Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

An impressionistic, graphic history of one of the world's most infamous streets: Manhattan's 42nd Street. Likened to a DNA strip of New York City, the street has ranged from the glamorous to the derelict, housing everything from peep shows to such international institutions as the United Nations. The documentary is an exploration of the street's expansion from the farmland where Washington bivouacked his troops to the flashy, commercial center that it is today. With historical information, musical performances and personal narratives, the film traces the rise, subsequent dilapidation, and eventual resurgence of a street that has come to represent a place where, notoriously, anything may and has happened.

The film is about four orphans who unite and plan to make quick money to lead a lively life. They enter an elderly couple's home and try to loot the property by disguising themselves as the couple's children. As time passes, the situation becomes very emotional, and they grow very attached to the couple.

The Burnt House is the story of Megan and Joe, a couple who have recently experienced the death their infant son to SIDS. The tragedy has spawned a rift between the two and driven Megan into a secret affair. After Joe loses his mother to a heart attack the couple moves out to Joe's rural childhood home seeking a fresh start. Once in the isolated home strange things begin to occur and long kept secrets try and dig their way out of the past. What happened on November 3rd? Will it happen again?

Pablo and Victoria, an Argentine couple who have been married for eight years, decide to go to Colonia, Uruguay, to celebrate Victoria's birthday and to try and improve their relationship.

Jonas, a successful car-salesman is being suspected having driven over a child. His life is turned upside down and he realize that that we are all responsible, one way or another.

In Aachen ring the wedding bells. It will be the most beautiful day in the life of Julia and Alex. But Manfred, father of the groom and Kleinganove makes him a nightmare. A dead courier, a dorky mafioso, a neurotic old-68, sparkling diamonds and a waiting bride: A wedding that you do not want his worst enemy.

A romantic comedy about two couples on a 'blind date' at the same restaurant. After the usual small talk (allergies, gunplay, cats) it becomes quite apparent that there's been a mix-up.

A Mashup comedy thriller using old movies re-edited and re-dubbed by some of the best comedy talent in the UK. The Falcon, an English detective and part-time impressionist, working in Los Angeles, becomes embroiled in an alien plot to destroy the world when his voice is used to redub Barack Obama. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and pornstar Barrett Blade, the Falcon sets out to stop Obama making a speech in which, unwittingly, he will insult the major nations of the world and spark a global war. This insane, unique piece of storytelling stars the greatest cast ever assembled in a movie including Cary Grant, Basil Rathbone, Tom Conway, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Reeves, Jack Nicholson, John Wayne and Rosalind Russell.

Part 3 of a mockumentary exploring the Jason Vorhees murders at Crystal Lake with interviews from local townsfolk, skeptics, and historians.

Slava, a successful businessman discovers his beloved wife, Olga is having an affair with Paul, a penniless young writer. Consumed with jealousy and bitterness but, in an attempt to save his marriage, Slava offers Paul $300,000 to kill Olga. He records the conversation on a dictaphone, believing that Olga, on hearing the recording, will immediately break up with Paul when she discovers his willingness to kill her for money. On the eve of the ‘murder’, Slava plays the tape for Olga to hear. However, instead of shock, Olga’s face displays stout resolution – she had been aware of her husband’s plan all along, and this becomes the perfect opportunity for her to use the recording for her own purposes. However, Olga is not the only one whose life will be affected by the incriminating recording…

The film starts with the main character Laura, a young woman with advanced cancer, entering quite upset the home of her parents and claiming to have stopped chemo therapy and having left her husband. The worried parents call the other three adult daughters into the house and they arrive one by one. For the first time in 6 years the entire family is united again. The characters are drawn as tensions rise from old conflicts and as the situation sinks in that Laura might be terminally ill. The movie eventually shifts from a lively sometimes comical beginning into the serious theme of dying and does handle this quite tactfully and moving. While the film touches on many areas surrounding death (including religion, graveyard, care, eutanasia) the main focus is on the transformation of the characters that are thrown out of their busy lifes into this situation, eventually accepting it and dealing with it.

Renigunta is a 2009 Indian Tamil action film written and directed by newcomer Paneerselvam. Starring Johnny, son of producer, S. S. Chakravarthy of Nic Arts and newcomers, The film was a success at box office. At Renigunta, few boys get the acquaintance of Sardar (an influential don) through Bunker. After a successful murder in the town, Sardar takes these boys seriously. Meanwhile, Sakthi comes across a dumb girl (Sanusha) in the neighbourhood. After a few encounters, romance blossoms between them. But the girl's brother plans to push her to flesh trade. Taking pity on Sakthi, his friends decide to help him elope with the girl, but only after completing a murder for Sardar.

Shiva gets nostalgic thinking about his college life and friends and looks forward to meeting them all. But, there is a sombre mood at the reunion. Soon, Shiva is found almost strangled to death.

Four Westerners with various ailments travel to Peruvian Amazonia to drink ayahuasca, a traditional medicine renowned for its healing powers.

A young woman, Julie 23, starts her first day at her job, caring for the intellectually disabled. Suddenly she is left alone with two young men she has to take responsibility for.

A nervous and unsettling young boy takes a mysterious old suitcase across London... to a twisted and surreal conclusion.

From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat, to step aside. Andrea and Giulia come from two different worlds, have different friends, and two different lives who call them strongly in opposite directions. Will they keep their love alive in spite of everything?

Sathya (Navdeep), Guru (Abhinay) and Sathyan (Sathyan) are friends. Anjali (Sara Alambra), Meghna (Suja), Radhika (Madhumitha) and Anu (Mallika Kapoor) come in Sathya's life. The complication that arises, the tussle with Bhadri Narayanan (Prakash Raj) form the rest of the movie.

Twenty Show was the first "user generated film", edited from fictional and real video-blogs. A unique experience initiated on the Internet, a mockumentary that paints a generational portrait of young French people in their twenties.

Madakar is an honest police officer who is murdered by a local thug, Babji, and his son Munna. After his death, his daughter is mysteriously left at the door of Sathyaraju, Madakar's lookalike.

Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec City this year. Their love will be put to the test when a former love of Gaby's turns up at the championships. Gaby finds herself at a crucial point of her life where she has to choose whether to continue competing or follow another dream that she's cherished forever, but which seems impossible to everyone else—her dream to become an astronaut.

The film revolves around a private academy in which young people are divided into "Cheltenham" and there are conflicts between them that the president of the Academy is trying to solve

Man with a talent for making the bodies disappear finds a niche in a drug cartel.

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.

A 47-year-old, growth hormone deficient man gets mistaken for a new kid at his nephew's high school.

Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of the workers does not accept being discarded so easily...

Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.

Carl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family 1985.

A poignant comedy about three midlife women who join forces to revive their acting careers, "Not Dead Yet" brings a dramatic new perspective to a range of women's issues rarely embraced by American cinema.

In her first major Comedy Central 1 hour special, entitled "That's How We Do It," recorded at the Verizon Theater in Houston, is Anjelah Johnson's major label debut album, and is available as both a DVD and CD/DVD package.

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.

Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant if they go back to their country of orgine, the one from which fled.

The woman is awoken from her mid-afternoon suburban slumber by the arrival of an attractive young man over her garden fence. The man is being chased by the police and begs the woman to hide him, which much to her own surprise, she does. The police come and go leaving them alone at the back door, the sexual chemistry between them is as clear as day and were it not for an arrival at the front door things may have progressed further. The woman has a daughter and relations are at an all time low. However, the situation becomes even more strained when the girl brings a man back one night, the very same man from over the garden fence just days before. Despite their shock, the young man and the woman keep their cool maintaining the illusion that they have never met, evidently there is unfinished business they need to attend to.

Sarah Collins is considering an abortion. Before she makes her final decision, she is presented with three visions causing her to think about the impact on her future.

This short film tells a story about the joy of being a child.

A powerful documentary about the lives of teens and young adults as seen through the gender lens. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses the complexities of conceptions of masculinity and femininity for Generation Z.

In Holy Bells School, two groups of students constantly fight each other and cause chaos. However, a psychologist named Daisy believes that they can be disciplined through love and positivity.

The life of a famous Brazilian film and television actor, including testimonials from people who knew him and worked with him, as well as excerpts from films and videos in which he acted.

An experimental film by Ekrem Serdar, released in 2009.

An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.

A dead, seven-year-old girl is found in a fisherman's net.

The Netherlands are being threatened by a weird terrorist. The only one who can save The Netherlands from this terrorist seems to be Francois. He is a gay couturier who very much looks like the terrorist. They turn out to be twin brothers. Francois takes on the duty to pose as his brother to stop the terrorist activities.

A pair of ambulance drivers confront the rapture.

Black Dalia movie tells the story about a gang of ten NRI girls studying in Sacred Heart Medical College after a hard night partying, hits and runs over someone on the road when returning to their hostels. But the group conspires to keep away the clues to the murder, by hiding all the associated elements including the hit and run car and the corpse.But with in few days a series killer assassinated all the girls. At this instance firebrand D I G Daisy Wilfred (Vaani Viswanath) who is a strong willed officer all set to solve the case that left the community in clueless fear.

This erotic comedy is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Seiji Matsuyama starring Yu Aine and other sexy actresses. Katsuta Chikuzen works under the tsundere boss Yuzu in the miscellaneous affairs section of Monosho Shoji, while being scolded by him. Late one night, Katsuta lines up at a game store in Akihabara, and meets Umina, who has super big...

You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd Sobolla’s documentary.

Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises but she is scared to death of taking the plane. Once in Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start...

Dark styled animation called Mothlight. About a boy trying to sleep. It was a project to play with light and shadow.

A man gets trapped between two dons, who are enemies. He has 16 days to carry out a murder for one of them or he gets killed. However, the other don will kill him first if he carries out the job.

A report is fabricated accusing a successful businessman, Patrik Grossmann, of racism. When the media launches a full-blown campaign against him, the atmosphere gets so thick that anyone can kick him while he's down just to prove their morality.

Profile of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of six men in Florida over the course of a year. The programme explores how police were able to gather only circumstantial evidence against Wuornos, and launched an undercover operation to lure her and a possible accomplice out into the open.

The story follows the struggles of Arturo, a cab driver who has to find $2000 within 24 hours; his older son, Ramiro, who left home four years ago, has just phoned from Houston asking for urgent help. However, Arturo's wife Irene keeps their savings away from Arturo's reach.

Years after winning a race down the Göta Canal, life for a family of shipbuilders gets complicated when they get entangled with the mafia.

To a couple, at the age of menopause, who are unexpectedly born a coveted son. Both the mother and father of the child, impressed by the miracle of this birth, want to give the child a name with special meaning. The name has significant religious connotations for the Polish mentality.

Since the 1990s, Christoph Marthaler and his congenial stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock have caused a sensation with highly musical and atmospheric productions of plays and operas. It was only a matter of time, then, before this directing team was also invited to the Bayreuth Festival. Marthaler's style of radical deceleration proved ideally suited to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in this production – with Viebrock's sober yet poetic sets – unveiled in 2005. In the 2009 revival documented here, Robert Dean Smith and Iréne Theorin were joined in the title roles by Robert Holl, one of the great basses of his generation, who sang the role of King Marke.

A group of filmmakers set off to a remote part of Western Australia to shoot their low budget period drama. But something doesn't want them to finish. and is out to kill them all. One by one.

It's bride-to-be Amina's Henna Night and her best friend Nour, a witch in the kitchen, has been cooking all day. When Amina locks herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out secrets are revealed. Set within the home of a British-Arab family HENNA NIGHT takes you on a journey full of food, magic, and manipulation subtly exploring a darker side of love.