A young stand-up comedian finds his burgeoning career threatened when he teams with a veteran comedy superstar.
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A young stand-up comedian finds his burgeoning career threatened when he teams with a veteran comedy superstar.
The story of a family that is shattered by a sinful politician.
In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. Immediately, Jim seizes his opportunity to enter the contest. With a motley crew of fellow mechanics and friends at his side, Jim fixes up his old boat and brings hope to the blighted industrial city. Written by Sujit R. Varma
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
The story of a model who reaches the end of her short career as a catwalk queen.
Nesrin and Leyla are twins who love the same man. But the two sisters are complete opposites. Leyla is introverted, serious, and keeps her feelings to herself. Nesrin, on the other hand, is the exact opposite; she is outgoing, lively, and wears her heart on her sleeve.
The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?
Wandering “Saoshi”, Kikunosuke Kagurazaka cures frustrated women with his sexual technique. He comes across a man called Ishida, an owner of an adult entertainment complex in Kabukicho. Ishida controls girls using erotic hypnosis and makes them work as prostitutes. Kikunosuke, who has been looking for missing Rie, finds out that Rie is working under Ishida. Rie is one of the victims under the erotic hypnosis. Kikunosuke challenges Rie in sex battle and successfully brings her to her senses by his sexual technique “Kinuta”. Then he finds out Ishida’s dark past. Kikunosuke beards Ishida who reigns over Kabukicho. One after another, Ishida sends out his girls to put kikunoske under his spell in vain. Kikunosuke wields his technique and leads them all to ecstasy. Who would be the final challenger? Who would be the last man standing, Ishida or Kikunosuke?
A man telephones a woman he believes to have met in Cuba.
In this ironic, twisting tale of family planning gone wrong, the pursuit of the perfect nuclear family turns into a battle of wills for two couples and an unborn baby they cannot share.
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Martin Landau talks about how he portrayed Bela Lugosi in the movie. He mentions the similarities between Lugosi and his own career, and how he worked on the Hungarian accent. Rick Baker, who won an Oscar for the make-up effects, discusses how he approached transforming Landau into Lugosi, and how much he wanted to do the project.
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing the presence of a rare duck.
Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Lisa (Santos) and Cita (Cuneta) have a kinship as sisters, but their bond goes far beyond blood. The close-knit two are also best friends -- until a tragic misfortune strikes and the sisters' support system unravels.
In his homage to film noir, a man learns that cheaters can wind up dead.
A family man, recently promoted to middle management at work, immerses himself in a world of questionable personal and professional ethics.
After failing to find success as a writer in New York City, Jim slinks back to his family's home in the Midwest to lick his wounds. But his visit is quickly complicated when his angst spreads to his brother, Tim, who promptly decides to drive his car straight into a tree. Under the shadow of his sibling's injurious actions, Jim strikes up an unlikely friendship with Anika, whose centered small-town wisdom gradually rubs off on him.
This is the small feature film that formed the integrated backdrop for the live performance/music piece. As abstract images and sound combine with the various stories and insights of the subjects interviewed, an illustration of memory is created. Seemingly unrelated video images merge with the images of the storytellers to create a common thread: the views of the Silent Minority.
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the sexy next door neighbor, courting the mother of the house, encouraging the son in his first love affair, and leading the neighborhood boys in an ever escalating series of pranks. A drama about stealing radios, cars, and hearts
Over one wild Cologne night, three women in search of the perfect partner and perfect life discover that a little bit of magic changes everything...
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
This folk-music movie is a remake of one of the most famous Thai movie (มนต์รักลูกทุ่ง) shot in 1970. It features 14 folk songs or "LUUK THUNG" songs. It is about a love story between a poor peasant, Klao, and a young woman, Thong Kwao, coming from a rich family. Thong Kwao's parents are worried about the family assets if their daughter marries a poor man so they send her to Bangkok so that she can be far away from Klao. Thong Kwao's parents refuse Klao's proposal for marriage and request an expensive dowry (ค่าสินสอด), i.e. 100 000 Baht. Various misunderstandings happen between Klao and Thong Kwao but love will win.
The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.
Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile the record boss organizing the contest, tries to get Kassa's band to sign to his label on his terms not theirs. By using heavy tactics, he pushes the band to fight back.
A young man finds himself torn between his current girlfriend and an old flame at a friend's funeral, where lifestyles and attitudes clash over a long weekend.
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret... as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with his father. When Keith meets the darkly exotic Natasha (Mylène Savoie), his life is changed forever.
A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up losing its way due to the fog, the darkness, the ice and their own feelings of guilt, suddenly getting completely lost in the hills.
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
Paris, December 1999. A group of Parisians cross paths. A police commissioner madly in love with his colleague's wife, a director looking for a subject. A man who learns that he has lung cancer. A waitress in love with her boss. A wealthy owner of a pizza chain who falls in love with a former member of the Comédie Française when he wanted to buy her castle. Among them, there is also Shaa. She dreams of becoming a singer and starts a duet with Massimo, a street singer of Italian origin. They quickly fall in love with each other. But one day, a producer spots Shaa and offers her a solo career.
The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport. To Lena, Vaughn represents the life she is running away from. To Vaughn, Lena embodies the society that has rejected him. And for a very short amount of time, they experience a rare true happiness together.
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering Officer.
After millions vanish, a group of people must band together to form the Tribulation Force and prepare themselves for the worst seven years the planet has ever seen.
A murderous blackmailer threatens to frame a wealthy widow (Brooke Burns) for her estranged husband's death on a yacht.
Alik and Mara are two adults who are commanding the group of homeless children. But everything changes after a new kid joins the company.
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.
A young woman in the southern Mexican region of Chiapas falls for a revolutionary fighting in the Zapatista conflict.
Illustrates the events of the Ponce Massacre through the life of one of the victims, Ulpiano Perea.
Three women, an asping actress, a reporter, and a lawyer, hatch a scheme to enrich each other. The actress will fake a sexual harassment charge against a politician and get a lot of publicity, the reporter will get the scoop, and the lawyer will get a reputation for defending the actress. The scam goes as planned, but things start to break down.
Accusations, revelations, lies and distrust abound when six friends, who think they know each other well, gather for a dinner party.
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.
A thirty-something Irish-American former matador teaches a bull-fighting class in Greenwich Village. After the sexual conquest of a number of his female students, he meets his match in a 19-year-old co-ed.
Six year old Max has an important mission: find some frogspawn for his older brother. Together with his neighbour girlfriend Jesse he makes an adventurous and touching journey along fields, farms, animals and a forest which eventually leads to his grandma's home. There he's welcomed by his grandma, her pancakes and the desired frogspawn . On his overwhelming journey through nature he's accompanied by cheerful childrens songs.
An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.
The movie mainly revolves around four characters with the protagonist being farmer Jeet Brar, who is also a `kisaan` leader. The four youngsters get involved with a corrupt politician Sardar Harmail Singh and get involved in crime and violence. They have no goals of their own. There is a love tringle introduced with two of the men and Neeru, the daughter of an NRI, who is forbidden from meeting the group by her father. A virtuous journalist called Sarabjit is on Harmail Singh`s trail, as he wants to expose the truth to the people of the state. What happens when he persists? Will love beat crime?
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
A girl learns that her widowed father has fallen prey to his young, opportunist secretary. In order to foil their romantic holiday, she plans her own kidnap drama but gets abducted by car thieves.
A fat middle-aged man in German officer's uniform gets off a train somewhere in Russia in winter. He is a doctor who has just been called up we learn eventually. This is the end of the line- the Germans are about to retreat. He goes to a hospital which is being evacuated and is thrown out. Kicked out he wanders with another conscript- a failed actor turned postman. The postman is deafened by a shell explosion. They meet their Russian equivalents, others as bad at killing as they are, while other Russians and Germans kill one another around them.
An American army intelligence officer discovers corruption and murder by American soldiers in Vietnam.