Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
Social & External
Peterson
John Arnold
Ruthie
William Bowen, Narrator
Detective (uncredited)
A high school freshman, Mi-ran, trips on the rope while practicing group jump roping for the school field day. Mi-ran’s novice homeroom teacher, Chae-young, replaces Mir-ran with another student, and Mi-ran feels confused. The next day, Mi-ran trips on the rope again. After arguing with Chae-young, Mi-ran makes a decision that can never be reversed.
Hui-jun is a delivery boy at a Chinese restaurant. While on a delivery, he runs into Sung-yong, who was his upperclassman in middle school. Hui-jun and his friend Dong-gi witness Sung-yong’s suspicious behavior and tail Sung-yong.
Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls.
The monotonous life of Cleo and Judy, a queer couple who run a kitschy love motel, is thrown into disarray when Cleo falls for a visiting dominatrix.
An argument between two families in a thrift store erupts into a full-scale brawl.
Watching the love of his life dying out of a terminal and painful illness, Mike slowly grows to make a decision to end her suffering.
196X. Anna, an enigmatic and attractive professional kidnapper, abducts The Professor during his wedding ceremony on request from one of the latter's former girlfriend. This woman, whose face Anna has never seen, wishes to die with The Professor before he marries. Leaving the church with The Professor on the back seat of her motor-bike, Anna starts on the journey to the fictional city of 'Alpha Paris'.
When a young Dutch tourist gets stranded at the start of his US vacation, he finds help from an unlikely stranger.
A fifteen-year-old Latino boy at a high school in the Bronx makes a mistake that will define the rest of his life.
In a new, predatory ice age, two brothers search for a place to call home.
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
Seven-year-old Filip admires his older brother Sebastian most of all. They fool around, watch movies and play football together. One evening Filip happens to see something unexpected between Sebastian and his best friend and Filip doesn't know how to handle it.
Along the day, we accompany Filomena, who works as a cleaning lady, through six different places.
A reflection on this generation’s sexual and existential disorientation.
Kyung-eon lives with mom and her sister. Her mom is about to marry a man with a son and invites them to a meeting to introduce each other. After the meeting, Kyung-eon goes to meet her daddy, who hasn’t met for a long time.
A Black man attends a white friend's Southern plantation wedding, and becomes haunted by its history.
A newly recovering addict's daylong journey to reconnect with his younger brother leads them both into an unexpected storm.
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history.
Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
Dysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob. The short film that inspired Wes Anderson’s feature debut.
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?
For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his activities draw the ire of two corrupt cops and the crime lord he once worked for.