Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Mr Bechara is a shy printer who, since the passing of his wife, has been taking care of his infant son. However, his simple life is blown apart by the arrival of the unorthodox techniques of one Dr Dayanand.

The childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirschfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in the entertainment industry - over a span of more than sixty years. He is still drawing in his nineties. His interesting domestic life, political, and cultural views are highlights. In addition, he talks about himself a bit - seriously and lightly.(At one point he he claims that his only form of exercise has been to live in his Manhattan townhouse: stairs). He drives his car around Manhattan - an adventure in itself. Brief interviews with, and reminiscences of many friends and associates.

This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.

To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story

Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.

Six people. One weekend. The possibilities are endless when city meets country in this roundelay of old flames, new flings, and last chances.

True story of a yuppie couple's Alaskan trip turning into a wilderness survival struggle.

A sexy young women journey through a film noir full of deceit, murder, and dangerous romance.

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

The year is 2157. An alien organization with ultra-high technology, 'Eed', invades the Earth. As the Earth fa ces extinction, Elka, a descendant of the lost continent Atlantis, looks with the help of a super power computer Delta 8988, for the last hero who may be able to save the world. It turns out to be Oh Haesung who lives in the 20th century. Marie, a special agent sent from Elka, comes to the year 1996 with the important mission of fetching Haesung. However, Eed also finds out about Haesung and sends an assassin.

The sensual images depict the love and hatred between four men and women living together, creating a new kind of love story. One night, alcoholic writer Akimoto and live-in former actress Yumiko meet Koichi, a gay drug dealer pursued by the yakuza, and his younger brother Yuji, a castrated man. The four of them flee Tokyo and start living together in Koichi and Yuji's childhood hideout. In the midst of their peaceful life, Yumiko falls in love with Yuji, but he is unable to give her any physical satisfaction. In the meantime, Yuji asks Koichi to hold Yumiko instead of him, which leads to jealousy among the men.

A convict freshly out of prison is given an undercover name "Krishna" and the task to bring down a drug kingpin and his cartel.

Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja.

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

Welcome to the front lines of AIDS activism, where the latest enemy raids are being run by a band of unlikely warriors: two drag queens, an HIV-positive man with tiny gemstones dotting his bald head, and his HIV-positive sister.

The Snow Queen holds Ellie responsible for ruining her plans to freeze the world and sets out to seek revenge. She kidnaps Dimly the flying reindeer and once again Ellie and her friend Peeps the Sparrow are forced to travel, this time to the South Pole, where the Snow Queen and her Trolls have taken up residence.

A mysterious stranger presents a boy with a VCR that can "play" the past...and the future. How it affects the boy and his struggling middle-class family is the central story.

Battle Skipper is a Japanese direct-to-video animated series based on the small toy mecha action figures by Tomy. Battle Skipper The Movie is a compilation of the 3 episode OVA that focuses mostly on the girls of St Ignacio's School for girls than the mecha itself.

When young computer genius Rudy inherits his father's business his avaricious uncle has him kidnapped and held hostage until the boy signs off all rights to the lucrative enterprise. Not wanting the uncle to control, a pair of corporate executives happen upon a youth who looks just like the missing heir. In hopes of keeping the business afloat, they substitute him at the board meetings.

Tung Choi Street Car God Chan Mo Nam and his best buddy Sam Bat Jai, Tung Tung all worship sex symbol Francoise Yip Fong Fa. Their biggest wish is to be able to meet her in person. In order to meet their idol, the three become temp actors, only to be degraded by her manager Bobby. The trio in anger kidnap Wa, during which they treat Wa like a Goddess, but Wa didn't resist the kidnapping. Wa reveals to Nam that all along Bobby is using a video of Wa being raped to threaten her and keep her as his money tree......

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

Filmed in India, Rumer Godden’s story has been adapted and directed by the Jewel in the Crown team. Two English schoolgirls arrive in New Delhi, 1959. Their diplomat father has secured them a beautiful Eurasian governess. 15-year-old Una suspects an ulterior motive. But her father’s affairs take second place to her own when she has a secret affair with the Indian gardener.

In a time of misery and fear two enemies come together to prevent an apocalypse conspired by their leaders. 40 years of war between the Federated Republics and the New Territories Union has taken its toll. The cities are overcrowded, farming land is riddled with unexploded mines -- and still there is no hope of peace. In this hostile, decaying world of the future on thing remains constant for Lieutenant Leo Megaw; his love for his pregnant wife. Her access to classified information makes her an increasing liability for the government. When she's ambushed, Leo is forced into exile. As a border patrolman on the isolated outpost of Zone 39, ordered to kill anyone that tries to cross the border, he comes to understand that ultimate catastrophe forced upon his world by his government. The real enemy is not looming across the border but standing right behind him. Now he must reach across the border into enemy territory and form an alliance to save his world.

Friends flash back to a fight between pals that left one dead earlier that night in Las Vegas.

The film charts the fortunes of two women who loved each other as sisters, but whose paths diverge when the Revolution brings an end to their old way of life in the brothel.

Tenderly played Japanese love triangle between a man, his girlfriend and a transvestite hooker

A romance novelist has a bad habit of cheating on his girlfriends after just two months. His latest girlfriend happens to be a shrink who hopes to get to the bottom of things before it's too late. Meanwhile, the novelist falls in love with the image of a beautiful woman in a painting and has dreams / fantasies set in the 17th Century where the romantic tables are turned on him.

The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they help him to cure his regret over the death of his wife?

Heat After Dark is director Ryuhei Kitamura's first theatrical release. This 50 minute film is predominantly a character study within an intense action drama. Those familiar with Kitamura's later works, perhaps especially Versus will realize this is the beginning of his characetristic modus operandi. Here, the well defined characters consist of the innocent (the cop), the relatively good (Atsuro Watabe), the relatively bad (Shinichi Suzuki), and the absolutely bad (Shigeru Izumiya ), and a few other Yakuza hoodlums thrown in for entertainment.

Sam Bo is a good-for-nothing gambler who loses more often than winning. His wife Hyun Jip takes care of the household and brings home the money. Her outstanding beauty and charm bring her a bevy of neighborhood admirers who are willing to provide her with anything she desires. The neighborhood women go up in arms when they realize their husbands are contributing to Hyun Jip's funds in exchange for her services. They try to run her out of the village but in vain. Sam Dol, the local farmhand, is known for his sexual prowess and his latest target is Hyun Jip. But when she continues to turn him down, he takes revenge on her by telling her husband what she has done.

After an archaeological team in Arizona unearths a werewolf skeleton and one of them develops symptoms of lycanthropy before dying, the dig's foreman, Yuri, tries to infect other townspeople as an experiment. When a science writer named Paul takes up residence in the town to cover the dig and develops a romantic interest in a female team member, Yuri makes Paul his next target.

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When Blackie Blacavov and his sister Barbara inherit 50,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness, he tries to live a more harmonious, natural existence on the land. But Barbara, without informing Blackie, gives mining exploration rights to King, a businessman with a passion for hunting wolves. On the sly, King also uses the area as a toxic waste dump. So Blackie and Barbara join together with the wolves to defeat their common enemy and save the idyllic refuge.

On the day of their silver wedding, the wife accused her husband of being impotent and went to another man - an Arab sheikh who suddenly turned up. The manhood of a dejected spouse is wounded and cannot be treated - but then love unexpectedly arrives...

In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. A father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, his kids still play games with their grandma who enjoys the harmony in hardship.

Just as Mary is about to take a romantic vacation with her boyfriend, a terrible accident leaves her paralyzed. Bitter and devastated by her condition, she shuns her friends, but with the help of Joe, a fellow paraplegic, she learns to embrace life and love again.

Josh and his pals, after saving many mixed up, time-twisted worlds now find themselves in the center of the earth, in a cavern full of mushroom people. They call themselves the 'Shrooms, and Azabeth, mistakes them for a delicious treat from her planet and takes a huge bite out of one of the taller 'Shrooms, which poisons her, leaving her in a weak and disoriented state. Now it is up to Josh, Irwin, Prism, and new friend Porcini, the Italian 'Shroom, to find the cure to the mushroom disease and save Azabeth from certain death. The journey won't be easy, however, because they will face many challenges within the deep, dark caverns. Nightmare Hollow, which is off-limits to all of the 'Shrooms, is an especially dangerous part of the caverns, and just exactly where our lovable heroes must journey to. It is there that they will learn of the history of time itself and confront the most frightening foe yet...the Muncher!

Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beautiful naked women. One day, whilst hauling loads of fish in Hokkaido, they are separately stopped by traffic police, who impound their trucks for various violations. About this time, one of the women meets a handsome man, with whom romance is a possibility. Then, the women discover they have been tricked. The cops were connected with the Russian mafia, who intend to ship their trucks offshore and sell them.

Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.

A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The world's greatest swordsman, Shuranosuke Sakaki, is called in to get the sword back.

Sung-chul (Park Joong-hoon), a Korean gangster, flees to Japan after killing a subordinate. On the flight, He-gu (Park Sang-min), an aspiring bartender, discovers his true identity and is forced to act as his guide. Despite multiple betrayals and brushes with death, the two form an uneasy bond. As Sung-chul rises through the ranks of the yakuza, He-gu too is drawn into the criminal underworld. Clumsy but determined, He-gu survives power struggles, betrayal, and heartbreak—only to make reckless decisions that ultimately lead to chaos. In the end, Sung-chul is ordered to eliminate He-gu. At the seaside, after one final plea for mercy, He-gu is shot dead by Sung-chul, who walks away silently.

Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.

Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would take his place, but Alexei tried with all his might to remain out of power and wished for ordinary human happiness.

After a nuclear war, four warriors from Earth awaken on a space ship. Unable to determine what purpose they are there and, above all, who rescued them, panic breaks out. The young scientist Lee and his attractive colleague Susan face the killer aliens in a bitter struggle for the survival of mankind.

On Halloween night, Pooh and the gang are ready for Halloween, but Piglet is too scared to join in.

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After her husband and child are murdered, a woman becomes an assassin for hire.

When Kozue wakes up, she finds the brutally murdered body of her boyfriend. Falsely accused of the crime, she escapes and teams up with a man to uncover the truth behind the incident. It turns out that her boyfriend had been plotting with the yakuza to steal a diamond from the world-famous jewelry designer Junko and sell it. Kozue visits Junko's mountain villa to ask for her cooperation, but Junko demands sexual favors in return, which Kozue reluctantly accepts. However, when the yakuza arrive, Junko is repeatedly assaulted. Kozue tries to flee but ends up being captured as well…

Two old friends reunite before a wedding to put the sins of their past behind them. What starts out as an evening of reconciliation turns into a night of sex and betrayal. A woman once again comes between them - one friend sets up another.

Raj Malhotra lives with his mother, and comes from a very wealthy family. He meets Priya Bhatia, who works with a real estate agency, and instantly falls in love with her.

Christine and her friend Linda live together and get on very well - except when it comes to men. While Christine is still mourning her ex-boyfriend, Linda takes things like sex and relationships rather casually. Barbara, the third in the group, is completely different: she has been in steady hands for seven years and still believes in the one great love.

Takeko was an ordinary married woman whose daily routine was to keep a diary. Takeko falls into a delusion due to her diary and begins to desire the body of a barbaric man...

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic.

A teen martial arts expert takes on a bunch of thugs who are forcing a community to sell their property in order to build a mall.

The presence of a malicious stranger threatens to destroy the peace and harmony of a vacationing executive's family life.

Sagar is a young man who lives with his mom, Saraswati, a college-going brother, Vishal, and a school-going sister, Chutki, in a town in India. His father had abandoned them years ago and his whereabouts are unknown. Also unknown to his family, Sagar uses different disguises to steal money and jewelry from Dhaniram Koilewala, and an illicit liquor supplier, Pascal.

Two brothers live on the opposite sides of the law. One a cop, the other working the waterfront as a crooked businessman. When the policeman is mysteriously murdered, the crook becomes spurred to vengeance and joins forces with a journalist to nail the dirty cops who ordered the hit.

Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister--and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the police and mob hit men after the money.

An aspiring actress hits the highway through the American Southwest looking to confront her cheating boyfriend when she picks up a charming, small-time robber on the run after hitting gas stations linked to a drug money laundering operation. Their spontaneous road trip quickly ignites into a high-stakes Bonnie-and-Clyde-style adventure as the pair gets tangled in a web of federal corruption involving crooked FBI agents.

A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.