
Ernst von Merkens
0.0A 2D animated short film about two kids living on an island surrounded by monsters. The girl and the boy lead seemingly normal lives amidst this chaos. However, when the girl suspects her friend is being mistreated at home, she fearlessly takes on the challenge to safeguard him, regardless of the odds.
0.0A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
5.8In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
6.5Four runaway teenagers are catapulted on a wild and uplifting road trip out of the city and across the water to a magical island music festival.
7.3A coming out of age story of 2 secondary school students who study in a Christian school. Ming is in closet and Hei is openly gay.
6.8An unscrupulous debt collector who is a prominent member of the Moscow elite has just a few hours to refute an accusation that might cost him his job and his life.
0.0Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.
6.5The story of friendship on the eve of the free officers' revolution: Youssef, an unprincipled journalist, whose star rises thanks to his connections, and Shawki, an idealist man committed to social justice
5.5Strange occurrences in a desolate ranch cause two brothers to fight for their sanity.
4.5Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their host… and their chef.
0.0A seafarer normally spends 9 months working at sea, isolated from the rest of the world. But during a pandemic, a signed contract means nothing.
0.0Torment follows a boy (Kadin Gervalla) is haunted by a mysterious figure (Chloe Dowling) and investigates the clues she leaves him to find out why.
2.0A hardened businessman takes a prostitute to his house. He hopes she can help him feel human again.
7.2A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
7.0Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
6.0Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.
7.5A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.
5.8Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
6.2St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?
4.3In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
4.2A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
7.1For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's Big Brother. The ceremonial gowns and make-up here not only evoke the eroticism of European horror movies but also highlight the film's interplay between performance and intimacy. Jonas Mekas called it 'theatre of life'.
5.8A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
6.5Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
5.9On images of the Tuileries Gardens, Marguerite Duras recalls Césarée, an ancient destroyed city.
6.4A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
6.5A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
6.1Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as they find out, you can't repeat the past.
7.2A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
7.9As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
7.0Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
7.0A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
6.5Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
7.0Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
6.8Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.