Search results for "1999"

Femme fatale con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.

An emotionally crippled woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) turns to prostitution to help care for her sister (Jena Malone), who has cystic fibrosis.

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he…

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which…

A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along…

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That’s when they cut very loose and get…

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for…

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native…

Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly…

An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world’s largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that…

A Hispanic teenager hides out from the law in the home of a good-natured, but rebellious, Caucasian teenage girl after killing two rednecks whom beat him up and left him…

Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders’ authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons….

During a small gathering, a smooth, seductive stranger is invited into a couple’s house party and falls in love with the wife. Turns out the stranger is an escaped convict…

Jason Kuller, the comedian from New York’s Catskill Mountains, performs his material on an intimate stage in this riotous special.

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He’s still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy’s Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent,…

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog,…

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter – ardent, sensual……

William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled…

The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia’s friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with…

When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn’t realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman…

Anthony Wong is a rich sex-deprived man who meets a Monk, who offers him an erotic dream. He becomes addicted to the dream and falls in love with the beautiful…

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an…

An embittered satellite expert gets the opportunity for revenge against the USA by aiding terrorists in a plan to destroy the country’s military base.

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman’s pre-school daughter in…

Bill, a high school student and avid horror movie fan, witnesses a UFO flying over his town. When the ship lands the next day, Bill and a team from SETI…

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to…

The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

In this (mostly) one-man show, comedian Paul F. Tompkins holds forth on alcohol, pretension and Hollywood, managing to drink four full pints of Guinness over the course of the performance.

A neurotic L.A. building contractor pushes his reluctant wife into having a threesome. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and begins seducing every…

A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and…

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when…

A series of comedic short films guaranteed to offend.

This film tells the story of a semi modern Iranian couple, who are trying to fight the old beliefs and old generation. This is a failing battle because the man…

The gold medal for the men’s 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he decides that since he…

There’s little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They’re lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a…