"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. A nondescript man is lured by a strange map into a sinister puppet theatre, where he finds himself immersed in an indescribably weird version of the play, blending live actors, clay animation and giant puppets.
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
Die dreizehnjährige Rynn wohnt von ihrem verschwundenen Vater alleingelassen in einem abgeschiedenen Haus in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Die Vermieterin und deren pädophiler Sohn bedrohen Rynn, nachdem sie durch die dauernde Abwesenheit von Rynns Vater misstrauisch geworden sind. Eines Tages taucht der Amateurzauberer Mario auf, der allmählich hinter ihr grausiges Geheimnis kommt.
Der Kinderwunsch bei der Familie Horák ist groß. Doch beide sind nicht zeugungsfähig, so bleibt es zunächst beim Wunsch, endlich ein Kind zu haben. In der ganzen tschechischen Stadt scheint jeder ein Kind zu haben, nur eben Karel und Bozena Horák nicht. Eines Tages gräbt Karel vor seinem kleinen Ferienhaus einen Baumstumpf aus, der nach einigen zuschneiden die Form eines Babys hat. Bozena hat plötzlich ein Kind, selbst eine neunmonatige Schwangerschaft wird den Nachbarn vorgegaukelt, bis „Otik“ zum Leben erwachen darf. Und wie es nun mal ist, der Holzstumpf erwacht wirklich zum Leben und hat einen unstillbaren Hunger, selbst vor Menschen macht er nicht mehr halt. Die Horáks versuchen alles, um ihren „Otesánek“ zu verheimlichen. Nur die junge Nachbarstochter Alzbetka erkennt die Lügen der Familie Horák und findet in einen Kinderbuch die Geschichte über „Otesánek“...
A faceless traveller takes a journey through the barren reaches of a Siberia caught between tradition and modernity, imparting his philosophical musings on its people and places, wildlife and culture.
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
Der skrupellose Kleinganove Pinkie treibt Schutzgelder auf der Pferderennbahn ein und geht dabei über Leichen. Als er seinen Rivalen Fred um die Ecke bringt, beginnen für ihn die Probleme. Der Mord wird zufällig von der Kellnerin Rose beobachtet und Freds Freundin Ida stellt auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen an. Um seine Spuren zu verwischen, bleibt Pinkie nur eine Möglichkeit: Er muss Rose zum Schweigen bringen.
Marion, Philosophieprofessorin um die 50, ist mit dem erfolgreichen Arzt Ken scheinbar glücklich verheiratet. Um ungestört an ihrem neuen Buch zu arbeiten, zieht sie sich in ein Appartement zurück. Durch einen Kaminschacht hört Marion zufällig die Therapiesitzungen einer unglücklichen Frau mit. Sie beginnt, über ihr eigenes Leben nachzudenken .
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read 'publication' in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia's model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses founder Jimmy Wales' unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does 'Jimbo' Wales posses the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly?
The last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables.
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.
From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and symbolically swallowed up by the frontier.
Der Ladenbesitzer Jan Lewan beginnt in den 70er-Jahren seine Karriere als Polka-Sänger und schwingt sich schließlich zum unangefochtenen Polka-König von Pennsylvania auf. Doch dabei greift er auch zu unlauteren Mitteln und landet schlussendlich im Gefängnis...
Three protagonists and the complications of their lesbian lives.
The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.