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Quietly selfish, full of grandiose dreams, and fundamentally cold and insensitive toward those around him, Mert is an immature man in his early-30s who resides in a middle-class neighborhood in Istanbul. When he has to deal with his father’s funeral preparations in a small town surrounded by tea plantations in the hills of northeastern Turkey, he finds himself trapped in the discrepancy between the world he has selfishly dreamed of and the world in which he actually lives. During the three days in the town, as he ignores every problem that he encounters, he can’t really help facing painful, tragic, and tragicomic experiences which lead him to go through inevitable moments of an instant and intense growing-up story while he discovers that the already existing cracks in his life are growing wider and deeper by the hour.
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng’s best friend.
Salomé is 69-year-old and doesn’t want to grow old in a society that pays little attention to elderly people; thus, she has organized her disappearance. She plans her last evening in detail, as she thinks about the last time she will have sexual intercourse. With the held of Sandra, a filmmaker, Salomé organizes a casting to choose the person with whom she will make love for the last time. But, as she abandons herself to pleasures, she discovers something new: her last time will also be a first time, just like every end is also a new beginning.
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a “plain American.” Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony’s dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
Popular animated character Charley explains the National Insurance Act, which was legislation that made health insurance available to all British citizens.
For one extraordinary week in February 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. DAYTIME REVOLUTION takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at that time the most popular show on daytime television, with a national audience of 40 million viewers each week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas gamely keeping the show on track.
A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren’s most intriguing works.
For Josh Kirby, time is one big banana peel. Just as he’s whooshing safely into hypertime, he takes a cosmic header and ends u in a bizarre place called Toyworld. The odds against Josh being relocated by his far-off crew: exactly 5,487,603 to 1. The odds that pursuing mad metalhead Dr. Zoetrope will find him are… Sorry, Josh, it’s a slam dunk. But Josh has allies. The lifelike toy creations of fuddy-duddy tinkerer rally to his cause.
Ghost hunters go to an old settler village and discover a way to interact with the people who used to live there via a television.
After remembering a traumatic racist incident in his childhood, Pirooz Kalayeh decides to document his journey to recovery, traveling back to the barbershop where he was refused a haircut as a child, and then doing a series of role-plays with family, friends, and children to understand how racism leaves lasting effects and how he and others can heal and move forward.
14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building’s elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building, it transports her from Philadelphia of 1998 back to the same place in 1881. There she meets Victoria Walker, a girl her own age in need of assistance with her own family problems. Gradually discovering the power of her time machine, Susan, Victoria, and her young brother Robert travel back and forth in time and succeed in changing both the past and the future.
A clown doll possessed by a demon goes on a bloody rampage of murder after being found and taken into a home.
James and Linda struggle to take care of her nephew, and his grandma, but when they receive more bad news, their only solution is to retreat to a fantasy.
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
It can be brutal enough just growing up a girl. Then add poverty, addiction, and God to the mix. Armed with a gun and a prayer, Emma and her cat bravely go where too many girls have gone before. It’s a war, and we gotta win it.
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
A new concert special honoring the musical legacy and enduring friendship of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. Filmed at Radio City Music Hall, the live concert brings together the two incredible entertainers performing duets and solo songs honoring their shared love of the Great American Songbook.
Alien and UFO encounters are not just a modern phenomenon. In fact, they go back thousands of years and amazingly resemble contemporary accounts worldwide. There are eyewitnesses from ancient times that actually recorded them and historical evidence exists in archaeology, landscapes and symbols. Why do we believe ancient accounts about battles and politics and yet ignore records about UFO sightings? From Egypt to Rome, from Africa to Europe, from South America to Australia – sightings have been recorded across vast periods of time, it’s clear that we have never been alone.
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion’s joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog’s photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.
Lancelot is sent through time by Merlin to protect young Arthur before he becomes King of Camelot, but by accident, they both end up in present day world along with the villains. Only technology can help them now.
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
Discover the man behind the nickname with this portrait of Curt Hennig, aka wrestling’s Mr. Perfect. Hennig displays the skill that landed him in the WWE Hall of Fame in footage from some of his greatest WWE, WCW and AWA matches. These clips are combined with interviews with fellow wrestlers, friends and family — including his father, retired AWA superstar Larry “The Axe” Hennig — that reveal the man as he was in and out of the ring.
A father’s eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son’s death.
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer’s unrequited love for a dance master’s daughter.
After a hapless fisherman is tricked out of his skin, he teams up with a mermaid to seek revenge on his malefactors.
Once famous for his quick blade, a retired assassin can no longer earn a living with his cut-throat skills. Summoned again, he partners with his chauffeur to carry out special missions – fullfilling the wishes of old people looking to kill themselves. When commissioned by a young girl who has been deserted by her parents and lover, the “Elderly’s Angel” squad finds an arresting way to complete its task.
Childless spouses writer Andrei and artist Olga adopt the eight-year-old Ksyusha. The director of the orphanage where the girl was brought up is Andrei Iren’s ex-girlfriend. She still passionately loves Andrei and intends to return him at all costs, even if for this he will have to destroy his family happiness. Meanwhile, Andrei is writing a science fiction novel about the dark side of Petersburg. On the pages of his book, the city on the Neva turns into a phantasmagoric world, where time itself has stopped, and the streets are inhabited by soulless creatures. Suddenly, Ksenia enters the world of “dark Petersburg” from the novel by Andrey, where he meets a mysterious friend Paramon. Heroes are waiting for many dangerous adventures…
Documentary about the 30-year long process of David Allen’s The Primevals.
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn’t at all who she claims to be.
Compilation of three short horror films: “That’s The Way To Do It”, “Dreamhouse” and “Do You Believe In Fairies?” plus some new linking material.
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
Canton of Neuchâtel, 1917 to 1933. A young watchmaker falls head over heels with a mysterious young woman. Jean and Anna get married, love each other madly and go through all life experiences together, supported by their happiness and friends at their side. Jean wants to invent a new waterproof watch, and the future looks promising. But Anna suddenly seems to suffer from a strange sickness which gets worse each day. Will Jean’s love for her be enough to save her?
The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
Over the course of the two-hour special, GONE BEFORE HER TIME, we’ll celebrate the controversies, influences, and legacies of five iconic female performers whose lives tragically ended just as they were at the peaks of their careers. These are vocalists so big, we only need their first names to conjure their music in our ears and beauty in our eyes.
