Life Running Out of Control (2004)
About gene food and designer babies
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 35M
Director : Bertram Verhaag
Sinopse
This documentary movie shows riscs and dangers of gene manipulation on plants. It uses the example of so-called BT-Cotton in India.
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) e Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) ficaram famosos no meio científico pelas suas experiências na combinação do DNA de vários animais, gerando criaturas bizarras. Eles são apaixonados, tanto pelo trabalho que fazem quanto um pelo outro. Agora eles querem dar um passo adiante e combinar o DNA de animais com o de seres humanos, só que seus financiadores vetam a ideia. Eles seguem adiante com a iniciativa, em segredo. O resultado desta experiência é Dren (Delphine Chanéac), um ser cujo ciclo de vida extremamente rápido faz com que atinja a fase adulta em questão de meses. Clive e Elsa tentam manter Dren em segredo, mas logo a ligação entre eles deixa de ser meramente científica para se tornar pessoal.
Duzentos anos após a sua última aventura, Ripley é clonada por cientistas militares, que extraem uma rainha extraterrestre do seu peito e exploram o facto de que tanto Ripley como o extraterrestre serem híbridos genéticos. Entretanto, Ripley junta-se a um grupo de contrabandistas, incluindo uma avançada androide, para combater os extraterrestres agressivos numa nave laboratório que segue na direção da Terra....
Coelhos gigantescos, criados em laboratório e libertados na natureza por engano, atacam uma comunidade do interior dos Estados Unidos.
Em uma floresta tropical, um especialista em DNA e um agente da CIA tentam parar um cientista e o monstro que ele criou.
O programador de software Ben Braden tem de tudo: mulher bonita, ótimo filho, casa dos sonhos, carro esporte, grande trabalho. Então, um dia a campainha toca e ele se encontra de pé olhos nos olhos com Alex Connelly, um clone seu, que quer, a qualquer custo, assumir o seu lugar.
Freddy Kowalski and Emile Ramzy are paramedics in Hamburg and race night after night through the city, regardless of congested intersections, red lights and oncoming traffic. They are real life savers. One day they witness a murder and decide to go to the bottom of the thing itself. They come across an explosive corruption scandal that brings them in danger. Without knowing it, they hold the most important keys to investigate the crime itself in their hands.
Simon falls head over heels in love with pretty and quick-witted Verena. When his father, who suffers from schizophrenia, has a relapse, Simon devotes himself completely to his mother and little sister and endangers his budding romance. Maneuvering himself into a near-fatal situation, Simon realizes that he cannot change the others' lives, but only his own.
Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order.
Dorian Shanley (Kirk Harris) é um jovem e carismático cirurgião cardíaco que esconde um lado negro em sua vida. É viciado na vida noturna e drogas. Uma vez brilhante na mesa de cirúrgica ele viola o código de ética médico trocando drogas farmacêuticas por cocaína com seu amigo traficante (Eric Roberts). Enquanto sua vida profissional entra em declínio ele amortiza a dor da perda de um ente querido atravéz de uma overdose. O filme conta a história de Dorian no labirinto das drogas e nos clubes noturnos.
Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.
In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions, it was widened to accommodate automobiles in 1972. The tunnel links the Rhineland in Germany with Italy and goes through the Swiss mountains. The many lives lost in the building of the first tunnel were considered to be one of the costs for economic progress. In one re-enactment, a strike for better conditions is severely dealt with by the military. Even in 1972, though working conditions were better, most of the men working on the tunnel were poor immigrant workers, with almost no power to negotiate better treatment.
New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Two pounds of pressure on a trigger pays really well... Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his partner Frank work both sides of the street, caring only about where they can score and take down the most cash.
A thriller set in a Swedish village. Lisa comes back from London to sell a house left to her by her father. He mysteriously disappeared in the forest in the winter and is presumed dead in an accident. Lisa suspects there is more to the story as her father was disliked in the village. The old hunting lodge by the lake hides a secret. When Lisa starts her search for the truth painful facts about her father, herself and the village will be revealed.
A drifter and his pet puma stand up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.
Devil worshippers devise a scheme to bring Lucifer to the world, by taking advantage of mentally and emotionally women to rack up a body count.