by claiming she's dating big time celebrity Chas Hunter, she suddenly finds herself in a comically false engagement when her lies go public and Chas decides to join the festivities in a stunt to escape bad press.
A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds. The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysterious vandal who is missing a yellow boot. In the end, they might just be looking for the same thing.
Set in a modern day local culinary school, "The Lying Theory" is a comedy drama between the world's most mistrustful girl and the world's most honest boy.
A shy duelist stumbles upon the legendary Red Eyes Black Dragon, with that card in his possession, he must learn to bring out his confidence to duel.
Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he wins, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and. death.
Short film interpretation of Jorge Luis Borges poem Ajedrez. Narrated in Chinese. Features the Wei Yi Immortal game against Lazaro Bruzon. Originally created as an assignment for Werner Herzog's online class on film making (one room, two actors, one character must get what he wants from the other, a chase.)
Samuel nunca foi de ter muitas responsabilidades. Levando uma vida tranquila ao lado das pessoas que ama no litoral sul da França, ele vê tudo mudar com a chegada inesperada de uma bebê de poucos meses chamada Glória, sua filha. Incapaz de cuidar da criança, ele corre para Londres a fim de encontrar a mãe biológica, mas, sem sucesso, decide criá-la sozinho. Oito anos depois, quando Samuel e Glória se tornam inseparáveis, a mãe retorna para recuperar a menina.
Alekos falls in love with Sophie, daughter of tycoon Grigoriadis, and is presented as the son of industrialist Merntsesoli.
The story of how Bill Black after a train robbery outwits his pursuers and the sheriff.
2ⁿ is a story about the exponential growth of numbers raised to powers. Part of the Mathematica Peep Shows, one of five films made to accompany the Mathematica: A World of Numbers and Beyond exhibition at the California Museum of Science and Industry and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
From a young age Magnus Carlsen had aspirations of becoming a champion chess player. While many players seek out an intensely rigid environment to hone their skills, Magnus’ brilliance shines brightest when surrounded by his loving and supportive family. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s unusual and rapid trajectory to the pinnacle of the chess world. This film allows the audience to not only peek inside this isolated community but also witness the maturation of a modern genius.
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
Pursued by a dangerous criminal after a failed theft, con artists Nina and Yaz get more than they bargained for when they target a seemingly innocent elderly widow.
It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a man who works in a printing shop, and whose life was paid a visit by an uninvited man. Then he tries to take his wife and 8-year-old daughter to the island of Corsica, but the uninvited man shows up there as well...
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite side of town with natural simplicity and freedom in his dance movements. Curiosity leads towards an explosion of awakening in both her dance and personal worlds.
Old Dolio é uma jovem que pertence a uma família de criminosos. Quando seus pais envolvem um estranho no maior assalto que eles já planejaram, Dolio vê sua vida virando de cabeça para baixo.
Ron, um vigarista de marca maior, está de olho em sua próxima vítima, a viúva Betty que vale milhões. Mas, ao longo do tempo em que eles passam juntos, o que deveria ser apenas mais um golpe, torna-se um jogo de gato e rato valiosíssimo que ameaça expor os segredos e mentiras pelo qual todas as pessoas vivem.
Charlie (Nedumudi) and Gopu (Ratheesh) are small time con artists who get by life doing petty thefts. They meet Unni (Mohanlal), another jobless young man. Reluctantly Unni joins the other two and try to rob from a car owned by Guruji (Madhu). They get caught but Guruji takes them to his plantation and gifts them 10,000 rupees each under the condition that they need to meet him a year later at the same place and tell him what they did with the money.
Toda a família de Ki-taek está desempregada, vivendo num porão sujo e apertado. Uma obra do acaso faz com que o filho adolescente da família comece a dar aulas de inglês à garota de uma família rica. Fascinados com a vida luxuosa destas pessoas, pai, mãe, filho e filha bolam um plano para se infiltrarem também na família burguesa, um a um. No entanto, os segredos e mentiras necessários à ascensão social custarão caro a todos.
On the night that Bo finds his boyfriend Sun cheating on her, she befriends Louis, a professional swindler who ends up recruiting her to join his entourage.
