The Pearl (1929)

O edifício mais alto e seguro do mundo está em chamas e Will, um perito em segurança que ali se deslocou em trabalho, é injustamente culpado pelo incêndio. Em fuga, Will tem de encontrar os culpados e salvar a família, presa dentro do edifício.

Em São Francisco, um detetive aposentado (James Stewart) que sofre de um terrível medo de alturas é encarregado de vigiar uma mulher (Kim Novak) com possíveis tendências suicidas, até que algo estranho acontece nesta missão.

Kate (Meg Ryan) e Charlie (Timothy Hutton) têm uma vida perfeita planejada: comprar uma casa, casar, ter filhos, o pacote todo. O medo de voar de Kate a mantém no Canadá enquanto Charlie vai a Paris para uma convenção médica. Lá, Charlie se encanta pela adorável Juliette e decide cancelar o casamento com Kate que, furiosa, embarca no primeiro vôo para buscá-lo. Ela se senta ao lado do malandro francês Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline). Ele esconde um colar roubado e vinho entre as bagagens de Kate para passar pela alfândega. A bagagem dela é roubada, o colar é perdido e Kate e Luc se dirigem a Cannes para recuperar o colar e também Charlie. Ao longo dessa jornada, Kate e Luc começam a ter um pelo outro sentimentos que poderão mudar o rumo de suas vidas.

Alex, fotógrafo de uma revista de viagens, e Colin, uma autora de best-sellers, juntam-se para encontrar uma incrível pérola. Com ambas as carreiras em jogo, a caça em um vale de Fiji pode levá-los a encontrar o único tesouro que realmente importa.

A college prank at an abandoned house accidentally awakens a frightening spirit.

Para escaparem à monotonia da vida numa cidade pequena, Frank (Jason Lee) e Eddie (Crispin Glover) engendram uma ideia estouvada a seguir à outra. Guardando a melhor para o fim, decidem fazer uma “parceria” com uma defunta milionária (Melissa Keller) num esquema de chantagem que, caso seja bem sucedido, lhes vai render o suficiente para saldarem a dívida com o anterior parceiro… o que os quer ver mortos!

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

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.

Desesperado pela doença do filho, o camponês Eufemio rouba uma pérola da imagem de Santa Lucía na igreja do povoado. Alguns turistas testemunham e fotografam o roubo e Eufemio fica a ponto de ser linchado por seus vizinhos.

A poor Mexican diver discovers a valuable pearl in the ocean, but it brings his family only trouble

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.

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.

Uma garota pobre é forçada a roubar para viver. Depois que ela rouba o colar de uma rica dama da sociedade, ela se esconde na casa de um homem que acaba por ser ex-noivo da socialite.

Three-episode film linked to each other by means of a medallion, where love is the engine that drives people to act the way they did.

Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.

A trágica morte da mãe faz garota perder a memória. Como não bastasse, a menina ainda é encarnada pelo espírito da falecida.

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?

Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.

A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans...

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.

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

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.