Folktales of Peace (1995)

Durante um verão de amizade e aventura, um garoto entra para um grupo: nove garotos formam uma equipe e seu líder vira uma estrela enfrentando um mistério assustador fora de campo.

Para impedir um novo ataque da força alienígena que quase acabou com a raça humana, o jovem Ender Wiggin é recrutado pelo corpo militar internacional. Ele treina para se transformar no melhor jogador, e sua missão é acabar com a guerra.

Bastante machucada e largada em um beco, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) é encontrada por um homem mais velho, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard), que lhe oferece ajuda. Ele a leva para sua casa, onde possa descansar e se recuperar. Ao despertar, Joe começa a contar detalhes de sua vida para Seligman. Assumindo ser uma ninfomaníaca e que não é, de forma alguma, uma pessoa boa, ela narra algumas das aventuras sexuais que vivenciou para justificar o porquê de sua auto avaliação.

As fantásticas histórias do maior mentiroso de todos os tempos. Enquanto tenta escapar da morte, encontrar seus amigos e salvar a cidade do ataque dos turcos, o Barão relembra a aposta com o Califa, a visita à Lua, a dança com Afrodite, entre outras aventuras.

O ator e dramaturgo Wallace Shawn se senta com seu amigo, o diretor teatral André Gregory, em um restaurante em Nova Iorque. A dupla faz uma confissão alternadamente extravagante e desesperada sobre amor, morte, dinheiro e a superstição que envolve tudo isso.

A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.

Se você não sente dor, como sabe que está vivo? Henry é incapaz de sentir dor física, e vive entre o medo de não saber se está doente e a incessante busca para descobrir uma cura para sua condição, custe o que custar.

Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director.

"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

The older boys are graduating school and recount their memories together. The next day everyone defends the graduation ceremony against Zundar and Dadacha's Second-Button Monster, but Yumoto struggles using his love power.

When an elevator jams and strands five lovely ladies on their way to an exclusive Hollywood party, the glamorous gals wile away the hours exchanging steamy stories about their most memorable and erotic sexual escapades. As the saucy tales get hotter and hotter, so does the atmosphere inside that elevator.

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.

In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they entertain. Somewhere In The Darkness received its world premier at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival in the United States; it was later screened at Australia's Sydney Film Festival the same year. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Meet Duewand Collier Jr.-Male, 68 years old, American Citizen, a child conceived in the backdrop of the Philippines-American Mutual Defense Treaty, born and raised with Catholic guilt. He has made peace with his past and now tells his story-a story of love.

While surprising his fiancée with a newly inherited property, a man is forced to confront his past behaviour.

A seemingly good Samaritan's's gesture eventually gets the best of him.

Professional storytellers breathe life into three folktales of peace from other cultures.