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During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Begging features Paul Su, the activist known for protesting the fare increase of the Star Ferry, in a striking portrayal of a homeless man. His contemporary plight is interspersed with the ancient wisdom of verses from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.

"Begging Naked" began in 1996. My friend Elise asked me to video tape her stories of being a teen runaway and prostitute. She knew she'd never write her autobiography and I was just learning how to use a video camera. When Elise decided to go back into stripping at age 30, the story went on an unpredictable course. Over the next 7 years, Mayor Guiliani wiped out the sex businesses on 42nd Street leaving Elise unemployed. Elise began to spiral mentally out of control, stopped paying rent and was eventually evicted. She now lives in Central Park. All of these events have been documented in "Begging Naked". The events in Elise's life have dictated the 9 years of production.

The 2011 season rolls in and the snow begins to fall. Cities are scoured for features. Sleep is lost. Hits are taken. All for the opportunity to present one’s own interpretation of the sport. Join the crew throughout all times of the day and night as they put in the fullest efforts to portray their perspectives on the current progression in skiing; providing insight on a side of the sport that often times falls short of the spotlight. This is a skiing film that has been created to paint a picture on the lifestyles of a group of friends who share a similar outlook on the sport.

An investigation of a family's dilemma when the 18 year old son, trained by his ambitious father for the local wrestling championships, receives his call up papers for WWI.

The story is about a swap between two couples...

On the outside it looks like a marriage made in heaven. But inside the thick walls of what they call home theirs is a relationship waiting to crumble. They have been waiting a child for so long but the wife does not have the capacity to bear a child. And when her husband cannot take it any it any longer he decides to end his misery once and for all.

What if? What if we had more than one destiny? What if we had more than one path? Would it be worth it? One day out of the life of runaway gay teen. After receiving a silver dollar from a mysterious man in black, he is thrown on a journey of two roads, one leads him back onto the streets, and the other road leads him home.

A young swordsman is sent to the city of Lo Yang to help his father's benefactor Inspector Chang from the four monsters-which are causing him a lot of grief. Four of the most violent martial artists in China.

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The smooth narration, corresponding to the requirements of a light comedy, develops the smiling and optimistic story of the "one-armed" beggar Dostál, who earned enough money with his excellent begging skills to buy a nice house, become a respectable master of the house, and save the impoverished lawyer Neprosil from poverty, who he contributed regularly to him when he was still well off. He also wanted to get him together with his pretty ward Zorka, for whom he said he would be an ideal husband, but the young people were able to do that by themselves and without his clumsy help, or rather despite his rather ineffective help... The film was shown at the VI. IFF in Venice in 1938.

The journey of Photographer KIM Jungman to find landscapes which are to be preserved and reclaimed rather than developed eventually leads to guleopdo. Juxtaposing external landscape and internal imagery, the ambitious documentary embraces the issues of the environment and the lives.

Eiji is the mistress of Nozomi, the widow of the company president, and if she asks, he will even ignore his wife Reiko. Reiko, who senses that her husband is cheating on her, also rekindles her lewd relationship with her boyfriend from college. The couple, who were supposed to be enjoying their own love affair, are faced with an unexpected turn of events...

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Editor Kurumada is in charge of the popular author Hara. When he receives a call from the capricious Hara and goes to retrieve the manuscript, Hara hugs his wife, Mariko, in his study as if to show off to Kurumada. Even though Kurumada suppressed her rising anger, Mariko's foolishness still stuck in her mind. Afterwards, Kurumada is invited to Mariko's home and begins a relationship with her. The incident was videotaped by Hara. Hara claims that he has the right to embrace Kurumada's wife, Yumi... The second work in the series depicting the sexual behavior of a married woman who indulges in swapping.

Two poor young people, Martha and Manos, have grown up together and are in love, but the financial problems of the girl's family will lead her to marry a rich man. Manos, prompted by their separation, will write a song that will pave the way for his success, but will also bring him closer to another woman, whom he will marry...

Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.

Ghost story (originally released in parts 1 & 2) based on a Chinese opera.

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A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in order to afford life for his sick mother and himself. Together they undergo different adventures, even preventing a theft in Pünktchens home

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.

A single mother begs, borrows, and steals to provide her son with a better life than she had, with little help from her ex-husband or her mother.