A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.
Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
An intimate portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on filmmaker Jude Chehab’s family and the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A love story of a different kind, Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning.
Yonosuke Hikura appears to be an ordinary high school student. Yet he has inherited the important role of protecting the harmony between Heaven and Earth. With the help of the magical sword Chitentai, and Tsukinojo Inbe, he courageously battles the demons, sending them back to the Earth World, from which they have escaped.
A city awakens. There are sights and sounds we do not experience if we sleep late.
Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on a journey through Italy. Ciril hopes that his doctorate on Italian art would provide him inner peace, thus starting a new life. Emotionally disturbed Fritz, on the other hand, tries to escape everyday life, as well as from commitment he has to his female friend.
The film tells the story of three best friends named Ako, Aki and Awang, who are well-known in their village for their mischievous and humourous pranks. The trio work for Pak Man. One day, they are assigned to pick up his daughter Misha, who has just returned from overseas and dreams of becoming a doctor. The trio have been in love with her for a long time but she does not pay them any heed. When Misha is robbed by a snatch thief one day, she is rescued by a doctor named Shafiq. Her face reminds the doctor of his late wife, and he begins to pursue her, which annoys the trio.
A young college student is given a disturbing ultimatum when a dark secret from his past is resurrected.
When Max (Eric Stoltz), urged on by "Risk Management," a self-help book for the hapless, decides to approach his fellow ferry-commuter Rory (Susanna Thompson), he hopes simply saying hello might change his life for the better. But Rory only accepts contact by contract. Max finds he can play along. As the two negotiate a whirlwind relationship on paper, Rory slowly lets down her guard; but when her unresolved personal life intervenes in the form of Donald (Kevin Tighe), Max must manage a little more risk than he bargained on.
Constantine and his wife, who are in their 70s, could not leave Istanbul, a city the Greeks were compelled to leave at different times for many various reasons. With the death of his wife, Constantine is overcome by thoughts and dreams about the past by associating his wife with Istanbul. Just like his wife, who never wanted to leave Istanbul, he cannot break away from her or the city.
N!xau (G/qa'o), the star of The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), is visited in 1990 and shortly before his death in 2003; the way he and his fellow San (Bushmen) people live is not the idyllic lifestyle portrayed in the 1980 film.
The greatest life lessons are learned through the simplest of experiences. When your kitchen turns into your biggest classroom... and Mom just serves you a plate of wisdom.
UFC on Fox 10: Henderson vs. Thomson, took place at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois. Thomson, the No. 4 lightweight in the UFC, will battle former champion Benson "Smooth" Henderson. Originally, Thomson was slated to take on Anthony "Showtime" Pettis, but the lightweight champion had to pull out due to a knee injury. Now, Thomson and Henderson will battle for the right to be next in line when Pettis returns to action.
Sayed is a defeated human being living in the slums of old Cairo where he is constantly bombarded with government propaganda. He crosses paths with an ancient Egyptian porter carrying a throne and wondering in search of his lost king. Now Sayed wants to be seated too 'even for 5 minutes to see how it feels'. This political allegory is a study of the inherent self-imposed oppression in third world nations.
This film is dedicated to all the youngsters who have lost their lives
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art.
When a B-list actress gets canned from her network show, she takes the only other job she's qualified for: a Christmas Elf at the mall.
2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.
Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.
Set in a satirical vision of modern Britain, Hadrian is a young and ambitious civil servant who arranges to receive Greek lessons in preparation for a government promotion which will see him steer British economic policy throughout Greece. But when he meets his teacher Maria, she asks that instead of payment, Hadrian exchanges an hour of his time each week to help her prepare for a citizenship exam that offers potential promotion from Class B to Class A immigrant.
A very good looking Jack is always on the hunt for hook-ups until he meets his match with physical challenges.
"Dual View" is a film that follows the lives of two young individuals, Tomás and Samot, with different routines and perspectives. Tomás is a worker in a bakery, finding motivation in his job and enjoying leisure moments like walking with his pig and helping a needy friend. Meanwhile, Samot is a constantly tardy university student, disheartened by his classes and feeling isolated in his academic environment. The film explores the duality of their lives, showcasing their ups and downs, social interactions, and reflections on the past and future. In the end, faced with the question of returning to high school or continuing on their current paths, both characters reflect on their choices and experiences, revealing their desires and perspectives for the future.
When Ana's childhood friend dies she attempts to skip the five stages of grief with the help of her best friends, ex-boyfriends and naked Twister.
When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.
An awkward young boy struggles to find his voice and deal with his meshugina family in the days leading up to his Bar Mitzvah.
Ana is a Latina immigrant who after serving in the US Navy finds a new way to enjoy retirement serving people in the Craft services for a film production company in New York City, everybody knows her as The Crafty Lady and this short film is a day in her life.
A clueless man finds a bomb on the street and keeps throwing it to the crowd around him. The sketch then moves with the clueless nerd getting involved in all sorts of troubles until he accidentally gets into a hideout from a terrorist group that will complicate things for him more than he ever hoped.
A boys first weekend with the father after the divorce of his parents. Together with his friends, he makes a plan to turn that weekend into a horror trip, to punish his father. But then everything changes
After flipping through an adult book, 12-year-old Stewart learns of society's attitude toward kids learning about sex, despite sex's prevalence throughout our daily lives.
A documentary showcasing a family as they pack up their home of twelve years and begin looking towards the future.
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.
Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.