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A creation by students of the School of Fine Arts (Escola de Belas Artes - UFRJ) made to represent those who arrive late.

Movie Hoarders: From VHS to DVD and Beyond!

Filmmakers and collectors lift the curtain on their manic media obsession that is not only a huge part of their lives, but the lifeblood of their existence!

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Chères vieilles choses

Georges Delerue (composer). Commentary written by Boris Vian (under his pseudonym Michel Arras) and spoken by Jacques Mauclair. Jacques Rivette: …Chères vieilles choses, de Raymond Vogel, film imparfait, zigzagant, inégal, mais qui, dans les marges d'un essai sans imprévu sur le monde des collectionneurs, sait esquisser en mineur une sorte de phénoménologie amusante du décor et de la possession. (Arts n° 646) (auto-translation:) Jacques Rivette: ...Chères vieilles choses, by Raymond Vogel, an imperfect, zigzagging, uneven film, which, in the margins of an unexpected essay on the world of collectors, sketches out a kind of amusing phenomenology of decoration and possession. (Arts n° 646)

The Collector

The offbeat, fairytale story of Wizard of Oz fanatic and obsessive pop culture collector Willard Carroll. From dining with Munchkins to owning the world’s largest private collection of Oz memorabilia, Willard is proof that one story can change the entire trajectory of your life.

Combat Comedy Tour

Combat Comedy Tour follows a group of comedians as they perform for soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The program offers extensive footage of the brave men and women sending wishes back home to their loved ones.

Murderous City

Selma is a young eighteen-year-old girl and her fiance, Ali, is a workshop foreman. One day, Ali is arrested for hitting a man in a nearby cafe. This indident causes her downfall and the tragic events that occur.

Traps

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochina to cover a story on a French-owned rubber plantation. They are to be the guests of the enigmatic plantation overseer, Daniel, and his beautiful yet difficult daughter Viola, at their elegant, decaying villa amid a tropical jungle. Michael and Louise hope that some time spent working in an exotic location will help reignite the passion in their floundering marriage. Instead they become unwittingly involved in the personal, sexual and political tensions of their hosts. Daniel is desperate to hold onto a way of life no longer possible in a country struggling for independence, bringing him into conflict with not only his daughter but also with his adopted country.

The Fugitive

Framed for a killing, a teenager takes refuge in a farm house.

Dying or Live

So-ryong is the delivery man of a Chinese restaurant when he falls in love with Jang, a local girl who is forced by a hoodlum into prostitution. Feeling helpless, So-ryong promises to learn kung fu so that he may fight and save Jang from her misery.

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Escape From Nightmare

Ma is the best investigator in the homicide division, but his wife's accidental death devastates him. When a case of serial murders surfaces, he vows to track down the killer in hopes of escaping from his own personal nightmare.

Excursion

1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.

Long Strange Trip, or The Writer, the Naked Girl, and the Guy with a Hole in His Head

Magazine Writer Phil Austin meets Stripper Becca on an interview assignment, and ends up giving her a ride to her Dad's "Survivalist" compound in the middle of nowhere.

Leap

After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.

Parker

Two lovers get into an escalating argument while driving home from a party at which they both flirted with romantic rivals.

Pearls

Miranda realizes her son Donald can only become the woman she is by defying her father and leaving their farm, in an outfit Miranda provides that includes a much-loved heirloom.

Mi mujer es la que manda

A corrupt president dies and arrives at the gates of heaven, where he is given one last chance to make amends for his mistakes. Back to life, but in the body of a poor woman Julia, he must live with a lecherous husband, a meddlesome mother-in-law, and the temptation of an attractive daughter. With the complications of an austere life, to which he is unaccustomed, he will experience very funny situations in which he will have to survive until he manages to do a good deed. Worst of all, he only has a week to achieve it.

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

53 Sundays

When three siblings agree to meet and discuss their aging father's future, their reunion spirals into bickering, bantering and reliving old grudges.

SubUrbia

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

My Own Love Song

A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

Patricia, A Hidden Passion

Patricia is a successful couples therapist. Your marriage is going through a bad time. But when she meets a student, Pablo will transform her own beliefs about sex.

Small Apartments

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

Playing God

A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.

Things Change

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

Down the Rabbit Hole

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.

¡Que viva México!

After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.

The People Upstairs

Julio and Ana have been together for more than fifteen years. They have become a couple who no longer look at nor touch one another, and who have made daily fighting the essence of their relationship. This evening, Ana has invited their upstairs neighbors to come round, Salva and Laura, a couple younger than them, pleasant and friendly, but whose noises are now an annoyance for Julio and Ana... or perhaps a stimulus? The upstairs neighbors will make them an unusual and surprising proposal which will turn the evening into an exaggerated and cathartic experience for all four.

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

Somewhere in Queens

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Summer of 69

In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence and sex.

The Joneses

A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

Madea Goes to Jail - The Play

Madea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice and wisdom to her friends and family as they learn the importance of letting go, moving on, and forgiveness.

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

It Runs in the Family

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

King of the Belgians

The King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.

Family Weekend

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.