Kazuko, a former national-level competitive swimmer who is drowning in heavy debt, flees from loan sharks and seeks refuge with Aota, an old school friend who now works as a high school teacher. Aota agrees to hide her, but in exchange, he forces her to act as the coach for the school's struggling swimming club, which is preparing for an upcoming inter-school meet against a neighboring school. With the swimming club severely lacking members, Kazuko uses her looks and charms to recruit students into joining. As she works with the team, their swimming performance and lap times begin to improve drastically. Beneath the surface of the sports-themed setup, the swimming meet involves corrupt underhanded deals, dragging Kazuko and the students into a web of adult conspiracies orchestrated by school figures.
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet.
Lisa is a middle-class white woman from Toronto, Canada. She's also addicted to crack cocaine. To maintain her habit, she works as a prostitute while living in a hotel room.
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family.
A baby is supposed to crown the dreamlike marriage of the divorce attorneys Pia and Uli, but the success of all their efforts – ranging from “sex on a schedule” to artificial insemination – fails to materialize.
Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although scoffed at and ultimately banned by the medical establishment, by the 1950s, Hoxsey's formula had been used to treat thousands of patients, who testified to its efficacy.
