In 1947, the talented and famous Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was forced to appear before the Commission of Inquiry on Un-American Activities, accused of adherence to Communist views. Refusing to admit any guilt or to denounce his comrades, he became one of ten filmmakers to be placed on Hollywood's so-called "Black List. They were sentenced to a year in prison and banned from working in the film industry in the future.
However, after getting out of prison, Dalton Trumbo continued to do what he loved to do - write screenplays. He had to do it secretly and under various pseudonyms...
Moscow, late 1980s. A scout for a French modeling agency finds a girl Anna at the Izmaylovsky market who meets all his criteria. He is not embarrassed by the fact that the potential model knows several languages, but trades in matryoshkas, and Anna flies to Paris and starts working. But her real job is not to pose for the cameras - the fragile girl works for the KGB and has to clean people by order of Moscow.
Arthur Bach has always relied on two things to get him into life's turmoil: his enormous fortune and the sanity of his own babysitter, Hobson. But now he must choose between a marriage of convenience, which will further strengthen his financial position, and an uncertain future with the one thing money cannot buy: the beautiful Naomi, the love of his life. Given Naomi's enthusiasm and Hobson's unconventional help, Arthur throws himself headlong into the riskiest adventure of his life and finally learns what it means to be a real man.
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern wa...
Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate...
In 1959, Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife, Alma Reville (Dame Helen Mirren), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amidst disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Sir Alfred decides his next movie will adapt the lurid horror novel, "Psycho", over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Sir Alfred self-finances and labors on this movie, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Sir Alfred's work, even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.
Clive Owen stars as a prison inmate who goes into an experimental "open" prison where the inmates walk around freely and get job training for their impending releases. While there, he discovers he has a talent for growing flowers. His talent is recognized by a gardening guru who encourages him and four other inmates to enter a national gardening competition.
Aging King George III of England (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte (Dame Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (Julian Wadham) attempt to prevent the King's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett), from usurping the throne.
Amidst scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, Russian Czarina Catherine the Great (Dame Helen Mirren) develops a unique and devoted relationship with Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke) as they overcome their adversaries and serve as the architects of modern-day Russia.
Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off of his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces him back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into his past and the people with whom he used to work. Like Frank they are all "R.E.D." - Retired Extremely Dangerous.