Un humilde trabajador idea un plan para salir de la miseria, pero el destino le jugará una mala pasada cuando conecta con malas amistades que lo involucrarán en negocios ilícitos, llevándolo a experimentar una tragedia irreparable.
Un humilde trabajador idea un plan para salir de la miseria, pero el destino le jugará una mala pasada cuando conecta con malas amistades que lo involucrarán en negocios ilícitos, llevándolo a experimentar una tragedia irreparable.
They make no excuses. They don't ask forgiveness. Their story is without compromise, brutal and simple. For contemporary desperados Parker and associate Longbaugh, crime means survival at any cost. Their impromptu plan to kidnap surrogate mother Robin, just weeks from delivering the son of Hale and Francesca Chidduck, seems to be a fast way to cash in on a fat ransom and head for the border. But their haste does indeed make waste.
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer. Facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and decide to stand up for what's right.
In the waning days of Prohibition, Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) and his adopted son, Quick (Eddie Murphy), run a speakeasy called Club Sugar Ray. When gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) learns that Sugar Ray's place is pulling in more money than his own establishment, the Petty Pat Club, he pays corrupt cop Phil Cantone (Danny Aiello) to close Club Sugar Ray down. Quick doesn't exactly help the situation when he falls for Calhoun's gun moll, Miss Dominique La Rue (Jasmine Guy).
Condenado a la silla eléctrica, el asesino en serie Ted Bundy desarrolla una extraña y complicada relación con Bill Hagmaier, agente del FBI, mientras detalla sus atroces crímenes.
A group of five fraternity brothers reunite after a decade apart, only to be haunted by a deadly secret from their past.
Un expresidiario decide investigar la muerte de su hija y descubre a un hombre mayor que fue su amante.
Londoner Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary (Gene Tierney), becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. His latest ploy, promoting an aging Greek wrestler, goes awry when the wrestler dies and everyone points the finger at Harry. Hiding out in a riverfront barge, Harry sees his grand ambitions spiral into a nightmare of fear and desperation as the underworld closes in.
A criminal mastermind decides to pull one last job before going to prison and recruits a group of young bank employees to steal millions in a daring and brazen assault on the U.S. banking system.