Backdrop fallback

Broken Being: Prequel

Broken Being: Prequel

Share

Broken Being: Prequel

2019

0h 15m

0.0(0 votes)

Animation

Drama

Science Fiction

Overview

A man goes on a journey finding the literal Paradise in hope of resurrecting his late wife, only to face with a horrifying truth about the reality he's living in.

Links & Resources

Website IMDbView

Social & External

Production Companies

The people behind it

Cast & crew

3 featured cast members

Starring

Christopher Ellis

Narrator

Bruce Bowers

Male

Cheryl Allison

Female

Creative team

Directed by: Dang Hai Quang
Written by: Nguyen Thu Giang
Dang Hai Quang
Produced by: Le Quynh Nhu

Similar Movies

Altered Innocence Vol. 1

Altered Innocence Vol. 1

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.

Izzy's Demons

Izzy's Demons

Izzy struggles with the decision to reconnect with an old friend. As she gives into her jealousy for her friend’s success, she makes a decision that her subconscious does not let her get away with so easily.

Mist

Mist

A man and his daughter, living in an isolated log cabin built in an open field near an inhospitable forest, are terrified by the mysterious mist rising from the trees.

Love's Baby Soft

Love's Baby Soft

The 12-year old Dolores, a feisty preteen desperate to be seen as a grown-up in 1976 suburbia is on her humiliating, hilarious journey from girlhood to growing up. She fantasizes about sex, womanhood, work... and Freddie Prinze. The girl thinks she's got the lowdown on being a woman, but when her overworked single mom Janice hires Cleo to babysit her world collides with the super cool black 16-year old's, each learns painful truths about what it really means to grow up.

Exile

Exile

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in exile walks through the forest, watches the falling leaves, rides a horse, steams in the bath… So the seasons change. On one of the snowy nights, a guest comes to Pushkin – Rezo Gabriadze. They drink wine and sing songs.

Finds of the Fortnight

Finds of the Fortnight

Cut-out animation alternated with text collages.

Trans/Figure/Ground

Trans/Figure/Ground

A film about uncanny valleys and the space between. Painted 16mm film undergoes a monstrous transformation becoming neither analog nor digital.

Dia Estrelado

Dia Estrelado

In an inhospitable place, a boy and his family struggle for survival.

Lukas & the Aspies

Lukas & the Aspies

'Lukas & the Aspies' is a story about 12-year old Lukas. In many ways, Lukas is a normal kid: He plays in a band, hangs out with his friends and fights with his little brother. But Lukas' has also Asperger syndrome - and hence his own set of unique problems.

A Few Clownish Cents

A Few Clownish Cents

Sincho is a cruise ship clown who is evicted from his home without much money. He hallucinates about a lawyer who offers to help him. Homeless, Sincho decides to commit suicide rather than suffer on the streets.

Beyond

Beyond

8-year-old Jérémy is ready for a typical evening with his parents and little brother. But his mother’s behavior grows more and more unsettling.

Wonders

Wonders

An animated film for children about how a Clown and the guys argued about who is the bigger inventor and entertainer.

Chasing Grace

Chasing Grace

A young college student reluctantly meets with her estranged father only to discover the truth about the events of the wild summer of '75 that drove them apart.

The Wizard's Apprentice

The Wizard's Apprentice

The cartoon tells about the amazing adventures of two braggart friends - the boy Vasya and the cat Vaska, about what unexpected and even dangerous consequences the most harmless at first glance boasting can lead to.

Word of Honour

Word of Honour

Based on Panteleyev’s tale about a boy who wouldn’t leave his post after he gave his word.

Poppety in the Fall

Poppety in the Fall

In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is the solution. Poppety will lead an expedition, by chance uncovering a hitherto closely guarded family secret.

The Journey and the Destination

The Journey and the Destination

Three friends leave their small town to walk to Chicago, but find the tension among themselves rising.

The Virus

The Virus

A mysterious, electronically-transmitted bio-virus virus threatens to infect a young couple unless their small town can identify and neutralize the source. The key to their safety may lie in the man exposing his toxic secret.

The Tower of Silence

The Tower of Silence

Mourad is a young Moroccan man who lives alone on his parents' farm. After a meal, Mourad's family realizes that the scars of the past are beyond anything they could have imagined.

Spring

Spring

Amanda struggles to keep something inside as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.

Recommended Movies

Matriculated

Matriculated

The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons - The Movie

The assassin Deathstroke tries to save his family from the wrath of H.I.V.E. and the murderous Jackal.

Waking Life

Waking Life

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

The villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire village was destroyed by ice. When Nekron's underlings kidnap the beautiful Princess Teegra, Larn sets out to rescue her, assisted by the fierce and enigmatic Darkwolf.

The Second Renaissance Part II

The Second Renaissance Part II

The battle for Earth turns against the humans, despite their infamous desperate act of blackening the skies.

DC Showcase: Adam Strange

DC Showcase: Adam Strange

On a rugged asteroid mining colony, few of the toiling workers are aware that their town drunk was ever anything but an interplanetary derelict. But when the miners open a fissure into the home of a horde of deadly alien insects, his true identity is exposed. He is space adventurer Adam Strange, whose heroic backstory is played out in flashbacks as he struggles to save the very people who have scorned him for so long.

Battle for Terra

Battle for Terra

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

DC Showcase: Blue Beetle

DC Showcase: Blue Beetle

SUFFERIN' SCARABS! Silver Age Blue Beetle is back! Thrill to the adventures of Ted Kord, alias the Blue Beetle, as he teams up with fellow Charlton Comics heroes Captain Atom, The Questions and Nightshade to battle the nefarious finagler of feelings, Doctor Spectro!

DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!

DC Showcase: Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!

Kamandi and his friends Prince Tuftan of the Tiger Kingdom and humanoid mutant Ben Boxer are kidnapped by a gorilla cult dedicated to finding the reincarnation of their god, The Mighty One. Golgan, the cult’s leader, puts Kamandi’s team through a series of deadly tests to find if any of them know the secret of … The Mighty One.

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure leads to cities shutting down, financial and trade markets being thrown into chaos, and food supplies dwindling. There’s no proof as to what caused the blackouts, but Replicants — the bio-engineered robots featured in the original Blade Runner, are blamed.

$9.99

$9.99

Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.

Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr Venture's blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the Ventures, The Guild, and even the Monarch marriage—it will take friends and foes alike to restore the Ventures' world to order… or end it once and for all.

Strange World

Strange World

A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.

Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars

Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars

Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.

Halo Legends

Halo Legends

The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.

The Animatrix

The Animatrix

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

The Second Renaissance Part I

The Second Renaissance Part I

Tells the early history of how conflict began between the humans and machines. Part 1 of 2.

Metropia

Metropia

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

Final Flight of the Osiris

Final Flight of the Osiris

Immediately before the events of The Matrix Reloaded, the crew of the hovercraft Osiris discovers a quarter of a million sentinels drilling through the surface of the earth towards the last human city of Zion. But can the Osiris survive long enough to warn Zion?