Follows Nellie Cameron, a real life prostitute famous on the streets of Sydney in the 1920s and 30s. Nellie is enjoying the perks of her world, the drugs, the money, the fame but in her game she can't afford love.
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Follows Nellie Cameron, a real life prostitute famous on the streets of Sydney in the 1920s and 30s. Nellie is enjoying the perks of her world, the drugs, the money, the fame but in her game she can't afford love.
This documentary summarizes an extensive interview made by the writer Manuel Rivas to the former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón.
Arguably the two most talented teams to ever meet in a Grand Final, the Brisbane Lions were on their way to creating a dynasty but first had to overcome a Bombers outfit who believed back-to-back flags was their birthright.
A stand up comedian is forced to look at the decisions in his life while on a one week trip to the west coast.
Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, ‘In The Pines’ documents a young woman’s hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Part science fiction, part psychothriller, part poetry - this film crafts a scene viewers will be eager to revisit.
Two men confront each other in a strange underground room. Before long, this uneasy interrogation takes a series of unexpected turns.
Frank, an introspective astrophysics major, visits a remote lab to work with his mentor; doctor Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that Helen; a young woman seemingly from another world, a metaphysical realm, has been taken in by the doctor. The unexplainable phenomena that follow force Frank and doctor Roberts to look at life from a different angle.
Archive footage of Australia and New Zealand forces during WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam conflict. Plus home life between the wars, especially focusing on the homage we pay to those who so bravely sacrificed themselves on our behalf. This is all held together by a wonderful script narrated by John Stanton.
A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action!
A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget.
Join Harold & Kumar as they sing all of your favorite holiday classics... and some songs they just made up while they were high.
A remote English country house, and old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look after them. But all is not quite as it seems in the sheltered world of Bly. Britten's brilliantly scored, insidiously compelling adaptation of Henry James's novella takes its themes of of childish innocence and adult corruption, then twists and turns them to disturbing and ultimately devastating effect.
Finally, the right time! After the best friends Klaus and Fred have taken the well-deserved early retirement, they want to dedicate themselves to the beautiful things in life with their wives. However, the big plans quickly give way to a little exciting everyday routine, until Klaus and Fred rescue a young woman in distress on a sailing trip on the Wannsee: the highly pregnant Franziska was left by her boyfriend and does not know where to go. Shortly determined, the two offer her to live on her sailboat for the time being. But the men do not tell their women about it.
Everyone has one or two bizarre or psychic experiences. This year's contest will spotlight such ghost stories that lurk in everyday life and decide the scariest story in a contest format. 2011 Edition.
16-year-old Claudia is a devout Catholic and has promised her mother not to have sex before marriage. However, she is also hopelessly besotted with her older neighbor Jens.
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.
Ananthan and Appukuttan, the two self-proclaimed CID officers, venture to solve the mysterious disappearance of a person.
Twelve princesses sleep in twelve beds in the same room; every night their doors are securely locked, but in the morning their shoes are found to be worn through as if they had been dancing all night. The king, in mourning, promises his kingdom and a daughter to any man who can discover the princesses'secret within three days and three nights, but those who fail within the set time limit will be put to death.
Milli and Nathan liked each other from high school in Bandung. Nathan is a smart student who likes to help Milli study. Milli is a humorous girl. She always tell Nathan to not being so serious. They were dating. Until high school, Nathan went to his dream university in Jakarta but, Milli still stayed in Bandung. Nathan decided to broke up with her because he wanted to concentrate with his study in college. Milli otherwise, does not like college, she wanted to be a novelist. They still miss each other. Milli until finally really quit college and wrote a book.
This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.
The last thing Damian and Pippa want, is to fall in love. Yet when they first look into each other's eyes, love is exactly what happens. So much so that it makes them, and everyone else in the park burst out in song and dance.
Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts. With testimonies from Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Edgar Morin, D.A. Pennebaker and others.
A two-hour special compiling and ranking 50 of the greatest magic tricks ever seen on TV.
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.
Bor, in eastern Serbia, was once home to the largest copper mine in Europe. Now it’s just the biggest hole. This astutely observed coming-of-age film captures the pitfalls of the adult world, where idealism no longer seems to have a place, as two teens come to realize they have no choice but to grow up.
May is the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Christ. In Infanta, Quezon, locals turn each of the 31 days of May into a charming honor not only to celebrate good harvest in their agricultural setting, but also to pay tribute to the virginal virtues of the Mayohan. Every month of May, a padasal or series of novenas commences to mark the beginning of Mayohan. This will culminate in a Pasayaw or Tapusan in every purok of each barangay. A system of ambagan or donation ensues for the festivities to take place.
Crystalynn had escaped her redneck roots until her sister's high school graduation calls her home. She hides the truth, lies and leaves the big city and her jealous boyfriend Ben behind, or so she thinks. Ben pursues her into the deep South only to find himself lost in a wacky world of beer drinking bubbas, a trash-talkin' Granny, a sex-sizzlin' sister and a loony but loveable local radio DJ who is out to win Crystalynn back. Mash it all up and you've got a Southern fried recipe for laughter.
Brought back from a doomed space mission, an army of giant rats develop a big appetite for Los Angeles residents.
This fun and witty documentary feature seeks to answer the decades-old question of whether the G-spot (named after German gynecologist Ernest Grafenberg) is a myth or reality. The film also tackles the question of its location within the female genitalia. Sparked by a study written by Andrea Burri (King’s College, London) in which she denounces the physical existence of a G-spot, narrator Ségolène Hanotaux sets out to interview numerous authors, citizens, subject experts, geneticists, and therapists about the subject matter thus sparking a renewed interest in this debatable arena.
After they came home from meeting Angela and her family in Michigan, the crew of Catfish cold-called Aimee Gonzales: the face of Megan Faccio--the girl Nev had fallen in love with. Then they flew her to New York to tell her what happened.
There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the gnome forest. Plop is busy baking 1000 plop-cookies, Kwebbel has to clean her mushroom and Klus is working on a great invention with Lui's help. But a storm is coming; Aunt Plap! She stays with her cousin Plop until he marries a gnome girl..
The story of Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American lover after giving birth to their son, ultimately kills herself, continues to impress audiences today. In this outstandingly authentic and elegant production from the Sferisterio Opera Festival, Puccini's highly emotional music is expertly delivered. The superior cast is headed by Raffaella Angeletti, "certainly one of the best Butterflies of our time" (ForumOpera.com), who has performed this role in many Italian theatres, as well as in Madrid and at the Vienna Staatsoper.
The story is about a boy who bears the surname Godse and he is looked down upon by his classmates and friends as everybody believes he is related to Gandhi's assassin. Set in a rural village school of Western Maharashtra,India.The story explores the Universal Emotion of Prejudice regarding race,caste,creed and religion in rural India.The narrative thought culminates to a climax which forces the viewers to think of the dangers of prejudice.This is a powerful film portraying the non-violent principles of Gandhi which are going missing in today's India using the backdrop of his assasin Nathuram Godse.
Back in her hometown after spending a year learning singing lessons in New York, the young Marseillaise Faïza dreams of becoming a singer. But she helps her parents who have financial difficulties. While becoming a cleaning lady, she meets Fred, a music manager.
Behind-the-scenes footage of Yôichirô Hayama’s film Marmot.
A documentary about the making of Terror of the Autons. Actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin, both of whom made their debuts in this story, recount the production with the help of Jon Pertwee (through an archive interview), Script Editor Terrance Dicks and Producer Barry Letts who, along with new series Producer Phil Collinson, discuss how the series' production regimes differed between the new series and the old.
A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. A retrospective of the community lifestyle adopted by its members and the influence inherited from singer João Gilberto.
Screen adaptation of the play Marivo. Sylvia, incapable of loving affairs, should, according to her father’s plan, marry at all costs. It is for this purpose that Father invites Dorant to spend a relaxing weekend in Switzerland. To find out his true nature, Sylvia decides to change into a maid's costume. Dorant, also in doubt about the future bride, comes up with a similar plan! Gentlemen become servants, servants become gentlemen ...
An American Writer's family ties relate back to a late 1950's experiment resulting in a high level haunting of a old wooded house they move into on the banks of a lazy bayou. A government conspiracy is connected to the disappearance of key individuals who have a special connection to the afterlife.
The story of Paramathma focus on the philosophy that those who are very close to heart leave us quickly. A section of the society believes this and longevity is cut short by destiny as villain.
Five of the main players behind Dario Argento's classic horror shocker Phenomena (1985) sit down to take viewers through this exclusive, epic-sized, 52 minute making of feature documentary. This was compiled and created for the nationwide Arrow UK DVD and Blu Ray release of the film, which hit all British home video stores on March 7th 2011.
Facing off in their fifth season decider in five years this was supposed to be Collingwood's moment of redemption but a close-knit Carlton outfit had no plans to end the Grand Final losing streak of their oldest and most hated foe.
This documentary is a powerful warning against the dangers of allowing the State - the government - to take control of its citizens. Find out how your freedoms are slowly taken away.
Barbara and Thomas Lichtblau have been married for 15 years.Today it's Barbara's birthday and Thomas has forgotten her birthday.So Barbara has a gift for her-self: a travel to Mexico because Thomas and her didn't celebrate their honeymoon.Thomas is very occupied, so Barbara travels with her friend Sandra.Arriving at Mexico Barbara and Sandra meet Diego , the photographer and Pepe ,the bar owner who told Barbara that he his the brother of Consuela, a mother with two nice children .Sandra spends then good moments with Diego.The time has passed and one day before leaving Mexico, Pepe invites Barbara for a boat ride, they spend the night together, on the morning Barbara was driving the boat,Pepe falls in the boat and has a concussion.Barbara can not stop the boat and shocks the boat on the beach.Sandra calls Barbara, they must go to the airport, but Barbara says Sandra that she will not travel, she also calls Thomas to tell him that she will stay for a few days more in Mexico
A documentary on the making of THE 13TH WARRIOR with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes footage.
Carl finds himself in a deserted motel suffering from memory loss. He is visited by a mysterious man that he comes to know as the Sandman. As Carl learns more about the life he has recently forgotten, he is forced to face the worst kind of evil: seeking vengeance against a psychopathic serial killer who has brutally murdered his wife.
High-budget re-enactments and shooting on original locations sketch an image of the golden age of Elizabethan theater. And scholars from various fields weigh in on the nagging question of whether or not Shakespeare authored the plays for which he receives the credit.
Talented chef Rose Holland advertises for a telephone company to raise money for her own restaurant. Disguised as an English telephone box, she bumps into an attractive man who literally blows her away.
A documentary that focuses on the craftspeople who continue to make salt with a technique called Agehama-shiki that has been passed down since ancient times, and the lush natural environment of the northernmost tip of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. It is also the feature-length debut of director Ishii Kaori. The process of making salt by collecting sea water and boiling it in a hiragama cauldron temporarily died out during the period of Japan's rapid economic growth following World War II, but one family's efforts to keep it alive has miraculously ensured its continuation. Salt is a vital element of people's lives. The saltmaking artisans who perpetuate their traditions represent a way forward for those of us living in this modern age.
Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project. However, he is driven into a frenzy when the audience denounces his film, and massacres 42 people on the spot. 4 years later, Natsuka, who was a high school student at that time, decides to film the ultimate horror film at the exact same location.
A young protege and his boss sit down for the most epic steak dinner of their lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
Prince of Swine is a sex comedy about feminism.
In the 70s and 80s Britain was rife with racial tension and police harassment particularly against black British youths. These youths were the rebel generation who were also searching for an identity. They created a music - a sub genre of reggae known as Lovers Rock. This music became a global brand through artists like UB40 and Maxi Priest. The music brought a level of intimacy between young people that was unique. It was also 'girl power' music that empowered a generation of young women. Through comedy, live performance, dance, interviews and archive the film takes you back to an untold era of British cultural, music and political history.
ndra and Ilya are on their way home to their home village for the funeral of Iskandar, their father. Indra is the biological son of Iskandar, who is an illegal racer who gambles and owes money to loan sharks who are hunting him. Meanwhile, Ilya is the adopted son who was given to Iskandar when he was passing through an old road 25 years ago. Ilya helped his father build his career and his conduct as a 'better' son among the two is the cause of Indra's estrangement from his family. However as they make their way to the village, they use an old road and gets transported into another world, filled with mystical creatures.
Peter: A Study for a Portrait of a Serial Killer is a feature film that delivers uncompromising performances and rare, shocking archive to reveal for the first time ever the astonishing true story of The Yorkshire Ripper. Exploring his childhood, the sadistic murders of 13 women and his ongoing psychological treatment, the audience journey into the dark and twisted mind of Britain s most notorious serial killer. Psychiatrists say he is a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, many think he is simply evil; this film challenges the audience to make up their own mind.
Kelsey Donovan searches for her father, Jake, whom she hasn't seen in over twenty years. When he finds her in a picturesque small town in New Zealand, they can't get close. Kelsey's father works as a professional treasure hunter in New Zealand and also organizes diving courses for tourists with Dillon Ward. Kelsey doesn't like her father treating the handsome Dillon like he's his son. When Jake is nearly killed in a diving accident, father and daughter finally seem to bond. When Kelsey and Dillon begin to grow fond of each other, Jake isn't thrilled.