1977. A widower and former research fellow arrives in Recife, where the carnival is taking place. He stays at a guesthouse run by a warm-hearted elderly woman and visits his young son, who lives with his grandparents. The man also gets a job at the city’s ID office, where he hopes to find his mother’s documents, and it seems he is hiding from someone.
Following the death of his ex-wife, the once-famous film director Gustav Borg arrives for the funeral. He reunites with his adult daughters, whom he hasn’t seen in many years, and offers his eldest daughter, Nora—a stage actress—a role in his new film. Gustav plans to shoot the film based on a very personal screenplay and in the house where several generations of his family lived, but Nora, who is resentful toward her father, refuses. A young Hollywood star then takes her place.
Are you afraid of heights? Can you imagine yourself walking along a tightrope at a height of over 400 meters without any safety equipment? The wind is blowing around you, and below lies the city and thousands of excited eyes looking up at you. In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit dared to perform an unimaginable feat—walking without a safety harness across a tightrope stretched between the Twin Towers in New York.
Harry Hamilton, a brave army officer, is wrongfully accused of robbery and thrown in jail. Ten years later, he returns to his hometown to confront the false witness and discovers that, over the years, the man has become a very influential figure.
The early 1950s. Alfred Miller, a talented television screenwriter who has been blacklisted for sympathizing with communist ideas, loses his job. He turns to a friend and asks him to act as a front man on television. Howard is a loser and a gambler. The promised 10% of the fee won’t hurt him. Very soon, the young writer Howard becomes popular. And since he’s a complete layman when it comes to literature, he has to teach himself. A brilliant idea occurs to Howard: why not represent a couple more disgraced writers?
Annie's personal life is a total mess, and she's in no mood to party. But she'll have to put her problems aside—after all, she's about to head off to her best friend's bachelorette party. The girls are going to have a blast like the guys could never even imagine...
A family with two children heads to Big Rock National Park for a vacation, located near Benjamin Lockwood’s estate—the very place where dinosaurs were released a year ago during a botched auction. The family is having dinner in their RV when they spot a female herbivorous Nasutoceratops with her young nearby. Soon, they are attacked by a predatory Allosaurus.
Anker is being released on parole after serving 15 years in prison for robbery, and he urgently needs to retrieve the money he stole in that heist. Before his arrest, he asked his brother Manfred to bury the stolen money at a prearranged spot in the woods near their mother’s house. But over the years, Manfred’s mental illness has worsened; he now asks to be called John and doesn’t remember where the loot is hidden. Together, the brothers set out to find the money.
An insurance company employee suffers from chronic insomnia and is desperately trying to escape his agonizingly boring life. One day, on yet another business trip, he meets a certain Tyler Durden—a charismatic soap salesman with a twisted philosophy. Tyler is convinced that self-improvement is for the weak, and that the only thing worth living for is self-destruction.
A short time passes, and soon the new friends are beating each other up for no reason in the parking lot in front of a bar, and the cathartic brawl brings them supreme bliss. Introducing other men to the simple joys of physical violence, they found a secret Fight Club, which begins to enjoy incredible popularity.
