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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...

"The Way of the World" by William Congreve is a quintessential Restoration comedy, renowned for its witty dialogue and intricate plot. Set in the fashionable society of London in the early 18th century, the play is a satirical exploration of love, marriage, and money. Congreve's masterpiece centers on the relationship between Mirabell and Millamant, two lovers who must navigate a maze of intrigue, deception, and societal expectations to be together. Congreve's...

Academy Award-nominee Ian McKellen stars as a powerful London theater critic who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. A suspenseful thriller co-starring Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, and Lesley Manville.

The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.

In one of the most challenging roles of her early career in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman plays Anna Holm, whose bitterness over her facial disfigurement leads her to become a blackmailer. However, when one of her victims turns out to be married to a renowned plastic surgeon, Anna is given the opportunity to change her life.

When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.

Bobo is a free-spirited wanderer who docks in a Pacific seaside town with his buddy Tiny, a sponge who wants to leave. After a night of drunken debauchery, Bobo awakens on a strange barge wearing the cap of a dead man. Afraid he has committed the crime, Bobo prepares to skip town with Tiny but is delayed when he meets Anna, who he rescues from drowning herself in the surf. They fall in love and open a business together selling bait. Jealous and desperate...

A dissatisfied barber in the 1940s decides to blackmail his wife's lover in order to get startup capital for a new dry-cleaning business. The scheme begins to unravel and, in the end, everyone gets what's coming to them.

"When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love -- proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail"--Container.

The shorter, theatrical version of 'Out 1: Noli Me Tangere.' -- Out 1: four separate stories are intercut and eventually intermix involving the members of two theatrical troupes, stolen letters, blackmail, etc.