Proud American presents five powerful singular stories all of which magnify the themes mentioned above. Our film is an emotional, inspirational, and visual journey depicting America and the everyday Americans who exemplify the best that we can be.

When a cockroach-spread plague threatened to decimate the child population of New York City in the original Mimic, biologist Susan Tyler and her research associates developed a species of “Judas” bugs and introduced them into the environment, where they were to “mimic” the diseased roaches and infiltrate their grubby habitats. The plan worked until the bugs evolved to mimic their next prey…..humans! Just when they were all thought to be dead, the giant cockroaches are back, and this time they’ve mutated to take on human form!

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building’s residents.

Five friends return home from a marriage in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.

Aki Omoshaybi’s earnest debut explores the love between two people who work hard to keep their romance on track while struggling to manage personal hardship.

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis headlines and Lynn-Holly Johnson co-stars in this suspenseful take on haunted houses.

Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.

Firu Dorileanu, 30 unemployed, lives alone in his deceased parents’ apartment. To pass his financial problems, he tries to sell his mother’s contrabass. So, with this occasion, he discovers inside the instrument a letter and an old film from his mother’s youth. Going behind the protagonists in the film, Firu arrives inside the wreck, there where was born his mother’s secret.

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.

Igor is a plumber; Pina serves coffee. It is winter and they both deeply desire each other, but they are not free. In trying to figure out how to realize their love, she decides to make a lion costume for her little son and he decides to buy a photocopying machine for his wife. Spring will come at last and with it the consummation of love, filling their lives with hope and sex.