Člověk není sám (1949)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 0M
Director : Jindřich Ferenc
Escritor : Jindřich Ferenc
Sinopse
Após perder sua carga, que afundou em tempestade, o navio "Sea Star" procura refúgio no centro do furacão, na tentativa de fazer reparos. Lá descobrem um navio russo para pesquisa científicas com equipamentos de última geração mas que, aparentemente, foi abandonado. Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland), o capitão do "Sea Star" vê uma oportunidade de ganhar muito dinheiro, pois a recompensa para um navio de tal porte seria de 30 milhões de dólares. No entanto, a navegadora Kit Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis) e o engenheiro chefe Steve Baker (William Baldwin) não acreditam, que tudo será tão simples e estavam certos, pois uma força misteriosa começa a eliminar todos os membros da tripulação.
Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) é um agente de viagens que trabalha no Alasca. Ele passa por sérios problemas financeiros, mas tem um plano para sair de suas dificuldades: sacar a apólice do seguro de vida de seu irmão desaparecido há cinco anos. Com o dinheiro, Paul poderia pagar todas as suas dívidas e ainda prover auxílio médico à sua esposa, que sofre da síndrome de Tourette. A seguradora, porém, recusa o pagamento declarando que não há certeza sobre a morte do seu irmão. Pouco depois, Paul encontra um cadáver atrás de sua loja. Ele pretende usar o corpo num plano macabro para conseguir o dinheiro do seguro.
Em Nova York, em janeiro de 1943, um músico (Henry Fonda) de uma casa noturna tem a vida remexida quando a mulher (Vera Miles) precisa de 300 dólares para tratamento dentário e ele vai a um escritório, para saber quanto pode conseguir de empréstimo com a apólice da sua mulher. Porém, ele é identificado erradamente pelas funcionárias como sendo o assaltante que tinha roubado o local um ano antes.
When pilot Rex Black destroys his plane in a crash the day after his insurance policy expires, the insurance company refuses to give him any money. To strike back at the agency, Rex fakes his death, changes his identity, and escapes to Spain, with 50,000 pounds in life insurance money. His wife joins him in Spain, but when an insurance investigator arrives unexpectedly, Rex's paranoia causes him to flee again.
Nelson usa seu talento para o crime de forma inusitada: rouba bancos para mostrar aos donos as falhas de segurança dos mesmos. Mas um investigador e dois membros da antiga gangue podem complicar sua vida. Continuação do filme “Um Trapaceiro Genial” de 1991.
A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
O pesadelo do executivo Richard Ramsay começa quando descobre que sua esposa contratou pistoleiro para assassiná-lo. Quando ela aparece morta, a polícia acredita que foi ele o mandante e ele deve desvendar a trama e provar sua inocência.
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.
Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor, Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
James (Sreenivasan) is an average police officer, apathetic towards his job and only in it for his monthly salary. Due to a misunderstanding during a blood test at a laboratory, he believes that he has a fatal disease and is about to die soon. He eyes the insurance payout his family would get if he dies in action and embarks on impossible missions to get himself killed in action.
A rookie paramedic spends 18 hours in an ambulance with a road crash victim who struggles to be admitted to any hospital.
The lawyer Franziska Schlüter works for the Aescuria insurance and is responsible for processing applications for disbursement of occupational disability policies. The company policy provides as a guideline to prevent the approval as far as possible. When the widow of a victim, who committed suicide after being rejected, storms the office to loudly accuse these machinations, Franziska begins to doubt the correctness of her work and to rethink. She quits and works as a freelance lawyer to help injured parties legally to get their rights. First she deals with the case of a family in the neighborhood. The father has been in a wheelchair since an accident. However, the Strelaus have not yet seen any money from the insurance company. Initially not taken seriously by colleagues, the shy woman takes on the fight against the health insurance system and has to fight against resistance and above all with her own self-doubt.
Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.