Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Wes Anderson'ın aslına sadık kalarak uyarladığı dört Roald Dahl öyküsünden oluşan antolojinin Oscar ödüllü ilk filminde, bir kumarbaz şaşırtıcı bir yetenek geliştiriyor.
Sovyetler Birliği, 1984. Bir kasabada, Komünist Parti liderinin kızı, gece kulübünden çıktıktan sonra hiçbir iz bırakmadan ortadan kaybolur. Aynı akşam, kasabanın dışında bir cinayet işlenir. İki vaka da, aynı komiser tarafından araştırılmaktadır.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.