Search Results for "disasters"

Raquel is a teacher who resists the idea of retiring. One day she has to teach a class at her old school, only to find out she has been replaced with someone much younger. She insists still on teaching, and gets the support of her former students who will occupy the classroom demanding her reinstatement, leading to a small revolution that will threaten the establishment's order.

Valka cannot keep his balance. He needs crutches to stand and walk, and a bicycle to run. For him, the world is full of perils and mishaps. How can one face life at nine years old, when a wrong step or the slightest push sends you tumbling? To steady himself, Valka has invented a mantra: “I’m a real samurai!” Armed with it, he takes his first independent and courageous steps toward the world.

A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

Just in time for the joyous holiday season, this film connects the ancient Mayan prophecy of worldwide destruction at the end of 2012, and the iconic holiday song, The 12 Days of Christmas. But there is hope: a father learns that his daughter is really the "Chosen One" who, alone, can stop further catastrophe - if he can stave off the lunatic townspeople blaming her for the community's destruction.

A spoof of disaster films, an asteroid is coming towards earth and Harry Bottoms is in charge of saving us all...again...

Short film originally made as part of the anthology film, 3x3D. Jean-Luc Godard's first 3-D film interrogates the history of the technology and explores its possibilities.

With skillful threads, natural disasters are sewn alongside very human disasters. Humor, death, fear are the keys to this composition.

Protests in Lima against the government in 2019 sparked the fire of a historic building in Plaza San Martín. Joaquin Goldstein, an artist who lived there for several years, returns to Peru in search of his works stored on the roof of the building that was left in rubble and ashes.

Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams by the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come. He is then taken through time to see what havoc man wrought upon the world.

During a road trip meant to bring them closer, the Meza family experiences an unexpected twist when they mysteriously swap bodies. As they adapt to each other’s lives, they gain new perspectives on their relationships in this lighthearted story about connection and understanding.

Reproduction of the terrible catastrophe which annihilated the town of St. Peter on May 8, 1902.

Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a gay screenwriter. When Jacks meets Argentinian photographer's assistant Paolo Sarmiento, she assumes he is gay and tries to bring him and Peter together, unaware that Paolo is straight and in love with her.

A chunk of dark matter shoots right through earth, causing various worldwide disasters. A family in Los Angeles struggles to survive the ordeal.

Four people lead ordinary lives in different places, their paths never crossing. A mysterious man appears in each story, always as someone else. One moment, a cram school instructor; the next, a truck driver, a barber - his identity constantly shifting. Then, death strikes. A detective pursues the truth, closing in on a revelation...

This entry in the "Reel Moments" video series contains newsreel and archive footage of famous 20th century disasters, including: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, various ship sinkings, racecar crashes, and assassinations, with emphasis on the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.

A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

A perfect perpetual material is created that will help humanity to reduce costs of building houses, bridges and roads.

An adult Ralphie Parker narrates several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.

In the opening years of the new millennium, two mutually dependent families attempt to extricate themselves from their own entangled web of dishonesty.

Hong Kong movie

A tectonic shift deep below the Mariana Trench causes a series of ever escalating earthquakes. If a team of leading seismologists fails to stop the disaster, the events will break apart the Earth, resulting in billions of casualties. Finally, someone’s paying attention to our leading seismologists.

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake on the border of Turkey and Syria claims more than 55,000 lives. On this day, I am in an oncology center, 6 days since having my tumor removed, and in the afternoon my partner ends our relationships. Blending memory and theory, this autofiction documentary unfolds the relationships between love(s) and catastrophes.

THE LOWER 9: A STORY OF HOME showcases four determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their neighborhood. Each story finds a voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, abstract cinematography of destruction, and powerful scenes of present, everyday lives.

A movie about 3 friends who have been documenting and recording all their adventures from 2004 till now... This is only the beginning.

Georgie discusses a bubble font he designed and released himself -- to no acclaim.

When criticism of faith is outlawed by the Politically Correct Militia, Bella and her group of idealistic cyberpunks take Darwinism to the door steps of London. But with agnostic thugs fighting in the street and atheist terrorists attacking the liberal establishment, Bella and her friends are driven underground into a dark existence where the future and past collide, allegiances are strained and old scores must be settled.

Exmin the Valkyrie has returned from the deep, deep cleavage of the universe with an interplanetary collection of aliens, vampires, monsters, and all manner of screaming and vibrating treasures from Gonzoriffic including "Space Boobs In Space," "Lapdance at the Gates of Hell," "Ghosted," and many more.

Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary is a feature-length documentary about the positive impacts and cathartic releases that horror can have on those living with mental illnesses.

Two college friends must split their close bond when one uproots her life. Years later, a sudden reunion could tether their lingering feelings.