Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant nurse who then invites him to his hotel room. In the morning, Federica's boyfriend arrives in the room, suspecting a relationship that has never existed.
During the Napoleonic Wars, a young officer discovers a manuscript related to the story of his grandfather, Captain Alphonse van Vorden of the Guard. Vorden—a man of honor and fortitude—is searching for a shortcut through the Sierra Morena.
At an inn, he accompanies two Eastern princesses. They treat him as a cousin and try in every way to seduce him. Soon he wakes up beneath a gallows from which two corpses hang...
Ken, Art, and Greg, three former Vietnam War veterans, find themselves hunting in the remote wilderness, where they give full rein to their brutal instincts. After capturing a young couple of tourists—lovers out on a picnic—they force them to play by special rules in a very different kind of hunt, one that is far more nerve-wracking and brings the “hunters” immense pleasure.
In 1879, the valiant British troops led by Lord Chelmsford advanced through South Africa to “settle the Zulu question once and for all.” The Zulu king, Ketshwayo, considered the British his allies, so their invasion of Zulu territory came as a complete surprise to the Africans. Then the Zulus attacked a large British force of 1,500 men and routed it; the bloody battle cost the lives of nearly all the British soldiers.
After being abandoned by her American boyfriend, a pretty teenager heads to Manila. With the help of a call boy who acts as his mentor, Paul is drawn into the world of “macho dancers”—a world rife with drugs, sexual slavery, police corruption, and murder...
Judas is worried that Jesus's sermons are making him popular among the people, and that because of this, he might be seen as a threat to the Roman Empire.
After spending almost his entire life behind bars, gangster Gal Dove decided to retire and settle down in Spain with his beloved wife. But one day, an uninvited guest showed up at his door. Gal’s friend, the skinhead Don Logan, is determined to force him to return to London to pull off one last, but very big, job—a true “heist of the century.”
A gangster named Vit Sterling hires Jeff, a former private investigator, to track down a woman named Katie Moffat. She killed a member of Vit’s gang, pocketed $40,000, and went on the run. Jeff takes on the case, but after finding the girl, he falls in love with her.
