The Pearl (1929)

Un experto en seguridad tiene que infiltrarse en un rascacielos en llamas, a 225 pisos de altura, donde su familia está atrapada por un grupo de criminales.

Scottie Fergusson es un detective de la policía de San Francisco que padece de vértigo. Cuando un compañero cae al vacío desde una cornisa mientras persiguen a un delincuente, Scottie decide retirarse. Gavin Elster, un viejo amigo del colegio, lo contrata para que vigile a su esposa Madeleine, una bella mujer que está obsesionada con su pasado.

Kate es una chica convencional que sueña con casarse con su novio Charlie y ser feliz para siempre. El problema es que Charlie se enamora de Juliette, una bella francesa, durante un viaje de negocios a París. Dispuesta a recuperarlo, Kate vuela a la capital francesa. En el avión conoce a Luc, un ladrón con el que no parece tener nada en común. La situación de Kate se complica cuando, en la aduana, Luc mete, sin que ella se dé cuenta, un collar robado en su bolso. Sin saber cómo ni por qué, Kate se ve viajando por toda Francia descubriendo junto a Luc todo el encanto del país.

La fotógrafa de la revista Alex Anderson y el autor Colin Page se dirigen a Fiyi en busca de la ilusoria perla azul sobre la que Colin escribió en su exitosa novela Perla en el Paraíso. Alex puede conseguir el puesto de directora creativa si consigue fotografiar la perla para el número del 30º aniversario de la revista, y Colin espera que escribiendo un artículo sobre la gema perdida hace tiempo pueda aumentar las ventas de sus otros libros que fracasan y no perder a su editor. Mientras los dos parten en su búsqueda, ninguno de los dos es consciente todavía de que encontrar el amor podría ser la aventura más rara de todas.

Un grupo de jóvenes se desplazan hasta un rancho abandonado en medio del desierto. Cuenta la leyenda que en el sótano de la casa se esconde un tesoro y la intención de los chicos es encontrarlo a toda costa. Pero lo que iba a ser un fin de semana de diversión y desenfreno, se convierte en una desesperada carrera por sobrevivir. Sin saberlo, despertarán al espíritu maligno de una mujer enterrada años atrás bajo la casa. Ahora busca venganza

Frank y Eddie aceptan un trabajo fácil y rápido que consiste en llevar a México un camión cargado de cigarrillos robados. Por el camino, el camión explota. Entonces, el tipo que les contrató quiere que le devuelvan sus cigarrillos, de lo contrario les matará. Mientras están escondidos en casa de Ma Muzzy (la madre de Frank), leen un titular de prensa acerca del reciente fallecimiento de una rica heredera, Crystal Harkness. Se les ocurre un nuevo plan. Frank y Eddie desenterrarán a la heredera muerta, la despojarán de sus joyas, y pagarán a Spider. Frank y un reticente Eddie desentierran a Cristal, únicamente para descubrir que fue enterrada sin sus piedras preciosas. Tras casi ser descubiertos por los vigilantes nocturnos, los dos amigos huyen del cementerio en compañía de Drop Dead Sexy... (FILMAFFINITY)

Cada año, desde que murió su padre, la señorita Moran ha recibido una extraña perla. Cuando es invitada a conocer a su benefactor, pide consejo a Sherlock Holmes. El misterio se complica extraordinariamente y termina con una emocionante persecución por los canales de Londres en busca de un tesoro indio de valor incalculable. (FILMAFFINITY)

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

El pescador Quino (Pedro Armendáriz) y su esposa Juana (María Elena Marqués) son muy pobres y están desesperados porque el médico extranjero del pueblo (Charles Rooner) se niega a atender a su hijo Coyotito, que ha sufrido la picadura de un alacrán. Cuando, inesperadamente, Quino encuentra en el mar una magnífica perla, Juana intuye que el hallazgo sólo les traerá desgracias y trata de convencer a su marido para que la devuelva al mar. Pero él no la escucha; sólo piensa que ha llegado el momento de salir de la miseria. Así que va a ver a los comerciantes del pueblo, pero sus ofertas son tan ridículas que decide ir a venderla a la ciudad.

Huyendo de sus padres burgueses, una joven cae en manos de un guapo, rico y neurótico joven alemán. (FILMAFFINITY)

A young couples romantic beach date turns dark when they encounter a mysterious seaside stranger. Could the last day of summer be their last day ever?

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.

A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.

Tres historias de amor, en diferentes épocas, conectadas por un medallón.

Tres aventureros llegan a los mares del Sur con la intención de apoderarse de unas valiosas perlas negras, pero, para conseguirlo tendrán que enfrentarse a un peligroso grupo de nativos y, sobre todo, a un pulpo gigante que custodia la cueva donde se encuentran las perlas.

Una niña vuelve a casa y le atormentan los recuerdos de la muerte de su madre, mientras tanto su padre, su nueva madrastra y su tío buscarán la forma de hacerse con la herencia dejada a la niña.

Manuel and Marian have always been best friends. They are so close that they know each other’s secrets well almost. After all these years, Manuel never had the courage to tell Marian how much he loves her. When Marian’s first love, Lance, returns to the Philippines, she is intent on seeing him again. She brings along Manuel on a chase that brings them around the Philippines and abroad. Manuel now has to decide- Will he let his best friend be happy with her Prince Charming or will he fight for the love that has kept him alive all these years?

En una remota isla del Caribe, poblada por los descendientes de la tripulación del pirata Henry Morgan, el tátara-tátaranieto de éste quiere obligar a su hija Anita a que se case con el despreciable prestamista Joseph Horngold para poder disponer de mucho oro. El marinero americano Bob Wade acude en su rescate y su presencia hace estallar una revuelta en la isla.

El Dr. Orloff, gravemente enfermo, comunica a su discípulo el Dr. Jeckill, la fórmula para hacer caminar a los robots mediante impulsos electromagnéticos. Antes, éste había enloquecido debido a los celos, cuando se entera de que su mujer y su hermano son amantes. La venganza y su locura le llevan a límites extremos asesinando a personas a distancia, y sembrando el pánico en la ciudad...

A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion of the arts in a spirit of mutual collaboration. —Jud Yalkut

Taken from Boccaccio's Decameron, this lovely puppet film tells the bawdy story of the beautiful young Venetian lady who confesses her sinful passion for the Archangel Gabriel to a lustful monk, who promptly impersonates him in her bedroom with predictable results. Amidst the film's ribaldry, the hypocrisy and false piety of the monk are mercilessly mocked.

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of a cadre of creative people having fun on camera, playing dress-up, dancing, flirting, lazing around.

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

Set in and around a Reno motel, the tape records George's growing friendship with a young weather expert.

Film de denuncia del uso del napalm en la guerra del Vietnam, que muestra algunos aspectos de su proceso de fabricación y algunas de las estrategias o mecanismos adoptados para esquivar los escrúpulos de conciencia, tanto por parte de la productora química como de sus trabajadores.

A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self-defense class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses him as a training dummy, but his treatment at the hands of the ladies steadily becomes more dangerous and humiliating.

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fields and a holiday in the Crimea. The second chapter, set nine years later, is in black and white and deals with how Maria Semionovna's life ended. The mood is one of a sad and elegiac narration.

Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line consists of a fixed shot of clearing fog in a valley in upstate New York where he lived and worked in the early seventies.

Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.

A short film in which the story of a boy and a priest in Amsterdam is told. In fact, it consists of two films, one commenting on the other, concerning a young man with a crucifixion complex.

A lovely, poetic, humorous and crystal investigation of mankind standing, sitting and lying down. - John Wasserman

Two mysterious men dressed in black and with cigarettes dangling from their mouths drop a large, presumably heavy (since it takes two to carry it) package off on a doorstep and walk away. When the home’s owner returns he drags the package inside, then goes about doing a few more activities before deciding to finally open it. Upon removing the paper, he notices it’s a large steel barrel. Using a blowtorch, he gets the lid off and sees it’s full of oily water… but rising out of the water is a nude, voluptuous, smiling woman, who immediately starts to entice the man by massaging her breasts. Naturally, being in a barrel for who knows how long, she needs to get cleaned off and hops into a bubble bath. While she’s lounging in the tub, the man gets into bed, lights a cigarette and starts to remove him clothes in anticipation. We get to see fantasies from both the man and “the fairy.” —The Bloody Pit of Horror

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an intimate portrait of the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works, including the Brillo boxes, the Jackie series, and the Flowers silkscreens.

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality.

Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism that is out of sight. Screws revolve and move other gears; a bit rotates. More subtle mechanisms move other mechanical parts for unknown purposes. Weights rise and fall. The movements, underscored by sound, are rhythmic. Circles, squares, rods, and teeth are in constant and sometimes asymmetrical motion. These human-made mechanical bits seem benign and reassuring.

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.