Four interlocking stories run in parallel; two set in Morocco, one in Mexico and one in Japan and all four follow different cinematic traditions that can be described as coming from World Cinema, American melodrama, American thriller and Asian New Wave. The accidental shooting of an American tourist is the trigger that begins a chain of misery that slowly envelopes four seemingly disparate groups of people from different social, cultural and geographic backgrounds. Borrowing, at a distance, from find out more...

find out more...

find out more...

Hard-bitten, down at her heels, heavy drinking Julia has little going for her in her life, that is until a barely known widowed Latina neighbour entices her into kidnapping her only son from his rich gringo grandparent and taking him home to Mexico. The amatuerish attempt is somewhat bungled and Julia soon finds herself on the Mexican side of the border with the boy re-kidnapped by seriously nasty dudes. Now she must stop drinking, get her act together and play all sides against each other in a find out more...

Another superlative cinematic tour de force from the Coen brothers. A Vietnam Vet stumbles across the bloody remnants of a shoot out, pockets some booty and disappears pursued by Javier Bardem's relentless, dead eyed assassin. An ageing, disillusioned sheriff, the excellent Tommy Lee Jones, whose small town rural values have been eroded by the inexorable rise in brutal drug-crime related violence is the reluctant, but dogged, cop in pursuit of both hitman and thief. What follows is a battle of w find out more...

A career CIA operative begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to; an oil broker faces tragedy and finds redemption through an idealistic Gulf prince; a corporate lawyer faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the merger of two powerful US oil companies; while across the globe, a disenfranchised Pakistani teenager falls prey to the recruiting efforts of a charismatic cleric. Each character provides one of the many layers to this intelligent and thought provokin find out more...

We meet our four heroes in a Mexican desert under a hail of bullets. After a frenetic action-packed opening sequence they are posted as an elite combat unit to Iraq, where, after a secret operation, they are framed for treason. They escape in order to prove their freedom.
A successful movie spin-off from the 80s TV show. find out more...