From Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ===== A team of geologists collaborate with the New Zealand Coast Guard in fighting against two kaiju in battle with one another: a giant starfish dubbed Tengu that spawns dragon-like offspring, and the golem-like Walking Mountain. ===== ===== ===== Kaamyaab is the journey of Sudheer, a washed up side actor from the heyday of Bollywood. Years after his retirement, he realises that he ‘retired’ on the verge of accomplishing a unique record. He decides to come out of his retirement to complete the round figure of 500 and get that one substantial role for which he will be remembered forever. ===== Adi (Krishna) middle aged software employee while driving in the coastal region rescuing Aditi. The same woman accompanies him and asks him about his love story. On the way he tells her about his past life from his Higher secondary (12th class) to present. Adi on his Higher secondary has a major crush on his classmate Reema (Vibha Kallianpur). He is hesitant to approach her. But his antics like caring for her and dreaming of a future with her keep him busy. Once the bubble is burst, Adi wakes up to reality and gets into an engineering college where he meets Jo (Amrutha Iyengar) who comes from a well-to-do family. Even Though her love is true, she has her own doubts about finance and provide the lifestyle she deserves. After completion of engineering he promises to fulfil her desires and joins an IT company. But because of parent’s pressure Jo marry a well-off guy, breaks up with Adi. Heartbroken, Adi meets Nidhi (Milana Nagaraj), a fellow software employee and a down-to- earth woman, who enjoys the simple things in life. Adi and Nidhi were a good couple. Nidhi becomes pregnant but doesn't deliver a baby. This leads to ovarian cancer. Nidhi eventually dies from it though Adi tries to encourage her saying that she has more time to live. Adi shows Aditi Nidhi's grave. This ends with a sad ending as Adi drives Aditi home. ===== ===== Sean Hitcher, a United States solder, has recently returned home from Iraq due to being wounded in the Iraq War. Attempting to buy more pain medication at the pharmacy, he learns that his old love interest, Hannah, is the town's pharmacist. Hannah is unable to fill Sean's prescription until after he has met with the VA's psychiatrist. Sean leaves and buy alcohol instead. On the way home, Sean is approached by a dog. Sean stands his ground and the dog backs down. The dog's owner then tris to sell drug's to Sean, who refuses. The drug dealer is angry at Sean, as he thinks Sean has done something to the dog, who is acting strange. Later, after Sean is home, he has a nightmare of being in a cave in Iraq when something bad happens, this is not communicated to the reader. The drug dealer goes to check on his dog and finds that it has been savagely killed. Sean's life begins to spiral downward, he begins using drugs and having illicit sex in alley ways with random women. His nightmares have not gone away; he dreams of fangs. A visit from Hannah leads to her and Sean spending the day together. They go and watch her son playing soccer where her ex-husband, Eric, is also present. Later, at the bar, Sean turns down of a woman that he has previously been involved with. He is then attacked by, Eric, who thinks Sean is trying to rekindle his relationship with Hannah. On Sean's walk home, he is attacked by the drug dealer in retaliation for his dog's death. Sean runs into the forest and is followed. Sean dispatches each of the drug dealer's friends in quick succession, leaving them for dead. Sean attempts to commit suicide at home, but cannot bring himself to pull the trigger. He goes to see Hannah at the pharmacy and tells her of the horrors of war while she drives to her house. Sean and Hannah are attacked by Eric, who ties Sean to a chair. When Eric threatens Sean with a shotgun, Sean begins to transform into a werewolf. Sean kills Eric by ripping out his throat. Hannah leaves town afterwards, apparently keeping Sean's secret. A flashback shows that Sean found writings on a cave wall in Iraq and was attacked by a werewolf. In the present, Sean wakes up and looks out of the window and it is revealed that he has reenlisted and has returned to Iraq. ===== On his wedding day, David finds out that his wedding has been interrupted by a rainstorm. After getting a massage (which inadvertently ended with David receiving a "happy ending"), he is informed that the wedding will now be held at the town hall. Once there, David and Patrick are married. The next day, Johnny and Moira depart from Schitt's Creek and begin their drive to California. ===== When billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Bruce Willis) hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, security expert and team leader Derek Miller (Jesse Metcalfe) finds himself in a deadly showdown with an old enemy. The mission becomes even higher risk when Chalmers' daughter is kidnapped by a terrorist group who will stop at nothing to obtain the tech. Miller and his team must race against the clock to save her and protect the fate of the human race before it's too late. ===== A father and husband (Luke Benward) has been charged with murder. To prove his innocence he must recount the previous night's events to a police detective (Kelsey Grammer). It’s hurricane season on the title Grand Isle and a young fellow named Buddy (bland, floppy-haired Luke Benward) is all bloodied up in an interrogation room, speaking to Grammer, who plays Detective Jones. He may be a detective but he’s in full Movie Southern Lawyer mode: cream-colored jacket and florid drawl. An analog tape recorder takes down their chat. Before you can get too concerned about the fact that Buddy’s being interrogated with open wounds on both his arms and in the middle of his face, we’re in flashback mode. Buddy’s a new dad and a failing entrepreneur, so he makes do as a handyman. He picks up the unfortunate assignment of mending a fence at the house of Cage’s Walker, a surly ex-Marine with a hotsy-totsy wife named Fancy (KaDee Strickland). The reason Walker’s fence is broken is that the night before a human being fell into it after being shot by Walker. The dude was trying to burgle the house, but still. This fence-mending is taking place on Fancy and Walker’s wedding anniversary, which Walker has forgotten, as surly ex-Marines will. Irritated, Fancy turns attention to Buddy out on the lawn. She sashays his way with a glass in hand. “You want some?” she asks. Buddy looks up at her breasts. “Ice tea,” she explains. But she means the breasts, too, as Buddy learns when his truck won’t start and he’s forced to take refuge in the Walker manse as the storm comes in. The trio has a properly gothic dinner, complete with mint juleps made from Fancy’s grandmother’s recipe and really inappropriate conversation. How did the couple meet? “It was shortly after Walt was in ‘Nam ... I was singing in a club in New Orleans,” Fancy says. That’s not the inappropriate part, the inappropriate part is when Walker asks of Buddy, “When was the last time you had your cock ... sucked?” Later, after a lengthy speech about the military industrial complex, Walker offers Buddy $20,000 to kill Fancy. Mercy killing, he says, because Fancy’s got blood cancer. He walks in on Fancy lounging in her bathtub singing along with Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit.” If that’s not offensive enough, she then gives a really dumb precis of the song. But he doesn’t kill her. At least not in his version of the story. But then there’s the issue of just what is in the Walker basement. And why Fancy wants to shoot Buddy rather than allow him to go down to it. ===== ===== The story is set in the scenic North Downs of Surrey, on the ridge known as the Hog's Back, at the time of the building of the A31 bypass. Three school-friends, Julia Earle, her sister Marjorie Lawes, and Ursula Stone gather at Julia and Dr. James Earle's secluded cottage, St. Kilda, to share light-hearted reminiscences of their school-days. Ursula discovers that not only is Julia having an affair with her neighbour Reggie Slade, but that Dr. Earle has been seen in London with a mysterious woman, dressed in grey. As tensions mount, Dr. Earle disappears from his study in extraordinary circumstances: one minute he is sitting in his living room, comfortably settled with newspaper and slippers, and the next he has vanished. Despite the best efforts of the inhabitants of St. Kilda and The Red Cottage, home of Dr. Earle's former partner Dr. Campion, to find some sign of Dr. Earle, no trace is found. The police are called in. At first, they suppose Dr. Earle has gone to his inamorata, the woman in grey. However, their investigation uncovers further discrepancies such as his not taking any money or personal belongings. The local police finally turn to Inspector French of Scotland Yard to help solve the mystery. The case soon takes a more complex turn; other people vanish mysteriously, including one of Dr. Earle's house guests. As the situation becomes more perplexing, French finds himself investigating no fewer than four murders. ===== About a mother who can do everything for her beloved son. Mia (Julia Montes) is a security officer in Jacinto Pharmaceuticals and a single mother raising her son Xavier. One epidemic, a hybrid of dengue and malaria are spreading, where casualties are high and vaccines to cure it are not given by the company, for a certain reason. She tries desperately to beg her boss a dose, but declined. She stole a case full, but costed her life when Franco killed her in a market. The medicine works, but she died nonetheless. her son was cured, and became a poster boy for his mother's deed, and became a scientist and an inventor in 2045, creating a holographic stick. The time rewound back to 2020 where Mia saw news clips about her death in the mysterious stick. She decides to change the fate, by doing the same thing, but this time, she was more careful. She now tries to find clues about the epidemic, and tries to save as many victims as she could. ===== After the disappearance of George Boulangé (Matthew Marsden) from his sailboat, Detective Park must sort through everyone's stories to ascertain if there was foul play, or if George simply left for greener pastures. ===== ===== Luna (Lisa Vicari) is an intelligent and carefree teenager who is spending the summer with her family in the mountains. Suddenly, her entire family is killed by foreign agents, and Luna just barely manages to escape. She is forced to confront the fact that her whole life has been a lie: her father Jakob (Benjamin Sadler) was a Russian agent living in Germany for 20 years, while her family was just the cover. When he was finally exposed by the BND, she found herself in the crosshairs of the Russian secret service. Luna teams up with the secretive agent Hamid (Carlo Ljubek) in order to find justice for her family. Eventually she exposes Victor (Branko Tomovic) as the murderer, and several arrests are made. ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== Cleo works for a tourist office in Berlin and has lived a lonely, isolated life since her father died when Cleo was ten years old. Cleo blames herself for her father's death and has been hoping since childhood that a magical watch hidden in the Sass brothers' lost treasure will help her to turn back time and save her father. When she meets the young adventurer Paul one day, who has found a map that should lead to the treasure, she joins him, and Cleo begins a journey through Berlin's history, back to the beginning of time. ===== The series will center around a new group of Bayside High students from "overprivileged" and working-class families, among the latter of which were transferred to the school as part of a plan by now-California Governor Zack Morris—whose administration experiences controversy for closing too many low- income high schools—to send lower-income students to the highest-performing schools in the state. ===== ===== The series is set in a post- apocalyptic world where Humanity is defended from Earless attacks by the Players, the latter earning fame and fortune along the way. Echo Rec dreams of joining the Players and piloting a mecha of his own, but has no prospects of doing so, until he encounters μ - an enigmatic girl who's lost her memory and has an auxiliary port on her body. An auxiliary port signifies a Player; together, μ and Echo work together towards fame and fortune. ===== Melissa's parents move their family and Emmy Lee to the mansion - called Old Court - in Pembrokeshire. The mansion - formerly a courthouse - passed to Melissa's parents upon the death of Aunt Lucia. Everyone is delighted except Judith, the artist, who wants to remain in London. Briony finds the slim wooden doll with the word 'DIDO' carved down her back, and soon her behavior changes. After Judith discovers it though, it suddenly disappears. The odd behavior changes in Briony that Melissa observed when she had Dido soon went away after she 'lost' her, and Briony returned to her usual self. Judith draws farther away from the family, becoming even more moody and difficult than usual. She stay mostly in London, secretive and detached. Melissa and Carew develop a romantic attachment, but when Carew meets Judith, and says of her 'she has the brilliance of a diamond, and no heart. She fascinates and terrifies me. She has great magnetism and I feel she might compel me to do something against my will, something devilish, something she wanted.' Melissa and Carew continued their relationship, planning to marry when they became of age. Everything changes when Melissa feels compelled to go by the sea after heavy rains, and the ground gives way. Her injuries heal, but the shock and the strange pains she has in her legs keep her paralyzed. Carew is determined to remain faithful to her, but after time passes, when he finishes his studies, Judith sweeps in and the two run off to London together to marry. Melissa, remains in Newcove with Miss Emmy as Part I concludes. Part two is told by Dilys starting when she is six and realizes her mother doesn't love her. She lives at Old Court in Newcove, with Aunt Liss (Melissa), and Emmy, and sometimes her mother Judith is there but she acts strangely much of the time and pushes everyone away. As she grows up, she learns about what happened between her mother, Judith, and Aunt Liss; she also briefly comes in to contact with Dido and is repulsed by her. She and Aunt Liss talk of Dido one day, and Dilys learns how powerful she is. Dilys meets Bron, a Polish man staying in the area. They fall in love and Part II ends after they commit to each other, in 1938. Part three is told from the point of view of Melissa again, and starts with a letter arriving from Dilys seven months after it was sent from Poland, in early 1940. Shortly after a friend of Bron's arrives, and lets them know that Bron (and Dilys) has joined the Polish underground resistance movement. After Judith dies of pneumonia, Melissa and Emmy Lee search everywhere for Dido in order to destroy her, but they can't find it. World War II ends, and Melissa searches endlessly for Dilys, but cannot find her. It occurs to her that perhaps Dilys and Jan had a child. Days later, Melissa has her first vision of a child in the room with her. She starts to see the child regularly, and this gives her new hope. After time she sees the child becoming older. One day during an appearance of the child, the child is actually looking at her. To keep the dog from starting, Melissa nudges the dog with her foot. Suddenly she realizes the child is Dilys daughter, and also that has some chance of movement despite the paralysis. She determined to learn to walk again, so that she could visit every orphanage in Europe if need be to find Dilys daughter. Part four is told by twelve-year-old Nina, Dilys daughter, who has been in an orphanage for two years since her mother - Dilys - had died. Dilys had been not right in her mind after the war, she couldn't go back to Wales, so they had lived in refugee camps after Bron died. Now Aunt Liss has finally come to get her. Nina is dazed at first, walks through the Old Court again in her imagination as she has many times before from her mother's stories of it. Nina and Aunt Liss travel back to the Old Court, and establish new patterns. Nina has her choice of rooms in the house, and chooses Judith's old room in the attic, despite the hostile presence there. Nina feels uncomfortably alienated from Aunt Liss and Miss Emmy at times because of her past, but also tougher than them because of all she had endured. In time she finds Dido, hidden deep within a series of cubby holes, with the herb Santolina/Lavender Cotton packed around her. Nina enters into a relationship with Dido, which the reader experiences for the first time. Nina sees different expressions on Dido's face, and Nina is very aware of Dido's effect on her actions. She tries to resist, but keeps being drawn in to her power. She realizes that it was Dido that made Judith the way she was. When Dido finally threatens Melissa, Nina makes up her mind. She builds a bonfire on the sandy beach and flings Dido in to the center of it. She wins out over the evil in that doll. ===== ===== ===== ===== A group of undocumented workers hired by a wealthy American couple are held against their will at the couple’s secluded mansion, and must fight to prove they are not expendable and can not be discarded so easily. ===== While on a business trip to California, Ellery and Nikki get involved with a man who was presumed dead, but is now suspected in embezzlement, money laundering, and murder. They manage to keep one step ahead of both the crooks and the law. ===== The story revolves around Neel and Chahat and their mad desire to destroy each other's families. Chahat Rahil Baig is a meek girl who looks up to her father Dr. Rahil Baig, where as in a different world lives chef Neelkanth Vyas who comes from a Hindu family. He hates his father because his father wasn't present in the time when Neel's mother was in death bed. But he loves his sister madly and can do anything for her. It is shown that Chahat's father is the doctor of Neel's sister Saraswati. Saraswati's husband Alekh cheats on her and she gets to know about it. Then somehow she reaches the hospital of Chahat’s father. Neel's sister dies on the operation table and Alekh blames Dr.Rahil for it. Now Chahat stays in Neel's house as his girlfriend and they get married but both of them want revenge from each other. On the other hand, Chahat helps her father to get out of the city. ===== In Babylon at the time of King Belshazzar, writing on the wall warns the prophet Daniel about the destruction that will accompany the arrival of Darius, leader of the Medes and the Persians. The counsellor turns King Darius against Daniel. ===== Stephanie is married to architect Mike, and they have two children, Hilary and Keith. Mike is having an affair. ===== According to the Sydney Morning Herald is was "the story of an unusual murder in London involving a husband and wife, investigated in an unorthodox manner by Detective-Inspector Hurst." James Peebles has befriende John Clostin's wife and Clostin is unhappy with that. ===== ===== ===== Davian is a young man studying at Caladel, a school under the supervision of the Tol Athian council. Davian learns that he is actually an Augur. He is given a Vessel, an Augur artifact, and is told that the Boundary, an ancient border north of Andarra, is failing. Behind it lie monsters led by immortal Augur Aarkein Devaed. Devaed is planning an invasion of Andarra. Davian and his best friend Wirr escape. That night, almost every remaining resident is murdered. The only survivor is their friend Asha, another young Gifted. Asha becomes Tol Athian's Representative to the Northwarden Elocian Andras, brother of the king and leader of the Administrators. Elocian tells Asha that he is secretly rescuing Augurs and regrets the creation of the Tenets. Davian's Vessel, the Portal Stone, leads them to rescue a Gifted man named Caeden. Caeden has been accused of massacring an entire village, but has lost his memories. Davian is transported to the past. He meets a shapeshifting Augur named Malshash, who trains Davian to use Augur abilities before sending him back to his own time. The Northwarden's Augurs have a vision of Ilin Illan, the capital city, being overrun by invaders known as the Blind. Asha, Davian, and Wirr (who is actually Elocian's son) reunite in the city. Davian discovers that Devaed's master plan involves restoring Caeden's memories. Elocian is killed by the Blind; Wirr then changes the Tenets to allow the Gifted to fight. Caeden meets a man named Garadis, guardian of the sword Licanius. The sword may only be given to one who is not seeking it. Caeden has been trying to take the sword for centuries; he eventually erased his own memories and planned a pathway to lead him to Licanius. Caeden uses Licanius to kill the entire army of the Blind. Davian leaves Ilin Illan to join Tol Shen, where he will work with other Augurs to repair the Boundary. Caeden uses the Portal Stone to meet a man who can restore his memories. He requests to see the memory of the day he was accused of the village massacre, believing it will prove his innocence. He learns that he is guilty, and also that he is both Melshash and Aarkein Devaed. Caeden collapses in grief. ===== Jimmie, the Brownsville Bugle's office boy, and Millie, niece of editor Henshaw, turn amateur detectives in order to help a friend who is accused of murder. With more zeal than direction, they pick the owner of a gas station as the killer, and when he turns out to be innocent, Henshaw fires Jimmie. The two go on searching and next suspect Lawyer Cy Burton but have no conclusive evidence and are about to give up when Millie finds a clue that leads to the hidden fortune of the murdered Mrs. Blake. ===== Henry Cole is an acclaimed classical pianist at the twilight of his career. He returns to the stage after a long absence following the death of his wife only to discover that his performance is marred by stage fright and overall mental instability. He barely escapes catastrophe as he suffers an anxiety attack on stage, running outside after finishing a number and smoking a cigarette. At a post-recital press conference, he meets Helen Morrison, a music critic for The New Yorker. She wants to write a story about him and unsuccessfully asks for an interview. They meet again a few days later at Steinway Hall, where Henry suffers another episode while attempting to perform. Helen joins him on the piano bench, rescuing him, thus earning his trust. Henry finally agrees to the interview. Meanwhile, despite his agent Paul’s best efforts, Henry’s mental condition declines steadily. His recitals become more and more perilous, thus jeopardizing his comeback tour and his much anticipated and publicized final concert in London. Henry is urged by Helen to travel to Sils-Maria in the Swiss Alps in order to hear another pianist she once knew, famous for the profound, mind-altering effect of his interpretation of the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s Sonata op. 111. At the beginning of his stay, Henry’s symptoms worsen and his final recital is in jeopardy. After some reflection, interacting with the hotel porter, and listening to the Sonata, Henry finally decides to leave and go to London for his recital. ===== Aragorn, visiting Rivendell, sings the Lay of Lúthien, an immortal Elf-maiden in the First Age who marries a man, Beren, thereby choosing a mortal life. As he does so, "Lúthien walked before his eyes": he sees Arwen in the woods, and calls out to her "Tinúviel! Tinúviel!" as Beren had done; she reveals that although she seems no older than he, she is of great age, having "the [immortal] life of the Eldar". He falls in love with her. Arwen's father, Elrond the Half-elven, sees without being told what has happened, and tells Aragorn that a "great doom awaits" him, either to be the greatest of his line since Elendil, or to fall into darkness; and that he "shall neither have wife, nor bind any woman to you in troth" until he is found worthy. In reply, with "the foresight of his kindred", Aragorn prophesies that Elrond's time in Middle-earth is coming to an end, and that Arwen will have to choose between her father and staying in Middle-earth. Aragorn and Arwen meet again in Lothlórien, nearly thirty years later. Galadriel dresses Aragorn in "silver and white, with a cloak of elven-grey and a bright gem on his brow", so that he seems to be an elf-lord. Arwen sees him and makes her choice. They climb the hill of Cerin Amroth, from where they can see the Shadow (Mordor) in the East, and the Twilight (the fading of the Elves) in the West, and they "plighted their troth". Elrond tells Aragorn that they may marry only when he is King of both Gondor and Arnor, the ancient southern and northern Kingdoms of Middle-earth. Some years later, Aragorn helps the Fellowship and the forces of the West to victory in the War of the Ring against the forces of Mordor. At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, he unfurls the standard made by Arwen and is hailed as King by the people of Gondor. The One Ring is destroyed, taking the power of the three Elven-rings, including Elrond's, with it. Aragorn becomes King of Gondor and Arnor, and at midsummer he and Arwen are married in Minas Tirith. The Third Age ends as Elrond departs Middle-earth never to return, and he and Arwen are "sundered by the Sea and by a doom beyond the end of the world". Aragorn and Arwen live together as King and Queen of Gondor and Arnor for "six-score [120] years in great glory and bliss". Then, aged 210 and feeling the onset of old age, Aragorn chooses to lay down his life before he falls from his "high seat unmanned and witless". In the scenes that follow, Aragorn and a grief-stricken Arwen converse on the nature of death and the consequences of the choice she had made. Aragorn lies down in "the House of the Kings in the Silent Street" and, giving the crown of Gondor and the sceptre of Arnor to his son Eldarion, he says his final farewell to Arwen and dies, his body remaining "in glory undimmed". Arwen was "not yet weary of her days and thus tasted the bitterness of the mortality that she had taken upon her". The elf-light in her eyes goes out, and she leaves Gondor for Lorien, itself now dimmed as the elf-rulers Galadriel and Celeborn and their people had left Middle-earth. She wanders under the mallorn trees, their leaves falling, and becomes the only living Elf in Middle-earth since Lúthien to die of old age. ===== Young teenager, carefree and happy Pranati Mishra meets and falls in love with Reyansh Khurana, a rich, arrogant playboy who is her classmate, and also falls for her but never admitted it due to a tragic past. When she informs him about being pregnant, he leaves her, not ready to become a father. Pranati delivers a daughter in an unconscious condition at home, but her mother Shobha gives the baby to an orphanage and lies to her that she had a miscarriage. ===== ===== The series shows a little girl named Clarilú who solves several mysteries that happen in her garden, along with her best friend Lápiz, a pencil dog. The series follows a Strict Formula, where Clarilú receives a mysterious letter at the beginning of the episode, which encourages her to find a lost object and find out who sent the letter. ===== The film begins with a doctor couple and their teenage daughter leading their usual routine of life with a balance of happiness and duties until it abruptly leads to its cinematic crisis when Nandini, the female protagonist, receives a parcel one morning from an anonymous person. She feels that someone from her past might be blackmailing her. This leads to the beginning of the entire fear psychosis. The director chooses to explore with a multi layered approach. The doctor couple, Nandini and Souvik, falls into the trap of events that question fair and unfair treatments in their career along with the revelation of extramarital affairs, a plethora of dark sides of the characters come alive ok screen. Nandini's past haunt into her present creating a major hubbub and disruption of balance. ===== The movie follows story of a country girl Tonka who lives in Prague and works as a prostitute unbeknownst to her family. One day a convicted murderer Prokůpek requests to spend a night with a girl before his execution. Policemen ask many prostitutes if they're willing to do this job, but all of them refuse except Tonka. As a result, none of her customers wants to visit her again and other prostitutes shun her. ===== Nasa Yuzaki, a boy with a peculiar name, gets hit by a truck on the day of his high school entrance exams. He encounters and follows a beautiful girl who saves him, confessing his love for her at a bus stop. The girl, Tsukasa Tsukuyomi, agrees to become his girlfriend, but only if they are married first. When Nasa, who had previously decided to not go to high school in order to look for Tsukasa, reaches his 18th birthday, he is still thinking about the promise he made on that day. Suddenly, Tsukasa shows up at his doorstep with a marriage form, starting their relationship and their marriage. Although Tsukasa's clingy adopted younger sister refuses to accept the relationship, she brings Nasa to her family. As Nasa and Tsukasa's relationship develops, they start becoming more intimate. The couple begins to hold hands, embrace each other, and kiss by Chapter 14. Throughout the earlier chapters of the manga, a supporting character named Aya Arisagawa, who has a crush on Nasa, believes that Nasa and Tsukasa are simply family members, not married. When she learns that they are, it comes as a shock to her although she eventually comes to terms with it and supports Nasa's relationship. ===== ===== In the Bennet house, Mrs Bennet wishes for her two sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, to be married. Mr Collins, a clergyman, arrives seeking a bride. Lady Catherine de Bourgh hints at future happiness for Elizabeth. Elizabeth rejects Mr Collins' proposal. ===== ===== This lost film's storyline was set in the Western region of the United States in the late nineteenth century. Production reports and reviews published in trade publications and newspapers in the final weeks of 1914 and during 1915, describe it portraying the schemes of a "get-rich-quick" confidence man named James Ewing (Peter Lang). He, assisted by two promoters, poses as a real estate broker who circulates false reports of rich gold deposits in a barren, deserted valley. To enhance his lies, Ewing places small amounts of gold on the land that he and his associates had purchased, "salting" some rocks on the property with flecks of the precious metal. He then lures people to buy parcels of the worthless land at inflated prices. Many men and women are duped by Ewing's sales pitches, and a "boomtown" rises in the valley as more speculators and gold prospectors rush into the area, along with saloonkeepers, gamblers, grocers, and other merchants who hope to profit off the outbreak of gold fever. Ewing's son Bob (B. K. Roberts), just out of college, now arrives and soon falls in love with Dora (Mildred Gregory), unaware that she is married but separated from her frequently drunk and abusive husband, Dick Flint (Robin Williamson). Dora is also the sister of Roland Royce (Romaine Fielding), the town's influential pastor. After working briefly in his father's real-estate "business", Bob discovers its true purpose. Horrified, he vows to return the money to all the victims of the fraud. The miners and other town residents also learn about the swindle, and they converge on the elder Ewing's private train as it prepares to leave for the East. Meanwhile, Dora's husband Flint and two of his cronies take advantage of the temporary absence of most of the town's population and rob the safe in the gambling hall. Despite the presence of the angry mob, Ewing's train manages to depart and speed away from town. A freight train, however, is rapidly approaching on the same track and minutes later crashes head-on into the escaping passenger train, killing Ewing and his accomplices. Back in town, Flint flees after the gambling-hall robbery is discovered while his fellow thieves are killed. Flint, desperate to get away, creates a diversion by igniting a huge charge of dynamite on the top of the nearby mountain. The ensuing landslide destroys most of the town, covering it under tons of rocks and dirt. Despite the massive explosion, Pastor Royce finds Flint in the cellar of a cabin and kills him in self-defense. Bob now returns with the swindled money he retrieved from the wrecked train and gives it to the miners and others who survived the landslide. Now a widow, Dora agrees to marry Bob. The happy couple, accompanied by Pastor Royce and Bob's newly "adopted" mother, old "Ma" Dean (Minnie Pearson), leave the valley in a "prairie schooner" (covered wagon) to start new lives elsewhere.Solomon, Irene Page (1915). "The Valley of Lost Hope", Motion Picture News (New York, N.Y.), June 26, 1915, p. 85. Retrieved February 5, 2020. ===== Lauro (Fernández) is a thief who, while escaping from one of his robberies, meets the boy Chava (Brambila), who is as much of a rogue as he is. Upon arriving in Mexico City they decide to work and live together. Eventually Lauro is apprehended for his crimes, and while visiting him in jail, Chava reveals that he is actually a girl. Years later, after Lauro leaves prison, he meets the already adult Chava (Medina), and they decide to steal as before, with her disguised as a male. They both fall in love and one day they kiss. However, a gang sees them, and due to Chava's disguise, confuses them for a homosexual couple, and they attack them violently, stabbing them both. The film ends with a mortally wounded Lauro carrying the already dead Chava in his arms. ===== Bandits rob a church and kidnap María (Brambila). Though the parish priest manages to accidentally kill one of bandits, the two surviving bandits, Sam (Víctor Junco) and Brazos (Tito Junco), rape Maria before selling her into sexual slavery at a brothel. There, the prostitute Verónica (Torné) instructs her in her trade. ===== ===== ===== Marta (Montenegro), a woman who tries to commit suicide, is saved by another, Carlota (Sorté), from drowning, but in preventing it Carlota herself dies drowned. After a while, Carlota returns in spirit to take possession of Marta's body and thus meet the man she loved in life. ===== Robbo arrives from Australia with his fiancée Jan. They meet his cousin Col, who introduces them to Liz. ===== ===== Eckbert lives an idyllic life, secluded in a castle deep within a forest in the Harz Mountains, with his wife Bertha. The two find happiness in their refuge away from the corrupting influences of society. They have no children but enjoy life together. Phillip Walther, Eckbert's one contact with society, shatters this harmony during a visit at the outset of the story. Walther had become a close friend of Eckbert over the years as the two frequently rode about Eckbert's demesne. Eckbert feels compelled to share his secret with Walther as his only confidant. He invites Walther to stay the night and enjoy familiarities and dine with Bertha. She reveals the secret of her childhood and begins the frame story. Bertha escaped from a life of hunger, poverty and abuse at a young age. She found herself at the center of fights between her mother and father. She ran away from their pastoral home, begged on the streets, and made her way into the woods. An old woman took Bertha to a cabin and taught her to weave, spin, and read as they live together with the old woman's animals--a dog and a magical bird. The anthropomorphic bird sings a variety of songs encased by the concept of Waldeinsamkeit, or the feeling of being alone in the forest, and the bird lays a precious stone each day. The birds songs always begin and end with Waldeinsamkeit. For instance: "Waldeinsamkeit, Mich wieder freut, Mir geschieht kein Leid, Hier wohnt kein Neid, Von neuem mich freut, Waldeinsamkeit " Bertha and the old woman find this arrangement pleasing, but Bertha yearns to meet a knight from the stories she has read. After six years of living with the old woman, Bertha steals a bag of precious stones and departs the home. As she runs away, she realises that the old woman and the dog won't be able to survive without her. She regrets her decision and wants to head back, but then she comes across her childhood village. She finds out about her parents deaths, and decides to head to the city instead of back to the old woman. She rents a house and gets a housekeeper, but she feels threatened by the fact that the bird keeps singing louder, about how he misses the forest. The bird terrifies her and she strangles it as she leaves and marries Eckbert. Walther listens to this story, reassures her that he can imagine the bird, and the dog "Strohmian". Walther and Bertha retire to bed while Eckbert worries whether his familiarity with Walther and the story will compromise him. Bertha becomes ill and lies dying a short time after confessing her sins to Walther. Eckbert suspects Walther may be to blame For Bertha's condition. He believes Walther may have been secretly planning for the death of Bertha. His paranoia and suspicions grow more intense after he realized that Walther revealed the name of Bertha's dog, Strohmian, when she never mentioned it during the story. Eckbert encounters Walther in the woods while on a ride and shoots his friend. Eckbert returns home to find his wife as she dies from a guilty conscience. After the death of his wife and friend, Eckbert finds solace in frequent excursions from his home and befriends a knight named Hugo. Eckbert suffers from a guilty conscience after witnessing his wife's death and murdering his friend. He becomes paranoid and increasingly finds it difficult to disentangle the perception of reality with his imagination. Hugo appears to be his murdered friend Walter and he suspects that Hugo may not be his friend and reveals the secret of Walther's murder. Eckbert fearfully flees into the forest and stumbles upon the place where the old woman found Bertha as a little girl and led her through the forest. He hears a dog barking. He recognizes the sound of the wondrous bird singing. Eventually he meets the old woman who immediately recognizes him. She curses him for Bertha's theft and abrupt departure. The old woman tells Eckbert that she was Walther and Hugo, at the same time, and that he and Bertha are half- siblings from the same noble father. Bertha had been sent away from home to live with a shepherd. This news of his incestuous relationship deeply affects Eckbert's already weakened constitution. He quickly descends into paranoia, delusion, and madness shrieking in agony before he dies. ===== Orphan girl Nina lives in the mountain region with her foster father innkeeper Rezek. She falls in love with an escaped prisoner Ivan Holar. ===== As described in a film magazine, Phyllis King (Minter), after her gambler brother (Howard) comes to her with a tale of woe, gives him her jewellery and all her money, and finds herself unable to pay for her lunch. She is rescued by Grayson Blair (Forrest), who has in his overcoat pocket a jade necklace which is wanted by his Hindu manservant (Ferguson). The overcoats of Blair and Cuthbert King are accidentally switched, and Phyllis, finding the jade necklace in her brother’s pocket, believes it to be a gift for her. When Blair sees her wearing the necklace, he mistakes her for a thief, and Phyllis, upon learning it is stolen, in turn mistakes Blair for a detective on the trail of her brother. With Blair’s Hindu manservant also on the trail of the necklace, matters become dramatic and convoluted, before the mix-up of overcoats is finally revealed and a romance develops between Phyllis and Grayson Blair. The June 1918 issue of Photoplay features a detailed fiction adaptation of the film, complete with several stills from the picture. ===== The movie follows story of a washerwoman, her lazy husband and her daughter. ===== A young woman, 16-year-old Melisande marries Sir Hugh de Hervey - 6 years older than her - with reluctance, as she does not know him and wishes to continue her carefree youth at home in Southern France. Her father - wounded in the last of King Louis' Crusades against the Saracens - is feeble and weak, but wishes her to go through with this union. Yusef - who made the lamp for Melisande - has facial features similar to her father, and is very dear to her. She is disturbed in the months leading up to the marriage because her father has banished Yusef from their household, and won't tell her why. After marrying de Hervey, they go on the monthlong journey by horseback to the coast of France, Wissant and sail to Dover, and from there to their own home - Littleperry Manor - within his family's estate, Greatperry Hall, in Gloucester, England. As Melisande settles in, she frequently conflicts with The Lady Constance and dame Anne Peckham, who were united in their disapproval of her for being French and of a less wealthy background. Soon Melisande is expecting a child, and when the packmen arrive with goods for sale as well as mail delivery, she receives a letter from Tristan stating that Yusef has died, apparently committed suicide the day after her departure. Melisande's grief takes everyone's efforts to overcome. When Joscelin is born, everyone is happy and even Lady Constance seems to finally accept Melisande. Five years later, a terrible wet spring after a vicious winter results in the death of Hugo, only after disease murrain sickened the sheep. In time, the children marry, and Melisande starts to plan to visit her parents for the first time - when King Edward III declares war on France. With close family members in both the English and French armies, Melisande is alone with her despair. She has a vision of a young child dressed very unusually - very simply - with hair short, in a chair with wheels. When she learns of pending grandchildren, she starts to hope that the young girl in her vision belongs to the future of Littleperry. Part I ends with Melisande hanging a red cross on a white sheet at the manor walls, to warn anyone coming by that the Plague had struck. Part II begins as Alys turns 12, and leaves her grandmother's house to become part of the staff at Littleperry where she becomes good friends with Cicely, the Squire's daughter. After suffering a mysterious stigma by the behaviour of everyone in the household, eventually she compels her grandmother to tell her the truth - that Squire Edwin loved her mother and fathered her, but since he never married her mother, she had no social position. As she becomes increasing bitter, she hatches a plan to accomplish several goals: to marry Perkin, free Cicely from an unwanted marriage the Squire arranged, and take revenge on her father's betrayal. As Alys, Cicely and Perkin arrive in London with the saracen lamp at Alder's Gate, they locate Amy and settle in. Alys sells the saracen lamp for less than its worth, to have funds for the rest of her plan and free herself of the guilt of taking it. However the destructiveness of her plans has unintended effects. In the end she returns alone to Littleperry, and tries to undo as much damage as she can. Part III narrated by Perdita is set in the present day. Perdita's parents are devoted missionaries who minister in Africa, and her grandmother is the last remaining Harvey still living in Littleperry. Just before her thirteenth birthday, plans are made for her to remain in England and attend a boarding school near Littleperry, however she develops an ailment and lives at Littleperry instead, with the vicar's wife coming in to give her short lessons. As she struggles with her illness, she becomes haunted by the ghost of Alys, who wants her to remain weak and unhappy. With the help of others in the family and an outsider, she becomes strong again. And a copy of the saracen lamp comes to rest again in its place at Littleperry. ===== Early in 1986 Charley Partanna, now in his 40s, is the Boss of the Prizzi family, secondary in authority only to Don Carraro himself, capo di tutti capi. As is his wont, he meets and falls instantly in love with an aspiring ballerina named Clair Coolidge. Clair runs one of the Prizzi's profitable new orgy rooms that are being franchised across the United States but sexually is extremely "straight" herself. Charley's dalliance with Clair, however, is sidetracked when Maerose Prizzi, the relentlessly ambitious granddaughter of the old Don finally coerces Charley into marrying her as the single most important step in her long-term plans to eventually succeed the Don and become the first female capo of a Mafia family. Charley and other members of the family carry out their usual murderous activities while Maerose puts into place the next step of her plans: the apparent death of Charley Partanna, vindicatore of the Prizza family, and his subsequence appearance on the world economic stage a year or so later as a supremely WASPish Charles Macy Barton. Barton takes over running the family's multi-tentacled financial affairs, generating new billions through Maerose's strategies that she wheedles the now-ancient Don into implementing. By the end of the book Charley, or Charles, has put key members of the family into positions of great political power and has himself become chief of staff to the reelected President of the United States. ===== An NSA agent (David Schwimmer) is assigned to act as liaison to the cyber crimes unit in the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, quickly antagonising the unit's chief with his brash style and tendency to try to take over. ===== ===== Willow Penelope Forrester is the only child of a sheep farming family, who discovers a talent for piano playing as she matures. Her music teacher finds a program in Germany that would be a perfect fit. Miss Carpenter gives her a new piece of music to start to learn - Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Infanta but her fingers were clumsy with chilblains. The tune is rooted in her mind though. Just as she is starting to deal with her parents antipathy towards music as a career path for her, she comes down with the flu at school. As she and another girl one day have a long-running spat, the other girl hurls at her the fact that she is adopted. Willow's illness takes longer to heal from as she is thrown into confusion and depression. To facilitate her recovery, her mother brings her to a private hotel called Penliss in Cornwall by the sea. The oldest part of Penliss (the kitchen and two rooms above) date back to the Elizabethan Era, the rest of the building at that time burned. In its place is a newer building, added on to the original part. Willow discovers the Velasquez portrait of Isabel, finely dressed wearing a unique pendant necklace, in the room with the piano. She plays Pavane and tells the portrait - "that was for you -Isabel." When she asks Rosamund about Isabel, she explains that Isabel was brought from Spain and adopted by the Tresilian family, but died young. This only whets Willow's curiosity, and she becomes obsessed with learning more. Willow finds Isabel's memorial stone in the family chapel, which states that Isabel died of "supposed drowning" at age 17, in 1602. Outside one day, she discovers a sunken area in the garden, and learns from Rosamund and Amelie that it was called the 'Spanish' Garden. She feels it has a connection to Isabel. She is allowed to clean it up and look after it, and buried within it she discovers the exact pendant Isabel is wearing in the portrait. She keeps it a secret, especially from Amelie: whose intensity makes her uncomfortable. She's happy to be in Amelie's good graces though, after restoring Isabel's garden. Amelie gives her a posset as she is going to sleep and tells her to ""sleep happily," and that night she has her first vivid dream as 4-year-old Isabel living happily in her family's castle in Spain. Her second dream as Isabel takes place 4 years later in her time, and she is restrained and captive, on a boat leaving shore, her family's castle in flames. Some time passes, and there is a pitched battle on deck. She goes up to find out what has happened, and there are Englishmen on the boat. The landed near Penliss, and that became her home. In Willows third dream of Isabel, less than a year has passed since she arrived at Penliss. Uncle Cornelius does all her can to help her adjust to her new home, including having a 'Spanish' Garden put in, with a fountain. But she's in deep grief at the loss of her family, her home and her country, and many of the people around Penliss are mean to her as she is Spanish. She is determined to return to Spain some day. As the dreams continue, Willow almost feels like she is living Isabel's life with her: enjoying the sea and visiting Uncle Cornelius' tin mines, where she meets Richard. Back in the present day, Willow continues to try to reconstruct her relationship with her parents, comparing the gratitude she 'owes' her parents to the situation of Isabel and Cornelius. Rosamund takes her to visit Land's End, and continues to be supportive and warm towards her. Willow learns that Cornelius died accidentally, right at a time when tensions were rising between England and Spain again - suddenly Isabel's life was in danger. She and Richard tried to escape via ship, but a violent storm prevented their safe passage. During Willow's last week with Rosamund, the two of them and Caspar go to visit the Scilly Isles, where Willow finally learns the rest of Isabel's story, and is able to carry out her final wishes. Then Willow returns home with her parents, renewed with a positive perspective on her place in her family. ===== Rhoda Eldridge (Minter) lives in a small French town with her elderly father Charles Eldridge (Periolat). Now that she has finished school, Rhoda longs to have a home in America, but her father, a self-imposed exile from his country who is concealing his past even from his daughter, refuses to consider it. When her father passes away, Rhoda at last learns the secret of her family; that she is Rhoda Eldridge Sayles of a prominent American family and that, shortly after she was born, her father had left for Europe after a bitter quarrel with his father and brother. A letter left by her father implores Rhoda to keep the Eldridge surname and not to seek contact with the Sayles. He tells her that he has invested his savings in a shipping company, but when Rhoda receives a telegram informing her that the company has gone bust, she is forced to seek a wage elsewhere. Rhoda is hired by a lady seeking a nursemaid for her children on the return voyage to America. After a delightful voyage, Rhoda is once again left without income, and with seventeen dollars to her name she takes up residence in the New York boarding house of Mrs. Sullivan (Price). After two weeks’ futile search for work, and down to her last ten cents, Rhoda finds a letter in a park, addressed to Rosy Taylor, and containing two dollars and the instruction to clean the mansion of Mrs. du Vivier every week. Rhoda tries to return the letter, but when she learns that Rosy Taylor is dead, she decides to take on the cleaning job herself. All goes well until Mrs. Du Vivier’s brother, Jacques Le Clerc (Forrest) catches Rhoda in the act of cleaning the family silver. Believing that she is stealing the silver, he refers her to a reformatory, whose patron is Joseph Sayles (Periolat). After being forced to stay and work at the reformatory by Mrs. Watkins (Schaefer) who believes she is a thief, Rhoda escapes and, although afraid of another encounter with Jacques, returns to Rosy Taylor’s job. When she returns to the Du Vivier mansion, Rhoda finds a letter from Mrs. Du Vivier, saying that she is pleased with the work, and some of her cast-off dresses for Rosy Taylor to wear. Rhoda is delighted with the beautiful dress, and permits herself to “bask in elegance” for an hour, with a vow to “scrub hard to make up for it.” She is distracted by a book, and while she is reading she is found by Jacques, who has mistaken her for his sister. While Rhoda is explaining herself to Jacques, Mrs. Du Vivier (Howard) is meeting up with her friend Mrs. Herriman-Smith (Kluge). When Mrs. Du Vivier thanks Mrs. Herriman-Smith for her recommendation of Rosy Taylor, Mrs. Herriman-Smith tells her that Taylor has been dead for weeks. Perturbed at the thought that a ghost has been cleaning her house all this time, the women race back to the Du Vivier mansion to get to the bottom of the mystery. While talking to Jacques, Rhoda lets slip her real surname of Sayles, and it is clear that the name means something to Jacques. She shows him her father’s letter, and he asks her to remain and continue to clean the mansion while he makes some enquiries. It is at this point what Mrs. Du Vivier and Mrs. Herriman-Smith arrive at the house, and mistake Rhoda cleaning with windows with a long mop as a ghostly apparition. They telephone the police, who arrive at the same moment as a worker from the reformatory, and Rhoda is taken into custody before Jacques can return. After everyone comes together at the offices of the reformatory, Jacques and Rhoda are able to prove to Joseph Sayles, with the aid of her father’s letter, that Rhoda is his niece. Jacques introduces Rhoda to his sister as the ghost of Rosy Taylor, who, he says, will haunt him for the rest of his life. ===== ===== The story begins with an excerpt of lyrics from "The Girl from Ipanema", which leads the unnamed narrator to reminisce, in the first-person perspective, about the Girl from Ipanema. He states that she has not aged, and that the lyrics capture exactly how she was back in 1963, and in present 1982. He entertains the thought of how she would have aged, but asserts that naturally, she has not aged in his record of the song, where she is bathed in the sound of Stan Getz's tenor sax. Stan Getz, pictured above, played the saxophone solo in The Girl from Ipanema, from the 1963 album Getz/Gilberto. He is mentioned directly in this Murakami short story. The song evokes memories of a dark, quiet corridor in his high school. The narrator cannot discern as to why the two are connected, given his perceived absence of any connection. Equally perplexing, is his subsequent association between the corridor and salad (naming various vegetables and Thousand Island dressing). And attached to salad, is the memory of a girl the narrator used to know, which does not surprise him, as the girl only ever ate Salads. His reminiscence of this girl is interjected by a quote from a philosopher: “[Long long ago,] there was a time when matter and memory were separated by a metaphysical abyss". The narrator then finds himself in the landscape evoked by the song - a windless beach with searing sun - watching the girl from Ipanema walk by. The narrator initiates a conversation with the Girl from Ipanema, offering her a can of beer. Since she is weary from the walk, she agrees, and the two drink beneath the narrator's beach umbrella. He ventures to tell her that they met in 1963 at the same place and time, to which she downs half a can in one go, and stares at its opening- something about the way she stares at the beer can opening makes the narrator aware of its metaphysical significance. He proceeds to tell her that she has not aged in the least bit, to which she replies, "Of course not. I’m a metaphysical girl". He offers her another beer, which she politely declines, saying that she has to keep walking indefinitely. The narrator asks whether the soles of her feet get hot from walking, to which she replies that they do not, as they are "completely metaphysical". She offers her foot to the narrator and he acknowledges this. He decides to admit to her that whenever he thinks of her, he associates her with the corridor in his high school. She replies, "the human essence lies in complexity … Live! Live! Live! … the most important thing is to go on living". To which, the author departs the metaphysical world of the song. The ending takes place in the real world, where the narrator notes that he sometimes recognises the girl from Ipanema on the subway – though not often. Despite not having conversed since their meeting on the beach, he intuits a connection linking their hearts. The narrator imagines how the connection is "probably in a strange place in a far- off world". He ends his contemplation with the conviction that such a strange place must exist "somewhere in the world". ===== ===== ===== Mark and Harris watch the live coverage of the 2020 New Hampshire Democratic primary for Mark's school assignment, prompting the rest of the family to chime in with their own political opinions and stress the importance of voting. Mark resents assumptions that he supports Pete Buttigieg because he is gay. The family throws an impromptu going-away party for Louise, believing it will compel Dan to ask her to stay. Their plan backfires, forcing Dan to admit that he and Louise have broken up. Dan consults a priest about his inability to move past Roseanne's death, then determines he will when he is ready. Mark's anger over Harris leaving home comes out, leading her to take time to discuss his and Austin's renewed, though troubled, relationship. ===== ===== ===== ===== In November 1942 in the Africa desert two Allied pilots are sent to blow up a minefield in separate planes. They come across a German tank captained by an officer. The tank shoots down one of the Allied planes forcing the pilot, McMillan, to bail out. The other pilot, Culpepper, lands to rescue him just in time. Culpepper's plane is damaged. The tank continues in pursuit. ===== The 24th is based on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. The film features an African-American military regiment that is called the 24th in Houston, Texas. Despite their military service, the African-American soldiers are subjected to racial discrimination by the all white police force in Houston as well as from the local white people in Houston. The constant racial discrimination leads to a resistance by the African-American military unit against the police force and the white locals. ===== Reichau is a one time carmy captain who served three years in prison for belonging to the OAS during the Algerian War. He arrives in France, unsure what to do with his life. He decides to take part in a heist organiged by Pierre, the man who sent him to prison. The heist consists of stealing a bag containing 500 million francs during a plane flight. ===== ===== ===== ===== Sound of Freedom tells the story of Tim Ballard, a former CIA operative, who quits his job at DHS to save children from cartels and human traffickers. It takes a look into the child trafficking in Latin American countries, especially Mexico. Ballard calls himself a modern day abolitionist and in addition to saving these children he wants to get rid of the problem at the root. He says that America is the biggest consumer of this evil. The story will show how Ballard went to Columbia to rescue 127 children from sexual abuse and misery. The film also tells the story of a person called "Batman" who teams up with Ballard in an attempt to free enslaved children and capture and imprison those who sell children into sex slavery. Batman, played by Bill Camp, who worker for drug cartels before teaming up with Ballard, was essential in O.U.R. setting up sting operations, which Caviezel goes undercover for. It also goes behind the scenes into Ballard's own family and how it is because of his children that he knows he is called to do this kind of work. Throughout the film Ballard's wife, Katherine, played by Mira Sorvino, is his backbone and support. Lastly, the film shows that Ballard ended up adopting two children that he saved from an operation, which is also interesting given the fact that Caviezel too has adopted children. ===== ===== On a plane flight, passenger George Spencer is forced to take controls when the crew fall ill with food poisoning. ===== A middle aged couple, Arthur and Edna are appearing in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet in a small town. They meet a woman who claims to be Arthur's daughter from his first marriage. They realise they are too young to play star crossed lovers. ===== Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is sentenced to death by Creon, King of Thebes, for defying his orders and burying the body of her dead brother. ===== Topaze is a school master fired for being too honest who falls in with thieves. ===== The film revolves around a Honeymoon couple. The wife dies accidentally, and her soul remains in a Painting that she leaves incomplete. ===== "The Bear" - a woman, although desperate for a husband, fights with her only suitor. "The Proposal" - a widow is challenged to a duel by a rough farmer ===== At a girls school one of the girls is secretly married to a young man her parents have forbidden her to see. ===== The new candidate for a political party sees a UFO. He is compelled to discuss it, even though this may see him lose his party's nomination. ===== During World War Two, Chester, an American soldier on leave in Australia meets an Australian girl. ===== Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams. ===== ===== The prophet Zangezi lives among wildlife, mountains, birds, trees, grasses, gods. Zangezi speaks significant words, but human beings are ignorant to understand him: To me, a butterfly, flown Into the room of human life, To leave the handwriting of my dust By the stern windows, with signature of a prisoner, On strict glasses of rock. So boring and grey is Wallpaper of human life! Transparent windows say "No"! I have already erased my blue glow, dots patterns, My blue storm of wing and the first freshness, Fragile colour removed, wings faded and become transparent and tough, I tiredly knock at window of human being. Eternal numbers knock from there Calling home, a number is being called back to numbers. (Мне, бабочке, залетевшей В комнату человеческой жизни, Оставить почерк моей пыли По суровым окнам, подписью узника, На строгих стеклах рока. Так скучны и серы Обои из человеческой жизни! Окон прозрачное „нет“! Я уж стер свое синее зарево, точек узоры, Мою голубую бурю крыла — первую свежесть, Пыльца снята, крылья увяли и стали прозрачны и жестки, Бьюсь я устало в окно человека. Вечные числа стучатся оттуда Призывом на родину, число зовут к числам вернуться.) ===== Gana (Naga Shaurya) returns to India for his sister Priya's (Sargun Kaur Luthra) marriage but is shocked to see her trying to commit suicide one night, and is shocked to learn she is pregnant but does not know who impregnated her. Gana explains this to her fiancé Ravi (Prince Cecil) who understands the situation, helps Priya get aborted, and promises to keep this a secret. Gana further convinces Priya to move on and forget about the past, which she does and happily gets married. After her marriage, Gana violently fights and interrogates men who troubled Priya in the past, only to learn none of them are behind her impregnation. Soon, another mysteriously impregnated woman named Sadhana commits suicide, and Gana reads her suicide letter explaining she didn't know how she got pregnant without her knowledge. Gana meets her parents and discovers her hospital reports according to which she fainted 3 months ago and was admitted by someone. Realizing Priya also fainted and was admitted, Gana goes to the hospital and finds out Sadhana was admitted in an emergency by an ambulance. He then learns that more girls named Lakshmi and Monica were also admitted by a similar ambulance. The next day, Gana's girlfriend Neha (Mehreen Pirzada) informs him about her friend who fainted in the mall and was taken in an ambulance that hasn't arrived at the hospital yet. Gana rushes to the hospital and with help from the technical department, chases after the ambulances equipped with trackers. He stops many ambulances but doesn't find Neha's friend inside. Soon, he reaches a dead end and abandons his bike. Using his parkour skills, he chases after an ambulance, only to find him looking at another one that isn't being tracked. He ambushes the ambulance, fights off the men inside, and rescues Neha's friend. On the other hand, a psychopathic pathologist named Dr. Manoj Kumar (Jisshu Sengupta) is revealed to be the mastermind behind the pregnant girls, who then eliminates the fishermen. Later, Neha questions Gana's recent attitude towards her, forcing him to reveal his mission and what happened to Priya. Soon, a minister's daughter named Sowmya is killed and her corpse is dropped in front of the police station. With Neha's help, Gana manages to access Sowmya's laptop and receives photos where he spots an old man, Manoj's grandfather. Further, Gana manages to access CCTV footage of Sowmya buying a perfume from a vendor who reveals the old man told him to sell the perfumes and paid him for it. Since Sowmya was a drug addict, she wasn't unconscious despite being subject to anesthesia and thus knew about Manoj. Despite his friend's insistence not to do so, Manoj ended up killing her. Back to the present, the cops ask Manoj to perform an autopsy on Sowmya. Gana then explains to Neha that all the victims, though unrelated, were admitted to hospital because of Hypoglycemia induced artificially by a banned drug called Hypomacene. Gana later visits the mall to view surveillance footage and discovers an address that leads him to Manoj's house. Having seen him talk about the autopsy on TV, Gana asks him for help with the case while Manoj tells him to wait for coffee. Manoj explains to his friend that he'd kill Gana, but receiving a call from Neha about the old man dumping another corpse in front of the police station, Gana secretly runs away. A car chase ensues, resulting in the old man's death after Manoj drops a cargo container on his car. Gana then goes to Manoj's house where he discovers dead bodies in separate vessels before Manoj arrives there with his friend. Manoj's friend, who turns out to be his father, removes his belt and starts beating him. It is then revealed that Manoj was psychopathic as a kid and even killed his father who since then appeared as a hallucination. Back to the present,Gana fights with manor and beats his head with a glass bottle. He throws him to a wardrobe and Gana drops a chandelier over him. Manoj is laughing, but when he sees his death weapon coming towards him , he faints. The chandelier falls over Manoj killing him . Gana fights Manoj and kills him with a chandelier. He then receives a call from his father who pranks him into believing a man is trying to harass Priya. Gana arrives home, and finds out Priya is now happily pregnant with Ravi's child ===== ===== The action of Possession begins around the year 1949, and continues through the 1950s and early 1960s.K. S. Narayana Rao, 'Some Notes on the Plots of Kamala Markandya's Novels', Indian Literature, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 1970), p. 102 An Englishwoman, Lady Caroline Bell, discovers Valmiki, a teenage goatherd who has been painting in local caves, in a village in South India. Snatching Valmiki from the protection of an elderly local swami, she brings him back to London as an exotic pet artist. Jealously guarding Valmiki's attachment to her, Lady Bell cannot stop him eventually returning to India after the suicide of Ellie, a concentration camp survivor whom Valmiki paints and makes pregnant. She follows him back to India, to find him spiritually reattached to the swami and once again painting in the caves around his village. The 'possession' of the book's title refers both to the woman's desire to own the man, and to his state of being 'possessed' by a foreign identity and values. ===== Eric Redford (Jesse Metcalfe) is a popular writer and bachelor, writing books on living single. When he is left in charge of his niece and nephew for the Christmas season, he turns to neighbour April Stewart (Fiona Gubelmann), who loves the holiday season, for help. As the result, he slowly starts to reassess his attitude to Christmas, life and love. ===== Unlike her other novels, which were set mainly in India, The Nowhere Man is set in England, where Markandaya herself had been living since 1948.Charles Larson, Kamala Markandaya: 'The Nowhere Man' - 1972, London Fictions. The novel's main protagonist, Srinivas, is an elderly spice importer who has lived in South London for almost fifty years, surviving his wife and one of his two sons. In the Britain of 1968, he now faces intensifying racism, reminding him of the slights he had once experienced as a university student in colonial India. As Srinivas slides into depression, the novel captures the cultural separation between first and second-generation immigrant generations: Srinivas's remaining son, Laxman, is impatient with and embarrassed by his father. For a while, Srinivas's self-belief is restored by a romantic relationship with Mrs Pickering, a down-at-heel divorcée, who moves into his house. However, their peace together is threatened by the racist hatred of their neighbours, to which they each find themselves reacting differently.Emma Garman, Introduction to The Nowhere Man, The London Magazine, 16 July 2019 ===== At dawn (1928-1929) Downhill (1991-1995) Tristia Begun but unfinished story (1995) ===== The story takes place in late-19th century Bengali Hindu society when child marriage was okay and women education was considered as a sin since it was believed that educated women were more likely to become characterless, thereby ignoring her household chores. The story opens with Bondita Das), an 11-year-old Bengali Hindu girl living with her widowed mother in a small village in Bengal. Bondita does not understand why her mother has to suffer for just being a widow, basically, she questions the way of life. Bondita's uncle arranges a marriage for Bondita which her mother is very reluctant to agree. Next, in London, Anirudh Roy Choudhary a 19 - year old progressive-minded Bengali Hindu man is at a convocation party and in the conversation with his friend. We find out he is a gold-medalist barrister. He also says that he is in love with Saudamini "Mini" Bhaumik and he plans to bring her to London. He helps a woman from the man sexually assaulting her for a dance, for which the man questions about India's security for women (which British India didn't have at that time) and that troubles Anirudh. Before starting his practice in London, Anirudh returns to India without telling anyone at home. The carriage that was supposed to send Anirudh home stops in the middle due to superstition and Anirudh just takes his baggage and takes the route alone. Everyone in the Choudhary family expects Saudamini to be the wife of Anirudh. Binoy and Trilochan are fraternal twins and think differently for Anirudh. Anirudh's father Binoy wants Anirudh to be a successful barrister while his uncle Trilochan wants Anirudh to be a zamindar. Trilochan misunderstands Anirudh's arrival and hands him over the keys of his zamindari estate while his father offers him an office in London. Anirudh rejects both but before telling the reason for his return something happens, his brother Somnath was beating a man up for drinking water meant for people of the higher caste.(It was considered a taboo for uppper-caste people to use articles touched or used by lower-caste Hindus & non-Hindus) Bondita bullies some guys to write her a letter since she is illiterate. Bondita's letter for her husband-to-be accidentally reaches Anirudh and he praises Bondita in front of Saudamini which angers her. Marriage day comes near and it turns out the guy Bondita has to marry is an old man(as it was the norm of those days). A boy comes to ask for Saudamini but Anirudh comes and asks her to stop it and Saudamini damages to shoo them away. Anirudh responds to the letter but since Bondita can't read, her uncle takes advantage of it and lies. It's marriage day. Bondita's aunt gives her a medicine thus causing her to be unconscious(a practice employed by people in those days in order to prevent the bride from voicing her opposition to the marriage or running away to avoid marriage). Anirudh is a guest at Bondita's wedding as he is a friend of the groom's family. Anirudh tries to stop the marriage but everyone disregards it as "women don't have a say". The old dude dies at the mandap and his sister-in- law blames Bondita as ominous. The sister-in-law tells that now being a widow, Bondita has to commit Sati. Anirudh marries Bondita in response to all those talks of the people and bid to Save Her. After Anirudh brings her home, a whole new world of dramas happens mainly because of his father and Saudamini who decides to separate them at any cost . When Anirudh Heals Bondita's bed- wetting habit , Bondita's cousin Sampoorna tells Bondita that her in-laws are asking her to fulfill the marriage-deed of offering dowry which her family didn't gave due to poverty. Bondita decides to help Sampoorna and meets a fake man named Brijwasi Babu who is actually a thief and pretends to be a devotee of Lord Krishna Bondita innocently helps him and gets caught by Anirudh, who then sends Bondita back to her village home to live with her uncle & aunt where she is stigmatised as an "abandoned woman" since there was no concept of divorce in the Bengali Hindu society at that time. Meanwhile Anirudh decides to marry Saudamini but is stoped by a brothel dancer named Rasiya bai, who tells him about Bondita's fate. Anirudh comes to rescue Bondita from her aunt who was going to sell her into prostitution into a brothel to which Rasiya bai belongs. ===== ===== ===== The Ennead is a novel set on Erato, a planet whose inhabitants are determined to avoid the overpopulation and misery of Earth and other planets by severely limiting population and immigration. ===== Catacomb Years is a novel that deals with an oppressive society and those who must live in it. ===== Wheels Within Wheels is a novel which takes place in the La Nague Federation, a minimalist interstellar society. ===== The Devil Wives of Li Fong is a novel that takes place in the long ago China of myth and legend. ===== A Shadow of All Night Falling is a novel in a fantasy world. ===== A stewardess is murdered by a masked man in Greece. The leading suspects are an American playboy and a gangster. ===== Fred (Josh Ruben), a struggling actor and writer, rents a mountain cabin owned by similarly aspiring writer Bettina (Rebecca Drysdale) to try to write in isolation. Unable to think of ideas, he goes for a run and meets Fanny (Aya Cash), the successful author of Venus, an acclaimed horror novel, who's staying in a nearby cabin. Fanny is unimpressed by Fred's attempts to justify himself as a writer, and the two go their separate ways for the night. When a thunderstorm knocks out the power on the mountain, Fanny comes to Fred's house to check on his power. The two wind up drinking together, and Fanny challenges Fred to tell her a scary story and frighten her. Fred's first attempt at telling his story doesn't engage Fanny, but as she eggs him on, he tells her a tale about a young boy who saw his parents killed by a werewolf and grew up to take revenge, embellished by sound effects and voice acting. Fanny criticizes Fred for making his story about a white man, to which Fred challenges her to tell him one of her ideas in progress. Fanny instead improvises a story about a young girl who attempts to kill her creepy grandfather, but kills his dog instead, and is haunted by the old man and the dog after their deaths. In a moment of vulnerability, Fred admits that he's been searching for a purpose ever since he had a mental breakdown after his wife left him and he threatened to kill her. After ordering a pizza, Fred and Fanny collaborate on a story about a troll who lives in the walls of an Edible Arrangements business who entices a put-upon secretary to murder her sleazy boss in exchange for 300 years of life, but are interrupted by the arrival of Carlo (Chris Redd), the pizza delivery man. Fanny invites Carlo to stick around and tell stories with them, and Carlo agrees, admitting he is a huge fan of Fanny's work. Together, Carlo and Fanny do cocaine and re-enact the story of Venus for Fred, who is visibly annoyed with Fanny apparently flaunting her success in his face. Fred proposes a new story about a singer who makes a deal with the Devil to perform on a nationwide talent competition, but is possessed and forced to sing about widespread murder. Afterwards, Carlo leaves to go take care of more deliveries (after getting an autograph from Fanny), while Fanny goes to the bathroom. Fred reads Fanny's notebook while she is away, realizing she's been writing down all of their stories, as well as taking notes on him and his inability to accept that she's the better writer. Drunk and angry, he confronts Fanny with a fire poker. When she berates him for his lack of talent and asks for her book back, he chases her around the house with the fire poker, but during the chase, he trips down the stairs and impales himself on it. Bleeding and in pain, Fred begs Fanny to kill him so he doesn't have to suffer any more; she retrieves a log from the fireplace and raises it, but instead puts it down and leaves the house, leaving Fred to bleed out. Bettina arrives the next morning to check on Fred, finding Fanny's notebook while completely oblivious to Fred's corpse on the stairs. A mid-credits scene reveals that Bettina has written the stories in the notebook into a book of her own and is now a famous author in her own right. ===== In the future, humans have formed an intergalactic empire ruled by aristocrats. During a time of war with the Plith, an empire of ant-like alien bug people, ambassador John Craig, a formerly Liberal Earth man in his 30s, is dispatched to the strategically important planet Kossar, a human colony that was settled by the Carlyle Society as a place of exile for political extremists and now is ruled by an oligarchical high council of seven nobles, each of whom is in charge of a different domain with its own traditions. Their boredom and absolute power have driven them to madness, to the point that Kossar's entry into the empire has been stymied by the Man- Inhabited Planets Treaty's clause (written by Craig) against alliances with slave owning societies, due to its practice of kidnapping humans to become illegal playthings of the galaxy's super-rich. Craig, who now is campaigning to bring Kossar into the empire, had previously been to the planet when the passenger ship on which he was travelling on a return trip from the Betelgeuse Conference was captured by space pirates. While en route to Kassar, one of the pirates awakened Craig and the other prisoners to rape a 15-year-old virginal redheaded female captive in front of them; the rapist's fellow pirates later hear of this and dock his pay as punishment for spoiling her market value. Craig then spent two years as a slave of the beautiful, sensual, and sadistic Lady Morgan Sidney, the only female member of the oligarchy, with whom he became romantically involved. Together, they lived in her castle, ruling over and engaging in sexual relations with those under their dominion, including an enslaved teenager at a clinic used to breed enslaved people. When Craig stumbles on hints of an alien invasion, he realizes he must escape to save humanity. ===== When his adoptive brother flees after running afoul of a vicious gang, Sikander attempts to locate him. After leaving his dark past behind, Sikander starts afresh in a distant village, where he is welcomed by a loving family as one of their own. However, when the only son of the family gets mixed with the wrong crowd and finds his life in danger, Sikander is left with no choice but to return to his old ways in order to save the youngster. ===== Colm is having a mid- life crisis and Clare, his wife, seems oblivious. Drinking heavily, he explores his own gay persona with young hustler Jay. ===== A farmer is bitten by a rabid skunk and locks himself inside to protect his family. ===== A woman picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a psychotic killer. ===== Three married women become suspects when a man they all had an affair with is murdered. ===== Part 1 After her parent's death, Margarita becomes the ward of her Mom's Cousin Francis, and moves in with him during boarding school holidays. Margarita settles into Swithins Mill and the community of Hockton, Oxfordshire, and they develop a positive bond. Margarita gets along with everyone at Hockton, except for a small number of people who react with coldness and hostility due to her foreign appearance and her status as an outsider. She feels concern about Miss Laura, but she tries to put that aside as Francis is close to her. Margarita feelings for Cousin Francis seem like romantic love to her, but she keeps that secret from everyone.Toward the end of her first visit, she meets that painting lot, the Giles family that has recently moved in to the area. Part II On returning to Swithins Mill for the Spring holidays, Margarita has more intense interactions with Miss Laura, who clearly wants her to stop taking up Cousin Francis time. She sees the Ghost Dog and is told that is a portent of danger. One her return visit to the Giles household, she also first witnesses Stella having a bout of screaming, and learns about her autism. Giles and Martha have the idea of his painting Margarita, so it is arranged for Margarita to come in every day and sit for him. Between sessions of sitting for Giles, Margarita enjoys playing with Lucy, and also gaining Stella's trust. She sings sometimes, and later on Stella starts to sing as well, a major breakthrough. Margarita chooses to ignore increasing anonymous harassment. Meanwhile, Cousin Francis and Margarita continue to become close. After Giles finishes the portrait of her, it is vandalized the very next day. Initially the suspicion rests of Stella. When Margarita finds one of Miss Laura's ancient hairpins near the destroyed portrait, she realizes it was Miss Laura who destroyed it. She goes to her house to give it back, and catches Miss Laura in the act of writing one of the menacing notes. As Miss Laura's hostility towards her escalates, her life is saved by the Ghost Dog.Cousin Francis commissions Giles to recreate the painting of Margarita. Part III In July of that same year, Cousin Francis brings Margarita to his house - Casa della Rocca - on Lake Garda, Italy. Cousin Francis shows Margarita the portrait he commissioned Giles' to paint. The beautiful painting will be exhibited and hopefully will launch Giles career. Margarita and Cousin Francis spend several wonderful weeks there, boating on the water, touring the Dolomites and visiting the local sights. One day by the water she meets Pietro, a young boy about her age. Pietro speaks Italian to her, expecting her to understand based on her appearance. They hit it off, and they part with plans to meet the next day. When she returns home, she learns from Rosa that he is her nephew, and she speaks very fondly of him. The next day after they swim, Pietro gives her a nickname 'Nutmeg,' because of her name and her coloring. Margarita bursts in to tears, as that was her father's pet name for her. For the first time, she experiences fully her grief at losing her father. She talls Pietro all about it, and their relationship strengthens. Soon after, she learns about Francis involvement in Lake Garda during the war, working with Giorgio, Giovanni and Rosa; Francis buying a cottage in the area after the war, and Carolyn joining him. She learned that Pietro was Francis' nephew. After a near-fatal boating accident, Margarita realizes her intense feelings are for Pietro, who she loves as a partner. As he recuperates, they share their feelings and start to plan their future for Margarita that includes working with autistic children. Finally, at the last possible moment, she tells him about her coloring - her Jamaican background. He accepts and celebrates her West Indies heritage, and suggests that they visit there some time so she can embrace that part of herself. She feels able to see clearly, without being impacted, "the humiliations I had suffered to my pride among white people, the condescension of the stupid, the uncomfortable silences of the narrow-minded, the petty innuendos and hints of Miss Laura." She looks forward to going to Jamaica to meet and learn to love her mother's people. ===== Dia Swaroop, a biotechnology student is an introverted girl living in Bengaluru. She develops a crush on her senior Rohit, but due to her introversion fails to express her feelings before Rohit moves out of country. Dismayed, she goes about her routine life. After three years, Dia encounters Rohit again in Mumbai where she has moved and is working. Unable to overcome her introversion again she fails to talk to him. However Rohit talks to her and they both gradually develop a bond. Rohit reveals that she was his crush and proposes his love for her. She confesses and accepts him. One night as they were returning from a movie, they are met with an accident. As Dia wakes up in the hospital and asks for Rohit, she's told by her uncle that Rohit passed away. Unable to accept Rohit's death, Dia goes into severe depression and decides to kill herself at the railway crossings. As she stands waiting for oncoming train she's interrupted by a phone call from a good samaritan, Adi, who had retrieved Dia's bag from a thief, which she wasn't even aware of. Miffed at the interruption she tells him to keep it and not to call her again. Coincidentally Adi and Dia keep bumping into each other and Dia reveals her past to him. With his happy-go-lucky nature and charm Adi manages to bring Dia out of her turmoil and develops a friendship with her. Soon they realise how much they like being with each other and confesses their love. Dia returns happily to Mumbai, where she's shocked to find Rohit waiting for her. It is revealed that Rohit was declared brain dead with no certainty of him returning hence her father lied to Dia so that she will move on. Miserable, she calls Adi and tells him. Adi, although heart broken, tells Dia to live happily with Rohit. Adi gets to know of Dia's reception and goes to see her for one last time despite his mother forbidding him. He meets a disheartened Dia and happy Rohit and wishes them well and returns home. There he finds that his mother died due to massive cardiac arrest and that she could have been saved if someone was around her. Meanwhile Dia confesses everything to Rohit and distressed Rohit tells her to go back to Adi so that she will be happy. Elated, Dia goes to Adi's home and finds him missing. She searches for him everywhere until an auto driver reveals that Adi has gone to the same place she went to commit suicide. Adi, feeling immense guilt over his mother's death and feeling unable to live without his mother and Dia, have decided to commit suicide at the railway crossings. He prays to God one last time for the happiness of Dia and waits for the train. Dia frantically reaches him on time and calls him out. Adi turns to her surprised and awestruck that he forgets to move and gets hit by the train as a startled Dia watches on. ===== ===== Rajadurai (Arjun) arrests Yuvaraj (Nassar) for raping a woman and killing an old man. Chalapathi Rao (Radha Ravi) father of Yuvaraj gets Rajadurai trapped in false rape charge and he loses his job. Yuvaraj comes back from the Jail to take revenge against Rajadurai. ===== One day a girl dressed as Betty goes to school who gets made fun of for her looks, The series is very similar to the original telenovela but they go to school and Armando does not work at EcoModa yet. Hugo Lombardi is not a character in this version due to his personality being not suitable for children. Most characters from Yo Soy Betty la fea are in Betty Toons but there are also new characters, like the teacher Professor Gutierrez. The series ends with Betty being an exchange student and moves to France, in the airplane she meets a new boy ===== ===== Macedonian Blood Wedding is classified as a tragedy in five acts. The first act opens with a description of villagers working in the fields for the bey of the fictional village Stradalovo. The love between Cveta, an Orthodox girl and Spase, a shepherd from the village is also depicted. A turnover point arises with the kidnapping of Cveta by Osman bey one day while she works in the field with her family members during the harvest season. He takes her to his harem where he tries to change her ethno- religious identity. At the harem, Cveta is pressured by the bey, the Muslim Priest Selim and two girls, Krsta and Petkana, who had succumbed to the pressure and are now the bey's wives. Cveta consistently opposes to such demands and at one instance, she hits the bey. In the meantime, Cveta's brother Duko and the young shepherd Spase, her love interest are strongly objecting to the forceful kidnapping in front of his harem. Afterward, they go to the consulate in Bitola and receive an order to go inside the harem and look for the girl, but they cannot find her as the bey has hidden her. Her relatives report the case to the mayor, the consuls in Bitola and Carigrad where the seat of the Ottoman Sultan is. This forces the mayor to have a public ruling of the case where Cveta is asked in front of all her relatives and the officials whether she wants to become Turkish. After spending 12 days as the bey's hostage, Cveta appears in court. She initially claims she voluntarily escaped with the bey and that she loves him as Selim, a Muslim Priest who works for the bey tries to mar her mind by giving her opiates. She immediately gains back her consciousness and denies her claims. The court rules that she be free again and preparations for her wedding with Spase in the village begin. Furious that the girl escaped, Osman bey goes together with his soldiers to the event, attempting to forcefully take her back to his harem for a second time. All the villagers start protesting and the conflict escalates as the bey kills Duko. Cveta, in turn, stabs him with his knife. In the end, one of Osman Bey's soldiers kills her and before her death, she reiterates that she died but did not become Turkish. ===== Pakistan police is working against a network of international terrorists in Lahore. Ahmed (Ahmed Sufiyan), a young unemployed man becomes a witness of suicide bombing incident and helps a Police officer Sonia (Momina Iqbal) to apprehend them. ===== Giulio, Gemma, Paolo and Riccardo have been friends since adolescence. In 40 years their aspirations, successes and failures are told, and the film also telling the changes to Italy and the Italians. ===== ===== ===== The series takes place in the mysterious city of Myshkin (Fableton in the English version), which is filled with many fairytale heroes and unusual adventures and miracles. The ordinary residents of the city are unsuspecting of the true nature of the city. Three young girls who also appear to be ordinary but are actually young sorceresses; Valery, Mary, and Snowy, move to Myshkin where they meet Helena, a local city girl. They soon become best friends with each other, forming a superhero team called the Fantasy Patrol. Their task is to observe the behavior of any fairytale characters that inhabit the city and help them, while protecting the calm side of the city from any harm, maintaining a balance between both worlds. ===== A young lad Oscar, whilst defending his young friend Loux, kills her abusive father, so he flees his rural hometown. During his run he encounters love, crime and corruption and eventually 15 years on, finds himself the leader of a band of lost children. At the same time, Loux relocates to the same city seeking a better life. Loux finds a job with a sore-headed private investigator and Stumbles on Oscar's old missing child report. She then takes it upon herself to find oscar who had years before saved her life. ===== ===== An elephant with a broken tusk arrives in Mumbai by train while holding a lotus. Looking around for further transportation, he spots Mickey Mouse with his auto rickshaw taxi. The elephant indicates that he would like to travel to a particular mountain, with Mickey agreeing to take him there, albeit insisting that a map is not needed. As Mickey drives the elephant through Mumbai, various cows keep blocking their way, reaching a point where a clear path to the mountain is obstructed by a large herd of cows. Mickey solves the problem through a Bollywood-style musical number, though he unwittingly ends up taking the opposite direction from their destination. After 17 hours of driving, Mickey relents and asks the elephant for his map, upon which the two proceed to travel through a variety of challenging terrains, ending up in a town next to a river. Nearing the point of giving up, Mickey notices that the river's reflection shows the mountain to be nearby. Taking a pot of spicy curry as fuel for his auto rickshaw, Mickey and the elephant blast through town and are able to arrive at the mountain, though Mickey's taxi is destroyed as a consequence. The elephant gives Mickey his lotus in return for the transportation, then mysteriously disappears in front of him, with Mickey noticing that he is at a temple filled with many elephant statues. As he ponders, the lotus lands in a pool and opens up to reveal a new auto rickshaw with wings, which Mickey cheerfully rides out of the mountain. ===== ===== A young man named Antoine, his female partner, and their young daughter are practicing an emergency evacuation of their home, grabbing a "bug out bag" of equipment and timing their effort. The next day, the family watches a survivalist training video on food preservation made by Alain, a charismatic, middle-aged survival enthusiast. Next, Antoine drives out alone through a snowy landscape to an isolated camp, where he meets Alain for a multi-day training session. Alain has built a self-sufficient camp, with a cabin, greenhouse, chicken coops, a generator, solar power panels, and batteries. Other survivalism enthusiasts arrive at the camp, including Rachel (a former military officer), Sebastien (a hunting enthusiast), Anna, Francois, and David, a paramilitary type. Alain trains the students in handgun and rifle drills, snaring and field dressing small animals, and planting in the greenhouse. The students eat in Alain's cabin and sleep in a large tent. During the evening meal, Alain tells the students about his survivalist philosophies. He tells them that despite the general view that survivalists are extremists, he thinks the students are all excellent examples of what a "lucid citizen" should be. He says that if society collapses, he can live in his camp and supply his own needs, and he invites Antoine to think about establishing a home in the camp in the future. Next, the students learn how to build pipe bombs. Alain tells them that if in the event of social collapse, if a large number of "migrants with machetes" try to come to the camp, rifles alone might not be a sufficient defence. When Francois is tasked with carrying a crate of bombs back to camp, it accidentally explodes, killing him. Most of the students want to call the police and report the accident, but Alain and David refuse, saying they will all be charged with domestic terrorism or manslaughter, and Alain will lose his survival camp. When Alain burns the dead body with gasoline, most of the students try to flee. In the scuffle, Alain shoots Anna, wounding her. While he dresses her wound and ties her up, the students (apart from David) run into the woods. Sebastien is soon killed in a noose snare-trap. Antoine and Rachel escape into the bush, where they find a backup "bug-out" cache of arms and food prepared by Alain. The next day, the pair manage to get back to Antoine's car, but David ambushes them with an assault rifle, and Antoine is killed. Rachel has a shoot-out with David, and eventually kills him with blows from the butt of a pistol. She returns to the cabin, where she discovers that Anna, the woman captive, has died from her wounds. Rachel sets fire to the greenhouse and takes the assault rifle to the upper floor to watch for Alain. When Alain arrives at the parking area on his snowmobile, he finds the dead bodies at the parking area and he returns towards his cabin. When Alain draws near, she fires at him, pinning him down, but he uses smoke grenades to hide his movement and gets to the cabin. She disarms him when he enters her room, and they have a brutal hand-to-hand fight. Finally, even though she is injured, she incapacitates him. In the final scene, as Alain's previous speech about survivalism is heard in the background, Rachel loads the wounded Alain onto a sled attached to the snowmobile and drives out of the camp. ===== Cleopatra in Space is a comedic adventure focusing on Cleopatra’s teenage years, as she deals with the ups and downs of being a high school teenager, after she transported 30,000 years into her future to a planet with Egyptian themes ruled by talking cats, and she is said to be the savior of a galaxy. Cleopatra and her newfound friends work to try and return her to her own time, in Ancient Egypt as she gains new combat skills in the process. Showrunner Doug Langdale described the show as a "real move-forward story" which continues forward without interruption. ===== Ryo Fujihashi, a 24-year-old office worker, is childhood friends with Souma Mizuno, a firefighter. She plans on setting him up with a co-worker from her office, but she assumes the reason why their dates fail is because of his womanizing ways. When Souma saves her when her apartment catches on fire, he offers her a place to stay. Ryo later learns that he has been in love with her for a long time. ===== Dattu (Srikanth) is the son-in-law of a rich man Kutumba Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao). His wife Preethi (Sanghavi) dies in a car accident. As per the wish of his dying daughter, Rao looks after Dattu and is even on the hunt out for a new bride for him. In the process he interviews some girls to keep them as his personal assistant, which in fact is a cover-up for selecting the fiancee for Dattu. Lingam (MS Narayana) suspects every move of his boss Rao, and tries to spoil his efforts at all stages and only when he informs Rao's wife (Rajitha) about this, the truth comes out into the open. These scenes, like a few others in the movie are meant for comic relief. Lahari (Rachana Banerjee) runs a comedy club in which AVS, Bharani and others entertain the audience with skits and comedy plays. Rao is impressed by Lahari and decides on her as the fiancee of Dattu. But herein comes a hitch. Since he is a widower, Dattu insists that he would marry only a woman who has lost her hubby. Rachana agrees to pretend to be a widow and even shows a picture of one Gopalakrishna (Brahmanandam) published in the obituary column of a daily, as her deceased husband. Gopalakrishna's wife loves Babu Mohan and it is she who gives the advertisement in the newspaper! And when the marriage between Srikanth and Rachana is fixed, the dead Gopalakrishna arrives on the scene along with his friend Ali to pep up the climax proceedings. ===== ===== The film's storyline was set in the colonial period of the United States in the early 1770s.Although film reviews and news items about Lady Babbie do not identify a specific British-ruled American colony for the story's setting, it could be surmised that it was either New York or Virginia, both of which were actually administered on separate occasions by a real Governor Dunmore in the early 1770s. Reviews and plot summaries of the featurette published in late 1913 and 1914 describe the portrayal of a romance set within a province marked by public opposition to the local government. The story involves Lord Primton (Frederick C. Truesdell), an important landowner who lives on his estate with his widowed sister (Julia Stewart) and her niece, Lady Babbie (Barbara Tennant). The nobleman despises a new, exorbitant tax levied on citizens by Governor Dunmore. To gather allies to discuss a plan of action against the tax, Primton invites his friends to a lawn party, hoping such a common social event will not arouse the suspicions of government officials. At the party a young British officer, Lieutenant Byron, meets Lady Babbie and falls immediately and deeply in love with the beautiful woman. Their obvious attraction for one another is resented by her fiancé, who is an army officer as well. Rising jealousies soon prompt the fiancé to challenge Byron to a duel. When Babbie learns of the challenge, which is to take place at midnight at a nearby crossroads, she tries to stop it. She disguises herself in men's clothing, goes to Byron, and pleads with him not to fight. Her fiancé finds them together again, becomes furious, and draws his sword. Byron counters with his own sword, and in the ensuing clash he kills the fellow officer. While the romancing of Lady Babbie and the deadly confrontation were occurring, Lord Primton sent his son to England to seek the king's assistance in overturning the unfair tax and to investigate the province's corrupt administration. Governor Dunmore becomes aware of those efforts, so he plots to destroy the elder Primton. After Byron is arrested for murder and sentenced to be hung, Dunmore offers him a chance to avoid execution if he agrees to find Primton, now in hiding, and bring him alive to the governor's office. The lieutenant agrees, although he is still unaware that Primton is related to Lady Babbie. Byron now searches for months but cannot locate the fugitive. He returns again to Primton's largely deserted estate, where Lady Babbie continues to reside. She entertains him there, but when she discovers Byron searching a room for clues to Primton's whereabouts, she accuses him of spying for the governor. Angered, she physically assaults Byron, but he quickly departs before either he or she is injured. Primton's son now arrives from his voyage with letters of support and instructions from the king. Dunmore now concedes, admitting defeat. Meanwhile, Byron is being held in the provincial prison, where preparations are under way to hang him after he failed in his mission for Dunmore. Lady Babbie finally learns why Byron was compelled to search for Lord Primton, and she rushes to the prison with orders to halt the execution and to pardon and release the soldier. Byron is saved, and she announces that they can now be married. The story ends with the happy couple "wrapped in love's embrace.""Eclair/Lady Babbie", The Moving Picture World, November 8, 1913, p. 656. Internet Archive. Retrieved February 16, 2020. ===== Entry Romilly Williams youth in Pembrokeshire, Wales is happy, she is close to her Gran and her family's housekeeper, Jeanie, who shares with Romilly a belief in ancient truths. Her Gran tells her stories of past family gatherings as Karasay House in the Scottish Islands, and the mystery around Millie, Gran's mother, who visited once, refused to ever return and would never tell why. Part I Millie, sixteen year-old, goes to Karasay to stay with family friends as she is coming of age in 1901. Everyone is gracious and welcoming, but Rodger became a focal point as he is clearly fascinated by her. She has always felt more complicated emotionally than others and he seems to sense that. She and Jocelyn are attracted to each other, and Rodger starts harassing Millie. His malevolence becomes clear, and Millie tries to avoid him. Finally Rodger says to Millie that she must stop her involvement with Jocelyn, otherwise he will be harmed. Millie accidentally stumbles upon Rodger’s chamber of horrors – an old mine shaft he had converted into a place full of animal skins, twisted skeletons, small human figures made of clay, and other implements of evil. He tells Millie he had intended to marry her in time and initiate her into his way of life then, but since she had discovered him, it would have to be done now. He sliced both their wrists, made her promise to keep what she had found secret under pain of harm to Jocelyn, pushed their wrists together to pool their blood, and sealed the vow. He took an ancient stone ring from a string around his neck and forced it on her finger, ordering her not to remove it. On returning to her room, she takes off the ring and hides it in her room. Jocelyn proposes to Millie, but she puts him off because of Rodger's threats. The next day she hears Rodger and Jocelyn arguing, she tells them to stop and tells Rodger that if he harms Jocelyn, she'll kill him. Jocelyn and Millie plan to wait until they've left the island to complete their engagement, when they're safe from Rodger. During a violent storm Rodger disappears - never to be seen alive again. Millie believes he came to harm in his hideaway, and keeps her promise to him of secrecy, knowing her silence could cause his death. She hopes it does. Jocelyn questions her, begs her to reassure him openly the she doesn't know anything about Rodger's death. They parted on uneasy terms, and a few weeks later Millie felt compelled to write to Jocelyn and break it off with him, for his own safety. Millie married James instead, they had a daughter they named Alison. But Millie never felt completely free of Rodger’s evil. Part II Romilly heard everything good about Karasay, and then the mysterious aspects as far as Millie’s behavior, which no one had every been able to explain. She went there with Gran, and got to know Cousin Derwant, and fell in love with it herself. Since she and Gran had spent so much time with the stories of Millie’s generation and the photos and all, she was able to easily imagine everyone being there when she was. In fact, she experienced actual time slips back to Millie’s time, on purpose, consciously, awake. It was only possible at certain periods of time – when the ghosts themselves were available, at the time they always were available, in Autumn. And it was only possible because she was Millie’s descendant, and because she wanted to be with them so much. With all of that intensity of feeling, it also happened that Rodger’s ghost claimed her as well. With him it was all the opposite sensations – icy cold physical energy, fear, terror and revulsion. Romilly found the ring and put it on, and then she could not take it off. And once that happened, he appeared to her more frequently and more substantially. Finally she discovered the horror of his evil den. Miss Millie discovered it through her and set it all of fire, exorcising the evil spirits. After that, the ring easily came off her finger, and she was distinctly aware that Rodger’s ghost was removed from Karasay House. She managed to surreptitiously place the ring in a historic museum collection without anyone aware, believing that in the locked-in location, its power was absent. Exit During Romilly's first term at art school, she meets Joss and they begin to dance. ===== Lazy Oakdale teen, Duncan Harris, is given a rude awakening by his parents, Jack and Annie, about learning to drive. They insist that he learn so that he can be a man, but Duncan thinks that driving is old fashioned. They manage to weather him down until he agrees, mostly so that they can leave his room. Duncan is further antagonized by his younger sister Kimberly who is constantly talking down to him, while the youngest adopted step-sibling Jing cannot get over her unusual crush on him. Jack has Duncan drive his truck through the neighborhood, but Duncan is immediately annoyed at how overly cautious he is and leaves in frustration. Duncan heads to the abandoned RV to hang out with his friends Yangzi, Bex and Wolf and vents his frustration over his parents' controlling nature. They are visited by Mia, Duncan's crush, who reveals that she saw Duncan drive and that he looked good. Duncan rushes home and demands that Annie teach him to drive, instead of Jack. She picks up on his newfound gumption and warns him to be responsible. The next day at school, Yangzi reveals that he got them all invites to the EDM Fest and Duncan invites Mia to join them, adding that he can drive them, albeit with an adult. To Duncan's frustration, Annie denies him the chance to go and he once again looks to his friends for help. Bex offers to bring her grandmother along, who spends the night sleeping in the car. The friends sneak out and head to the EDM Fest where Duncan and Mia end up having a moment together. As they are driving home, Duncan accidentally knocks over Ol' Oakie, Oakdale's oldest tree (which was famously used to hang witches). The friends quietly drive home, but the next day, the news of Ol' Oakie's demise is heavily reported. Annie notices that Duncan is acting suspicious and realizes that he snuck out with his friends and inadvertently knocked over Ol' Oakie. The family turn on Duncan and ignore him. Realizing he messed up, he once again calls his friends and together, cut out a section of Ol' Oakie's stump that contained Jack and Annie's carving from their youth. The family forgives Duncan, but are forced to flee outside when cicadas living in the stump take over the house. ===== Kubera (Raj B. Shetty) a small time crook is in need of some amount to escape from police. Joseph (Achyuth) is an honest police officer, his wife (Sudha Rani) suffers from cancer, but he has no money to save her. Raji is poor carpenter and falls in love with rich girl (Chaitra), is also need of money to marry her. During the time of demonetization 2016, Joseph hatches a plan who works in IB, using Kubera, to conduct fake IT raides on the black money holders and plan succeeds. Joseph asks Kubera to stop raids, but situation becomes critical when Joseph's wife needs more treatment to cure cancer. Joseph agrees to raid one last time and Kubera raids a house gets 2 crores in old currency and found Raji in house owner's bedroom but on request of Raji, Kubera agrees not to tell anyone about Raji. Kubera argues with Joseph about raid and Raji comes to know that raid was fake, asks share in money. Actually money belongs to a corrupt officer ACP Ashok (Prakash Raj), he comes to know that raid was fake and starts investigation. Joseph tells that CBI raids eveywhere where to exchange old notes to new, and everyone is in urgent need of money, so he plans to steal in Pataki Paandu's (Sadhu Kokila) house, a notorious corporator, but all plans fail. Raji leaves the group for the sake of his future child and Joseph goes back to honest living, he surrenders money to Ashok. Kubera raids Paandu house with new team and gets 15 crore new currency notes while dealing with Paandu. Ashok arrests Kubera and takes whole blackmoney himself. Kubera captures whole thing in secret camera. Finally Ashok releases Kubera and also gives share in Money. Joseph's wife gets aid from foundation for treatment. Raji marries his girlfriend, who also gets a share in money which Kubera got. Joseph serves the duty with honesty, Raji, his wife and Kubera goes to Bangkok and settle there. ===== The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree is a novel that deals with a sociological expedition to study the culture of the Shree on the planet of Nira. ===== Mayflies is a novel that is the story of a scientist who dies accidentally, but whose brain is preserved and reprogrammed to act as the central computer of a starship. ===== Michael and the Magic Man is a novel that is the story of a group of psychics wandering across American in a van, the world's only defense against psychic alien invaders. ===== Ariosto is a novel that takes place in two fantasy worlds. ===== Watchtower is a novel that is first in a trilogy about Tomor Keep. ===== Guru and Vishnu (both played by Rajasekhar) are identical twins. Guru, the elder one, is a bus conductor, while Vishnu, the younger one, has a mild intellectual disability. Guru overhears his parents' plot to kill Vishnu. He runs away to another city with Vishnu and strives hard to look after him. Vijayan, who runs a beggar trade, beats Vishnu brutally, and Vishnu becomes handicapped for life. Guru leaves Vishnu in a home run by a social worker (Sujatha). During the day, Guru works as a bus conductor, and at the same time, poses as Vishnu: to play Robin Hood and steal from the rich and corrupt. A gang including Neha Dhupia and others assist him in these operations. He is never suspected, and so, with the stolen money, he takes care of not only Vishnu, but also 800 people in other institutions for the physically handicapped. A college student Tulip Joshi falls in love with Guru, but he later comes to know she is Vijayan's sister-in-law. Matters worsen when Vijayan becomes the chairman of the institute for the physically disabled. How Guru deals with the situation forms the rest of the story. Meanwhile, Neha is in love with Guru, though he does not know this. Later she gives up her love and lets Tulip marry Guru. At last, Guru marries Tulip and Neha marries Vishnu. ===== Susan O'Connell (Sean Hayes) is a woman in her 40s with no job or ambition, and has been financially dependent on her family for her whole life. She chronically sleeps past noon and does nothing but make collages all day long. Susan must regularly ask for rent money from her mother, Mary. Susan's brother Cameron and his wife Wendy both despise that Susan burdens Mary, who is single and in poor health; it is mentioned that Mary's husband abandoned the family when Susan and Cameron were young. Susan's only friends are Corrine, who is married with children, and Cameron and Wendy's young daughter Jenika, who admires Susan's artistic abilities. Susan frequently either lies to others about her job status or sensationalizes reasons why she cannot work. She has an ongoing rivalry with Velvet Swensen, a former high school classmate who works at the local K-Mart that Susan frequents. Each woman brags to the other about her accomplishments, but while Susan's are all fabricated, it is implied that Velvet's are real. One day Susan is rear-ended while paused at a stop sign. She finds that the man who hit her car is Phil, a member of her gym to whom she is attracted. Phil and Susan flirt with each other, and the two begin dating. Susan quickly defaults to her typical modus operandi of mooching off of others, and relies on Phil to support her financially; Phil generously showers her with clothes and gifts. Susan brags to her family and Velvet about Phil, whom she believes is the only promising thing in her life, and begins planning her future around him. Corrine tells Susan about a talent contest hosted by a local radio station; there is a large cash prize for the winning act. Putting together a ukulele- and-flute duo called Uku-Lady and the Tramp, the two begin practicing for the contest. Cameron and Wendy meanwhile announce plans to take Mary and Jenika on a family vacation to Niagara Falls. Cameron flatly tells Susan that she must pay her own way if she wants to come, as he is tired of supporting her. Susan approaches Phil for money to finance the Niagara Falls trip, and asks him to meet her family prior to going. When he is a no-show at the family meeting and subsequently doesn't answer his phone, she shows up at the trampoline park he owns, only to find out that he has a wife and children. Susan is devastated to learn the truth about Phil, and her already-unstable life quickly falls apart. She is unable to go on the Niagara Falls trip and instead sees family photos, posted on Facebook, of everyone having fun without her. Despondent, she gets drunk on the evening of the talent contest and spends the night defacing one of Phil's billboards. Without Susan to accompany her, Corrine quickly bombs their act at the talent show and is publicly humiliated. Susan, meanwhile, is arrested for public intoxication and vandalism, and sent to jail; her arrest is televised. An anonymous person bails her out later that evening, but she returns home only to find that she has been evicted from her house after repeatedly failing to pay rent. A kindly neighbor, Leon, takes Susan in, but once again Susan lapses into laziness and mooching. Leon, who is diabetic, has a hypoglycemic attack due to Susan refusing his request to locate his medicine -- simply so that she could sleep in late -- and is hospitalized. Susan meekly visits Leon in the hospital and Leon forgives her for the accident. Leon's act of compassion makes Susan finally realize she has self-worth, and that she can only rely on herself to better her circumstances. Motivated by this, Susan begins to piece her life back together. She politely tells off her family for making her feel ignored and invalidated as a child after her father left. She sets her alarm for 8am and begins waking up earlier regularly. She apologizes to Corrine for the talent show disaster by offering to help with Corrine's children free of charge. Lastly, she swallows her pride and applies for a job at K-Mart, which means working directly under Velvet. During her interview with Velvet, Susan finally lets down her walls and pretenses, and humbly admits that she was always jealous of Velvet's beauty and popularity while they were in high school together. Velvet then lets down her own defenses and admits that she was the one who bailed Susan out of jail. Velvet reveals that she had her own negative dating experience with Phil years prior and, knowing that he was a liar and a cheater, felt bad that Susan was being used just as she had been. Susan offers to repay Velvet for the bail money -- the first time in her life she has ever offered to repay money to anyone -- but Velvet politely declines, saying it was "money well spent." The film ends with Susan proudly getting dressed in her K-Mart uniform to start the next chapter of her life. ===== The Gamache, a family of tailors, have been dressing the Paternò Mafia family for three generations. Vincent “Vince” Gamache works on behalf of Frank, the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather. Without the Paternò knowing, he stages a big operation and is promoted. Fuming with jealousy, Giaco discovers that Vince committed a monstrous act behind his back. The Gamache disown him and war begins. ===== Three problem students (Dean, Duncan, and DJ Beatroot) are taken to the Scottish Highlands by teacher Mr. Carlyle to try to win the Duke of Edinburgh Award, which requires participants to navigate the highlands as a team relying only on a paper map. The three are joined by the bookish student Ian, who wants to receive the award to improve his college application. Carlyle drives off in the minibus, instructing the boys to meet him at a designated campsite. The boys reluctantly set out, but spirits rise when Dean reveals he has hash. Unbeknownst to them, a man watches through a rifle scope as the boys get high. The boys encounter a farmer plowing his field. After getting directions from him, DJ Beatroot gives the farmer his mix CD. Sometime later the boys spot a man in upper class hunting gear and ask him for help, but as he nears they see he is wearing a mask and he begins firing at them. Fleeing, the stoned boys decide he must be the "Duke of Edinburgh." The bumbling Dean and Duncan manage to improvise a trap that improbably sets the "Duke's" leg on fire, forcing him to retreat. The boys reach the campsite and find Carlyle, who has a burn on his right leg. Believing that he is the Duke and that he will kill them, Duncan sneaks to the minibus and runs Carlyle over. The other boys freak out, but they ultimately decide to make Carlyle's apparent death look like an accident by having the minibus drive off a cliff. However, after they put Carlyle's body in the vehicle, it starts rolling back down a long hill. Duncan says it will most likely fall off a cliff anyway and the boys continue on. Meanwhile, the local police, Sergeant Morag and PC Hamish, interrupt their search for a notorious bread thief after Morag receives an erroneous report that Duncan is a terrorist and is loose in the area. They set off for the boys' last known location. The boys then encounter the Duke again, who is joined by his equally insane sword-wielding wife, the "Duchess." The boys realize to their dismay that Mr. Carlyle was not the Duke after all. As they flee, Ian falls into a ditch and is separated from the others. DJ Beatroot then argues with Dean and Duncan and sets off for a barn in the distance while the other two head to a cave to ingest a load of powdered soup. Inside the barn DJ Beatroot is shocked to find a large group of farmers who are big fans-- the farmer he encountered earlier has been sharing his mixtape CD. He stays to party with them and holds an impromptu concert. Elsewhere, the Duke and Duchess capture Ian; Dean and Duncan, covered in powdered soup, hear his cries and rush off to help. Just as it looks like all is lost DJ Beatroot and the farmers appear and chase off the Duke and Duchess after stealing their weapons. The next morning boys decide to hunt down the Duke and Duchess. They finally corner the pair on the shore of a lake. The villains, held at weapon-point, explain that modern youths must be culled because they are too bratty and ungrateful. Dean retorts that adults have wrecked the world and left young people to clean up the mess. Suddenly, more well-dressed, masked hunters join the Duke and Duchess, holding the boys at gunpoint. They prepare to execute the boys, when the minibus rolls off a cliff onto the hunters, crushing them all to death. The relieved boys look inside the minibus and are overjoyed to see that Mr. Carlyle is in fact still alive, if only barely. After makeshift medical treatment, the severely injured Carlyle springs up and says that the boys are in big trouble for trying to kill him. The police, Morag and Hamish, appear. As Carlyle tries to tell Morag about the boys running him over, Hamish discovers a huge stash of stolen bread in the back of the minibus-- it turns out that Carlyle was the notorious bread thief. The boys cover for him by telling Morag that the van belonged to the crushed hunters. In gratitude Carlyle agrees to give the boys the Duke of Edinburgh Award and they are celebrated as heroes. ===== ===== The world's greatest spy decides to abandon his adventurous lifestyle for the woman of his dreams. But when a madman tries to secure a devastating weapon, he soon gives up his boring existence to save not only the world, but his listless marriage. ===== Ally Mash is a 16 year old San Diego high school student who is also the number one American junior tennis player. She has never had a normal life due to her father's obsessive coaching, but things change when she suffers an injury playing a fiercely competitive Russian rival. Sidelined, she skips her father's rehabilitation training and coaches a low-level player, Farrell Gambles, while discovering a normal teenage life including falling in love. Concurrently she builds up to a rematch with her Russian rival. ===== Ryoma Takebayashi is a lonely man who led a life filled with hardships until dying from an unfortunate accident during his sleep. In the afterlife, he is greeted by three gods who grew fond of him and send him to another world as a child, where he makes use of his innate knowledge and abilities, combined with the gods' blessings to live a new life filled with challenges and happy meetings. ===== ===== Richard Okezie decides to leave Sylvia, his lifelong imaginary friend and lover for Gbemi a flesh-and- blood real woman, but complications arise when Sylvia decides to destroy Richard's peaceful life[ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8326250/ Sylvia (2018)] ===== A discontented woman (Ringwald) finds herself in a parallel universe where she is living with an old flame from years ago, but soon begins to wish she was back in her old world with her present lover (Newbern). ===== ===== The plot unfolds in a Reverse chronological fashion. The plot's focus is the life of protagonist Seena and the evolution of his character due to external forces that sway him in several directions. Women/lovers involved in Seena's life contribute to these forces that trigger the Metamorphosis of his character. He goes from being a garage mechanic to being a prominent leader in the underworld mafia. "Popcorn" Devi, one of the lovers, has a profound impact on Seena's life. The back story on how "Popcorn" Devi got involved with the underworld unfolds parallelly alongside Seena's story. ===== Joshua McCullen kills a wealthy man and kidnaps his son in order to get land and get his wife, Charlotte Lockton, to go to a gold mining town in New Zealand. Charlotte must join a supply wagon with some prostitutes to go to the mining town to try to find her son. ===== An estate agency has recently acquired Hawthorne Mansion: a house on an English moor that is rumoured to be haunted, and previous residents supposedly went insane after living there. The player takes the role of an employee of the agency, and arrives at the house to inspect and clean it. The house was built on the site where a 15th century castle once stood, and in the 1920s a scientist named Owen Jugger lived in and studied the house and its haunted past, and then abruptly died. In the midst of cleaning the house, a parcel arrives to the house addressed to Jugger, that has been in transit for 70 years. It contains Jugger's diary, which contains research about a cult that worships the eponymous god Kal, a malevolent god that has been asleep for eons. The protagonist must continue Jugger's work in order to stop Kal from waking and returning to Earth, bringing about the end of the world. Doors in the house allow the protagonist to time travel to different points in time: the Mesozoic Era, the ice age, a medieval mine, a 19th century ship in the midst of battle, and far in the future. In order to defeat Kal, the protagonist must recover five crystal shards from five different periods in history, in addendum to a sixth shard included with Jugger's parcel. ===== Nikitas is a father who lives in rural northern Greece, where a mining company threatens the natural landscape and disturbs his daily life. His son, Johnny, visits unexpectedly after a 20 year absence, bringing a whole other tension to Nikitas' life, when he discovers his wife has died. His son now demands his half of his inheritance, causing tension. ===== ===== On the distant planet of Ixax, the inhabitants have just finished a destructive civil war. One group of Ixaxians, the Tauptu (who do not have nopals, a type of brain parasite), won the war against the Chitumih (who all have nopals). The Tauptu are pleased that they eradicated nopals on Ixax. Now they wish to eliminate nopals from people on other planets, with Earth's inhabitants being the first target. The challenge with removing nopals is that the host human may die, unless a device called the “denopalizer” is used to dislodge the parasite by inflicting terrible pain on the host. To accomplish their plan of ridding Earth humans of their nopals, the Tauptu kidnap a scientist from Earth named Paul Burke. The aliens force Burke to create a denopalizer device so that Earth inhabitants can be “treated”. Burke is suspicious of the Tauptuians’ motivations and approach, because they do not seem interested in his ideas for denopalizers that do not involve torture. Burke investigates the nopals, and discovers that another brain parasite, the gher, still exists in the brains of the Tauptuians. The Tauptu were correct in discovering that nopals exist, but they did not realize that nopals have little harmful impact on the hosts, or that nopals keep the host safe from the malignant coercion of the ghers. Burke invents an anti-gher helmet that incorporates a deceased nopal, which enables him to protect himself from the control of the gher. He then takes command of the Tauptuian spaceship and uses it to travel to gher's homeworld. Once there, he kills the gher. Category:1966 short stories Category:American science fiction short stories Category:Extraterrestrial life in popular culture Category:Short stories by Jack Vance ===== In a future society, all people are organized using a strict, scientifically-designed rational system. They are assessed, given a skills rating, and assigned to the job that best suits their natural talents and personality type. Their schedule, living quarters, the type of food they eat, and even their sexual experiences are assigned by a system. Conformity and compliance with rules are rewarded with access to private telescreens, individual rooms, access to better cafeterias, and a higher grade of erotic services coupons. Luke Grogatch, an unhappy 40-year-old, is a bitter nonconformist who dislikes all of the jobs he has been assigned. After unsuccessfully trying a number of positions, Grogatch is demoted to a low-level job as night sewer maintenance worker, even though he is intelligent. He works for a huge corporation run by computers and a vast, labyrinthine bureaucracy. At first, he manages to keep up his morale in the mindless job by distracting himself after work with the company's group recreation facilities and communal telescreens, and using the lower-tier erotic services coupons he receives. When the vast, bureaucratic management issues an efficiency improvement memo that extends the workday by three hours, all of the other workers accept it. Grogatch decides to resist the directive and undermine the order of society. Grogatch tries to complain, but each bureaucrat he talks to says the work hours issue is not their responsibility, and then “passes the buck” by telling Grogatch to see another department. Even though he is not officially allowed to raise his concerns with senior management, Grogatch uses his sewer worker uniform to get access to the offices of the top executives. Category:American science fiction novels Category:Bureaucracy in fiction Category:Artificial intelligence in fiction ===== In Cholwell's Chickens , Jean Parlier is wealthy from her reward from the previous venture on the space station, but as she is still a minor, she has to gave a legal guardian, a fifty-year-old accountant named Mycroft. He warns her to be wary for grifters and con men who may feign romantic interest in her to get her money. She tells him she wants to go back to her home planet of Codrion to try to find her parents. At Mycroft's office, she meets a strange 50-year-old scientist-entrepreneur named Cholwell. When Cholwell sees her he is shocked almost to the point of fainting, and asks what she is doing on Earth. Parlier finds this to be a puzzling remark, as she has never met him. Cholwell recovers and says he is seeking investors for a genetically-modified chicken cloning operation he is setting up on Codrion. Parlier dislikes the well-dressed, grey-haired Cholwell at this first meeting. When Colwell leaves, Parlier asks Mycroft to get her a ticket to Codrion. Once at her home planet, Jean looks for clues to her past and her family. She starts by going to the bar formerly owned by her foster parent, a mean, harsh man with criminal connections. She remembers his abusive behaviour, which led to her killing him when she was a girl. She meets young bartender Gem Morales, and goes on a date with him. Gem is abrasive, arrogant and forceful, which reminds her of her dead foster father. People on her home planet keep mistaking her for another woman of the same age who looks like her and who has a similar personality, a hint that she may have one or more twin sisters on the planet. In the attic above her foster father's old bar, she finds more clues in an old photo album, which lead her to Cholwell's laboratory facilities. She goes to see Cholwell's estate, only to discover that his claim of raising "chickens" was a front for his human cloning experiments. Jean then learns the truth about her parentage: Cholwell created her and seven sisters in the laboratory 17 years ago. This explains Cholwell's surprise at meeting her on Earth and the mystery of her doppelgangers on Codrion. When Jean learns that one of her sisters has been convicted of her abusive foster father's murder, Jean reveals herself to the authorities. Fortunately, under Codrion law, the uncertainty over the murderers' identity leads to an acquittal. ===== ===== ===== The film follows assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's effort to control international dissent. Central to the documentary is the story of the Saudi activist and video blogger Omar Abdulaziz. ===== In 1943 a young Jewish woman Kateřina Horovitzová is placed in a group of wealthy Jewish men who bribe the Nazis in order to be exchanged to USA for captured SS officers. ===== During World War II, the Italian submarine Macalle was shipwrecked in the Red Sea, near the coast of Sudan. 45 crew members ended up on a deserted island. NCO Carlo Acefalo died on the island, being buried by his mates there. Nearly 80 years later, a team arrives at the site and rescues Carlo's remains, taking them back to his home village, Castiglione Falletto, for a funeral ceremony attended by almost the entire village. =====