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A reformed street figure risks everything when he tries to help an old friend fresh out of prison, only to discover that some debts don't disappear; they come back to collect.

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Dramatization of the diaries of Anaïs Nin during the period of her affair with Henry and June Miller in 1930s Paris.

Homage to Robert Breer’s 'Homage to Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York.'

Homage is an independent skate video filmed and edited by Satoru Takamatsu. It features parts from Lenard Tejada and Sam Saddleton, with a "Homies" section in the middle. The project was shot over 1.5 years.

A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.

World wars pick their victims not only from those serving on the front line, women and mothers who have lost husbands and sons in battle also become victims. All that is left of loved ones are yellowing photographs, curling postcards from staging posts and crumbling graves – and a gaping loss shouldered over decades. Yet we rarely consider the grief of those who remained at home. This short by Zoltán Huszárik shares in this mourning.

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A newsreel film depicting the coronation of Emperor Hirohito.

When a young man picks up a call girl on a rainy Dublin night, they both get more than they bargained for.

An unfinished film, or preliminary sketch, that pairs live action film with a recorded lecture on reincarnation by Baba Ram Dass, an American spiritual teacher and the author of the seminal 1971 book Be Here Now. The footage deliberately resembles outtakes, a lot like those accidental moments in life that can throw a new light on our understanding. An exercise of the non-literal relationship between image and sound.

While ‘airway’ can be a reference to air travel and human respiration alike, in this context ‘Airway’ is the name of a dog. Homage to Airwaytakes its starting point in a 1920s photograph depicting the dog Airway, who was part pet, part lab animal to two anaesthesiologists. Their tests on Airway led to the development of a device which serves to open the patient’s airways. The invention became known as Guedel’s Airway, named after both the doctor and dog involved.

Au pair means being on an equal footing and the arrangement is intended as a cultural exchange. Homage au pair takes a closer look at the asymmetric power relationship between host and au pair.

This film opens with the sense of juxtaposition and absurdity that are the basis of Magritte's paintings, and succeeds in contributing to the surrealist tradition through subtle and powerful manipulations of the filmed image.

Abstract compositions of pulsating and shifting frames within frames, scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

The film shows the role of school teachers and the importance thereof.

Part of Samson Kambalu's Nyua cinema series.

The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungle to pay homage to them.

Avant-garde analog animation techniques in stark black and white dramatize the effect of white men’s violence on an African jungle.

A homage to the Austrian experimental filmmaker Kurt Kren, his two films "1000 Years of Cinema" and "Snapspots" and his way of working; and that with a slight wink.

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.

Celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Michael Jackson's solo career, this legendary performance took place on September 10, 2001.

Simon Britton, documentarian and skeptic, visits Brisbane's most haunted house to investigate reports of paranormal activity.

The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.

Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

Haunted by guilt and recurring dreams of a mesmerizing jazz singer, Paul, a grieving widower, is drawn into a mysterious cinema where he must confront the passion he’s long suppressed and choose whether to remain trapped in regret or be reborn in truth.

A little boy plays kaiju to terrorize his sister but things get real when she exacts her revenge.

In this Wong Kar-Wai inspired short film, a young artist finds refuge from a creatively desolate and crowded city at an aquarium, discovering the joy in peaceful solitude and marine life.

Guy Manley, formerly the world’s most preeminent secret agent, who, while drowning in his alcohol-filled retirement, is brought back for one last mission by his former boss Buck Cash. His mission? Kill Buck's brother, Rich Cash, keeping him from being elected the city's new mayor, thereby stopping him from becoming the most powerful person in the world!

A short film animation by Zaven Najjar about the movie "Jaws" made for Arte.

Hikaru Shihoudo is Hikaruon, a metal super hero fighting the forces of the evil organization known as Urael. Disguised as a transfer student, he must investigate a series of strange suicides in town.

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

You've never been invited to a sleepover like this! "Pajama Nightmare" includes three freaky, sexy stories from the twisted heart of Athens, Georgia. It's all here, folks: Busty aliens, singing cannibals, and a Halloween slumber party filled with burlesque babes!

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Emanuel Gil is having a crisis point, since he has not found inspiration for his next book. At the right moment, Dianne appears, and Emanuel believes he can find the inspiration needed to start up his new story.

A girlfriend breaks up with her boyfriend, only for a vampire to try to seduce her and kill her boyfriend.

Seeking refuge on an island in Upstate New York, a married couple's final attempt to salvage their failing relationship takes a turn for the worse when the husband begins to regress emotionally, mentally, and physically.