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Publisher
NYX Channel
Language
English
Description
When a number of attractive women are found dead and with fingers missing, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate. Though evidence points to a psychotic killer, Holmes begins to believe that there's more to the case than initially meets the eye, a notion that leads him to uncover the involvement of his archenemy, Professor Moriarty (Henry Daniell). Who is working with Moriarty on such a dastardly plot and what are...
82) We Go Way Back
Publisher
Factory 25
Language
English
Description
Kate is a struggling actress who has given up her happiness and her sense of self for her career. That is until she finds a stash of letters written when she was a thirteen year old girl full of confidence and creativity and ambition. Plunged into depression, her younger self infiltrates her dreams. Lynn Shelton's debut feature is beautifully shot on 35mm by Ben Kasulke.
83) Grafters
Publisher
Feelsales
Language
English
Description
This award-winning short film follows Kurt, an expert car-thief, whose life is suddenly complicated by offbeat romance and professional competition. Kurt works for Larry, a father figure who runs a chop shop disguised as a garage, but Kurt's career is threatened by Joe, a lowly mechanic and aspiring car thief. Meanwhile, romance buds for Kurt with Emilie, a young mother with complications of her own. Kurt's personal and professional life are speeding...
84) Parvaneh
Publisher
Magnet Film
Language
English
Description
In this Academy-Award (Oscar) nominated short film, Parvaneh, a young Afghan immigrant, lives in a transit center for asylum in the Swiss mountains. Upon hearing of her father’s illness, she travels for the first time to Zurich in order to send her family money. This is the starting point of various encounters.
85) The Fireman
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
In Chaplin’s second effort for Mutual, he portrays an inept firefighter at Fire Station 23. Charlie, still asleep, mistakes a drill bell for a fire alarm and single-handedly drives out the horse-drawn fire engine. When he discovers his error, he simply backs up the engine into the fire station, with horses galloping backward (an early instance of camera tricks—cameramen Foster and Totheroh skillfully cranked the cameras in reverse and Chaplin...
86) Big Mouth
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman has a way with words. In BIG MOUTH, she explores the experiences of a bright-minded, quick-witted child, questioning what it means to speak the truth, and coming to understand how our differences make us unique.. Hand-drawn puppets dance, skip and cartwheel across the screen as one little girl discovers the complexity of words and that what we say may not be what we mean. Trudy, equal parts truthful and rude, has an unfiltered...
87) Anna & Bella
Publisher
SND Films
Language
English
Description
This classic Dutch animated film tells the story of two sisters who spent their entire lives together looking back at their cherished memories.. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
88) TRI
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Language
English
Description
Natalie, an ultrasound tech with a history of not finishing things, is inspired by a cancer patient to sign up for a Triathlon. Natalie is introduced to the strange (and aerodynamic) world of triathletes and meets a colorful cast of characters as she trains for the nation's triathlon. With the support of her new teammates, she digs deep to discover just how far she can push her mind and body.. . "Winner! Film of the Year" - Northern Virginia International...
89) The Immigrant
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
The Immigrant, which contains elements of satire, irony, and romance as well as cinematic poetry, endures in the twenty-first century as a comic masterpiece. The film, Chaplin’s eleventh in the Mutual series, is the best-constructed of his two-reelers and was Chaplin’s favorite among all his two-reel comedies
90) Kavi
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Language
English
Description
This Academy Award nominated short film tells the story of a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.. Winner of Best of Fest at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Director's Choice at the...
91) Low Down
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, LOW DOWN is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy-Jo (Elle Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction.. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the film beautifully evokes a colorful, seedy world of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
An award-winning Australian drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.....
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Language
English
Description
Ken Cooper was a successful comedian in the 1990’s, but his single-guy jokes are irrelevant twenty years later. Now he's an anxiety ridden, stay-at-home dad, clinging to a TV show dream that his breadwinner wife doesn't believe in.. Tonight could be a big break for Ken - a final shot at selling his pitch. But after an epic fight with his wife, Ken is no longer welcome home. Their clash alters everything, on stage and off. Ken is crushed, with nowhere...
94) Guida
Publisher
Elo Company
Language
English
Description
This award-winning animated short tells the story of Guida, a sweet lady in her later years, who has been working for 30 years in the City’s Forum and feels stuck in a numbing routine. After she sees an ad seeking for a life model for a drawing class, she challenges her safe place and dares to strip naked not only of of her clothes, but of her fears. A beautiful reflexion on artistic inspiration, art as a transformative agent, and the concept of...
95) Easy Street
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
Easy Street, his ninth film for Mutual and the most famous of the twelve, Chaplin ordered the first of the T-shaped street sets to be built that he would consistently utilize to provide a perfect backdrop to his comedy. The look and feel of Easy Street evoke the South London of his childhood (the name "Easy Street"suggests "East Street,"the street of Chaplin’s birthplace).
96) The Cure
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
The Cure, the tenth film in the series, is perhaps the funniest of the Mutuals. It was partly inspired in its setting by the Fred Karno sketch, The Hydro, which was set in a hydrotherapy clinic.
97) Memoria
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
Based on James Franco’s “Palo Alto Stories” and “A California Childhood”, Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn’t know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world. Memoria raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget, and the ones we use as fuel to...
98) Wish 143
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Language
English
Description
When a fifteen-year-old boy discovers he has months to live he is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. However, David doesn't want to go to Disneyland or meet a star footballer, what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.. Based on true events, WISH 143 tells the story of a young man desperate to come of age before time runs out. This is a young man with nothing to lose apart from his virginity. A bittersweet story of friendship...
99) Shuteye Hotel
Publisher
SND Films
Language
English
Description
A film noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become the victims of this evil force. What Jaws did to swimming, SHUTEYE HOTEL will do for sleeping.... Winner of Best Short Film at Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema and nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Language
English
Description
In the comedies Charlie Chaplin created for the Mutual Film Corporation, Chaplin sometimes played an inebriate, a fireman, or a prop man in a movie studio; but most of all, he further explored and developed his celebrated Little Tramp character that would soon join Falstaff and Don Quixote in the pantheon of immortal comic characters.
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