Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. The film is composed of five sequences, each preceded by a quotation.

The amazing career of master magician Harry is presented from his beginnings with a carnival \"wild man\" act to his emergence as an internationally-acclaimed illusionist, From his dramatic escape from a locked safe under the frozen Detroit River to an even more improbable one from a locked cell...

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes to office of a client. The girls and their cohorts...

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During World War II, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock\'s own cleverness is pitted...

A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one...

Javier Mu�oz, once a successful executive, makes the fateful decision to leave his home, which him and his family can no longer afford.

On the run from a mob boss out for revenge, cage fighter Jake Bolt seeks refuge in the seedy underground of San Francisco. As the gangsters close in, he fights his way through crime filled streets and nightclubs to protect the woman he loves and win back the respect of his family. Out of options,...

Two boys in stormy period are becoming real adults as they experience a world that doesn\'t go their way.

Thirty-four-year-old aimless server Bridget hasn\'t yet achieved her goal of becoming a respected writer. When casual relations with a younger \'nice guy\' leads to an unexpected confrontation with potential motherhood, she manifests a job nannying a pint-sized spirit guide disguised as an...

London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her...

The story of Southern Belle, Tula, who is living her older years in huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con-artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.