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?
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.
One evening, Harold was in an accident and ended up on the operating table. He survived, but his life changed overnight. He began to see people he had never met before, and others claimed to have seen him in places he had never visited.
Ned Rasin, a modest lawyer from Florida, led a quiet, uneventful life until he met a beautiful stranger in white—the “fatal” blonde Mattie Walker, who was married to a wealthy and successful businessman. Ned realizes that he is in the presence of a woman worth killing for. And that is exactly what he does when his lover offers him the chance to kill her husband in exchange for her love and her fortune. But things are far from as simple as they seem at first glance…
Mariano De Santis is lost in memories of the great love of his life. The feelings that once shaped his destiny may now change it once again. Mariano is the President of Italy and is preparing to step down, but before he leaves office, he must make a series of extremely difficult decisions. The public and those around him are holding their breath in tense anticipation.
A harrowing tale of 12-year-old Carlos, who, following his father’s death, is sent to the Santa Lucía School under the care of Headmistress Carmen and Professor Casares. The boy’s father was a rebel killed in battle against Franco’s regime. And although the shelter is overcrowded with children, the school principal compassionately takes young Carlos in.
