Sparrow (2008)
Free as a Bird...
Gênero : Thriller, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 27M
Director : Johnnie To
Escritor : Fung Chih-chiang, Kin Chung Chan
Sinopse
Kei is the experienced leader of a team of pickpockets — also known as "Sparrows" in HK slang. He enjoys a carefree lifestyle taking photos. One day a dashing beauty, Chun-Lei, suddenly appears in Kei's viewfinder. Kei is mesmerized. But behind Chun-Lei's attractive facade lies a mysterious past and a mission to set herself free.
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.
Um homem vai atrás da mulher que clonou sua identidade e acabou com seu crédito financiando um estilo de vida luxuoso, mas acaba aprendendo grandes lições de vida com a ladra.
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
The Rajah of Punjab wants to come into possession of a famous gem known as "Mountain of Light". He asks adventurer Allan Foster to steal it for him, but Foster has other plans.
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
Um grupo de adolescentes rebeldes faz pesquisas pela internet para conhecer os movimentos das celebridades e, assim, poder entrar em suas casas e roubar tudo o que encontram de valor dos famosos.
Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his friends who was hurt and needs money for an operation by robbing from John Prince Sr., the head of a very wealthy corporation. Robin becomes friends with a couple of misfits at school named Will Scarlett (Billy O'Sullivan) and Little John (Tyler Labine) and also falls for a girl named Marian (Sarah Chalke) who helps train the horses that Robin's family has. While helping out his friends Robin becomes an enemy of John Prince Jr. (Joshua Jackson), the big shot rich kid at school and his friends Warner and Gibson who are also the sons of rich parents. Then Robin goes to join the archery team but is not allowed to because of John Prince Jr. so he starts his own team and his 2 friends join and learn from Robin.
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
A small-time thug comes across a young girl who claims him to be her father, following which he realizes he has a lookalike who's being hunted by goons.
Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.
A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist colony.
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Século XIII. Um político mal e ambicioso que busca proclamar-se rei de Tânger, encontra uma dificuldade, o Príncipe Hussein, uma criança que é o legítimo herdeiro do trono. Para elimina-lo contrata um assassino, mas este fica com pena da criança e ao invés de mata-lo o carrega com ele. Assim, o príncipe cresce no meio de um bando de ladrões que irão ajudá-lo quando adulto a recuperar o trono.
O marinheiro, acompanhado por Olívia Palito e Dudu, é enviado para parar o temido bandido Abu Hassan e sua força de quarenta ladrões.
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.
Dois ladrões, Blackbird e West End Bertie, se apaixonam pela mesma garota, uma dançarina de boate francesa chamada Fifi. Para ganhar seu coração, cada um deles tenta superar o outro.
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Will Montgomery (Nicolas Cage) é um dos melhores ladrões dos Estados Unidos, mas alguma coisa deu errado em um roubo de US$ 10 milhões e ele acaba indo para a cadeia. Livre após cumprir oito anos de prisão, ele resolve reencontrar a filha (Sami Gayle), agora já adolescente, para recuperar o tempo perdido. Só que Vince (Josh Lucas), parceiro dele no último golpe, resolve se vingar e sequestra a jovem, dando um prazo curtíssimo para que o resgate seja pago. Constantemente vigiado pelo FBI, Will entra em desespero e percebe que será necessário voltar ao mundo do crime.
Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.