A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
Newly crowned queen of kung-fu films Hui Ying-hung, stars in Long Road To Gallantry, a rivetting swordswoman spectacle. Shaw Brothers' actress Lily Li teams up with one time kung-fu wonder boy Chen Kuan-tai in a quest to find a missing martial arts manual. It's new wave heroic bloodshed with new wave talent such as the upcoming Rosamund Kwan who went on to star in six Jet Li films.
A brief, poetic 16mm film on a simple sculptural action. What becomes apparent is the humor possible in material interactions and the tender and sometimes melodramatic symbolism of cut flowers. What begins as a reverence for natural beauty ends up pointing towards the abstract expressionism and color field work of high modernism which, in many cases eschewed the banality of such 'natural' beauty. The collaged soundtrack suggests weightier concerns, gently insistent behind the flatness of the utilitarian sounds of ripping tape.
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
A family (mother, daughter and son) tries to survive their loneliness and obsessions by going through different sexual experiences and relationships with a new neighbour, a prostitute.
During a piano lesson with Johnny, Miss Crawly becomes nostalgic about the dancing and romancing of her youth. Johnny convinces her that it's not too late to find someone and helps her setup a profile on a dating website.
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the big difference that this time it's personal for Frank.
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye's relationship with her brother is examined in this mixture of appropriated film footage, super 8mm home movies and Dunye's special brand of humor.
A psychic researcher attempts to solve a murder by using a radio that enables him to speak with the dead.
A love triangle story of a woman named "Som", who have to choose the loved one between "Pla", a rich businessman from Bangkok who love her from the first sight or "Noi", a poor farmer who secretly have a crush on her.
Short TV documentary on John Wildey, who had to land a Cessna after his pilot died mid-flight.
An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
This story is a collection of four love relationships: Geeky Hong (Michael Ning) who looks forward to romance bumps into Shirley (Shirley Chan); Rich kid Silver (Chloe So) who is socially anxious hires a rental boyfriend Jerome (Adam Pak); Chung (Anson Kong) and Zoe (Karena),a dysfunctional pair of social couple; and Ho (Edward Ma) an indecisive person meeting Tin Tin (Roxanne Tong), a nurse with polyamorous relationships. Following the through line in each story, they encounter unexpected obstacles in their relationships all set on the eve of Valentine's Day.
Snub Pollard and Marvin Loback find comic situations as bums, night cops and seance attendees in this silent short.
A woman is taking an old elevator up to her new apartment that she has just moved into. The oddly old and ringing phone inside the cabin is freaking her out. Over the line she is told about nightmares that are about to become true.
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