Beauty Factory (2014)

'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the past 50 years.

A hilarious look at the universe's most fervent fans.

Três anos após deixar a escola, Eric (Sam Huntington) reencontra os velhos amigos Windows (Jay Baruchel), Linus (Chris Marquette) e Hutch (Dan Fogler) em uma festa a fantasia. O trio permanece no esquema da escola, jogando videogame e se divertindo com a série Star Wars. Já Eric agora trabalha na empresa de seu pai, onde tem a possibilidade de ascender rapidamente. Quando Eric toma conhecimento da grave doença de Linus, que fará com que morra em poucos meses, o quarteto resolve fazer uma viagem inesquecível, onde pretendem realizar um sonho de adolescência: invadir o Rancho Skywalker para assistir, em primeira mão, o aguardado Star Wars: Episódio 1 - A Ameaça Fantasma, ainda inédito em circuito.

Denise Crosby takes another look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" and how the series from around the world has affected and shaped their lives.

The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George Lucas himself, many have found their ardor has cooled into a complicated love-hate relationship. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary delves deep into Lucas’s cultural legacy, asking all the tough questions. Has Lucas betrayed his masterwork? Should he just have left the original trilogy alone? Is The Phantom Menace so bad it should carry a health warning? Utilizing interviews taken from over 600 hours of footage, and peppered with extraordinary Star Wars and Indiana Jones recreations lovingly immortalized in song, needlepoint, Lego, claymation, puppets and paper-mâché, above all this film asks the question: who truly owns that galaxy far, far away—the man who created it, or the fans who worship it?

In this two-hour special event from The Boulet Brothers' Dragula, previous drag monsters from Seasons 1-3 return for a chance to earn a spot in Season 4 and $20,000 cash.

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

Trek Nation is a documentary film directed by Scott Colthorp examining the positive impact that Star Trek and creator Gene Roddenberry may have had on people's lives as seen through the eyes of his son, Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. ("Rod"). It includes interviews with castmembers and crew from all five Star Trek shows, as well as various fans and celebrities who were markedly influenced by the show while growing up. Rod Roddenberry also visits Skywalker Ranch to interview George Lucas on the influence that Star Trek had on him. Lucas shares how he had gone to Star Trek conventions prior to creating Star Wars.

Izzy Daniels é um adolescente do Brooklin que está treinando para ser um campeão de boxe e assim realizar o sonho de seu pai. Entretanto, curioso com os movimentos empolgantes do "Double Dutch", ele concorda em ajudar sua vizinha Mary que precisa de alguém para substituir um dos "puladores de corda" do time. O esporte exige mais talento e trabalho em equipe do que Izzy imaginava, mas com o passar do tempo, ele percebe que seguir seu coração é o mais importante.

Lembra-se de Ben Willis? Ele é o pescador que assassinou o rapaz que estava dirigindo o carro que saiu da estrada, causando o acidente fatal que matou sua filha Sara... Ele é o homem da capa, com um gancho na mão, em busca de justiça sangrenta... Bem, ele está de volta. É difícil esquecer um homem que se recusa a morrer.

Após um acidente numa estrada sinuosa, quatro adolescentes cometem o terrível erro de jogar o corpo da vítima no mar. Mas, exatamente um ano depois, o homem morto retorna das profundezas, e não quer apenas um pedido de desculpas.

Uma estudante CDF acerta a fórmula perfeita para fazer uma pirueta tripla na patinação sobre o gelo. Ela acaba se encantando pelo esporte, para desespero de sua mãe, que sonha em vê-la ingressando na faculdade de Harvard.

Dicky Ecklund é uma lenda do boxe que desperdiçou o seu talento e a sua grande chance. Agora, o seu meio-irmão Micky Ward tentará se tornar uma nova esperança de campeão e superar as conquistas de Dicky. Treinado pela família e sem obter sucesso em suas lutas, Micky terá que escolher entre seus familiares e a vontade de ser um verdadeiro campeão.

Desde muito pequena exibindo talento para patinação artística no gelo, Tonya Harding cresce se destacando no esporte e aguentando maus-tratos e humilhações por parte da agressiva mãe. Entre altos e baixos na carreira e idas e vindas num relacionamento abusivo com Jeff Gillooly, a atleta acaba envolvida num plano bizarro durante a preparação para os Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1994.

O sonho deles é participar da maior competição de música do mundo. Mas intrigas de rivais e acidentes no palco vão testar a relação entre esses dois.

Um veterano assassino profissional (Sylvester Stallone), que é considerado o melhor no ramo, pensa em sair do negócio, mas resolve aceitar como último trabalho eliminar uma hacker (Julianne Moore). Ele acaba sendo traído pelo contratante, passando então a ser caçado por um jovem assassino (Antonio Banderas) que planeja matá-lo para ficar no seu lugar. Esta situação obriga-o a se unir à mulher que pretendia matar.

Rosetta e a recém-chegada Chloe se unem para tentar acabar com a lendária sequência de derrotas das fadas jardineiras contra as fadas da tempestade Rumble e Glimmer que estão disputando o quinto campeonato dos Jogos do Refúgio das Fadas.

Tom Baker e sua esposa, Kate, levam seus filhos para o que esperam ser um verão relaxante em um resort à beira do lago. Porém, logo descobrem que vão ficar em um quarto muito ruim. Para piorar a situação, o antigo inimigo de Tom, Jimmy Murtaugh, e sua enorme família aparecem no lugar e envolvem os Baker em uma competição nada amigável, que ameaça estragar sua viagem.

Duas grandes amigas de infância decidem fazer uma viagem juntas. Mas quando estão paradas na escala, uma ameaça de furacão faz com que fiquem presas no aeroporto. Enquanto esperam pelo próximo voo, elas conhecem um homem, e as duas se apaixonam por ele.

Na patinação no gelo em duplas o sucesso depende de uma mistura perfeita de força e sofisticação, coragem e arte, músculos e refinamento. O campeonato mundial do esporte costumava ocorrer em um universo elegante, até a explosão da rivalidade entre o astro Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) e do garoto prodígio Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder). Chad e Jimmy já se enfrentaram em campeonatos anteriores, mas a rivalidade faz com que briguem em plena pista de patinação, o que faz com que o mascote seja incendiado. Como resultado, ambos são expulsos do esporte. Três anos e meio depois, ambos ainda não se adequaram fora do esporte. É quando eles decidem se reunir para realizar algo inédito: ser a 1ª dupla de homens da história da patinação no gelo.

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide and tries to find the actors who worked on the project.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.