The Return of King Lapusneanu
Alexandru Lapusneanu is one of important Moldavian rulers. A Macbeth figure, who obtains his throne in fight, who reeves any possible danger out of his way, a good “hospodar”, husband…
Geri’s Game
An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game’s nearly…
I Got the Hook-Up
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the…
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale
Featuring the characters from Murray Ball’s “Footrot Flats” (New Zealands most beloved local cartoon strip), questions to be answered include: Will Wal Footrot win the affections of Cheeky Hobson over…
Edtv
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Bowfinger
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that…
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army…
T.N.T.
The Tactical Neutralization Team, or T.N.T., is a squad of elite soldiers sent on top-secret, near-suicidal missions around the world. After one of their missions ends in failure, team member…
Surface Tension
A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.
Signed: Lino Brocka
Documentary filmmaker Christian Blackwood profiles controversial Filipino director Lino Brocka, detailing his rags-to-riches rise in the mainstream film industry of the Philippines. Primarily using interviews with the effusive director himself,…
Rockin’ Road Trip
Martin meets Samantha, the sister of Nicole who is the leader of a band called “Chery Suicide”. While Martin and Samantha are beginning a relationship, Nicole is trying to get…
One Minute Before Death
A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, aka The Oval Portrait.
Painted Angels
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows…
Night of Fear
A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a…
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon was Australia’s first animated feature film,[2] released in 1972 and directed by Eric Porter. The two sequence directors were Porter’s animation director Cam…
Keep It Up, Jack!
Failed music hall performer Jack James inherits a brothel when his ancient Aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its star attraction,…
For Kayako
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
Amy!
Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s experimental documentary combines newsreel footage of the aviator’s arrival, dramatic recreations of events…
Aimée & Jaguar
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while…
Three Daughters
David Gottlieb, a longtime accountant at a New York firm run by Abe Zablinsky and his partner, is concerned about the future of his three daughters and worries that he…
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters…
Fangs
Sweet Jane
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
The Redeemer: Son of Satan!
Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful…
The Cat Has Nine Lives
Katharina and Anne go on trips, visit cafés, acquaintances and parties. In doing so, they explore the chances of female emancipation in a male-dominated society. Katharina strives for a life…
Janie
A sadistic teenager searching for “Daddy” murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Iancu Jianu, Outlaw
Together with Mereanu, Jianu plots to overthrow the Phanariot regime. Saved by Tincuta, who takes him as her husband, and forgiven, as the custom of the land and the people…