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In December 1974, a 16-year-old girl was murdered after borrowing a phone at an ice cream shop. The next day, her naked body was found hidden in a TV box on the street. The only suspect in the case was the owner of the ice cream shop, Au-Yeung Wing Cheung.
The film takes place in 1905. The main character is a lawyer Mykhalyuk, a social revolutionary, an intellectual. He is the bearer of destructive power aimed at loved ones. Peace of mind leaves everyone who falls under its influence. He tries to compensate for his spirituality with love adventures.
Gun-woo is an intern in the surgery department who pursues a moment of pleasure as an escape from the weight of reality. He expresses his life's discontent by playing a saxophone at 'A Very Small World' and indulging in physical play. It is a place for the misfits of society, anarchists, Vietnam veterans, bums, artists and performers. Hasegawa Sayuri, a reporter for a TV company in Japan comes to Korea to do a story called '47 Years of Bitterness of Bomb Victims. She visits Gun-woo's teacher, Professor Song, to investigate victims of Hiroshima atomic bomb in Korea. There, she and Gun-woo run into each other.
Set in an alternative timeline to the manga and animated TV series, the movie features a classic Cinderella story told through the medium of '80s dance. Tsukushi Makino is a trainee dancer in a New York Performance group, struggling to become the star of the show with the help of Rui Hanazawa and Tsukasa Dōmyōji.
An eminent and respected merchant has a problem with gambling, alternately winning and losing until the fateful night when he loses everything. He decides to kill himself, but his wife stops him. Kind words make him go with his son to the church to pray and start new life from the beginning. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.
Little Felipe has been sick for a long time. To hasten his recovery, his parents send him to spend the summer of 1958 in the villa of his grandparents, located in the wealthy quarter of Cadiz. The warm climate of southern Spain is good for the boy, but the inhabitants of the great home may be a different story as all the relatives within are a tad strange. There Felipe meets his great-grandmother and her tough nurse Adoracion who patiently listens to grandmama's reminiscence's of the bandoleros who died for her. Felipe is not allowed to leave his bed, but his hours pass pleasantly thanks to the ministrations of the sexy Mari, a virgin, who loves to tease her four strapping aspiring lovers. As the summer progresses, Felipe interacts with all of his relatives and from their strange behavior finds himself learning an awful lot about life and love.
The joys and sorrows of the little schoolboy, Akira, in a modern Japan. A story about friendship and loyalty.
Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.
Backgammon tells the tale of a young Iranian American girl who desperately wants to play backgammon with her stubborn grandfather who has recently arrived from Iran. Within the circle of a family gathering, the film brings together a subtle yet compelling story of generational conflicts and cultural identity.
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
A fellow villager takes away Bakha's fiancée. In order to seek revenge, Bakha asks the Kists for help. The Bakha community decides to cut off the village due to its connection with the Urzhuls.
A young Russian boy, Thomas Minton, travels to New York as a passenger on a Russian freighter. Close to Ellis Island he gets off and thus starts his journey to America the same way as all immigrants in former times. Thomas is searching for the family of one of his ancestors, who had emigrated decades ago, but once sent a letter home together with a sample of his new profession: 3D-Photography.
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the discovery of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As a gang tracks him down for locating the tomb, he falls in love with the girlfriend of the gang's boss who looks like his wife.
A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
A happily married man contracts the AIDS virus and must deal with the mental and physical anguish of this infectious disease. A dramatic look at AIDS and its effect on modern day Hong Kong.
In desperation Elliot and Oz decide to reply to a telephone dating ad to kickstart their non-existent love lives. Their Prayers are answered when two gorgeous girls agree to meet them on a blind date. Whilst fanning the flames of passion the two boys find themselves playing with fire! A fun filled roller coaster ride begins as the boys get more than they bargained for in their search for love.
The drama is about a wheelchair-bound, working-class father in Rhode Island who's forced to build a new life with his family.
When a double-crossing husband runs off with his wife's ransom money, her kidnappers come after him and the missing money. He leads them on a treacherous journey through the wilderness.
Takeshi Hashimoto, on the brink of turning 30, struggles with insomnia. He finds himself repeatedly dreaming the same dream. Despite seeming to have a successful career and personal life, Takeshi feels stifled and stuck in his current existence. When his close friend and colleague, Saeki, offers him some advice, Takeshi decides to try changing his approach to life. However, the next day, Saeki suddenly takes his own life, leaving Takeshi even more bewildered. Out of the blue, a girl named Sai and a mysterious man named Hōsaku—whom Sai calls her brother—appear in Takeshi's life. Their natural and intriguing presence helps Takeshi slowly reconnect with himself. One day, after receiving a promotion offer, Takeshi decides to turn it down after much thought. “I want to change the way I’m working…” he says. As he begins to notice small changes within himself, he starts to forge his own path.
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
"Holly HARDMAN White Trash at Heart (1992; 33 min.) An uproarious romp through the twisted byways of Lynch-land, er Holy-Sin-land, USA. "A savvy satire kept buoyant by its energy and swift pace it takes Lynch's sledgehammer technique to its illogical limits." Shock Cinema Stars Holly Angell Hardman; music by the Workdogs, Poison Idea, Big Stick, A-Bones, others." From the MWF catalogue.
A guy can't seem to get out of his sleeping bag.
Just after he turns sixteen, Robert finds out that he is adopted. His parents find to their horror that he was kidnaped from his real parents. They decide to tell him about this, even though they fear they might lose him. Robert runs away to find his real parents. He finds and gets close to them, without revealing his true identity. Eventually he must decided where he belongs.
A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.
A down-on-his-luck adult film star sees a chance to make a comeback via a lesbian documentary film-maker, but she is exploiting him to get financial backing for her pet project.
The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Roman Empire, Nazarene Jesus Christ travels around the country with His disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.
A shy young woman receives a heart transplant and undergoes a personality change that may be connected to the murdered donor.
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Facing financial ruin, four siblings decide to sell the valuables within their mother's house, without telling her and by embellishing their history.
David, an overly jealous widower haunts Yvan, the ex-lover of his deceased wife, who is also apparently the true father of the couple's surviving daughter. The behavior of the grieving David, self-destructive and abusive at the same time, has grave consequences for Yvan, his daughter and the band of fellow musicians who work with Yvan.
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
In early 1920s, while studying at the Huế royal citadel, young scholar Nguyễn Tất Thành bears witness to the brutal suppression of Cần Vương insurgents by the Colonial French settlers and the complicity of his royal gentries. He plans himself for a transformative journey that will forge him to be one of the most distinguished revolutionaries - Hồ Chí Minh.
Accountant Leonard Dunbar's Monday appointment shows up right on time, 4:15 PM. She is Helen Desareé, who's dressed and looks fit to kill. She asks Dunbar to go through her recently-deceased mother's papers and arrange for the transfer of any and all assets to herself, the sole beneficiary. Helen returns on Wednesday at 4:15 PM for a progress report and again on Friday, same time, to sign whatever is necessary. During the week, Dunbar makes an extraordinary discovery about the death of Alice Desareé. What will he do with his knowledge?
A countryside girl moves to Cairo searching for her brother. She meets a rich man and marries him and enters the artistic field because of her beautiful voice. She becomes a big star, but she's unsatisfied with her marital life, so she drifts in a number of relations.
Choong's title is secret agent, but in reality, his duties are limited to ferrying and running errands for Hong Kong agents when they come to Taiwan - hardly the stuff of "Mission Impossible". Until one day, when an assignment to help two Hong Kong police officers find a missing girl turns into a wild goose chase for $30 million of loot involving Hong Kong top assassins and Taiwan's most powerful triads.
Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
A historical biographical film focuses on the political career of the Khitan politician Xiao Yanyan (Empress Dowager Xiao), narrating her journey from entering the palace at age 16 to assist Emperor Jingzong of Liao in handling state affairs, to continuing to consolidate power and implement reforms after Emperor Shengzong of Liao succeeded to the throne. The plot covers events such as political marriages, appointing Han Derang to control military power, and quelling clan rebellions, showcasing the historical facts of how she promoted the economic development and ethnic integration of the Liao dynasty through military and political measures.
To keep from being separated, four orphans get a homeless maverick to pose as their guardian.
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
A young man fall in love with an older woman without knowing that her husband is a known criminal.
Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. Folks assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?
This poetic story of growing up and maturing sudden two boys and concerns of adults who fail to understand the changes that occur in their lives, is set in the sixties.
Robert and Marian are a couple who travel the world developing tour guides of exotic corners of the world. During a visit to the Italian Riviera they come into possession of a secret.
Two couples see their lives transformed after the tragedy of losing a child. Both families face the loss in their own way, allowing feelings of guilt, deny, and jealousy to surface, until family disintegration is almost inevitable.
A hard up historian lives happily with his newly-wed wife and her child from her previous husband. But as he becomes more successful and financially stable, the family relationships begin to fracture.
One day, a handsome young man with amnesia comes to visit his mother at a gay bar. He gives him the name Maya and lets him help out at the store, but his memory never returns. He is good at playing guitar and singing, so maybe he was a musician? That's what he predicts...
In this low-budget short film, two best buddies meet up for a night of booze-fueled fun before one of them moves to Vancouver.
When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears.
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
While the Muppets prepare a tribute to the late Jim Henson, they learn about the life and career of the renowned puppeteer/film maker.
When Shiloh's abusive previous owner, Judd Travers, tries to retake Shiloh again, Ray tries to find a way to end the rivalry and open up the hidden kindness within the town drunk.
A beautiful woman, who lives alone and who was partially paralyzed in an accident, publishes an ad asking for a visit from an “entertainer” whose murder she plans. A young, handsome man of great virility attends and an unexpected turn occurs.
I am so endlessly alone. Whats my illusions, whats my odds, and illusions have to be killed, I don't have more time to destroy. Is my loneliness real and is my longing about what? Then who are this people?
Ko, a young gay writer living in Taipei has written a story about his homosexuality, and his teacher encourages him to enter it in a prestigious writing competition. Now Ko must decide whether to enter the competition or stay in the closet
An unscrupulous used car salesman and aspiring filmmaker in 1950s Los Angeles struggles to get his first film made, at all costs.