Movies
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Scenes from the Suburbs
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A thirty-minute short film inspired by Arcade Fire's critically acclaimed album, The Suburbs, and its themes of war and coming of age in suburbia. Co-written by Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Will Butler, this companion piece to the album follows the narrator, living in a suburban dystopia, trying to...
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Santa and the Three Bears
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When a park ranger tells two bear cubs about Christmas and Santa Claus, they want to skip hibernation to celebrate, but their mother doesn't believe in Saint Nick and wants them to sleep.
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Sandstone
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“Sandstone” is a thought-provoking documentary exploring the heart of the sexual revolution in Southern California in the 1970’s. This legendary mountain top retreat
was a fantasy playground for adults and an important social experiment rolled into one.This film contains nudity and sexual situati... -
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
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After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest Samurai, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school for Kendo. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up b...
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Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
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"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own recor...
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Royal Wedding
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American sibling song-and-dance team Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell) are in London in 1947, when all of England is in a tizzy over the impending nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Ellen falls head over heels for the dashing Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford), and T...
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Rocket Man
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Keith, a young man with Asperger's Syndrome, obsessively builds a time machine wishing he can take back a mistake he made in the past that forced him off of the high school baseball team forever. Though Keith's time machine is made of little more than cardboard and scraps, his family helps to mak...
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Roamin' Wild
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Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the trouble and that he is after the Madison stage line, Tom joins up with Mary Madison to fight Clark while he als...
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Rip! A Remix Manifesto
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In "RiP: A Remix Manifesto", web-activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician toppin...
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Riley
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The world is burning…Sun, wind and dust dominate the surface. Life underground is the new normal.
Returning home to their basement sanctuary,nocturnal scavengers Riley and her father, Dutch, play
their favorite game ‘What’s for dinner?’ with an unopened, beat-up tin can. This is their daily ri... -
Rhythm of the Saints
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Rena Juarez is a beautiful fifteen-year old Latina from New York's Washington Heights. While Rena's mother, Mariela, works the night shift at a local hospital, Rena spends her nights on the streets trying to avoid her abusive stepfather, Ricky. When his advances become more than she can handle, s...
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Return to Foretop's Father
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A Native American elder travels to a sacred landmark to conduct a pipe ceremony to bring awareness to negative impacts resulting from the disconnect between nature and modern culture.
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Return of the Sister Street Fighter
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Part three of the Sister Street Fighter Series.
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island
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The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.
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Ravi & Jane
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Ravi & Jane is a heart warming story of two class mates who strike up a budding friendship. A shy 10 year old, Ravi, has just moved to Australia from his native land of Sri Lanka. On his first day in a new school, he is befriended by Jane. Whilst their lives are worlds apart the two are inseparab...
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Raiders of Old California
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Following the Mexican-American War, a small group of discharged U. S.
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Quicksand
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Motor mechanic Dan Brady lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress Vera, the type whose life's ambition is a fur coat; so he embezzles twenty dollars from his employer. To make up the shortage, he goes in debt for a hundred. Thereafter, every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets hi...
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Q Planes (Clouds over Europe)
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Lighthearted romp of a pre-war spy story: quirky British secret service man finds out who's using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.
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Pui Chan: Kung Fu Pioneer
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Pui Chan: Kung Fu Pioneer chronicles the extraordinary life of kung fu Grandmaster Pui Chan. This immigrant story follows the path of a young boy who learns the value of hard work and perseverance through kung fu to escape the harshness of political oppression and embrace opportunity in a new lan...
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Prehistoric Women
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Jungle guide David Marchand is kidnapped by a tribe of natives who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god. Just as he's about to be killed, however, he is thrown backwards in time to a kingdom of brunette women and their blonde slaves. David rejects the advances of Queen Kari and sides wi...
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Preferably Blue
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Preferably Blue is a bittersweet fairytale that your parents would never have read to you before bedtime. Their fear that you may turn out to be a bitter adult, knocking back anti-depressants like they were liquorice allsorts, if you didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas, was probably the reason.
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Power, Passion and Murder
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Set in a frenetic shallow Hollywood of the '30's this is the story of a rising young starlet whose affair with a powerful studio boss ruins her and forces him to make the most difficult choice of his life.
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Pollphail
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Creative documentary painting a startling portrait of a village in limbo, through the eyes of two men who share an
obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, combining
unusual use of archive with stunning photography and a haunting sound... -
Play!
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What do Bingo and Sponge Bob have in common? Dusan, an eight year old boy trapped in limbo between two polar opposite worlds, spends his time amongst gambling adults in a casino while his imagination is captivated by children's television series. When does one grow up? Let's play and find out!
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Phantom Carriage
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It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the la...