Zeuge einer Verschwörung

Als US-Senator Carroll auf der Aussichtsplattform der Space Needle in Seattle ermordet wird, bleiben viele Fragen offen. Der Mörder, der bei der Verfolgung ums Leben kam, soll Einzeltäter gewesen sein. Jahre später kommt die Fernsehreporterin Lee Carter zu ihrem Freund, dem Zeitungs-Journalisten Joseph Frady, und berichtet ihm, dass mehrere Zeugen von damals ums Leben kamen. Erst als auch Lee bei einem Unfall stirbt, nimmt Carter ihre Darstellung ernst und macht sich auf die Suche nach dem ...

Regeln spielen keine Rolle

Los Angeles, 1958: Die junge Provinz-Schönheitskönigin, Nachwuchsschauspielerin und fromme Baptistin Marla Mabrey zieht nach Hollywood, weil sie vom berüchtigten Milliardär Howard Hughes unter Vertrag genommen wurde. Am Flughafen wird sie von Frank Forbes abgeholt, einem religiösen Methodisten, der kurz vor der Hochzeit mit seiner Liebsten steht. Doch es kommt, wie es kommen muss und so fühlen sich Marla und Frank prompt zueinander hingezogen. Das stellt allerdings nicht nur ihre jeweiligen ...

Bonnie und Clyde

Im Amerika der Zwanziger Jahre reist das Gangsterpärchen Clyde Barrow und Bonnie Parker samt Familienanhang durch den depressionsgebeutelten Süden. Die beiden halten mit Vorliebe die überforderten lokalen Ordnungskräfte mit spektakulären Banküberfällen auf Trab. Doch während sie für die kleinen Bürger zu modernen Robin Hoods avancieren, setzt Verrat aus den eigenen Reihen dem Siegeszug der Underdogs schließlich ein blutiges Ende.

Rules Don’t Apply

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a ...

Warren Beatty – Mister Hollywood

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

Inside Deep Throat

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved to become one of the most successful independent films of all time. It caught the public imagination which met the spirit of the times, even as the self appointed guardians of public morality struggled to suppress it, and created, for a brief moment, a possible future where sexuality in film ...

Town & Country

Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.

Bulworth

Der kalifornische Senator Bulworth hat sein (politisches) Dasein ziemlich satt. Er schließt deswegen eine hohe Lebensversicherung ab und heuert einen Killer auf sich an, auf dass seine Tochter die Lebensversicherung ausgezahlt bekommt. Mit der Gewissheit die nächste Woche nicht mehr zu erleben, zieht er aber noch in den Wahlkampf-Endspurt, wo er so richtig die Sau rauslässt und Klartext redet, denn er hat ja nichts mehr zu verlieren. Er lästert über die Reichen ab, behauptet die ...

Love Affair

Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.

Bugsy

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy ist kein muskelbepackter Superheld im Kostüm, sondern ein pflichtbewusster und sensibler Detektiv im Kampf gegen die übelsten Unterwelttypen der Stadt. Zusammen mit dem Straßenkind “Kid” legt er sich mit der “ehrenwerten Gesellschaft” der Stadt an und gerät somit schnell and die Spitze ihrer Abschussliste. Um ihn loszuwerden, hängt ihm der Boss der Bosse einen hinterhältigen Mord an, der Tracy seinen Job bei der Polizei kostet. Als ihm dann auch noch das mysteriöse Bargirl ...

Ishtar

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Reds

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (1887-1920), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (1885-1936).

Heaven Can Wait

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

The Fortune

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Shampoo

George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.

The Parallax View

An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.

Der Millionenraub

Joe Collins und Dawn Divine rauben die Hamburger Filiale einer US-amerikanischen Bank aus. Unter dem Vorwand, in der Bank befände sich eine Bombe, lässt sich Collins in der Kammer mit Schließfächern einschließen. Dort öffnet er einige Schließfächer, die Geld aus illegalen Aktivitäten in den USA beinhalten und deponiert die Geldbündel im eigenen Schließfach. Währenddessen lobt ihn der Filialdirektor Herr Kessel als einen Helden.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

The Only Game in Town

Fran walks into a piano bar for pizza. She comes back home with Joe, the piano player. Joe plans on winning $5,000 and leave Las Vegas. Fran waits for something else. Meanwhile, he moves in with her.

Bonnie and Clyde

In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Mickey One

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

Lilith

The story of a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her and restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, their relationship deepens and intensifies, and the differences between them begin to blur, leading to a shocking, but oddly logical conclusion.