The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.
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The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films.
Two little girls hide in the boys' bathroom at school so they can find out what happens there. When two boys come in, the four gradually talk each other into taking off their clothes. The principal catches them, and angrily berates them for what they've been up to, warning them that he'll have to tell their parents about the incident. Later repercussions are seen as parents of three of them separately discuss and fight about what has happened, with some taking a winking attitude of their child's discovery and others battling about how to react. Returning to school poses an additional challenge, as everyone has found out what has gone on.
A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill his dream.
A young nobleman returns to his crumbling family castle, only to learn that his wife has died giving birth to their stillborn child. But why is her coffin empty? What follows is a uniquely told shocker of grief, lust, dark secrets and the hungers of the grave.
Hong Kong sex comedy film.
A take off on The Godfather with canines in the roles of the Corleone family.
Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and responsible for a series of killings. The local Abbot is called upon to form a team to investigate, in an effort to halt the harrowing murders.
Four mercenaries, employed by an African country, are responsible for negotiating a purchase of arms. They seize the sum planned for the negotiations and three of them flee to Spain after having abandoned the fourth in the bush. The latter manages to survive and then finds his accomplices who lead happy life ...
A married man has two daughters with his mistress and then abandons her. Years later, the mother is killed in a train accident while the now-grown daughters become involved with prostitution, pimps, rape and incest.
Italian sex comedy based on the tales of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The squire John Attelano eager to put his son Falcotto on track, makes him marry Firdalba, the Rampaldi daughter. The newlyweds will receive 15,000 florins on condition that she reaches the altar a virgin and that he did not betray. On the day awaited the bride arrives at the church accompanied by the nurse and the Toro servant, but before reaching the surgeon who has to establish his virginity, was repeatedly raped. At the expense will Falcotto and future father in law.
A juvenile reform prison hires a psychologist, Dr. Essmat, to help in the reformation and rehabilitation of the girls in the prison. As he studies their cases and tries to find solutions for their problems, the compassionate Dr. Essmat is confronted with the numerous problems that led the girls to be imprisoned. When one of the girls claims that he raped her he finds himself in trouble with the prison administration, but when she reveals the truth the girls take a different view towards Dr. Essmat and try to help him achieve his goals in reforming them.
Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home.
The famed Ivy Ling Po (Temple Of The Red Lotus) stars as a mysterious swordswoman dedicated to keeping the five volume "Five Generations Fighting Methods" kung-fu manual out of evil-doers' hands. She joins Ling Yun, star of The Iron Buddha, who plays a hero known only as the Roving Knight to fight, train, then fight again -- facing such characters as The Six-Armed Giant and The 1000-Cut in this action-packed adventure.
A high-school reunion held at a hotel serves as an excuse for some alumni to resume old relationships and start new ones--sometimes with several people at once.
Orhan and Cemal are two thieves who work together abroad. Orhan learns that Cemal's grandfather, whom he has not seen since childhood, has a mansion in Istanbul. Orhan, who returns to Istanbul before Cemal, decides to rob the mansion. He goes to the mansion and introduces himself as Cemal. Orhan, who has ten days to rob the mansion, is in for a big surprise.
Humanity builds ocean farms and ocean ranches all over the place, and Robot Taekwon V is tasked with protecting them. Meanwhile, the commander, Hoon, Cheol, and Dr. Norman's daughter Yuri begin to devise countermeasures inside the sea base to find the famous oceanographer Dr. Norman who has gone missing.
In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France.
Tsao Chan (Gordon Liu) is a letter carrier in the countryside who wanders into a town after being accosted by some corrupt cops. He witnesses three men running from a group of houses, and when he investigates he finds two murder victims inside. Meanwhile, a skirmish is developing between a factory owner (Fung Hak On) and his workers, led by two brothers (Paul Chin and Dean Shek). Tsao recognizes the brothers as two of the men fleeing the murder scene, so he decides to ally with the factory boss in order to go solve the crime. Soon though, it becomes clear that the boss and his thugs may have other things in mind that aren't so kosher. Tsao becomes trapped in the middle of the feuding groups and must decide who is honest and who is not.
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada Kid's family.
A group of 19 young women, led by a partizan man, are the only people available to escort a number of partisan wounded in the struggle for freedom, in the mountain ranges invaded by the Nazi army. The crossing of difficult tracks, and a few encounters with enemy patrols provide danger, and death for some heroines. Two girls are in love with the column's commander, but love for the motherland and freedom will prove stronger.
Performing at the Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23, 1978, Carlin mesmerizes his audience in the second of his 12 HBO specials. The show was originally planned as part of a concert/sketch movie, The Illustrated George Carlin, that never came to fruition.The routines include: Death, Kids & Parents, Newscast #2, Time and Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. -- From Amazon.com
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A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.
The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
A doctor develops a robot love doll to keep a team of Antarctic researchers company, but is displeased with the result despite the product’s success. His desire to create a more realistic doll leads the doctor to model one after an attractive college student.
Film about the Latvian Red Riflemen, and life story of August Daume.
Summer vacation begins and Jason and his mother Kaarina go to the country, away from the dust and noise of the city. Jason notices that the others have also come to the vacation home to spend their summer vacation. There are a few big people and one small one. Kaarina loves not having to cook. But Jason thinks people look like they're sitting at home alone. So he starts organizing things a bit. And at the end of the holiday, everyone has new friends!
Comedy, 1974 (Czech Republic) : The movie takes place in England. A group of married middle-aged gentlemen have founded a pretense amateur Egyptology society to maintain some degree of freedom from their wives. The elaborate trick gradually escalates into more and more tangled web of lies and tricks, until they have no option but to disband the society for good.
About the feat of doctor Ivan Rusak, one of the best runners in the country, who during the Great Patriotic War, using the tactics of long-distance running, diverted the Nazi punishers from the partisan camp.
This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...
B-grade action film denotes a wealthy dignitary abducted by elite armed mercenary forces, and the gallant heroes who must brave the "Green Hell" of Africa to rescue him.
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
The camera follows a fly as it walks about the body of a nude woman. Shot in extreme closeup and accompanied by Ono's eponymous song, the film sets out to celebrate the human body.
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.
Stories whose common denominator is the lack of money: a young man who wants to capture a ticket, a boy-scout who dreams of singing the lottery jackpot, a frustrated self-robbery and a playboy who marries the daughter of a butcher.
Funny adventures of Engineer Stefan Karwowski. One day he meet the famous star Irena Orska and fall in love. But there are three problems: his wife and two children. He must choice what is more importent for him - family or Irena.
A golden-masked clan master, who had killed many top fighters, was determined to acquire an invincible sword manual so as to rule the martial world. Hence, he pursued a swordsman who possessed the manual, but the latter managed to escape and discovered a cave whereby he met two martial arts masters who taught him the invincible sword skills...
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
A filmed Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth-century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.
The Sienese Pia Tolomei is imprisoned in a castle by a jealous husband. Based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, inspired by a story from the Italian Middle Ages.
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
Inspector Shiv escapes after he is falsely implicated, causing distress to his family. While his wife goes insane, his son becomes a gangster and they are only reunited years later by a twist of fate.
A documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.
Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
George Benton returns from school to his brother Jonathan's farm as a doctor and marries his fiancé Lory, but happiness doesn't last long. The Fargas brothers provide a bloodbath at the ranch and are able to divert suspicion from themselves onto a gang of passing outlaws, but one of the family has survived the massacre and knows who the actual killers are.
With the menace of a counterfeiting racket operating in Kerala on the rise, CID Inspector Nazir is tasked to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).
Unsold pilot for Carol Lawrence's talk show
A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed authorities such as the family and the prejudices it states, or unavowed as the economy that no individual alone expresses.
Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a Mexican bandit to get even with Ferguson, who has concocted a complicated plan to rob a shipment of gold belonging to the people of Tucson.