A superhero becomes bored with the lack of crime in his town.
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A superhero becomes bored with the lack of crime in his town.
A pet cat become a household horror when it transform into a monster everyday at 12.06 midnight
What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and face boredom, uncertainty and disengagement. And something more dangerous.
The Runner, is an emotive and inspiring short film by British Asian actress/ writer/director Sunnie Sidhu. The story is centered on Aylam, a Syrian refugee boy who has just arrived alone in London, he has a chance encounter with Nikki, an athlete training for the Olympics living in Hackney. She helps him by encouraging him to train at the track. He is a gifted runner, but faces many political and personal circumstances challenges.
One might think that beautiful pictures, a compelling story, and brilliant movement are the three essential elements of a good animated film. The word "anima" from which animation is derived, as we all know, means "to breathe life into". And "life" means "limited time" and that there could be an approach that does not include any of the aforementioned "three elements". The result of several years of exploring new methods was an "animated film" that eschews the so-called "animated" structure. This film aims to visualize "shifting consciousness" through a method of filming in which approximately 5,000 pencil drawings are constantly overlapped"
Some have described love as a spell. Others have described it as a sickness. What they have in common is the idea that love, in its many forms, has the power to overwhelm the senses and control behavior. Prism is an anthology feature in 7 chapters exploring several genres – comedy, dark-comedy, drama, science-fiction, and suspense.
Elise is a young student, blind. It's late, the college is empty. She arranges her things and begins a long wandering in the corridors where the reality and her reality will gradually become confused. Flashes of a former aggressor will take over the present.
Elani survived her brutal childhood by carefully watching people. Now she plans to use her relationship with Mikey to get out of Cape Town for good. All she has to do is manage his ego for one more night, but the seeds of violence were planted in her life early on.
The terrifying story of a group of former college classmates who get lost driving to a college reunion camp out in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After stopping for the night, they stumble onto something much darker. They must battle to escape the evil they unleashed to not only save their own lives but their souls as well.
John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush. Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery, it seemed his life would end early in a West African grave...until he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father. Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea, Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the church's most beloved hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
Ricardo returns from retirement and is hired to do a job for his former boss: kill a presidential candidate. He will have to accept the assignment or his girlfriend and niece will suffer the consequences.
What's going to happen when these though times get worse and there are more robbers than bars?
During a hot summer in rural England, a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.
Ben and Cricket Junk can repair just about anything, but when a friend asks them to repair her parent's marriage, the boys are in over their heads. Their zany antics are the stuff of campfire tales. The boys are stumped until they learn that a stolen pearl necklace may be what they need. Can they catch the thief and locate the pearl of great price? Along the journey, the Fix It Boys learn about God's forgiveness and discover the wonderful gift of salvation. It is a inspiring tale of mystery, investigation and lessons in faith. Dove approved for all ages.
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
At a war crimes trial in an African country, an idealistic lawyer delves into the past of a man who, accused of committing unspeakable atrocities, is treated as an inhuman monster.
After reaching the final rung on an empty corporate ladder, Nathan Tyler, a successful financier, shuns the bright city lights in favor of returning his disjointed family to his hometown of Nazareth in the mountains of NC.
Boy brings his granddad's award badges for participation in World War 2 (The Great Patriotic War) to summer camp and finds out that during WW2 his granddad lost his award badge in the town, where the camp is located now, as his new friend's grandmother, who was a doctor in the same hospital during WW2...
An old man with Alzheimer's goes out of his house, on a cold winter day, he fails to make his way back home.
The St. Louis Rams of 1999-2001, nicknamed "The Greatest Show on Turf", became the first team to score 500 points in a season 3 straight years, while making the Super Bowl twice and winning Super Bowl XXXIV during that span.
A comedy about a real estate agent who becomes the last chief of a sinking pacific island.
A young woman finds herself in a difficult situation with her family when she is caught between their expectations and her desires.
Kanako Mori, who has a dream of becoming an apparel planner, works for apparel shop and use a chat room for saving funds for studying abroad. In her chat room, there is a special user with the handle name "Trent", who logs at midnight every Tuesday, who cheers her up.
Everything changes the day Sofia decides to take on her relationship with Paloma. Behind the supposed acceptance of her parents hides a plan to redirect their daughter to heterosexuality. And behind the apparent facade of tenderness and understanding in the couple hides a situation of maltreatment and instability that will take them to the limit.
A impoverished family of Mexican immigrants that make their way into the United States illegally, but trouble arises when they find themselves being targeted by overly racist ICE Police Officers.
According to the police, Negar's father committed suicide. Having had a happy life, Negar suspects that his death has not happened the way it seems. She starts unfolding the truth through an unconventional investigation.
In the vibrant African neighborhood of Château d'Eau in Paris, Charles is the smoothest of all the hustlers. His job: to fill the districts numerous hair salons with customers. But when the competition is tough and everybody’s trying hard to be number one, dirty tricks are just around the corner.
Set in London, a city where people from all over the world gather, and in the rich nature of Eastern Europe, this is an original musical about the richness of life, and the things that we of the 21st century seek that can make us truly happy.
Correspondent Lisa Ling manages to penetrate its border by travelling undercover, pretending to work with a Nepalese eye surgeon on a humanitarian mission. Lisa’s time in North Korea offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in the country and some of the issues its people face.
Two very different women: Zhuoyi, a debt collector, and Jing Ya, a nightclub singer find their paths unexpectedly intertwined after a mysterious necklace links them to a dangerous underworld scheme. Forced to travel together into a remote mountain region, their journey tests their beliefs, challenges their pasts, and forges an unexpected bond. As they confront hidden truths and uncertain futures, both women must make choices that will define the course of their lives.
The story is about two cousins who used to be a couple. Due to their granddad illness, they have to pretend that they are still happy together and are going to marry soon.
Harri is a lieutenant colonel in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during school holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going to an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea.
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.
A self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis juggles a fawning ingenue, a crazed playwright, his ex-wife, and the personal lives of his friends. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 45, episode 4).
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Life in boxes, objects as a form of memory. Two-time Oscar nominee Edward Lachman shows us the loft in New York where he lives surrounded by boxes.
Actresses Minji and Hannah are close friends and like Junho at the same time. The car with three people on its way to the beach smells like farts. One of the two is is doing her best in acting.
The real life story of a blind woman with no home, living her four sisters pact of keeping her at their respective residences for a month each.
A devout child is awoken by her mother's scream, and after investigating realizes she must fight to escape the same fate.
Through newly discovered geological and statistical patterns, many believe it can be proven that the Tribulation is about to begin!
Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limits.
Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.
A working mother with a teenage son shifts to a new town to escape her abusive husband and to begin a new life, but when she finds that her son is being forced to be party to a violent crime by his psychotic class friend, she has to decide if she is going to run away again or fight her deepest fears and stand up for herself.
Jameson First Shot short film starring Dominic West.
Rich archive and emotional interviews are at the core of this telling of the turbulent life of British footballer Justin Fashanu. His coming out in an age of widespread homophobia not only damaged his football career, but led to the demise of his relationship with the brother with whom he shared a painful early history and a lifelong rivalry.
11-year-old Misha is coming from Russia to Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games to live with his mother. He does not know there is a father waiting for him.
Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving portrait of two counterparts, attracting and repelling, is also an ode to Belo Horizonte: a city with no tourist attractions, but bags of atmosphere and lust for life.
The short film tells the story of a woman who was betrayed by the man she loved and lost her unborn child. The depressed woman arrives at a deserted beach, where she becomes a silent witness to the clarification of her life story.
Two sex workers decide to kick men out of the system and form a cooperative that runs the business for women and by women. How do they do things differently? And how far can they get under and overarching and overbearing patriarchy?
Tenzin Banjue, a young Tibetan monk living in the temple, takes a long way back home for the first time to visit his brother who is in a vegetative state from falling off the cliff. Despite finding himself enamored by his brother's fiancée, he refuses his mother's offer to stay and marry her, who at the same time gets a marriage proposal from another man. Struggling between faith to his religion and truth to his heart of love, Tenzin, together with his brother and fiancée, takes on a soul searching journey of five thousand kilometers.
An Icelandic volcano has blocked air traffic and Thelma’s parents are stuck overseas. Until planes start flying across the sky again Jean, Vincent and Thelma share the same roof.
An ordinary man must embark on a search to find his missing wife that leads him to an abandoned house where a mysterious family lives who harbor an evil secret within the house and themselves.
A young man is searching for his place in the world. He finds his way, religion and his "brothers" in the radical Islam. What begins with the wish of helping people in Syria leads Jan through religious murder as an ISIS-soldier and back to his home county Germany.
Etsuko (Rinko Kikuchi) was given the post to take charge in the launch of a web media site which specifically deals with the theme “the streets and the town of Tokyo”. So her recent daily routine was to walk around town searching for materials that may be suitable for the plan. One day she runs into a sake barrel stacked in a shrine in Kagurazaka (Shinjuku District, Tokyo), and she finds herself immediately interested in sake and it’s history with the Kagurazaka area. She decides to do a research, and calls photographer and long time friend Ikeda (Yota Kawase), and starts her quest for the secret of the fascinating sake and the historical town. For Etsuko, who had been stressed out by her busy work, her idea of gathering interesting informations and meeting people for her job turned out becoming an exciting journey which eventually leads Etsuko to reconcile with her peaceful heart and mind, which had always been her nature.