During her nightly escapades Hemel searches for the difference between sex and love. Sometimes she leads, sometimes the men with whom she sleeps. The most important person in Hemel’s life is Gijs, her father, who works in an auction house. After the early passing of her mother Hemel grew up with him alone. Just like Hemel, Gijs is restless and isn’t committed to anyone except for his daughter. This changes when Gijs falls in love with the young auctioneer Sophie.
Raymond is a bank clerk that dream on Rio de Janeiro and the beautiful and exotic samba dancer Orlinda. He has a secret class of samba at night, where he teaches the rhythm and how to dance samba to British persons. One day, he finds that his wife is cheating him with his boss and he decides to rob the bank and go to Rio de Janeiro to meet his passion. In the arrival, he meets the cab driver Paulo, an authentic ‘malandro carioca’ (smart guy born in Rio) and he crosses the way of the powerful ‘bicheiro’ (owner of an illegal and popular Brazilian lottery, called ‘jogo de bicho’ – translating, would be animal lottery), getting into trouble.
Danny is pregnant by Max but she doesn’t get around to telling him at a party. Meanwhile, Max is busy trying out his girlfriend Avishag’s sexual fantasies with her.
In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor’s nephew whom he killed in China, and the third is that he seeks his revenge using the son Caine never knew he had sired as the instrument of his death. It will take all of Caine’s skill and wisdom to find a solution to this deadly predicament.
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, the latter goes to his country of origin for the first time. To fulfill his dream, the young Yao organizes his fugue and brave 387 kilometers alone to the capital. Touched by this child, the actor decides to flee his obligations and to accompany him home. But on the dusty and uncertain roads of Senegal, Seydou understands that while rolling towards the village of the child, it also rolls towards its roots.
Recently widowed Sharon (Kristina Klebe) is concerned when her son Anthony (Sebastian Cabanas) has trouble fitting in at school. However, her worries end when Dylan (Tanner Buchanan), an athlete and one of the most popular boys at school, suddenly befriends Anthony. But the more time Dylan spends at the house, the more Sharon suspects that his interests lie with her as opposed to her son. And as Dylan’s obsession with her turns dangerous, she discovers that Dylan’s advances have a more sinister motive than she could have ever guessed – revenge for something in Sharon’s past that she thought had long-since been buried.
Paroled labor racketeer “Dapper” Dino is sought after by a “politically ambitious” prosecutor schemes to put him back in jail and a deceitful partner sizes him up for concrete shoes.
RAYMOND BREY is a young investigator learning the ropes on the streets of L.A. JOE SMITH, a veteran P.I. is Ray’s mentor. He has quite literally seen it all. Decades spent watching people lie, cheat and steal from one another has left him a broken shell of a man. He likens being trapped in hot, smoggy Los Angeles to ancient sailors who once found themselves trapped in the dense weeds of the Sargasso Sea. When Joe’s attitude begins to infect Ray, danger and heartbreak are inevitable.
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.
Social Media influencer Erin takes her millions of fans on a live stream adventure inside an abandoned haunted house to raise money for the disease that took her friends life. The longer she stays the more she can raise.
James has shut himself off from his surroundings, falling into a world of imagination and darkness. Visits with his psychiatrist have proven unhelpful – though he takes a liking to fellow patient, Val. As James begins to rebel against his single mother, he ventures into the night where he meets a mysterious kid who welcomes him into an eccentric city. Relationships are put to the test as James navigates unfamiliar territory, wrestling with the reality of his own personal wilderness.
At a Christian youth camp, kids learn to confront their fears and not seek revenge as a solution. Two brothers separate into different houses and after a series of pranks realize they need each other. In the finale all the teams competes against each other pitting the underdogs against the stronger kids. The focus on victory and dominance over peaceful coexistence and forgiveness in the final moments of the film tends to negate the attempt at moral guidance.
