Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...
Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
In this Nikolay Gogol short-story adaptation, an impoverished bureaucrat’s life turns upside down after purchasing an expensive overcoat.
A simple-minded Ukrainian worker Levko inherits his uncle's flourishing mill business. The sudden and unexpected fortune consequently reveals Levko's furious crave for money. He starts with laying hands on the tavern of the missing Jew Yankel, who was snatched for cupidity by the devil Khapun. In the blink of an eye Levko becomes a village usurer, he fuddles peasants, he dilutes horilka, he wants and squeezes money from everyone. But the unruly desire to be rich leads to a complete loss of compassion, friends, and love. And the main question is how the hero's ordeals will end - will the real feelings triumph or will the greed prevail.
Based upon the novel of the same name. Hugo is dumped by his girlfriend before their long-planned romantic train trip across America. She leaves him with the tickets, which are nontransferable, booked under her name. Meanwhile, Mae is reeling from being rejected from USC’s film school. When she stumbles across Hugo’s ad for a replacement, she’s certain it’s exactly the adventure she needs to shake off her disappointment and jump-start her next film.
A new car from one of the most magical names in motoring - Lamborghini -has always been an occasion. When the Diablo was introduced to an adoring publicit was not only one of the most beautiful looking performance cars of its time butthe fastest of them all! This programme traces the development of Diablo, from thedrawing board to the Autostrada. We go on the road with one of the world’s most experiencedhigh-speed test drivers, Mario Mezzanotte, and ex-world rally champion Sandro Munari.At the Nardo test track the cameras actually record a lap at 212 mph (340 kph)! Equallythrilling is the experience of 160 mph on a busy motorway!
A pensive man wearing an empty ID jacket and a broken watch drifts through public spaces on the way home.
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
A group of youth enter Shaolin to become proficient in the arts of the snake, crane, tiger, and leopard. Their training is put to the test when Shaolin is invaded! This rare classic has never been seen outside of Asia. (Original uncut Chinese version with English titles.)
Dream Town Development real estate bosses Jack Del Rio and Sy Richards can't convince animal lover Carol Tanner to sell and relocate safari/animal retirement ranch Wild Land, which she runs with younger sister Ballad since their parents died in a plane crash. Jack hires Bradshaw and Roach to release tiger Caesar, after that fails to cause a scandal to start a forest fire and release all animals, after tying up Carol. Ballad's lover, committed Glendora, southern California fire captain Kennedy, and his jumper team try their best to control the fire. Meanwhile young sheriff Drake Donovan and Ballad drug and catch wild animals. The arson is discovered, but the fiends aren't done yet.
A single mother of a leukemia-stricken child is redeemed by the titular positive force in Paco Torres' intriguing debut, "The Magic of Hope." Starting out as a po-faced tale of endurance, pic develops into a convincing, quietly affirmative fable about the transformative power of human goodness. Featuring a searching central performance from Patricia Garcia Mendez and employing a distinctive mix of grit and lyricism working in mutually beneficial counterpoint, pic is far from perfect, but its seriousness of purpose and undertow of emotional truth could be met with applause by fest auds.
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
Elvis Presley was arguably the most popular and influential pop singer of the 20th Century, but while his adult life was a litany of creative and commercial successes, his death was a shocking and unexpected event which exposed many ugly secrets about "The King" and suggested to millions that this hero was, in many ways, a very lonely man. Elvis Presley: The Last 24 Hours is a documentary which offers a look at the final day of Presley's life, featuring interviews with several members of his personal entourage, "The Memphis Mafia," including Sonny West, Lamar Fike, Joe Esposito, Larry Geller, Jerry Schilling, and Marty Lacker.
A wealthy banker and his daughter are kidnapped by a gang of thugs. The girl's boyfriend, who serves in the special units of the US Navy, is in possession of particular psychic powers. It will be thanks to these powers he will discover the place where the two abducted were locked.
Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.
Train to Adulthood is a coming-of-age story about three youngsters who find an escape from life's ordeals by working on the Budapest Children's Railway. While they enjoy playing at being responsible adults on the Train, at home they are forced to mature abruptly.