Cinematic Era: 2012 Vintage

The year is 1895. Steam-powered ships fly through the air. Clockwork robots have replaced servants. And a grisly murder has taken place in the dark night of New York City. Called to the scene of the ritualistic murder of a young woman, newly appointed police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt discovers Detective Wayne and his police officers power usurped by two special investigators appointed by the White House: Occultist Edgar Allan Poe, a clockwork automaton housing the soul of the literary legend, and Mrs. Emma Entwistle, a dangerous assassin with a unique connection to the otherworld. When they illicit information from the demon Neshrew, a much darker and more dangerous plot of world domination is uncovered.

Lovesong intricately weaves the story of a couple in the first stages of their life together with the same couple as they approach the end of this story. A delicate mix of storytelling and physical theatre, this production was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.

When a penniless man settles a gambling debt by standing in for a hospitalized real estate tycoon, he faces romantic turmoil and a conniving saboteur.

The Muppets take part in a "Muppets All-Star Comedy Gala" at Just For Laughs 2012 in Montreal from July 10 -29th.

It's all about the currywurst. In the unequal battle between a family business and a snack bar chain, Frieda, who runs the sausage stand inherited from her father with her three daughters, clearly has the worse cards, as she is nastily tricked by her own brother. Because Walter sneakily outmaneuvers his sister in the competition for catering at the stadium of the traditional club MSV Duisburg...

Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in groups like Beastie Boys, No Doubt, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction and countless more. Despite the troubles of an eccentric front man they have stayed together for 30 years without ever reaching the level of success so many think they deserve. Using rare archival footage and original comic illustrations the film re-constructs Bad Brains' rich and complicated history.

A decrepit bomb shelter. Two young women, Abby and Tara, have kidnapped a guy. Tara is clearly having more fun than Abby. As the pair wait for the right time to call in, the situation gets out of hand. What ensues is a dangerous power play between the two women that could easily escalate with dramatic consequences.

Su-jin and Hye-rim are the best friends but after they lost Min suk who they both had crashed on, they do not talk to each other anymore. Later, Su-jin and Hye-rim meet at Min-suk？s grave in his countryside hometown. They kept fighting even in the car and a man jumps into their way from nowhere. The guy threaten them to give a ride to certain place in the forest to meet his boss.

Spurred by his own postmodern musings and the growing inequality, corruption, and kill-or-be-killed ethic of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, a solitary philosophy student steers his directionless life toward the commission of a violent crime, which leads to growing guilt.

A rock band comprising four college students reaches a village controlled by Maoists. They decide to tackle them with the power of music instead of violence.

During their robbery of a nightclub, Matthias Caruana and Kyle Borg kill the son of the owner. While fleeing from the scene with an accomplice, they have a car accident. All three manage to escape from the vehicle just before it bursts into flames but the stolen money is lost in the fire. Dave McBain is at home secretly having an argument on the phone with someone. When he finishes the call, he leaves the house. Now hunted by the police, the three robbers enter McBain's house and take his wife and children, the six-year-old Thomas and sixteen-year-old Alice, as hostages. While the wound that Matthias suffered during the car accident threatens to upset the balance of power within the criminal gang, thereby allowing Kyle, the most violent of the three, to dominate. Problems begin for the hostages.

A remote Greek village must raise its population in order to avoid being cut off from the local government.

Nana Benz is the story of the legendary queens of the West African mercer, self-made women, coming out of nowhere, building empires. These women were heroes to the people, Mercedes driver at the West African coast. They influenced the history of Togo and were witnesses of the fights for independence, the dictatorship till the globalization nowadays. Thomas Böltken manages to establish closure to the protagonists by letting their heirs - grandchildren, widows, lovers - speak.

It’s a world we don’t truly know—yet it feels oddly familiar. Deep canyons and jagged crevices carve through the land, while towering mountains rise above scorched plains. Lush jungles and acidic lakes conceal strange creatures—fierce predators, peaceful grazers, and masters of disguise. But this alien world isn’t in outer space. This world... is your body.

Documentary of the first episode of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.

A musical twist on the hammer murder scene in Ben Wheatley's Kill List, made for the Film4 Scene Stealers competition.

Sebastian Brody is a profiler who works for the FBI. When his wife is killed before his eyes by a serial killer who has escaped from prison, whom he had brought to justice some time before, he leaves everything behind and moves to Sicily. One night, due to a strong storm, the electricity goes out. Sebastian goes into the shed to try to start the generator but, in the darkness, he trips over a cable on the ground, pulling down a metal shelf. He discovers a hidden niche in the wall containing a box with six female scalps inside.The scalps belong to a serial killer who killed in the area twenty-five years earlier, nicknamed "the Hairdresser" by the press. The ones found by Sebastian would be his trophies. The killer was never caught and now seems to have returned to strike.

Abhijit Shandilya, a journalist, travels from Mumbai to Majuli, Assam, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his friend, Sridhar Ranjan, an activist, and unearths a web of dark secrets

The lives of two interrelated lesbian couples spiral down hellacious paths of abuse and misuse in this intense pressure cooker urban drama.

A beautiful, blonde American girl arrives in London ostensibly to join a band, but discovers that the band have disappeared leaving her stranded and alone in a strange city.

Entrepreneur daughter Anna Maillinger wants to start a new career in New Zealand after the divorce. Shortly before leaving, she learns that the family business is facing bankruptcy. Anna's oldest brother Vince leads the company meanwhile. He asks Anna to come to the emergency meeting on the father's hunting lodge, where on the weekend, the wedding of her father Karl with his Moldovan housekeeper Dina is to be celebrated. Gritting her teeth, Anna agree

A comedic mix of play, pantomime, slapstick, singing and a bit of dancing. It was performed to sold-out houses at Maximteatern in Stockholm during the spring and autumn of 2011. Tommy Körberg, Johan Rheborg, Johan Ulveson and Erik Johansson wowed both audiences and critics with their attempts to understand each other, themselves and the opposite sex (which none of them seem to have quite got the hang of). This breakneck comedy begins with big things happening at the company and the boss gathering his closest men. They leave the office and go to a tropical island for the weekend to think more freely. But the mood quickly changes when they realize that not everyone may be there when Monday comes...

Jing lives with her mother and grandparents in a small fishing village in a southern Chinese province. Instead of going to school, the deaf-mute teenager spends her time on a fishing boat with her mentally handicapped uncle – until one day she gets (too) close to him. Mei, a city kid rock musician of the same age, travels from club to club with her guitar, dreaming of an independent life. When Jing goes to live in the city with her hardboiled police officer father Zhang, the two girls come together. Mei is Zhang’s lover. Despite an initial standoff, the three manage to open up and create an emotional tie that gives their lives new perspective. SONGS OF SILENCE tells in elegantly convoluted sequences of the meeting and separating of the three protagonists, each of which is isolated in their own way.

A hitchhiker is looking for a ride, whether by car or spaceship.

Live Blu-ray of Yui Horie's performance at Tokyo International Forum during her tour in March 2012 that covered 4 cities.

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat. But when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland on 24 May 1941, its end was shockingly swift.

An earnest young outdoors-man goes out into the barren desert for some hiking and yoga. But his serenity is brought to a grinding halt when a strange man appears from out of nowhere and tempts him with hookers.

After a harsh breakup, indie musician Goh Nakamura hits the road to pursue a promising rebound.

While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.

Guns N' Roses live at The Joint at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas on November 21, 2012, during the Appetite for Democracy tour in celebration of twenty-five years of Appetite for Destruction and four years of Chinese Democracy.

The film plots a broad graph of the life of Pu La Deshpande from birth till 60 years of age. In this travel we meet some real and some ficititious characters which have inspired and shaped his personality. We also see some events which were milestones in his life

The rumor starts to spread...

The family of a film screenwriter, who needs fresh air and, above all, peace and quiet for his creative work, moves to a small country farm for a while. However, his wife, a former, somewhat hysterical actress, still does not give him any peace, and so his small family, which also includes a six-year-old son, is in danger of falling apart. Unexpected, mysterious events, however, show them the way back. This is because there is a former coffee roastery on the farm, and the wife, together with her neighbor Dědek, starts a business against her husband's will.

A look at the case of Justin Fashanu and gay footballers.

Alan Partridge appears on Open Books with Martin Bryce to promote his new autobiography.

Ernesto is 50 years old and carries with him a tragedy from the past, which he hides behind a good-humored smile. He meets 25-year-old Evelina when helping her on the road after her car breaks down. Both are going to the same hotel and, little by little, build a solid friendship based also on the difficulties faced throughout life, since Evelina is emotionally hurt due to her husband's infidelity.

Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in Kabul city by an alliance of Afghan and international film makers, Buzkashi Boys is a look at the life that continues beyond the headlines of war in Afghanistan.

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Forbidden Games."

When teenagers are sexually assaulted, the perpetrator is often a peer. But do you dare to point out the guy you dreamed of having sex with? Sara, 15, thought no one would believe her version of what happened at the party with her schoolmates.

Chlodwig Pullmann is a tax inspector and is involved in a thousand little deals and tricks - with the knowledge of Mayor Karsten Leimer, who has a lot more dirt on him. Pullmann's wife Jenny, on the other hand, fights against corruption in a citizens' initiative and is of course not allowed to know anything about her husband's deviations. When Pullmann gets a new superior who keeps a close eye on him, things get tight - and in order not to jeopardize his marriage, he decides to go straight. The only question is whether he will succeed.

Three sisters, a Madame, Guru and Poker Junky, desperately trying not to fall victim to their own cons, are joined by Raphael who is hell bent that the whole world revolves around his phallus, in a hilarious search for true contentment. A fun filled spoof on happiness, the Movie will shock and awe.

Mofei, a rebellious girl raised by a single parent, is driven by her passion for dance. She secretly transfers to the street dance department at a modern music academy, keeping her decision hidden from her father. There, she befriends Lin Miaomiao, Shengmei, and Yu Xiaoman, and becomes involved in a love triangle with two boys, Cui Junhao and Jiang Chao, leading to a series of humorous and unexpected events.

There's a young couple, Haruka and Kenji. One day, Haruka gets disappointed in Kenji, and runs away with their son, Takuya. They forward to Kenji's friend, Mitsuru's house. Yet, Haruka asks her mother, Kiyoko to take care of Takuya, and starts her job hunting, since she can't get along with Mitsuru. On the other hand, there is another young couple, Takuma and Kana. Even though, they look happily married for two years, Takuma hides a secret from Kana. One day, Takuma's co-worker, Akita comes to Takuma's house. Akita suddenly tells one secret to Kana while Takuma is not around. Shocked Kana attempts to reveal the secret on Takuma's way home.

Originally released in 2006, Kubasa in a Glass presents a digitally warped reflection of Winnipeg’s brief and disposable self-image, as seen through local no-budget and public access television of the 1980s.

A cop and a crook are exposed to a DNA altering formula that switches them into each other's bodies and forces them to work together in order to switch back.

He’s back! After the biggest-selling stand-up DVD of 2011, Peter Kay is back with even more brand-new live comedy taken from his Guinness world record breaking eighteen-month tour across the UK. We also take a unique and often hilarious look behind the scenes at life on the road as Peter reveals how he created his mammoth tour, playing 140 shows to 1.2 million people, officially making it one of the most successful stand-up comedy tours of all time.

Join us for this small but unique group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, 1000 km off the east coast of South America. She seems fascinating, but also eerie and even sometimes unreal, because it had its volcanic origin seems to allow no life. But on closer inspection, the archipelago is bursting with life of different species, of which about 40 percent found only on these islands and are therefore protected strictly. But those who are allowed to make the long journey to the islands move in almost untouched nature and are amazed at the inexhaustible variety of wildlife. With Fascination Galapagos, filmed in the best real 3D, you can now be there from the comfort of your own home.

'Kiki de Montparnasse' was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple model and became a Queen of the Night, a painter, a press cartoonist, a writer and a cabaret singer.

As every year Carlos is spending the summer in the country with his family in order to help out with things. Perhaps he won't even be returning to Madrid, as economic prospects are hardly rosy there. In addition, his father's health is failing and he needs Carlos to help. In this town, where the elders still celebrate the medieval rites, Carlos meets a young policeman Juan and they fall in love. A friendship ensues amidst age-old rituals and a crisis of a nation, all this set against a spectacular backdrop which seems somehow not of this world.

Parvaneh is a young Afghan immigrant who recently arrived at a transit centre for asylum seekers in the Swiss Alps. The only things she has got to know yet are the rural area surrounding the centre and the centre itself.

Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and finds out who is the anonymous writer. This is how she establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker hired to paint the offices. A strange relation develops between these two persons who come from very different worlds. But after a while, Joseph abruptly disappears and Marie, overwhelmed by the mission fallen on her, starts a journey into the past, through a small village in Lebanon, in the heart of a bloodthirsty culture were lies the key of all the enigmas.

Child bullfighters in Mexico, where kids as young as eight are trained to kill bulls ten times their weight. The film follows three children who are fighting not just the bull but their own demons every time they step into the ring. Michelito is ten and already a star. The adored son of a matador, Michelito has killed over two hundred bulls. 'Picasso was born to paint, Mozart to make music - and Michelito to be a matador,' says Dad. Can Michelito fulfill his own - and his father's - dream to become the youngest matador in history? Joel is nine. Abandoned by his real dad, neglected by his mum, Joel has found a surrogate father in Matador teacher Ismael. But Ismael's own career is vulnerable: if he has to move Spain to save his reputation, what will become of Joel? Andrea is twelve. She started bullfighting when her beloved father moved to America. Andrea has disowned her dad - who has a new woman - and is defying his orders that she give up bullfighting...

Ah Jie returns to his hometown after several years and soon realizes that no one remembers him. Even his family denies his relationship to them. Depressed, Ah Jie meets Lao Huang, who tells Ah Jie that he can help uncover the truth to why no one recognizes him.

An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.

This documentary is a record of moments with family, friends, travels, outings, and a passion that Carla inherited from her father. The need to encapsulate time led her to film her daily life with Bahian friends in Barcelona, a city where she lived the best of her youth for eight years. When she decided to return to Brazil, everything took on new significance. It was then that she began the project of making a documentary to immortalize that period. The casual recordings turned into an obsession, and her friends were interviewed, totaling more than 50 hours of filmed memories and a year of editing in Brazil. This process was a painful stagnation in the past, an effort to make sense of material that fed a difficult feeling to overcome: longing. The result is a delicate film that reflects on exile, memory, time, family, change, and life.