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A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

A strikingly colourful, surrealistic, animated film, inspired by the work of female Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. A tragicomical story of a little boy who dies and goes to heaven, only to be seduced by an operatic angel who takes him to hell.

Dancing, cavorting, wasting time. "First Community film after establishing the film class at the Art Academy Münster, Germany [...] all white dressed and with white makeup against black background." (LM)

A Jordan Belson film.

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Written, shot, and edited in 24 hours. Filmed on location in Toronto, Canada.

A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

A fun musical comedy style of the 50s where the infectious rhythm of the son and the mambo, led by the hand by the incomparable Damaso Perez Prado, will a waste of good music and grace. With a formidable cast, and above all a fabulous collector's item.

Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.

Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as "el rey del mambo", came back from the dead to look for the love of his life.

Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.

A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.

A wife who invites a molester to a hotel to play a honey trap, but falls in love with the molester's extraordinary sexual prowess. A newlywed married a molester who was so handsome that she fell in love with him at first sight, but is at a loss when she finds out that he only gets aroused on the train. A university student who likes masturbating accidentally meets the nude model he always masturbates to on the train. A wife who brings various adult toys onto the train to cure her husband's impotence, has the molester use them, and shows them to her husband.

Hélène and Marie are twin sisters. They meet up with their stepfather, Daniel, to help him empty the family home following the death of their mother. Over the course of a weekend, they will have to rebuild their relationship.

When a band of kidnappers attempts to collect a ransom for their young hostage, the boy’s family dismisses it as a prank. Stuck with a youngster to care for and on the lam, the stage is set for a dark comedy of errors. We get this and much more with delicious plot twists and a growing pile-up of fraud and double crosses.

The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurping president Capo.

The actors Martin and Maria have not been a couple for a long time, but they didn't get very far without each other. While he spends his time with alcohol, numerous affairs and reveries about his own film, she is bored with her young lover. When Maria surprisingly finds the loot of a bank robbery in the trash, she takes the opportunity to get rid of her lover, only to run into her ex-husband shortly afterwards. The old passion flares up again and Martin suddenly sees the chance to finally realize his long-held script.

Betti’s date with Tom seems perfect—until her bowels stage a rebellion, turning the evening into a battle against her own body.

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Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.

After receiving a large sum of money on his bank account by mistake, a small-town thirtysomething dissatisfied with his life sees the opportunity of turning back the clock to when things were good, reliving the carefree life of an university student in a big city. Here, he falls in love with a girl and gets her pregnant. There's just one problem: he already has a wife and a daughter back home!

Juan is a urban music dancer from the slums. Due to his extraordinary talent, he is allowed to study in the most prestiogious dance studio in the city of Santo Domingo, but to become a star he'll have to go through many obstacles.

Mambochella takes viewers on a rhythmic journey, following a never-before-seen gathering of award-winning artists from every corner of the world, combining their talents to produce an album that pays tribute to Mambo’s golden era while reinventing its eclectic elements, inviting all generations cross-culturally to move to the same vibrational tune.

14 short films by 14 different filmmakers, from the music of Stan Ridgway.

The utilization of numerical oscillation models by physicists to accurately predict and map the simple harmonic motion of a spring device, and the utilization of timelapse photography to predict the "motion" of a spring day. 14,000 still photos, played back at varying speeds.

Hamsah is always preoccupied with his business while his wife is busy with her social life. Their daughters; Tuti and Lina, are neglected by them. Lina suffers the most as she is paralyzed, and the doctor does not think that she will improve. So a private teacher is hired for Lina, a university student named Arman. They get along well as Arman is also suffering from the loss of his mother and sister, who died during the revolution. The seeds of love begin to grow, but it happens that Tuti likes him too. Then Arman resolves problem by reuniting Tuti with her ex-boyfriend, Anwar. In the end, Hamzah and his wife realise their mistakes, while Lina and Arman find their “private palace.”

Two sisters, Hanifah and Latifah/Ipah have different attitudes toward life in Jakarta. While Hanifah is content working as a teacher, Ipah, who works as a shopkeeper, is obsessed with living a high life. She leaves her boyfriend, Adi, feeling that her sister’s way of thinking is too conservative, and changes her name to Eva. Eva then becomes a runway model and gets famous. She has an affair with an older man named Abas, gets pregnant, has an abortion and becomes a high class prostitute. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, Adi, has an affair with Lily, Abas’ wife. One day, she meets again with Adi who is looking for a prostitute for his friend. Offended, Eva stabs Adi. She is then sentenced to 18 years in prison. Her father and her sister, Hanifah, come to the court and give her a mukena (a kind of hijab used by female Muslims for praying) before she goes to prison.

Legendary directors Wim Umboh and Sjumandjaja, decided to experiment by producing a script being written at the same time of the shooting. Mama is a complex story with two seemingly unrelated narrative threads. The first story revolves around Sanca and Anani. The second is about Ulli and Pandji, and in between the two stories is a third narrative, about Ulla, a religious prostitute and Ulli’s sister, and Suwaka.

Ria’s life changes when she meets Dicky. Pinkan, Ria’s sister, and her best friend, Mawar, do not approve. Then she learns that Dicky suffers from a Short Term Memory, and he can only remember events within less than 10 minutes after they occur, in a random sequence. Lena, a doctor, who is studying nervous system to become a specialist, is interested by Dicky’s condition, as it will form part of her thesis research material. Lena recruits her best friend, Angga, to assist in the research.

When their children fail to come home, their parents start to worry. Due to their own neglect and unfulfilled promises, the children, Maria and Suzy, are getting some help from an old man, their former teacher, to go to the zoo and other entertainment centers by themselves. When the police are called, the kids are quickly found and returned to the parents, but the teacher is so heavily shaken by this experience that he admits himself to a mental asylum.

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On a dusty soccer pitch in Malindi, Kenya young Kalu is an aggressive striker of the “Malindi Sharks,” who dreams of playing professional soccer. He’s a selfish player and a clear stand out on his team and knows he’s destined for glory. Then one day his life dramatically changes. Kalu gets an offer to play soccer on a second tier team in South Africa on the same day his father is killed in an accident and he unknowingly is exposed to the HIV virus. He makes the decision to go play soccer and send part of his salary back to home to his mother and sister.

Mas Tok, son of a rich family, is studying in Holland when he meets Inge, a staff of Nitou travel agency. They marry but cannot have a child due to Mas Tok’s illness. When they return to Indonesia, his parents disapprove of his marriage as they intended him to marry another girl. Mas Tok then returns to Europe to treat his illness. Meanwhile, Inge is made to leave by her parents-in-law when she is found pregnant and thought to be unfaithful. Mas Tok comes home to find his wife gone and blames his parents because the baby is his son. Mas Tok meets Inge again under a snow fall, much like when they first meet, only this time his parents are there to witness.

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

Through a magic ring, the chief of an African village gains great power. He begins to bully the ten children of his tribe and enchants them into dachshunds and turtles. Only the youngest manages to escape.

When Destiny, captain of three-time national champions "The Rebels," is challenged to a global cheer showdown by an edgy new team called "The Truth," the Cheer Goddess organizes a virtual battle for squads from all around the world. It seems like the whole world wants to take down Destiny and her team, and they just might succeed, unless Destiny can rise to the challenge, set her ego aside and figure out who her real friends are.

Mr Jackson who is a successful and devoted businessman dedicated all his time to his business and forgot to raise his children. He even gives a deaf ear to his wife Mrs Jackson. But as life has it, time quickly brought to the face of the Jackson's family what Mr Jackson implanted in his first son Ngwa.

Senzano is an assassin. At some point, he wanted to quit his dark life. It's just that there is the last task he must do before he retires, which is to kill someone who turns out to be his ex-lover, Savana

Documentary that tells the story of one of the most successful baseball teams in Puerto Rico: los Indios de Mayagüez. It is the first and only project that narrates the origins of baseball in Puerto Rico.

Miguel, a great undisputed fan of the king of pop, fights for his dream of being the best imitator of his idol, for this he will have to compete against important opponents at the most important festival in the area.

Backstage musical: showbiz couple fusses and breaks up, then resolve their problems just before the end.

A documentary about the Battle of Gettysburg during the US Civil War.

15 children born of war in the LRA and Kormojong conflicts in Northern Uganda come together to create a performance based on their memories.

Producciones Yllana and Ara Malikian present PAGAGNINI, an innovative, non-text musical show that brings to life some of the most treasured musical pieces in the World in the key of comedy.

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

A prostitute is robbed and murdered. A fourteen-year-old girl sees a suave gigolo come out of the hotel where the murder occurred. She has a schoolgirl crush on the handsome man though, so instead of reporting the crime she befriends him.

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

A teenage soccer star learns some tough lessons about the consequences of unprotected sex.