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- Cliff, a traveling salesman drowning under the weight of providing for his family and the myth of the American dream, finds himself on a dangerous path after a chance encounter with Ricky, a colleague from a dark past.
- Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
- High school outcast Josh is searching for his missing girlfriend in post apocalyptic Glendale. He's joined by a group of misfits Angelica and his former bully Wesley. On the way they'll face many weird things.
- Set during the final days of the admired photo development system known as Kodachrome, a father and son hit the road in order to reach the Kansas photo lab before it closes its doors for good.
- A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
- A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.
- A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.
- A down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.
- An 11-year-old boy befriends three aliens after they crash their spaceship onto the grounds of an closed gas station by his house.
- The story is based on the novel by Leah Hager Cohen in which a couple's baby dies 57 hours after his birth and the parents try to return to their previous lives and struggle to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and their two children.
- Paul must confront his white boy realness after arriving in New York and getting involved with explosively divisive groups: the queer ballroom scene and some straight debt collectors, while falling in love with a trans woman.
- She Ball follows the love of the game through the struggles of Avery Watts, who enlists the baddest women's streetball league in the city to help him save the embattled Inglewood Community Center, which he manages, all while trying to raise his seven year old daughter.
- High school students are forced to face their darkest fears in order to overcome a supernatural force that feeds on chaos and the misery of mankind.
- Convicted ex-governor Benjo Malaya learns his family is missing. Forced to return to the criminal underworld, he becomes a fixer for the Philippine president to stop an impending civil war.
- A woman in her 30s who has seen better days tries to turn her life around without a real sense of introspection.
- Emanuel spends his days at a sanatorium. Falling in love with another patient, he narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly fade away, but their minds refuse to give up.
- Durian is an unconventional 30-year-old single woman whose life is shattered by the unexpected death of her mother. Unsure of how to cope with this sudden change, Durian takes a short vacation.
- Fifteen years from its inception, YouTube retains the power to shock and disorient - particularly when wielded by children who have lived their whole lives in its era. A found-footage documentary composed entirely of social media videos by teenagers weathering hostile education and a climate of terror in contemporary Russia, "Manifesto" contains one vignette after another to make viewers wince with discomfort and even outright horror. One's first impulse might be to ask whether any documentary should show such material at all - yet of course, it has been freely available for public viewing all along. As such, "Manifesto" invites uneasy consideration of the differing responsibilities of creating, consuming and externally curating candid video, and provides no guidance. In selecting and assembling several years' worth of amateur video into a constructed, collective life-in-a-day feature, the presumably pseudonymous filmmaker Angie Vinchito takes considerable risks of decontextualization. There's no narration to bind or editorialize these disparate but symphonically despairing mini-narratives of physical abuse and psychological oppression, and "Manifesto" counts on viewers' knowledge of recent Russian politics and social norms to determine which videos present uncompromised reality, which may be documenting pranks or performance, and which have been alarmingly coerced.
- It narrates in a near-future Tokyo the wild love affair between Dirka, a Japanese-Brazilian girl who works as a nightclub hostess to pay for her ailing Japanese father's debts, and Vadim, a young Russian drug delivery driver. Dirka yearns to return to the vaguely remembered Brazil of her youth. Vadim is sunk by remorse at having got his brother killed back in Russia.
- In this tawdry drama, an attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past.
- Claude Lanzmann discusses the long and difficult process of researching, shooting, editing and presenting his groundbreaking and influential documentary Shoah (1985).
- Blanca and José are a lonely old couple, whose routine of watching television is affected by an astronomical phenomenon. Blanca suffers from a degenerative disease and depends on José in everyday situations.
- A newly married man finds it impossible to get along with his wife's mother, who lives with the couple, and plans to get rid of her. He receives an advertisement from a hypnotic school, which informs him he can learn to hypnotize by mail. He has an idea that he can hypnotize his mother-in-law, thereby making her leave his home. He receives the lessons and proceeds to learn the art. He practices continually wherever he goes. In the street car he scares passengers with funny antics; runs into a man carrying a sack of flour; makes his mother-in-law pack her belongings and leave his home. The amateur hypnotist meets his Waterloo when the indignant old lady finds him later.
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- Romina and Flor are two inseparable friends who go through everything together, from first love to first divorce. But as time passes, disagreements and conflicts arise.
- A girl who, because of the dangerous community [Maine woods settlement], masquerades as a boy during the day, only to become herself again when safely ensconced in her own home at night. Years before, her mother had been murdered by a renegade, and her father has sworn to get the villain. It develops that a nasty neighbor is the party wanted. Her father gives him what's coming to him and is only prevented from homicide by Lytell, as the young man from the City who has fallen in love with the daughter.
- "Unpopular" is a new video series aiming to share voices of the unheard. This is a sacred space to be vulnerable, share from our heart, and have an open dialogue respectfully. Our intention is to share our voices, to inspire community action, and create Zz.
- In a small town in Abruzzo in February 2020, the COVID-19 emergency is only at the beginning, apparently limited to a single area of Italy. Alfredo and Felicetta, both widows with a son Filippo and Giacomo, have been happily married for 30 years in a second marriage from which Maria Concetta was born. They have a perfect extended family. Filippo and Giacomo live far away. Only Maria Concetta is still at home but close to marrying a wealthy local olive grower, Marcello. The couple, finally, is now able to realize their dreams by moving, taking advantage of retirement, to Portugal. They then decide to communicate their decision on the birthday of Alfredo and his grandson Andrea with the whole family gathered to celebrate. But the family harmony is only apparent and the three children, for different reasons, will work to boycott this project.
- Told by leading climate scientists, Earth Emergency examines four of the major warming feedback loops threatening our planet: Forests, Permafrost, Albedo and Atmosphere.
- TV SeriesA family of ghost hunters awaits their eldest daughter inheriting special abilities, but after her father passes, her dissimilar sister gains the power. They must move past their differences to face paranormal peril.
- A successful surgeon [Dr. Steve Maison], trying to burn the candle at both ends through keeping up his professional activities and also keeping abreast of his social obligations to please his fiancée, resorts to a drug to stimulate him as he is about to perform an operation. This leads to a shot now and again, and soon he is an addict, giving up his profession and sinking to the slums, until he is thrown into jail. He escapes and returns to his humble abode, burglarizes the hospital where he was formerly an attaché to obtain a supply of drug, and then when he is brought to a realization of the uselessness of it all he puts up a fight to get away from his habit, but although he spends a night of terror fighting off his desire his victory against the drug brings death.
- The subject illustrates the eventful life of the James and Ford brothers, from the .time the former left their home after the attempted lynching of Dr. Samuels to the surrender of Frank James to Governor Crittenden of Missouri. Among the thrilling and vividly graphic incidents are the "hold up" at the County Fair in Kansas City, and the robbery of the Chicago and Alton train, showing a race between rough riders and a locomotive. The death of Jesse is depicted, according to history.
- U.S. Navy lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller lands on a Japanese occupied island after his ship was sunk at the Solomon Islands during World War II. For a solid month, he wages a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese.
- By underhand methods Al Hart gets possession of a rich mine belonging to Peggy O'Day and her father. Not knowing Hart to be a crook, Farnum accepts a position with him, and is sent to take charge of the mine. There he meets Peggy O'Day, and has a strenuous time attempting to control the tough gang which infests the vicinity. Finally he quits Hart's employ, and the latter, realizing the wrong he has done, gives Peggy a half interest in the mine, and she and Farnum end the film in each other's embrace.
- Legendary composer John Williams has written an original theme for ESPN's College Football Playoff National Championship. Titled "Of Grit and Glory," it runs three and a half minutes and will score a specially created series of visuals that convey "the feeling behind the night, fear and anticipation, triumph and failure," ESPN co-director and producer Martin Khodabakhshian tells Variety.
- Former musician and stand-up comedian Troy Dillinger hosts the best comedy, music and burlesque from Austin, Texas and closes the show with an audience participation game show. In season 3, the show includes a behind-the-scenes drama about the trials and tribulations of making a live television show, as well as the shortcomings of it's host and producer Troy Dillinger. Dillinger is on a mission to share the best entertainment from Austin with the rest of the world on The Austin Variety Show, both in its variety and reality formats. With no experience and no budget, he's the show's biggest supporter - and it's biggest liability. See great live music, comedy, burlesque, and a wild game show from "The Live Music Capital of the World" in a raw, raunchy stage show which is shot in Austin Variety Show's studios.
- "A Mosow electrician (Vladimir Steklov) lives in a crowded apartment house where he suspects that the heating stoves are poisoning the tenants, but can't convince some clueless bureaucrats to do anything about it. He fantasizes about an elegant lady (Kristina Orbakaite) he barely knows, but finally gets around to inviting her to a near-disastrous night at the opera, which leads to his seeming death,"
- In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.
- David Lawrence, a wealthy and powerful stockbroker, was quite content with his life until he discovered the allure, risk and challenge of the boxing world. At 44, Lawrence was not young, but with the assistance of a great trainer - and obsessive urge to succeed in a milieu totally different from his own - he mastered the necessary skills and even excelled at the brutal sport.
- "Attempted Suicide" is a travesty on the "red tape" of the French police service; at least the characters seem French and the uniforms worn are of that nation. A young man disappointed in love wanders to the woods, where he hangs himself to the limb of a tree. A boy discovering him, runs in alarm to tell the gardener, who is conveniently at hand; the gardener views the death struggles, but, although having a scythe in his hand, dares not cut the rope without the presence of an officer and hurries after one. A mounted policeman is secured, who rides up, looks at the hanging person and returns to the station house to report, without attempting to retrieve the young man from his sure death position. The policeman with his sergeant returns once more, watches the last feeble struggles and, ignoring the fate about to arrive, ride off to inform the young fellow's father. That personage, while alarmed, declines to hasten until his necktie and scarf have been properly adjusted, when all run to the woods, and the presumed suicide (by this time) is laid upon the ground. Upon his sweetheart arriving he embraces her madly, having been playing "possum," which may be detected by the audience through seeing a hook attached to the end of the rope in his coat. This relieves what would be otherwise a gruesome sight, and for real pure fun, with the burlesque on the idiotic police system always to the fore, "Attempted Suicide" will be difficult to beat.
- An enterprising theatrical manager to "boost" business, selects his fairest show girl, bedecks her with a "directoire" or sheath gown and she starts out on a walk through a busy thoroughfare. What follows is fine for the risibilities. A policeman having arrested a burglar frees him to follow the gown. Several firemen abandon a fire and follow the policeman. Soldiers in a drill break ranks to go after the fireman. Two men on wheels follow the soldiers. Men leave their wives and join the procession. Others jump out of windows for a glimpse. A street astrologer abandons star gazing and focuses his telescope on the fair apparition. The procession finally its winds way back to the theater and the crowd "falls" for the show, which turns out to be a poor one,
- A man is shot; an innocent man is accused of murder; he is tried three times and finally acquitted. Three distinct times the courtroom scene is shown. The lawyers argue, the jury goes out and returns with a sealed verdict, there being no variation in the dull routine. Twice during the argument the opposing lawyers are shown ostentatiously reaching into their hip pockets for their revolvers during a wrangle. Imagine this in an American court where a man is on trial for his life. The court room looks like a stage setting made of wedding cake decorations, and in the opening scene, so poorly has the scene painter laid out his perspective that an actor stands almost touching a three story painted building that reaches barely to his chin. In addition to these grounds for complaint a death bed scene is shown, in which the patient dies with sickening details of realism.
- Five youngsters in the autism spectrum absorb themselves in music lessons and learn to navigate the COVID-19 challenges to ensure that their growth is not hampered.
- Variety describes the film: There's a Kafkaesque absurdism to the real-life circumstances in "The Concrete Curtain" that, as in Kafka, nobody finds particularly funny. Portrait of the new injustices and bureaucratic pretzel-logic created by the ongoing construction of the West Bank wall (following helmer Benny Brunner's 2003 "The Wall") is a rueful document that views related Israeli policies as a blatant land grab designed to isolate and drive away native Palestinians. As the wall's ugly concrete slabs carve up Palestinian East Jerusalem, and areas are rezoned, residents find themselves in bizarre predicaments. The Israel-Palestinian border sometimes cuts through living rooms, making it illegal for a resident to be in parts of his or her own house. Extended families will now face great difficulty visiting, though as the crow flies, they're still neighbours. A mixed-race professional couple with different travel permit cards must soon separate and shuttle children between them, or else sacrifice careers to their newly restricted mobility. Variably outraged, resigned and simply incredulous, interviewees (speaking primarily in English) are everything but surprised at governmental manoeuvres the pic's intertitles ironically dub "Israeli humour."
- This is a posed picture, showing the workshop of a sculptor. A customer purchases a rather good piece of handiwork, a statue which dances when wound up. Removing it to his home, a servant starts it moving and it runs away. After powdering his face from a flour barrel the servant takes the position upon the pedestal in an attempt to deceive the master of the house. The discovery of the deception is the finale, bringing the picture to a close.
- Shows his early years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; the Lincoln - Douglas debates; Judge Lincoln refusing a pro-slavery office; granting a pardon to sleeping picket; and his assassination.