A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
Tormented by a mysterious figure named Belmiro, a young woman goes up on a stage to deliver a monologue about her past and fight against herself.
As they penetrate deeper into the darkness of the forrest, a group of hunters guided by a wolf is getting closer and closer to the source of the original sin.
Filmed largely in close-up, this documentary records a woman giving birth while her husband remains at her side. The camera concentrates on her face throughout labor, briefly revealing the moment of the child’s arrival before the newborn is placed in her arms.
Upon breaking into a neighbor's house. Vito finds the inexplicable shining at him. But before, awaits a sleeping man guarding the treasure. Armed with 2 handguns and silent as the night, he is ready to finally uncover the secrets of the box in the quiet house.
A static camera records, in one single continuous shot, a woman's face before, during and after orgasm. The act of looking and the limits of the film frame are highlighted in this intimate sexual episode with Tina Fraser. Artist Stephen Dwoskin presents a powerful, personal moment while maintaining a distance and resisting the viewer being subsumed into the action on screen.
A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.
A third-generation Japanese-American student moves to Wakayama to study lacquerware painting and is invited to a homestay at Wakisaka's house in order to experience Japanese life.
A thirty-year-old Spanish writer in Los Angeles embarks on a journey of self-discovery in the midst of his first love story with a man and his last with a woman, all while facing the added isolating reality of being a foreigner.
After failing to appease their narcissistic father, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are set on a path to mutually assured destruction. No-one hurts you like the ones you love.
A young lawyer gets a case he believes will make him rich. In the process he encounters dangerous men willing to kill to protect a fake and adulterated medical drugs trade worth billions in Nigeria. The outcome helps him come to terms with his life and resolve the clash of values he has had with his father all along.
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.
Mr. Khavari, a calligraphy teacher who is the tenant of an aristocratic family has fallen in love with their daughter. But the hand of fate is working against his heartfelt sentiments. Every time he find a chance to ask for the girl's hand, a rival crops up that marries the girl and make him a loser. But Khavari proves himself a persevering suitor...
