Take(2008)

Matchstick Men(en)

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

Avatar(es)

Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.

Let It Bleed(en)

An ordinary man takes revenge only to find it's made him the target of a major crime lord and his army of psychopaths and professional killers.

At an Uncertain Time(pt)

It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother. Director/writer Saboga (screenwriter for Raúl Ruiz’s MYSTERIES OF LISBON) saturates the dark world of this predatory tale with steamy eroticism and paranoia, starting with the incestuous desires of his bi-curious adolescent daughter and including the family maid.

Tsuburo no Gara(ja)

A man and a woman wake up in a hospital room. She's a nurse, he's a patient. Problem: a large metal object on his back. While the woman tries desperately to escape, the man experiences an inner struggle on the borderline of dream and reality. What has happened before?

Ellie My Love(ja)

Based on the comic by Mako Takami.

Sanwri - Love Beyond Gender(hi)

Bhanwar, a simpleton young man in the rural Rajasthan wants a bride for him but gets duped. Instead of a woman, he is married off to a transgender person – Sanwri. Having no resort Bhanwar and his uncle decide to keep Sanwri for their household work but fearing the social ostracization they also try to keep her actual identity a secret. Bhanwar and Sanwri eventually fall in love and fight to survive as a couple in a conservative, oppressive society where marriages are meant to take place only between a man and a woman, and traditional norms are more important than humanity.

Retrospectiva de uma Era(pt)

Inferno(sl)

Tragedy doesn’t come any more Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian in scope than this dark social drama of the disintegration of a little family of four. A series of small debts triggers the swift domino effect that unleashes chaos on a well-meaning working class dad who has the bad judgment to speak truth to power.

Shikar(hi)

An estate manager discovers his employer dead and a mysterious woman unconscious after a car accident, and must collaborate with a police inspector to solve the mystery.

El disputado voto del señor Cayo(es)

Based on Miguel Delibes novel. Rafael Corral, socialist member, decide to attend to the funeral of a friend although they had recomended him not to go for politic reasons. He finds there some friends and talking with them makes him to change his mind.

Backstreet Boys: Into The Millennium Tour Live in Barcelona(en)

Backstreet Boys Live in Barcelona - Millennium Tour 1999 HBO Broadcast

Enfants jouant aux billes(fr)

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

Little Lost Robot(en)

The only surviving play from the anthology series, Out of This World, presented by Boris Karloff.

Watermelon Slim And The Workers - Live At The Ground Zero Blues Club(it)

Ox-Fam(en)

“Ox-Fam”, Neddy’s excellent Oxford scene video, With new footage from the likes of Tom Watts, Jason Cloete, Joe Paget, Phil Sproul, James Needham, Alex Brewster, Kieran Mounsey, Alex Fuller, Jono Wyborn, Luke McInnerney, Olly Maton, Michael Halls, plus many more heads from around the south coast and Sheffield, this is definitely one for the collection!

HH(en)

In 1977, the military government kidnapped Juan Herman in Bariloche. In 1985, Carlos Echeverría shot “Juan As If Nothing Had Happened”, a film that investigated the disappearance. Horacio – Juan’s brother – worked on the film but his testimony wasn’t part of it. 30 years later, I travelled to meet him.

Swept from the Sea(en)

The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy, who is very kind and helps him. Soon he becomes like a son for Dr. James Kennedy and romance between Yanko and Amy follows.

Playing to Win: A Moment of Truth Movie(en)

A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.

Owning Mahowny(en)

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Das verlorene Gesicht(de)

The Gamblers(de)

Down in the Valley(en)

On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is suspicious of her lover.

Play Girl(en)

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

The Lady Gambles(en)

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

The Curse of the Cat People(en)

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Curse of the Stone Hand(en)

A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.

Reckless Living(en)

This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.

The Spider Woman(en)

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".

DoubleDown(en)

Inspired by true events, DoubleDown is the story of Ali, a student struggling with money, his relationship and his crippling gambling addiction. Ali promises his girlfriend, Lea, that his next game will be his last and he must fight the temptation to play another round and double down on his chances.

Cheaters(fr)

Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.

The Mysterious Miss C.(fr)

An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves.

Two Dollar Bettor(en)

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

The Gambling Sex(en)

A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.

Winner Take All(en)

The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.

Any Number Can Play(en)

When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.

The Disaster Artist(en)

An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.