While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the disease originated, and how the first cases spread. Two filmmakers explore a controversial theory about the beginnings of the disease. Using interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab procedures, and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.
Félix, a somewhat clod-hopping young man, finds himself in the Grand Hotel of Little Lagonda, barefooted and in pyjamas. He is soon followed by a hooded, fat and leggy gangster. This is all the more strange as the hotel is under quarantine with the pretext of a plague-epidemic, in order to make it a suitable ground for the negotiations of certain oil-companies.
The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really, really wants him to come home and stop gallivanting around the countryside. The only way he can figure to do this is to inform on the group to the authorities in as harmless a manner as possible. Unfortunately, these betrayals cause the group to lose many men, and the traitor grows fearful of the authorities. He gives officials every scrap of information he has in return for a full pardon, and he returns home. His wife, when she hears of these events, is infuriated. Such betrayal is far in excess of anything she can condone, and she kills him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Heist movie: bank teller develops an elaborate game plan to lift money from the vault where she works.
Jean Daniel Pollet’ was 22 when he made his debut short movie, "Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse" in 1957. It is a study of loneliness set in the dance hall of suburban Paris in the 50's starring Claude Melki, a young unknown non-actor whom Pollet discovered and who would become the director’s acteur fétiche. Melki was also the central charcter in Gala which was filmed 3 years later. - TOFU magazine
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
In this documentary we meet three men serving sentences for sexual assault. Through candid interviews and credible reconstructions, we get an insight into the perpetrators' experience of being reported and how it has affected them afterwards.
City Horror is a four-part series of horror movies that were each featured as one-hour television movies in 2002. The four movies include Scream, Stage of the Evil Spirit, The Song of the Dead and the Evil Spirit. Each program is described below: Scream Chi Yin and Run Choi are classmates at a local university and are also lovers. After they take a step into a bizarre ritual, their classmates begin to die one by one. When Run Choi discovers that Chi Yin is the next one, she tries to do everything to prevent this from happening. The secret may lie within their past rituals, but will she be able to find the way before its too late?
Ahn Dami is home alone in a house where her husband doesn’t come back. He doesn’t come back until morning and she’s alone again. She goes to the fitness club to work out. However, her target is not just working out. After she lost the first love she gave everything up to, she decides to live the rest of her life as a hot woman. Then the first love she thought had disappears and appears again in front of her…
The tragic story of a high powered business exec. Lawrence "Strangio" Del Rio who loses it all forcing him down a dark insidious path of multiple gruesome murders under the disguise as Strango The Clown. The most notorious and vulgar stand up comedian on the Dark Web.
Yoon Bong receives a breakup notice from his wife because of premature ejaculation. Yoon Bong's junior Hae-seong said that it was his special experience. Introduce them. A beauty salon that provides services with bikinis. Yun Bong finds his senses little by little there. With the efforts of Hyun-joo and Min-hee, Yun Bong cures premature ejaculation. So-yoon, his wife, is also happy to see Yoon Bong, who has returned as before.
Two former orphans tied their fate with the mafia. One died and the other was arrested in the Central Asian town.
A surreal film done in the style of a silent farce.
A man gets stressed out over worldly things, but then someone gave him comfort.
When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ruse involves the FBI in the case, and Agent Sara Daniels. However, the investigation is hampered when Yoko Sugimura of the Tokyo Police arrives to take Kaori back to her influential father. Despite their initial dislike, Sara and Yoko are forced to work together to stop Chris when his obsession is manifest with high explosives.