The name of the game is power when a man known only as The Sheik pits gangsters against one another in an effort to take control of the mob in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley. But one man named Jimmy D. (Michael Madsen), the most powerful gangster in the Valley, has plans of his own and decides he's not going to play The Sheik's game … or so he'd have us think.
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
Tony desperately needs some cold hard cash to help finance his next big business venture. He left Brooklyn years ago to get away from his old man and now is shacked up with his main squeeze, Aphrodite, in a Venice flophouse.
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.