Award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and tells the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation. Film critic and historian Mark Cousins uses film clips, interviews with filmmakers, and illustrative footage of locations around the world to take viewers through film and filmmaking history, from the late 19th century to today, with a particular emphasis on world cinema.
Picking up where Hey Arnold! (1996) left off, this tells the story of what happened to Arnold’s parents.
In a violent post-apocalyptic society, the drifter Eli has been wandering to west across North America for the last thirty years reading a unique book that he brings with him. He survives hunting small animals and seeking goods in destroyed houses and vehicles to trade in villages for water and supplies. When he reaches the village ruled by the powerful mobster Carnegie, the man offers a job to Eli to join his gang. Carnegie presses his blind lover Claudia to send her daughter Solara to convince Eli spending the night with him. The girl sees the book of Eli, and when Carnegie beats up on Claudia, she reveals that Eli has the sought book. Carnegie sends his gang to take the book from Eli, but the man is up for protecting the book with his life.
In 1989 Rajasthan, IPS officer Patnaik raids a palace but fails. After requesting a bribe, he’s transferred to Bhoj, where he investigates Dada Bhai, a respected local figure. Suspended after a failed raid, he uncovers hidden truths.
Enjoy a collection of songs about animals, including “Baby Shark”, cars, dinosaurs, and many more! Meet Pinkfong’s fun, educational videos that captured the hearts of millions of children around the world. Enjoy hundreds of kids’ favorite songs and stories created by Pinkfong, the official creator of global hit Baby Shark behind #BabySharkChallenge.
INTIMACY is a demanding film. It attempts a very close look at human relations… Be prepared for graphic sex and nudity and some intensely personal scenes as this film breaks new ground as it pushes legitimate cinema one small measure toward the edge by graphically illuminating that dark corner of human behavior…
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship. “Intimacy” tells of a divorced man and a married woman who have weekly loveless sex while each knows little of the other. The film explores the “why” of their peculiar relationship and follows the pair of protags to their inevitable conclusion.
The tactics of a German fighter pilot offend his aristocratic comrades but win him his country’s most honored medal, the Blue Max. The General finds him useful as a hero even though his wife also finds him useful as a love object. In the end the General arranges for him to test-fly an untried fighter.
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories. In Gold Mountain, Jeff Lee and his parents run Good Neighbor Liquor in South Central L.A. Theirs is an Asian family of “old world” values at odds with a modern world-cultures that are about to clash in ways they never imagined. In Caught in the Fever, a day at the mall for Manuel Alvarado, the eldest son of a poor Hispanic family, and his girlfriend Iris, spirals into a nightmare as they’re drawn into the out-of-control frenzy of a violent afternoon. In Homecoming Day, Turner Coates returns to the South Central hood of his youth to visit his mother – a homecoming overshadowed by an inescapable threat. In Empty, Boomer Phillips and his fellow LAPD officers are in a South Central restaurant when Boomer receives the command from his dispatcher to get out of South Central-but the command comes too late. Boomer’s already in too deep…
An exploration of transgender identity and legacy through the stories of icons April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Loryn, heiress to a department store Hamptons, is put to the test by her Grandmother in an attempt to motivate her. Loryn navigates her way through working at the store during its busiest time of the year – Christmas.
When patients’ rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette’s workaholic life.
Set in the 1950s in small-town Georgia, a pregnant young woman named Agatha seeks refuge in a convent. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark layer where silence is forced, ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested as she learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls.
