52 films match The Card Counter
The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. (imdb)
Under the Counter Spy (1954) - Short Film
This cartoon is a parody of the then current TV show, "Dragnet". Police are warned of an escaped criminal, "The Bat", who possesses a super strength tonic. He hides the tonic in Woody's house hoping to retreive it the next day. When the listless Woody awakes, he imbibes the tonic, giving him the strength of twenty men which he immediately tests... (imdb)
Scene III of the Buster Brown Series. Shows a bargain counter in a department store and a large gathering of women examining goods. It is a special sale, and a great deal of interest is shown by the ladies, who jostle and crowd each other to secure the choicest bargains. Mrs. Brown enters, accompanied by Buster and Tige. Mrs. Brown is unable to get near the counter and is in despair. (imdb)
Bargain Counter Attack (1946) - Short Film
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a noahic flood in the store. (imdb)
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building. (TCM.com)
Soviet agent Fedotov must cross over into Nazi occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondences of a high ranking Nazi general with Hitler. (imdb)
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing. (imdb)
First-hand accounts from those on the front lines of the battle homegrown Islamic extremism in America - family members of convicted terrorists, those trying to persuade young people from embracing extremism, Muslim Americans facing fear and suspicion in their communities, victims of terrorist attacks, and insights from experts and prosecutors who worked homegrown terrorist cases. (HBO)
Whether humankind has irreversibly changed the planet is still being debated. Today, progress is our raison d'être, an eternal promise of a better quality of life. But behind the impressive history of progress, there hides another one. It's a story written by powerful people: political leaders, industrialists, chemists, lobbyists and financiers of all kinds who, in two centuries, have shaped our way of life, up until the advent of a new era: the Anthropocene. (imdb)
The Counter Jumper (1922) - Short Film
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face. (imdb)
A scientist invents a time machine that transports him six months into the future. (imdb)
Yui is recruited as a student detective working for Seishonen Chian Kyoku (Youth Law Enforcement Division) headed by Kurando Sekine. But she couldn't agree with the violent method used by the division, and resigns after letting go the students who were being persecuted by them. Kurayami Shirei assigns Yoda to investigate Sekine. Yoda succeeds in obtaining a disk that contains the incriminating evidence but during his attempt to deliver the disk to the Kazama sisters, is fatally wounded... (imdb)
Counter Measures (1999) - Direct-to-Video
US Navy medical officer Jake Fuller is detailed for a goodwill visit aboard a Russian submarine. But he and his companion, Lt. Swain, end up alone among terrorists, who have taken over the submarine and threaten to fire its nuclear weapons. (imdb)
An overworked office clerk gets transported to a parallel world, where he continues his accounting career in the royal treasury with the same unwavering dedication. (IMDB)
Counter Arguments (2015) - Direct-to-Video
Counter Arguments is a show that analyzes common political debates and seeks to understand the logic applied on both sides.
Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter (2014) - TV Mini-Series
Dr Pamela Cox follows the journey of the shopgirl from an almost invisible figure in stark Victorian stores, to being the beating heart of modern shops.
After Bruce Lee's death, his friend John Ladalski conceived of a film to promote Jeet Kune Do, the martial art that Lee had developed. The film that resulted from this ambition was COUNTER ATTACK (aka THE CHINESE STUNTMAN). (cduniverse.com)
Anthony Mendoza, an inner-city drug dealer on the run, joins the Army, only to clash with Chris Wright, a hard-headed Christian determined to share his faith despite persecution.
AKA The Vampire Is Still Alive; Counter Destroyer; Joyce rents an old haunted home to pen her horror script, which releases an evil army of robot vampires, a knife-wielding demon and a battalion of otherworldly creatures. (imdb)
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