a true to life story of Meliton Geronimo: Nicknamed "Mayor Latigo (Lit.: Mayor Whip)"
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a true to life story of Meliton Geronimo: Nicknamed "Mayor Latigo (Lit.: Mayor Whip)"
Forrest J. Ackerman styles himself as the number-one fan of science fiction and horror movies, and he has the collection to back it up: more than 350,000 books, publicity stills, lobby cards, props, posters and paintings related to his obsession.
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Police Commander Falcon is on the hunt for a serial killer. When the murderer switches clothes with a vagabond and fools the police forces he resumes his killings and goes after Falcon and his family.
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
A man cannot find a use for himself in life, he constantly finds himself in funny and silly situations.
Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.
Join the cast and crew for a making of featurette on the movie about a puppeteer's journey to bring inanimate objects to life during World War II.
On a frozen and forbidding shoreline of northern Sakhalin Island, to the north of Japan, live the Nyvkh people, whose austere, heroic struggle for survival depends solely on their ability to hunt the seal and to fish. This blunt glimpse into their quarters, animistic rituals, and daily (and nightly) lives has all the appearance of a well-shot documentary but is in fact a scripted film with convincing special effects, based on a novella of the same title by the gifted and controversial Soviet Kirghiz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov. "Dog running at the edge of the sea" is what the Nyvkhs call the forbidding place they have domesticated as their home, husbanding and speaking of it by means of myths and "poetry of the concrete" with which they commemorate their savage lives.
The world of illegal kickboxing is a dangerous jungle! The fighters are surrounded by prostitution, loan sharking, drugs and guns. Even before they enter the ring, outside influences forced by two vicious crime lords are tearing these back street gladiators apart. The main event is set, two fighters-one winner.
Tashkent, 1942. At this time, the hospitable city became a refuge for tens of thousands of people tired of hunger and cold war years. In urban stores, warehouses and markets in abundance of food and other goods. All this attracts the attention of criminals of different stripes, who in search of easy money gathered in Tashkent from all over the vast country. There are several criminal groups here. At the beginning of summer in the city there is a new gang operating with special impudence and cruelty…
A 1991 Filipino drama film directed by Laurice Guillen.
Corinne Vanier is the young and charming secretary of a computer company run by Jacques Touret. For some time now, she has been seeing on her computer screen declarations of love that are as anonymous as they are passionate. Their author, Michel Alliard, a young executive in love, is too shy to dare approach Corinne directly. While trying to obtain more precise information on the identity of her mysterious suitor, Corinne becomes convinced, through an unfortunate combination of circumstances, that he is none other than Jacques Touret, her manager. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings.
A Texas honky tonk concert reveals a major problem.
Harry Connick, Jr. has redefined the art of jazz piano and vocals. His repertoire ranges from stylish and witty interpretations of jazz standards to his own compositions, arranged for solo piano, jazz trio and big band. Singin' & Swingin' charts Harry's exploration of this musical style, in videos for five songs, and in three songs filmed live at London's Dominion Theatre for this home video, plus an exclusive interview.
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.
In Bratislava at the end of the 1980s, two estranged sisters try to make up with each other while balancing their private lives and careers.
Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting on the Eastern Front. So Kati draws her daughter Marie alone. A bomb attack destroys the shop and the apartment.
Pyar Hua Chori Chori is the story of a simple man, Vijay (Mithun Chakraborty), looking for quick money for his son's operation. He finds himself an offer to act as a husband for a rich, wealthy girl (Gautami) for two weeks in return for his much-needed money. The make-believe marriage finally ends up in love, but Vijay has a dark past, which would hurt every one. Can he manage to survive?
Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.
This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.
A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.
A woman, a string quartet, and a lot of anxiety.
All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.
Two religious maniacs, Judas and Corned Beef, are visited by two aliens, Madeline Virbasius and Dion. Virbasius, dressed as the Virgin Mary, tells the two to kill people for Jesus and to drain the puss from their heads and bring it back to them. Fleming and Hammer set out to bring "the Virgin Mary" back as much puss as possible in a bucket.
Heartless Mrs. Mavilda runs an orphanage where kids live in miserable conditions because she keeps all of the donation money for herself. She hires a new assistant who, along with Santa, helps children finally have a merry Christmas.
A stilted male writer, Brian, is paired with a more carefree female associate to try to improve their stories. Meanwhile, he allows a sexy girl-friend to go away frustrated, and he shyly slides through other opportunities for relationships. Two major subplots arise: Brian's career path and his social life.
An elderly man looks to a mysterious old woman to help him regain his youth, but the woman has her own agenda.
How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.
Yoon-mi and Min-wook, who have been married for two years, are living happily while running a ranch when Min-wook is seriously injured in an accident caused by the careless driving of a cowherd named Ji-hoon, leaving him permanently disabled. Their happy family is shattered, and Ji-hoon is sent to prison. After being released from prison, Ji-hoon works diligently to make amends for the happiness he took away from Yoon-mi and Min-wook, but Min-wook becomes increasingly bitter.
In this comedy, Janko a thief and Vanja an author meet when Janko robs the house in which Vanja is writing his essay on cathedrals. In the ensuing brawl Janko steals the manuscript. A retrieval chase follows.
A wife drags her husband on a dangerous cross-continental journey to find the truth about her father's death.
A film largely from the backstage of Yes' Union tour. The concert footage is interspersed with a narrative of Yes' history, told in the words of various band members. (Everyone but Banks, Moraz, Horn and Downes are present). As a reunion show, it's a strange affair, as you get to see the different configurations of Yes (Kaye and Wakeman, Rabin and Howe, White and Bruford) interacting with each other. Still, the emphasis is on the individuals themselves, and there are plenty of good stories here.
A collection of Enya's music videos: Orinoco Flow, Exile, Storms in Africa II, Evening Falls, and Caribbean Blue.
The story begins in 1984 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, few years before the end of Communist era. The band Pražský výběr (Prague's selection) has just received the news thier 5-year ban has expired and they are alowed to perform once again. This half fantasy half document about the band would draw the atmosphere of middle european late Communist era and the eufory of it's end.
"The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a banknote counter that made confetti out of money.
A group of workers at a beer factory fight crime together.
Hugo Stiglitz is a treasure hunter who leads an expedition that includes Roberto Ballesteros, an important scientist, and Edna Bolkan, a beautiful anthropologist, into the jungle. The group arrives at an ancient tomb and after opening it, they take the bones found inside. But the remains in the tomb seem connected to a high priest who was sacrificed. By violating the tomb, the group has unwittingly awoken a diabolical being named Chaneque, who will commit the bloodiest murders in order to retrieve the stolen remains. The key to the plot is a little girl who the beast intends to kill
Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder.
The sisters have been living in a Soviet barracks in Hungary for eleven years. They long to go to Moscow, but they are drawn here by habituation and inertia. Their father, the brigade commander, is dead, yet they are unable to act and prefer to remain in the closed world of the barracks. So the plot is the same, only the setting has changed.
Take to the skies with the Royal Air Force to learn how fighter pilots heroically defended the UK against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.
Movie about 5 friends who try and change the ways of their brother in law...Starring Arjun Rubini...And music by Maestro Illayaraja
Doug Hawkins IS Footscray! The man who has had an entire wing at the Western Oval lovingly named after him by the loyal Footscray supporters has, for over a decade, been the lifeblood of the Western suburbs club.
It describes the social process of stratification in the Serbian countryside during late 19th century, which occurs with the penetration of the commodity-money in the countryside. Under new conditions, peasants and farmers are unable to adapt, and rot under the burden of debts.
Two sisters are in search of their grandfather's body so it can be buried in their family tomb. In the jungle, they run afoul of gangsters performing an evil experiment involving blood that turns them into zombies. A Sword of God may be involved, a bunch of exorcists and zombie attacks are also involved. Also, the zombies know martial arts.
"Don't Blame Me" is John 'Ozzy' Osbourne's personal, gripping and frank invitation to see who he really is and what he's really been through. Filmed on location at his British and American homes, Ozzy reveals the truth behind his then 23 years of solo stardom with unnerving honesty.
Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother when they were children. She serves as the wife and mother to both and, tired of this situation, she wants to go to Marseille to find a job, and then live there.
Shapely Rosa Gloria Chagoyan rips it up as moto-cyclin' hot shot Ana Rosa, La Guerrera Vengadora (the Avenging Warrior Woman). Accompanied by her dwarf sidekick Reintegro (Refund), La Guerrera battles evildoers in this flick that could been lifted straight from the pages of a cheap action-hero comic book. La Guerrera and her buddies are seemingly impervious to bullets (especially machine gun fire), which gives them plenty of time to pick off their opponents with automatic weapons, including a three-barrel contraption that shoots from La Guerrera's motorcycle fairing, a shitload of grenades, a crossbow with a laser scope, and whatever else is at hand. Also, our heroine likes to work on her bike in high heels and hot pants -- before breakfast.
Удивительная романтическая история случилась под Новый год в старинной графской усадьбе, в которой расположился сегодня Дом Творчества. Здесь работает писатель над романом. В покои, где когда — то обитала красавица графиня, поселилась молодая женщина с детьми, удивительно похожая на бывшую хозяйку. Но старые стены хранят память о былом и хозяйка является сюда из прошлого… Так кто же эта женщина, в которую влюбляется писатель?
Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who unexpectedly discovers the secret hideout of a gang of thieves. In a magical cave of thieves keep the immense treasures that have been usurped over the years.
This film tells the story about a young man, Irving, who returns to the house where he grew up - just after the death of his father, whose reputation got destroyed by the suicide of a young woman he had an affair with. Irving left his small-town home a long time ago, after breaking off relations with his father, who was capable of all kinds of wrongdoing. In particular, Irving's old man got a girl pregnant and didn't even begin to do the right thing by her. Now that the old coot is dead and he is the sole heir, Irving has come back to town determined to right past wrongs, and see to it that the girl's family benefits from his legacy. The young man soon gets obsessed by the house and the past of his dad...
Perum Pulli is the story of an innocent youth and his love for his mother.
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war.
A beauty pageant falls in love with an unknown man.