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In this anxiety-laden comedy, a new bookstore owner comes to find out that his first signing may not go as planned.

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra’s piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin’s legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces of his cinema in their own individual looks.

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.

Set in present-day Reykjavík, Fiasco draws a narrative circle of interconnecting stories in which three members of the Bardal household deal with the secret loves in their lives. Karl, an old age pensioner, is busy chasing after an amnesic old screen legend. Julia, Karl's granddaughter, is torn between a mediocre bank manager and a wild sailor, and tells them both she is pregnant. But is she really? Steingerdur, Julia's mother, has a wild crush on a preacher who has a serious drinking problem, and ends up with a dead stripper in his Jacuzzi. The characters cross each other as the film progresses, until the three interwoven strands of the story finally come together in an explosive and hilarious crescendo full of surprises.

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.

Already a couple for 3 years, teenagers Eva and Adam are happy together. But when friends start joking about an impending marriage, Eva is angered and decides to dump Adam. Hurt and upset, Adam seeks comfort with Petra. But when Eva learns about Adam's new romance, she realizes she's made a mistake and sets out to win him back.

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How slander can lead to illness.

After a long night out, Samer’s efforts to lay down and sleep gets repeatedly interrupted by his family

It's a movie from 2000.

For half of his life Nicolas, the director, used the camera as confidant to film his video diary. This intimate film shows the strong and, at time, dysfunctional relationship that binds Nicolas to his mother and sister after the death of his father. His sister gets married and moves away from home leaving the mother face to face with her son. But Nicolas is carrying a fear that she knows nothing about.

A former actor whose glory years have passed is dealing with the difficulties that come with failure.

Daffy Duck builds a rainmaking machine in order to rain out Speedy Gonzales's fiesta, but it spits out a small black cloud that does nothing but harass Daffy himself.

Documentary about Cecilia Gimenez, the Spanish lady who ruined a fresco of Jesus but in turn restored her home town.

A wild party becomes an act of survival as a group of savage females ensue a brutal killing spree in this shocking film frenzy.

Fester brings Blottie to meet his parents and spend Christmas at their house. They don't like her, and things get weird.

A model and a photographer, after hours of trying, strive for the perfect shot but face challenges as their high aesthetic standards get in the way.

Follows James Lassen, a clueless slacker/rocker misfit who has a date with the dentist, and everything goes downhill from there.

Residents take on the bulldozers and the police in Tom Zubrycki’s look at urban redevelopment in Sydney in the 1970s. It is a 'process video' used in conjunction with a residents-led campaign to stop a freeway decimating inner-Sydney suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo.

Something's going down at the Ham Shack Bar...

When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.

A woman is torn between trying to save her failing marriage or pursuing the possibility of a new love.

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.

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DJ SWB is back at it again with his crazyyyy video mixes, and this time YUNG JOC and LUPE FIASCO lend a helping hand by hosting over 107 minutes of the strongest video blends in the market. With over 40 new video mixes, bonus interviews (including TI, Lupe and Young Joc), and a live performance by the Clipse, "How We Do Vol 6" is action packed from start to finish! This DVD is a must have for any hip-hop fan and a great edition to DJ SWB's always highly anticipated "How We Do" series. And If you don't believe our word, just check out the trailer and see the excitement for yourself!

After his mother's departure, 13-year-old David is headed down a dangerous path. Neglected by his alcoholic father Paul, who blames David for his failed marriage, David takes solace in shoplifting, playing violent video games and doing drugs. One day, David forms an unexpected and intense friendship with Edward, the new kid in town. David and Edward's friendship is tested after they have an intimate encounter that reveals David's closely guarded secrets.

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.

All this bored 1950s housewife wants to do is prepare a delicious meatloaf. What could go wrong?

Anne Berk recalls her early dancing years as a Rockette in the 1930s.

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At a summer sleepover, two best friends realize they may be connected by more than just friendship.

Krzysztof, an introverted 10 year old, faces his father's decision to hide a Jewish boy from a nearby village in the family's house. As the new boy prompts the father's attention, Krzysztof develops a flammable jealousy towards the other boy which reaches a dangerous peak and leads him to an irreversible act.