On a trip back to Canada to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, Tom Marlow (Corey Haim) wakes to find his beloved wife missing. Their vacation home - now a crime scene - is now littered with clues to his wife's whereabouts. In order to ensure her safe return, Tom, now a stranger in the land of his birth is forced to cooperate with the practices of local authorities, the political rhetoric of the American Embassy and the unorthodox methods of a Private Investigator he hired to help him..
It’s Thanksgiving night and all Abby and David want to do is quickly eat their turkey and ditch their overbearing “still has their umbilical cords” Jewish mother. Before they can make their getaway, Gary, a deranged ex-convict, breaks in and takes the family hostage. Tensions are high, family secrets are revealed, and Gary just forced everyone to go the bathroom with him. At least Grandma is here to calm everyone down. Just kidding, she’s crazy. Can this family make peace with each other before they’re offed? Oy vey!.
Eugene, a man dealing with the tragedy of his family's death by living at the vacation cabin that they last stayed, discovers he's completely snowbound. During Eugene's desperate attempts to dig himself out, he discovers he's not alone..
Pablo is being pursued by what seems like a mob of fans. However, the truth soon emerges that his assailants are actually the cast of characters from his books who are angry that he won’t continue to write their lives. When Laura, a former student, turns up on Pablo’s doorstep soon after with plans for romance, the two fall into a passionate love affair. But when she starts showing signs of paranoia, Pablo questions whether she may in fact be one of his literary creations..
When Leila, a young doctor, returns to her village in south Lebanon, she finds it badly damaged after the 1993 Israeli attack. Israeli bombing during this episode razed 50 villages and left half a million civilians homeless, causing a flood of refugees into Beirut. Many of those who fled south Lebanon have not returned, choosing instead to live a scavenging existence in bombed-out buildings in the capital, where they’re out of range of the Israeli-occupied “security zone” in the south. Through Leila’s relationship with her family and the women and children of the surrounding villages, we get to know the hopes and dreams of the people who have remained in south Lebanon as they work to rebuild their homes and their lives..
Réalisé par le grand reporter et ancien détenu des talibans Michel Peyrard, et coréalisé et mis en image par Damien Vercaemer, ce film documentaire à l’esthétique cinématographique dresse le portrait d’ex-otages (FARC en Colombie, AQMI au Sahel, ISIS ou Al Qaeda en Syrie, Ansar al-Charia au Yémen,...). Des histoires au-delà du réel, restituées dans toute leur singularité grâce à un accès privilégié aux otages..
Des témoins racontent la terrible crise des otages de 1996 à Lima au Pérou, où un grand nombre de personnalités se sont retrouvées prisonnières dans une ambassade..
Gevorg Adamyan is a man of power who enjoys many privileges and is guided throughout his life by the slogan "the purpose justifies the means". This enables him always to stay at the top of the pyramid but, at the same time, gradually ruins him as a person and brings unhappiness to his own family, destroying the lives of his close friends and relatives..
A man walks into the bank and sells a cheap comb. On another day, the man comes in carrying a gun instead of a comb and threatens people. In an odd twist of events, the man ends up holding up the bank along with the bank's manager..
A thief named "Wolf", who could not be caught, decides to start a new life. Having got a plumber, he repairs a leak in the apartment, which is committed robbery. Wolfy and the owner of the apartment are held hostage by two criminals on the one hand, and the capture group on the other. Operation on neutralization of criminals is directed by the captain of militia — the sworn enemy of the former thief. The captain believes that the attack on the apartment antiquarian — the handiwork of the Top. From this moment, in the life of the Wolf burst events that do not dream even in the most terrible dream….
A journey through a city before and after its destruction. The characters' journey leads to the realization that their union will cause that same destructive eventuality..
About the the hostage-taking/bank-robbing gangster Dieter Degowski and a recap of the crimes he committed with Hans-Jürgen Rösner during the Gladbeck hostage drama in August 1988. Some of the relatives of Degowski, along with his Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, plus the actual hostages and friends of those killed talk about the trauma they were involuntarily involved in..
