Îngrozit de indiferența medicilor săi, „Patch” Adams decide să urmeze el însuși o carieră în medicină și se înscrie la Universitatea din Virginia. Acolo nu atrage oamenii doar cu cămășile sale colorate hawaiene, ci și cu vederile sale ciudate și metodele de vindecare neconvenționale. Pentru că pentru Patch Adams, accentul se pune pe oameni. Și așa îi face pe copiii bolnavi de cancer să râdă de nasul său roșu de clovn și reușește în felul lui cu totul special să ofere o nouă viață chiar și pacienților condamnați. În timp ce pe de o parte cucerește inima frumoasei studente Carin, pe de altă parte duce administrația universitară îngustă la minte în pragul nebuniei. Atunci când Patch vrea în secret să-și întemeieze propriul spital, el depășește în mod clar marcajul. Ca pedeapsă, el urmează să fie exclus din studii...

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.

When guardian angel Seth – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

Richard Martin cumpără un cadou, un nou robot NDR-114. Produsul este numit Andrew de către cel mai mic dintre copiii familiei. „Omul bicentenar” urmărește viața și vremurile lui Andrew, un robot achiziționat ca aparat de uz casnic programat pentru a îndeplini sarcini ușoare. Pe măsură ce Andrew începe să experimenteze emoții și gânduri creative, familia Martin descoperă curând că nu are un robot obișnuit.

Urcându-se la bordul mamutului lor vehicul de agrement pentru o excursie rutieră în Munții Stâncoși din Colorado, familia Munro – condusă de patriarhul disfuncțional, Bob – se pregătește pentru aventura vieții. Dar petrecerea a două săptămâni împreună într-un spațiu foarte mic are un mod de a le îngrădi stilul.

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.

Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.

A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...

Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.

La postul de radio al unei tabere americane din Vietnam vine un nou DJ, Adrian Cronauer. El va transforma si revolutiona modul in care functiona pana atunci radioul si va deveni in scurt timp un adevarat fenomen in tabara americana din Vietnam.

Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires typist Emma Dinsmore and begins dictating his novel. The book is about a doomed love affair between a character similar to Alex and a character named Polina Delacroix. But, as Alex falls for Emma, his work takes a different turn.

Hopeless romantic Stensland thinks he's found true love with an older woman, Morgan, only to learn that she's married and that their fling is merely an instrument of revenge against her neglectful husband, Grady. Initially out for blood, Grady finds himself strangely sympathetic to Stensland's plight and decides to get revenge on his wife instead.

Filmul urmărește evoluția lui Alexandru către statutul de legendă vie, de la tânărul impulsionat de visuri de glorie, aventură și mit, până la legăturile sale puternice cu cei mai apropiați credincioși, culminând cu misterioasa lui moarte în singurătate, atunci când deja era conducătorul unui imperiu uriaș.

A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.

La începutul celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial, o companie de soldați americani devin camarazi apropiați atunci când se confruntă cu rezistența feroce a japonezilor în una dintre cele mai crâncene bătălii ale războiului, cea din insula Guadalcanal.