Killer's Paradise (2006)
Where it's the fashion to kill women, but finding their killers is not.
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 23M
Director : Giselle Portenier
Sinopse
Since 1999, more than 2,000 women have been murdered in Guatemala, with numbers escalating every year, yet lawmakers and government officials turn a blind eye. Powerful and uncompromising, Killer's Paradise uncovers an emotionally wrenching human rights tragedy, while exposing an inept judicial system that allows it to happen. After almost four decades of civil war, Guatemala is a troubled society, but it can also be seen as a microcosm of the pervasive violence and injustice against women worldwide.
Sandra é obrigada a fugir de Londres quando um encontro sensual com um ex-amante endividado acaba em violência. Começando uma nova vida em Hong Kong, ela se envolve com um casal que promete ajudá-la a conseguir documentos. Mas nada acontece como previsto, e ela acaba presa em um jogo de manipulação.
College friends embark on a GPS treasure hunt in search of money. Instead of finding buried treasure, they find a buried coffin that contains photos of a kidnapped woman and GPS coordinates that lead deeper into the forest. Are the photos real or part of a game?
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
O homem da máfia Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) está voando para San Diego com uma sacola com oito cabeças decepadas, o que ele está trazendo para seus superiores para provar que alguns mafiosos rivais problemáticos estão permanentemente fora de cena. Quando sua bolsa é acidentalmente trocada no aeroporto, Tommy deve rastrear sua mochila e as 8 cabeças que ela contém.
Stroud, o editor de uma revista policial, tem que adiar as férias com sua esposa, novamente, quando uma loira glamorosa é assassinada e ele é designado por seu chefe, Janoth, para encontrar o assassino. À medida que a investigação avança à sua conclusão, Stroud deve tentar impedir sua equipe investigativa, normalmente brilhante, à medida que acumulam evidências (embora equivocadas) de que ele é o assassino.
George e Rose Loomis estão em lua de mel em Niagara Falls, mas ele não sabe que sua infiel mulher planeja o seu assassinato forjando um falso suicídio, com a ajuda do amante a quem pede que mate o seu marido.
Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.
Chloé, a student specializing in Celtic History, participate in a dig in the forest of Broceliande while a series of murder occurs on the campus. Chloé must soon face the mythical monster behind the string of murder and use her knowledge to make it out of the forest alive ...
Sequestradores obrigam uma jovem mãe (Melissa George) a recuperar o dinheiro roubado por seu marido (Christian Campbell).
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Vince e Don são dois bombeiros do Arkansas. Eles descobrem um mapa que indica o local onde está enterrada uma grande quantidade de ouro roubado. Enquanto procuram pelo ouro, eles se deparam com os membros de uma perigosa gangue, que estão para executar um de seus rivais. Quando os criminosos começam a persegui-los, a única saída para os bombeiros é fazer de refém o irmão do líder da gangue. Encurralados dentro do armazém em ruínas, Vince e Don, impulsionados pela cobiça, continuam a procurar pelo ouro, enquanto do lado de fora, os membros da gangue se equipam com armas de alta tecnologia e se preparam para dar início à um violento e inevitável confronto. Escrito por Bob Gale e Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump O Contador de História) da trilogia de De Volta Para o Futuro, com trilha sonora original de Ry Cooder (Os Últimos Passos de Um Homem) e músicas de Public Enemy.
Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) é um policial que vai morar na fronteira dos EUA com o México, porque sua mulher tem uma amiga por lá. Querendo satisfazer todos os gostos da esposa, Charlie acaba se endividando, o que faz com que ele entre em um perigoso esquema, para faturar um dinheiro a mais e, assim, poder continuar a fazer suas vontades.
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
In the early 1960s, teenager Adam Stafford (Cameron Bright) becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, Catherine Caswell (Gretchen Mol), a divorcée and free spirit. Stafford spies on Caswell as she meets with strange men, and, despite the warnings of his conservative parents, he begins working for her as a gardener. Amid rumors of her affair with President Kennedy, the two become close, but political intrigue surrounding her acquaintances soon infringes on their friendship.
Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to investigate their mother's death, all in keeping with her TV role of police commissioner. But nothing is simple with the Marchildons. Between a dithering Raymond, the ghost of Solange who continues to haunt her children, and Angèle who's going crazy interviewing suspects, one more bizarre than the next, and the bodies that are filling up the basement, it's hard to keep their love straight. But then, love was always a little twisted in the Marchildon household.
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
Dirigido e estrelado por Robert Houssein e escrito por Dario Argento, autor de sucessos do terror como Suspiria, Inferno, Phenomena e muitos outros. Muita ação e suspense numa história com ingredientes explosivos como sequestro e assassinato.
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american town. Despite their differences, they must team up: the local police is hostile and they can only count on themselves to solve the crime. They meet Ginger, Pamela's best friend, and discover soon enough she knows more than she says.
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
In the early 1960s, teenager Adam Stafford (Cameron Bright) becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, Catherine Caswell (Gretchen Mol), a divorcée and free spirit. Stafford spies on Caswell as she meets with strange men, and, despite the warnings of his conservative parents, he begins working for her as a gardener. Amid rumors of her affair with President Kennedy, the two become close, but political intrigue surrounding her acquaintances soon infringes on their friendship.
