Cinematic Era: 2013 Vintage

The 13th installment in the "Sealed Videos" series, investigating the truly dreadful in horror videos.

14-year-old Emily wants to run away from home after an argument with her parents. Father Mattes suggests an unusual experiment: For one month, the children Emily and Tommy are allowed to manage the household finances and make the family decisions.

A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil

A young vampire returns home to come out of the coffin to his parents.

Six years after the apocalypse, George and his daughter live at a secluded old farm in an attempt to hide from roving creatures, militant survivors, and their own past. But a stranger's unexpected appearance brings them out of hiding.

With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous institution, where power plays and rivalries are the norm.

Joanna is famous because of her blog on confronting a terminal disease. The movie shows her everyday life.

A Native American and a cowboy are extremely eager to get their Christmas presents. Overwhelmed by excitation, they accidentally destroy the horse's decorations while fighting.

The definitive documentary about wrestling legend Dynamite Kid and his impact in the world of professtional wrestling. What resulted was a very emotional journey into a career cut short by the abuses of steroids, alcohol, drugs, and a complete disregard for his own physical limitations. Dynamite Kid started as a young Englishmen trained in the infamous Snake Pit by Ted Betely and turned an opportunity given to him by the Hart Family in Calgary into a phenomenal worldwide wrestling career. Dynamite Kid was on the front lines of changing professional wrestling from a big man carnival act into an exciting action based entertainment industry where lightweight and physically gifted performers were the focal point of the show. He dazzled an international audience with matches against Tiger Mask that are still a bench mark today.

Each year in June, Bavarian housewife Elke Richter visits family in Halle, in the GDR. There she meets family friend Gregor Pohl, a married carpenter, and they begin having an affair. After her family stops the annual visits due to the husband's promotion in the communist regime, the adulterous couple arranges to meet on other holidays. After Gorbachev's Glasnost leads to the fall of the Iron Curtain, everything changes, and Gregor chooses to emigrate to Canada.

Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.

A deformed killer named ForkFace comes back to a town after years of being missing to get vengeance against the townspeople who made him this way the only way he knows how, by forking them all to death.

In pursuit of his love of extreme dance, Ken (Joey Beni) wanders the globe and makes his to Okinawa, Japan. There, Ken meets Iwao Shinjo (Masahiro Aragaki) who is a master of the Ryukyu Classical Dance. Ken learns the steps for Ryukyu Classical Dance, which itself secretly holds the techniques for Ryukyu Karate.

After a strange sighting, four friends decide to move in the near woodlands to investigate. Soon their week-end becomes a nightmare and a race for survival.

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Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful of men have reclaimed the connection to childhood magic by turning the portrayal of Santa into a full-time career. They Wore the Red Suit is a documentary featuring the rare individuals who have devoted their lives to keeping that magic alive in the world by actually being Santa Claus 365 days a year.

A film director interviews Burmese refugees about their experiences encountering oppression and cruelty in their homeland, and reads aloud poetry about the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic bomb.

Explores the life of Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, through interviews with her two daughters and grandchildren.

A portrait of a recently vacated home, the film evokes both memory and the lingering presence of past inhabitants. Through precise, enigmatic sound–image construction, Beavers crafts an intimate meditation on art, existence, and the search for meaning.

Pollstar's Top Female Country Touring Artist of 2012, six-time Grammy-winner Carrie Underwood brings her sold-out Blown Away Tour to DVD. Filmed in concert this past March, The Blown Away Tour: Live includes a dozen of Carrie's #1 singles, with such favorites as 'Before He Cheats,' 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' 'Two Black Cadillacs,' and the album title track that inspired her tour name, 'Blown Away.'

A comeback film and the first in two years from Kokuei, a long-running production company specializing in erotic "pink" cinema. It uses trivial conversations in a love hotel to shine a light on the subtle differences in the emotional makeup of men and women. Its screenplay, by female filmmaker Fukai Asako, was nominated for the 5th Pink Screenplay Grand Prize. A woman in a one-piece dress (Yamagishi Yuka) and a long-haired man (Moriya Fumio) enter a love hotel and are extremely pleased with their comfortable room. They play in the bath, order food, sing karaoke, and connect physically in between. They fantasize about being able to live there permanently, but slowly grow aware of their respective personal issues.

A man holds a woman in his dungeon, ties her up and suspends her from the ceiling. He then goes through the do's and don'ts of making a snuff film.

As a happily married couple and editors of a successful travel magazine, Claudia and Michael make the perfect team. But then Claudia realizes that her husband is cheating on her. At the same time, her mother, with whom she would have liked to spend more time, passed away. Claudia's life begins to falter. She spontaneously cancels all appointments to accompany her father, a river boatman who wants to scatter his wife's ashes over the Rhine from a barge. The last trip on the old ship on which she spent her childhood turns into a journey full of unexpected discoveries for Claudia.

This film is a vertiginous voyage about the impermanence and evolution of the relative value of things through certain lapses, spaces, ideas, conditions, beings and objects; our attachment to them, to life, their way to the end, to their rebirth, to their transformation.

The Force Within Us, the sequel to the highly acclaimed and sold out documentary “The Force Among Us”, takes us deeper into the Star Wars experience than just the obsession of collectibles and costuming. Exploring how and why this epic saga has the ability to possess and alter lives, “The Force Within Us” centers on Star Wars as a catalyst for spiritual rebirth… finding personal meaning in life… and inspiring positive change.

Wake up! It is morning! This is the beginning of a new day!

JLS have gone from talent show hopefuls to one of the UK’s most successful boy bands, selling over six million records and winning five MOBOs and two Brits Awards. After five amazing years together they sadly announced they were parting and as a final farewell to fans, they are set to embark on a sell-out UK arena tour. This essential DVD invites fans to join the boys for an unforgettable final concert and emotional farewell to their fans. The explosive and slickly-choreographed final show will feature Marvin, Oritse, Aston and JB performing all their greatest hits including; Beat Again, She Makes Me Wanna, Everybody in Love, One Shot and their final ever single – Billion Lights. EXCLUSIVE EXTRAS Behind the Scenes Feature Goodbye Message from JLS

One evening, Désirée, a young German girl of passage in Paris, meets Charles, France and Ivo. Once the excitement of the night, they find themselves in a sudden intimacy. The early morning will discover them changed.

Short film about resource exploitation in Congo and video games in England.

After a six-year wait, everyone's favorite grump Jack Dee is back with a spectacular brand new live DVD. Recorded during the London leg of his hugely successful tour, So What? is the side-splitting result of six years' build-up of irritation and indignation. Jack is as bitterly hilarious as ever as he lets rips at life's petty annoyances and everyday frustrations with his trademark mix of deadpan cynicism and understated fury. Jack Dee Live. So What? is the chance for Jack's fans, old and new, to once again see the Glum Meister at his most miserable best.

A short story about a young man who wakes up, after being hit in the head, in an apartment with 3 dead bodies, and does not have a clue how that happened because he has a memory loss.

A fun movie with a social outlook. Directed by Utsav Mukherjee Cast- Roopa Ganguly, Silajit, Saheb Bhattacharya, Mumtaz Sorcar, Ridhima Ghosh, Sudipta Chakraborty, Paran Banerjee, Kharaj Mukherjee, Shankar Chakraborty, Biswajit Chakraborty.

The challenges in producing Star Trek The Next Generation's fourth season are revealed by cast and crew while also exploring the show's evolution after the critically acclaimed 3rd season turned the show into a crossover hit. This documentary also explores the Family theme for the show's fourth season with behind the scenes details on such key episodes as REUNION and BROTHERS giving fans a look into the personal relationships and family bonds of the crew of the Enterprise.

Still Kicking: William Shatner and 'Christopher Plummer' is a one-hour television special that captures the memories and insights of these two icons. The setting is the stage of the renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival Stage, where both men launched their careers in the 1950s, and were then propelled to international stardom. Both continue to produce incredible work. Plummer earned an Academy Award in 2012 for his performance in Beginners. He recently wrote a best-selling autobiography, and will soon be returning to the stage of the Stratford Festival for the theatre's 60th anniversary season. Shatner won four Emmys for his portrayal of Denny Crane on Boston Legal, and also recently wrote a best-selling book, and currently has an amazing four television series on air.

A group of sorority sisters spend their leadership weekend fighting for their lives in a remote mountain cabin.

Since 2007, dozens of young people have been found hanged in Bridgend, a town in southern Wales. Many of them knew one another-they were friends, neighbors, and family. The striking similarities between their deaths have confounded authorities and struck fear into the hearts of parents. Headlines splashed across the UK earned Bridgend its infamous nickname: ""Death Town."

Following a dream, Canadian paraglider pilot Benjamin Jordan travels to Malawi to teach children the joys of kite flying. There he meets Godfrey, a young man who has always dreamed of flying though has never had the means. The odd pair tour the country on bikes, building kites with youth while motivating them to follow their dreams. They are destined for Malawi's highest peak where, after weeks of ground training, the two will attempt to fly down and make Godfrey the first Malawian paraglider pilot.

Again, the unemployed zookeeper Günther and the discarded salesman Wolfgang are looking for their great luck. Therefore, they get the help of a young man who, due to his autism, has extraordinary skills at the roulette table.

Concert film featuring four member group, sphere's SPHERE LIVE 2013 one-man live two day show SPLASH MESSAGE -Sunshine Stage- . This specifically features day 1, the Sunshine Stage held on September 15, 2013 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium.

A feisty young petrol station attendant attempts to figure out her place in the world.

Filmed live from Seattle, Carrie (also known as Carrie: The Musical) is a musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore. It is based on Stephen King's novel, and integrates elements from the 1976 film.

Im Hussein and Im Elias decide to start an organization for young Arab Americans with the goal of projecting a positive image of Arabs. Their well-intentioned efforts lead to humorous situations, reflecting on cultural identity and community dynamics.

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.

An artist's daughter comes to terms with her mother's rough life and the connection they share.

Two young people of different nationalities fall madly in love. However, everything changes when the profession of one of them is revealed.

A woman offers to pay an exorbitant amount for a beat up old jug in an antique store, but the owner says he will only part with it if she tells him a good story about herself.

Ping’an yueqing investigates the 2010 death of Qian Yunhui, a village leader from Yueqing in the eastern province of Zhejiang, who died under suspicious circumstances that authorities deemed a road accident. The film recounts Qian’s death in which he was crushed by the wheels of a truck.

Legendary artist Elton John returns to the stage in a concert that includes his greatest hits and songs from his new album, “The Diving Board.” The concert was filmed on September 11, 2013 at BBC’s famous Radio Theatre in London. Taped before an audience of 300 fans selected to win tickets from over 79,000 hopefuls, “Elton John In Concert” includes these and other performances: “Bennie and the Jets,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Home Again,” “Oscar Wilde Gets Out,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” “Levon,” “Rocket Man,” “I’m Still Standing,” “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” and “Your Song.” ×

Bruno is making his way through the city searching for its soul. Driven by his curiosity, a challenging imagination and his wild reflection on reality he is lifting the old dusty curtain on the city's crusted perception.

An experimental animation that recalls a treacherious, winter journey across a Montréal landmark.

Pearl Jam play the second of two nights live at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA on October 22nd 2013. >> SETLIST: Pendulum, Wash, Nothingman, Lightning Bolt, Corduroy, Mind Your Manners, Amongst the Waves, Hail, Hail, Satan's Bed, Untitled, MFC, Even Flow, Sirens, Got Some, Given to Fly, Present Tense, Infallible, World Wide Suicide, Do the Evolution, Better Man (with "Save It for Later" tag) >> ENCORE: Parachutes, Yellow Moon, Come Back, Future Days, Breath, State of Love and Trust, Unthought Known, Porch >> ENCORE 2: Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran cover), Leaving Here (Eddie Holland cover), Blood, Alive, Baba O'Riley (The Who cover), Yellow Ledbetter

Actress and writer Sheila Hancock has long been fascinated by the life and works of the Brontë sisters. In this programme, she searches for an answer to a puzzling question: “How did three spinsters who spent most of their lives in a remote parsonage on the edge of the moors come to write books so shocking, erotic, profoundly moving and quite wonderful?.” Sheila embarks on a journey that starts in the Yorkshire village of Haworth and the brutal moors that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, moves on to Brussels, where Charlotte Brontë developed the writing style that made Jane Eyre an enduring masterpiece, and ends in Scarborough, the last resting place of Anne Brontë.

Meat the Jones in this humorous yet terrifying tale of a prestigious family of black cannibals. For years the Jones' have enjoyed an endless supply of "cattle" by feeding on the homeless people from the streets of Akron, Ohio. The Jones's way of life is jeopardized by their daughter Kendal who is a newly converted vegan and doesn't approve of her family's dark, twisted ways. Kendal must decide on keeping up the family tradition or helping Ed, the new-found love of her life escape the Jones's house of horrors, before he becomes their next meal.

The movie revolves around two friends (Sebastian and Angel) who suddenly discover their love for each other. They elope on the eve of the girl's marriage, much to the chagrin of her brothers. The film essays the lovers' struggle for survival.

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Pearl Jam play live at Baltimore Arena, Baltimore, MD, USA on October 27th 2013. >> SETLIST: Pendulum, Hard to Imagine, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Lightning Bolt, Lukin, Corduroy, Mind Your Manners, Given to Fly, MFC, Sirens, Habit, Daughter (with 'Walk on the Wild Side' tag), Wishlist, Present Tense, Spin the Black Circle, Let the Records Play, Setting Forth (Eddie Vedder song), Unthought Known, Rearviewmirror >> ENCORE: Yellow Moon, Man of the Hour, Nothingman, I'm Waiting for the Man (The Velvet Underground cover) (dedicated to Lou Reed, who passed away earlier in the day) (live debut by PJ), Better Man, Do the Evolution, Blood, Porch >> ENCORE 2: Once, Love, Reign O'er Me (The Who cover), Black, Alive, Rockin' in the Free World (Neil Young cover)

In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.

A 30-year-old woman strikes up a friendship with two teenage boys, whose rivalry for her attention develops menacing undertones.

Craig Ferguson unleashes his trademark stream-of-consciousness comedy before a sold-out crowd, riffing on fatherhood, Helen of Troy and shark penises. His show's not safe for kids -- or the easily offended.