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In the wonderfully odd heart of San Francisco, a tight-knit troupe of mimes all live under the same roof. When tragedy strikes, the motley group must confront the fragility of their bond and the unstoppable force of change.

Public information film warning of the dangers of burglary, using magpies instead of human thieves.

Nat is a 15-year-old girl grappling with death after her upstairs neighbor passes away alone. Through cigarettes, sarcastic banter, and a speech in an empty church, Nat wrestles with grief, loneliness, and the fear of time slipping away. The film blends dark humor with raw vulnerability, exploring how teenagers confront mortality and meaning. Ultimately, Magpies is about friendship, loss, and the quiet moments that shape our understanding of life and death.

Shot on digital video, the final feature drama in the coalfield trilogy from Amber Films explores the impact of heroin in East Durham after pit closure

The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each other, the old man trying to get the magpies to be quiet, and the two of them being anything BUT quiet.

A British comedy about a bunch of bungling but lovable bank robbers, Ox and Spud are released from prison after serving twenty years in prison, it is now time to recruit and re-form The Magpies! This film was finished off during the lockdown and released on youtube free for all to watch in the hope it will cheer people up, give them a giggle, and help forget the misery covid-19 has brought to 2020

A lone tui bird must find her lost voice to speak up against her adoptive magpie family before they start a war.

Kyle, an avid Newcastle United fan, embarks on a mission to raise funds to take his ailing grandad to the match, one last time.

Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.

An ex-lemonade delivery driver finally attains the promotion of his dreams, but must first prove himself by making a difficult sale.

Magpie wins a duck which proves to be alive and no use for the Sunday dinner. The kids invent a device which makes the duck seem to talk.

A man nicknamed 'Magpie' kills his former best friend Geun-ho. As Geun-ho dies, he begs Magpie to care for his younger brother which the murderer agrees to do.

Albina, a young thief, works for a local pawnshop doing "dirty work." Another robbery order makes her wonder: is the tale of Robin Hood true?

Magpies live in many places around the globe. We all have seen the black and white birds with the long tail feathers and the nagging call in our neighbourhoods. The reputation of Eurasian magpies is often bad. Having been the antagonist in many folk tales, they are considered to be thievish and deceitful. Their lesser-known relatives, the blue magpies, on the other hand are known to be very social.

When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.

A man desperate to capture a traffic accident on his new dashcam accidentally unleashes a car crash day in his personal life.

After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits.

Heckle and Jeckle see a seemingly helpless baby bird (who keeps saying he is only three years old) in danger as a cat is trying to capture it.

In Pica Pica Kristersson invites the viewer to be enthralled for an hour and a half by the vicissitudes of magpie life. Opposing himself to the current nature films that tend to highly compress time in order to end up with a concentrated sequence of action-elements Kristersson leaves rhythm and tempo almost completely up to the magpies themselves. With great integrity he filmed the daily, social and emotional life of a species of birds that has many points of contact with human life. Thus, the movie offers us the oppurtunity to view our own everyday existence through other eyes, from a world right above our heads, but yet so far away.

Dimwit the hound is going fishing. Heckle and Jeckle are roommates in this one, sharing a single large birdhouse. They taunt Dimwit for no particular reason, then try to steal his catch of fish.

Set amid the rocky outcrops and dusty spinifex of the Australian outback, a supernatural monster tale documents the downfall of one man and his nemesis, the abominable apeman of aboriginal folklore, The Yowie.

The boys are trying to hitch a ride with no luck. They see a car parked in front of a bank with the door open. They jump in against the driver's will, and a bank tobber runs out and jumps into his escape car, too. The boys get more of a ride than they wanted.

The talking magpies, Heckel and Jeckle, crash a movie studio driving a papier-mache limousine, and have no problem eluding the studio watchdog by disguising themselves, at various times, as knights-in-armor, Romeo and Juliet and, then, a couple of penguins. After many defeats, the vigilant-but-dumb bulldog finally kicks them of the lot.

A knitted figure sits in a wheelchair, unable to resist as birds and squirrels peck at it.