Held Hostage (2009)

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe…

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

One day, Mizuki Maehara, an actor, suddenly broke up with his girlfriend of five years, Midori Shimizu. With a single-minded desire to somehow get back together, he asks around for…

Elizabeth bristles at the religious directives of her parents, asserting her right to personhood outside demure hairstyles and turkey dinners, constructing voodoo dolls and entertaining other manners of dark drawing…

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.

Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band’s singer,…

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he’s in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he’s living…

Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn…

Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn – and creates a rift with his fiancée…

A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.