Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

The story of the celebration of the historic three-day Havana Jam festival at the Karl Marx Theatre, in Havana, Cuba, from March 2-4, 1979.

Unzips america’s obsession with sex and takes us on a steamy trip through the milesones of erotic cinema. Discover how movies have reflected our changing attitudes towards sex over the decades, and how they inspire our own sexual liberation.

Documentary about the mysterious death of conservationist Joan Root in Kenya in 2006.

A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.

The 10 Conditions of Love follows the personal and political struggle of Rebiya Kadeer, the most galvanizing leader of the Uyghur people in 60 years. The Uyghur are China's Muslim minority. From poverty to wealth, protest to imprisonment, Rebiya now lives in exile in the United States. Here she is quickly gaining influential friends and media coverage to help her campaign for her people's human rights. As a result, her children are in prison in China This is a story about the ruthless oppression of 20-million people; of Super Power politicking; and of the pain of a deeply loving family torn violently apart.

An amateur cycling team from Albania heads to France to take part in a tournament only to discover on the way that revolution has broken out back home.

Actor Jimi Mistry has worked with Gurinder Chadha, Roland Emmerich, Edward Zwick and Guy Ritchie, rejecting the Hollywood lifestyle to remain based in the UK. Now he has teamed up with director Steve Jaggi and filmed a love song to Ibiza called And The Beat Goes On. Well-received at both the Ibiza International Music Summit and the Ibiza Film Festival last month.

Tells the story of a parolee, given a second chance at life, who falls victim to the viral, infectious control of the evil Dollman.

Durul is actually a solid, traditional, nationalistic, honest, brave, helpful young man who is the same on the inside as he is on the outside, but years ago, while trying to help a seriously injured stranger on the street, he ends up getting caught. By the time he served his sentence, he had missed his chance at education and never acquired a profession—in other words, he had "missed out on life." The only thing he learned inside was the "Code of Honor for Young Men." His name had become "The Killer," and he had already paid the price for it. Therefore, using this capital to survive in this world had become a necessity. If the powerful have taken control of the corners and the rules of the game are set, then at the intersections of those corners, they will inevitably encounter Deli Dumrul at the head of every bridge.

TURBO is a high adrenaline short film that tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”. When Pharaoh King (Jocko Sims, Crash the Series), the Michael Jordan of cyber-sports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro-team, Hugo sets his eyes on the prize.

Like the characters of the world famous splatter movie, it is a legendary village where killers who wear hockey masks on their faces and attack visitors live there. Its existence is rumored all over Japan.

This love story is worthy of romantic Paris with its river Seine. But it unfolds in the Russian countryside, among birch groves and endless fields of freshly mown hay. Only Kolya Evlashkin is released from places not so remote and – here you are, he gets to the police again: he just helps to bring a bag to citizen Lemesheva, and he is accused of theft. Nadia can see for herself that this man doesn't look like a thief at all. She withdraws her statement from the police and even lends money to a new acquaintance. Kolya arrives in the village where Nadia lives.

Voiceprint's researchers were able to secure rarely seen film footage that had only been previously seen either on TV or in extract on video. Although the history of Yes is well documented elsewhere, it is worth reminding ourselves of the history and background to the production that we can now view it for the first time on DVD. The performances featured on this DVD demonstrate the beginnings of the journey and the creativity of a band that has been so influential in the development of a genre that has defied time and generation so as to become the soundtrack and vision in so many lives. This musical release from the '70s progressive rock band Yes features live performances and music videos of several of the band's hits, including "Astral Traveller," "Everydays," "Then," and "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed."

Three soldiers must fight to survive the night in a seemingly abandoned house, when a zombie platoon attacks.

"Hirano Aya 1st LIVE 2008 RIOT TOUR LIVE DVD" is the first music DVD released by Hirano Aya. It also featured making footages in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama cities and a special multi-angle video.

Lt. Sandy Fletcher leads her squad of beat up "Hell Patrollers" across a post-zombalyptic wasteland, to the safe city of San Francisco after a failed scrounging mission in Modesto, California. Her squad finds refuge in an abandoned farmhouse and they fortify the grounds for a possible attack. Lt. Fletcher, Sgt. Mark Daniels, Cpl. Chopper, Pvt. Mcwatt and Maj. Karl Brickhaus must fight their way through the unending wave of the undead to get home.

A child death in a small german town dismay its inhabitants, who start to think that the death is related with an old leyend.

A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.

A Movie For Television dealing and exercising thoughts of Men Controlled Societies which are somehow similar in the east and west both. The movie shows how a woman is treated unfair just because her husband wanted a baby boy and she delivered 4 daughters. From sunrise to sunset, this one-day-actions movies follows the nerve pressed Aziza with all the unexpected accidents.

The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic Clash of the Titans.

A young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer finds himself struggling between the expectations of his family and the demands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon, but his mother, haunted by a past romance, hopes her son will stand up for what he believes.

Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her adulterous mother.

Nine men and women, employees of Interplanetary Corporation, live and work on Mars. Their days aren't particularly interesting, much less exciting, until they are assaulted by a murderous band of strangers and a seemingly unstoppable alien creature. Do these attacks have anything to do with the Martian fossil recently uncovered by one of the employees? Will the rapidly increasing body count adversely affect Interplanetary's stock price? And can anyone survive long enough to fill out the inevitable paperwork?

Anne is determined to find a place to call home, but she soon discovers that New York City's realty market is satiated with sleazy brokers, strange roommates and scary dwellings. Even the perfect place she eventually finds has a secret of its own.

Motorized Mayhem...A Redneck Rodeo.

An intense drama about two people who stumble across each other while seeking shelter in an abandoned mansion from the post apocalyptic world that lurks outside the walls.

Separated by fewer than ten miles, the two schools have been going at it on the hardwood since 1920. But over the past 25 years, their heated competition has steadily grown in intensity, with Duke and North Carolina gearing up each season to reach a common goal: to beat their archrival twice in the regular season, regardless of rankings or won-loss records. These two Atlantic Coast Conference powerhouses frequently dominate the conference standings, and routinely compete for the top spot in the national polls. Remarkably, since the NCAA Tournament expanded to its current configuration in 1985, these two schools alone have combined for more national titles (five) and made more Final Four appearances (18), than any other entire conference.

Joy's parents are busy searching for a suitable match for him, but are cheated by matchmakers. Meanwhile, Joy falls in love with an air-hostess who doesn't show interest in him. Will Joy convince her?

One night, three young women, the neon lights of the boulevards, empty streets, a mall, quiet gardens, the tower plaza, the esplanade of the station, a farewell coffee, a camera, a concert, a terrace, then the city waking up, Montparnasse.

A young man learns that people don't expect others to have good intentions.

A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide.

The female gender is always presumed to be the weaker one and thus crying is thought to be one of the natural attributes of women. Just like flirting and coyness, in many occasions crying is a way of admitting a vulnerable position by women in order to gain recognition within an androcratic system. When a woman fails to cry on an occasion as appropriate, she would often be seen as ‘cold’ or ‘shameless’ whereas if a man holds back his tears, it is deemed an act of strength. In this work, Jiang reduces the signification of women’s tears to a mere physical composite, challenging our habitual reference to its social signification. In this video, celebrity Gillian Chung performs the delicate emotional transition from gently smiling to breaking down in tears. The work demands viewers to forsake our presuppositions; while at the same time heightens our sense of appreciation for the pure visual aesthetics of an emotional transition.

Conquering insecurity is easier said than done. Icelanders Eva and Vidar find out the hard way, as they take their relationship to the next level.

Miharu, who returned to Japan due to sudden company bankruptcy, finds a letter in an empty room after a long absence. With memories of his old lover in his heart, Miharu heads north on a motorbike, relying on the letter. While riding a motorcycle, Miharu meets a man who has an 8mm camera that his former lover had.

This is a documentary that's included with the Our Gang mega-set of eight DVDs. This in on disc eight--the Bonus disc. It's a relatively short film of under 30 minutes--which just isn't enough considering that the series went for for over 20 years (if you count the films later made by MGM after the series was sold by Hal Roach Studios).

John Clem heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John feels a sense of home, something he hasn't felt since he was a child. Running into Avery (Ray Wise - Twin Peaks, Reaper) his father's colleague, he receives no help on his dad's disappearance, but instead, a new set of eyes in which to view the living world around him.

In fifteen minutes, Olivier receives a “quickie”. But is it as simple as that?

Three Australian couples stumble across an ancient curse in the Outback, and their dream holiday turns into a nightmare that may kill them all.

“This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished with a chromium plating, which reflects its surroundings. For this project, I tried to obtain the image of a metal sculpture as an existing entity and its reflection as an illusion on a film medium, which can hold an image as an object. It was originally shot on 8mm film, hand-processed, edited, then re-photographed on 16mm film.” - Yo Ota

Kunchacko has made money by hook or crook on his way to the top. But, after marrying Ann Mary, he tries to turn over a new leaf but will his past catch up with him?

GANESH, BOY WONDER captures the remarkable story of Krishna and Jayamma, a working class Indian couple who prayed to the god Ganesh to bless them with a boy, never dreaming that their son would actually look like his namesake, the elephant-headed deity. Years after giving up all hope of finding medical help, an accidental meeting with a reporter’s brother leads to a national television story on Ganesh’s facial deformity. The resulting media sensation draws the interest of India’s rich and powerful, and a Canadian plastic surgeon, Dr. Sanjeev Kaila, who changes their lives forever. Acclaimed feature filmmaker Srinivas Krishna (Masala, Lulu) makes his documentary debut with this powerful and moving story about love, faith and hope.

Two woman, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity, meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind they find that escape carries with it a different set of responsibilities.

A nightclub owner tries to prevent her son from marrying one of the club's escorts. Twenty years later, now a grandmother, she seeks revenge on the woman who ruined their lives.

Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.

For ten year-old Madeline, it takes more than just day dreaming to survive school; it takes a friend.

A look at writer Dennis Spooner’s work on Doctor Who.

On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and from, day and night. On the roadside: prostitutes, cops, petty racketeers, garage owners, mechanics.

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-demand representatives of her vocal category. Opposite her, in the role of Adriana, is a soprano who as a Verdi and verismo specialist also appears regularly at all the major international opera houses, Micaela Carosi. The 'cock-of-the-walk' role is sung by the world-class tenor Marcelo Álvarez. His timbre, velvety smooth yet robustly virile, is ideally suited to a vocal characterisation of the idolised Maurizio. Conductor Renato Palumbo is very much at home with Cilea's operatic masterpiece, since the Italian Romantic and verismo periods are at the core of his extensive repertoire.

Two blind jewel thieves, a young man who can’t succeed at killing himself, a love-struck police officer and two female morgue attendants find their lives interconnected when an unusual fish is set free and a charmed ring is moved.

A dance group faces challenges and betrayal after competing against reigning champions in an underground dance competition.

Tom Duffy has traveled the roads of Ireland with his family circus since the day he was born. His ancestors have made the same journey since 1827. Circus man moves through Toms memories as he fights to stay on the road.

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.