1949, Santa Rosa, California. Ed Crane, a quiet barber, leisurely cuts his customers' hair in his salon, while his wife has an affair with her boss, Big Dave, a haberdasher who has recently saved up enough money to open a new store. Suddenly, Ed has the opportunity to get rich in the emerging dry cleaning business. To raise capital, he blackmails Big Dave, realizing that he can only achieve success in life by resorting to extreme measures.
Young Johnny Gray was rejected by the Confederate Army, and his beloved Annabel Lee rejects him, calling him a coward. Nevertheless, he and his "partner," the locomotive, prove everyone wrong by winning the battle. Johnny fights train hijackers, a disobedient cannon, and the unpredictable forces of fate.
Howard Beale, the regular star of UBS-TV news, got burned: he had a nervous breakdown during a live broadcast. Ironically, his public outburst boosted his already fabulous ratings, much to the surprise and delight of UBS bosses. As a result, having become famous as the "mad prophet of live television," he soon became a pawn for the ruthless television bosses, who milked him for crazy antics at every opportunity. Naturally, when the "prophet" became a liability, something had to be done about him urgently, preferably on camera and in front of a full audience.
The film tells the story of an inexperienced actress who lands a role in Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed. She has to enter into an intimate relationship with the pseudo-German director of the production, who then strips her of her role. In real life, she repeats the path of her character. Having become the girlfriend of a Czech emigrant, she falls victim to a political murder organized by the director of the play.
The Four Horsemen return with a new generation of illusionists, performing mind-boggling stunts, magic, and transformations the world has never seen before.
Eiko Magami is an ordinary Japanese supergirl. Every morning, after struggling to wake up to the sound of her alarm clock, she rushes to school at breakneck speed, holding the hand of her golden-haired friend Shiko Kotobuki. Besides her alarm clock, Eiko has another enemy: the queen of the class, the daughter of a big tycoon, Biko Daikokuji, who has tender romantic feelings for the silly beauty Shiko. In her combat super suit, Biko is able to match Eiko's strength, and the girls fight each other fiercely, destroying everything around them. The superheroine duel is interrupted by an invasion of aliens who mistake Shiko for their lost princess and kidnap her onto their ship. To rescue their friend, Eiko and Biko are forced to join forces for a while...
An elderly woman in a wheelchair was admiring the view from the window of her own home when someone's treacherous hands in black gloves tightened a noose around her neck. A man stood over the emaciated corpse of the elderly lady and was already rubbing his hands in anticipation of his inheritance (he was her husband, and she owned vast tracts of land) when someone stabbed him several times in the stomach with a knife. A cheerful group of teenagers, passing by, decided to stop near what appeared to be an abandoned house. Upon entering the house, the young people fell victim to an unknown assailant who punished them for trespassing on private property. A young woman arrives in the same area with her husband, hoping to find her father, who has not called or written recently. Her arrival is accompanied by a new wave of violence and deaths, making it easy to conclude that all this bloodshed is happening because of the inheritance of an old woman who owns a picturesque place known to everyone as "the bay"...
A small island in South America is famous for its bananas. Once a week, good-natured Joe delivers bananas to the city by boat. In the city, he sells bananas in exchange for goods needed by the island's population. But on one of his visits, the police demanded that he present a permit to trade bananas. But Joe doesn't have one, just as he doesn't have a passport, without which a license cannot be issued.
Once upon a time, a basket with a newborn baby floated, swaying, down the dark waters of an underground river. Suddenly, it was caught in a whirlpool that threatened to kill the child, but at the last moment, two black rats came to the rescue. Paris, 1877. Several workers die in strange circumstances in the Grand Opera building. Rumors spread throughout the city about a mysterious force dwelling within the walls of the ancient theater...
