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Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:"A Perfect Day for Bananafish""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""The Laughing Man""Down at the Dinghy""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""Teddy"

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war directed by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

1975 drama film based on the novel by Ken Kesey

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

1971 dystopian crime film directed by Stanley Kubrick

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

2015 American supernatural horror film by Robert Eggers

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

2002 biographic film on the Warsaw Ghetto directed by Roman Polanski

Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on the 2001 short story "Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan. Guy Pearce stars as Leonard Shelby, a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia, resulting in short-term memory loss and the inability to form new memories. He searches for the people who attacked him, raped and killed his wife, using an elaborate system of Polaroid photographs, handwritten notes, and tattoos to track information he won't remember. Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano co-stars in the film.The film's non-linear narrative is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Rashōmon (羅生門, litt. La Porte Rashō) est un film japonais réalisé par Akira Kurosawa en 1950, d'après deux nouvelles de Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (nouvelles Rashômon et Dans le fourré, cette dernière est inspirée de The Moonlit Road, une nouvelle écrite par Ambrose Bierce ). Il a donné son nom à l'effet Rashōmon qui désigne le fait que plusieurs personnes décrivent différemment le même événement.Dans le Japon de la fin Heian (794-1185), quatre personnes présentent des versions très différentes d'un même crime. Un bûcheron ayant découvert un corps, un procès est ouvert. La première version du crime apparaît dans la bouche du bandit qui avoue être l'auteur du meurtre, puis on découvre celle de l'épouse qui dit avoir tué son mari, puis celle du défunt samouraï qui, par la bouche de la medium raconte s’être suicidé. La quatrième version correspond à celle du bûcheron qui, revenant sur sa déclaration, annonce avoir été témoin de la scène.

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

1964  Satire film directed by Stanley Kubrick

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

1974 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Canadian-American guitarist, singer and songwriter

American recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, author, artist and Nobel Laureate in 2016

An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

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