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- Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
- Jay Sherman is a New York film critic who has to review films he doesn't like for a living.
- After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.
- When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.
- "Little Red Riding Hood" set in an urban jungle in the not-too-distant future. It's Christmas time, and Earth is God's Gameboy. Little Red puts on provocative clothing and heads for a night on the town. Her dad, after yelling at her, dons his Santa suit and leaves for work. Turns out he's a cat burglar. While he's in a fancy flat putting swag in his bag, he's surprised by the lady of the house. Meanwhile, Little Red, who has stopped to buy reefer, is accosted by Wolfgang, an aggressive and cannibalistic cop. After dining, he heads for home, where a surprise awaits.
- Parody of Saving Private Ryan about war heroes who must save their buddy's penis.
- Wallace and Gromit try out a variety of inventions - which rarely work as planned.
- Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
- The perfect 'formula' film. Catchy title, hot chick, fast car, huge dilemma, with a 'twist' at the end. The perfect example of how to 'get the butts in the seats." And what else really matters anyway?
- It's their first date, and they've each enjoyed the other's company, so when she invites him in, he's excited. After a few kisses on the living room couch, she excuses herself to slip into something more comfortable, and, even though the relationship is moving faster than usual for her, she tells him she wants him to meet her pet bug. She hopes he'll be gentle, he assures her that he will. She leaves him for a few moments, but his anticipation is soon interrupted...
- Playwright David Henry Hwang talks directly to the camera about race, politics, and ... pornography. He's discovered a way to get past the typical images of Asian porn to positive images of Asian men and women caught on tape: it's "Asian Pride Porn," a videotape Mr. Hwang is pitching. We see excerpts as he talks about smart women and sexually empowered men. He urges his listeners to move from onanism to activism and never be embarrassed again when lonely and bored. He wants viewers to reach for "Asian Pride Porn" - available in sex shops and commercial centers everywhere, except Georgia and Alabama.
- Death is training his son in the art and responsibilities of the family business. His son does well until he's sent out on his own to claim an accident victim. Instead, he's asked by a friend of the dying man to help with CPR. Taken aback, he assents, the dying man is resuscitated, and Death's son is in the doghouse with dad. Enraged, pop gives his son 24 hours to deliver a corpse, so the young man sets out to ice the man who asked him for help earlier that day. Junior's target is a young actor, Tom, going through opening night and loved by Sarah, a rather histrionic young woman. A near-Death experience awaits them all as Junior comes of age.
- In Judgement County, Texas, a rookie cop gets the ultimate test when an APB for a child killer fits the general description of a man he stops for speeding. By day's end, his boss, the sheriff, is out of reach, a power outage blocks him from checking the suspect's identity or getting a better description of the wanted man, and the town has become a mob set on vengeance. Race complicates things slightly (the suspect is Black, the cop and most townsfolk are White), as does the brotherhood of war (one's a Vietnam vet, the other Desert Storm). Our rookie is used to applying his boss's pithy sayings to situations he's in, but in this case, he may need to make his own judgment.
- In Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life: the first, with a smooth-talking young man who's standing by the church door who berates him for wasting his life in church, the second with a boy who offers to take his picture, and the third with a Mercedes-driving man who's been stuck in traffic and has no patience left. Is there any deliverance from the soullessness of the city?
- A speeding truck sends Robert into purgatory, with the probability of a warm climate. He escapes to Earth and tries to fix things before purgatory catches up with him.
- After a short introduction of the whole family, the story of the elder brother is told.
- Sergeant wakes up alone with only a widescreen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace and tranquility, for all eternity...
- Adam tells us the story of an older cousin who had cerebral palsy. Adam would go over to play and they'd dress as superheroes, jump off the shed and run about the the street with an old shopping trolley. Adam explains his cousin's wayward left arm, his strong right one, his aunt's understanding of her son's rages ("bake a cake," she'd tell him), and the boy's love of swimming. On Adam's eighth birthday, the cousins are separated by tragedy; it's left to Adam to wonder about his cousin, and if he still smells of licorice.
- An ancient monster chains three victims to his dungeon wall and forces them to be his friends.
- Opposite Poles of the sexual universe collide when a coquette's reverie disagrees with an eligible bachelor's wet dream.
- Lost in the urban jungle of Manhattan, Cowboy discovers that sometimes things aren't always what they seem.
- Crime always pays - with big laughs in this clever series of rambunctious animated shorts. Shifty (The Criminal), a pint-sized pilferer with lofty ambitions and limited brainpower, perpetrates crimes from the sublime to the ridiculous - and never quite pulls them off, resulting in hilarious consequences. Rendered in a graphic style reminiscent of classic UPA shorts, the action is nothing short of... arresting!
- Peter is a novelist who is going out of his mind because his wife and daughter have left him. He's bought a Smith & Wesson and put one bullet in it. He's pulled the trigger once in despairing Russian roulette. Driving to his wife's office, he pulls the gun out again when an angry motorist assaults him. Then, he begs his wife to talk to him, and she does - while she holds the pistol. His next stop is the literary agent to whom he's sent his manuscript; the pistol comes out once more. Her response is unexpected, and there's one last stop before the day ends.
- A widowed Midwestern housewife travels to Manhattan for the first time to visit her daughter. Once there, she becomes obsessed with the Hell's Angels-ish bikers' club across the street from her daughter's East Village apartment.
- Samantha and her older companion, Mr. Sands, anxiously await handsome, young Javier. Upon his arrival at their elegant New York City hotel room, he is questioned by Mr. Sands in preparation for the evening's activities. What ensues is a kinky conflict of interest that leads to irreconcilable differences between everyone in this morality play.
- Around the classic 1800's Western campfire, Slope and Tar tangle about what's been, what will be, and who may or may not survive the first New Age chat in the Old West.
- A would-be thief enters a house and finds plenty of reasons to make himself at home. Chief among them is the fact that he can't leave, having been trapped by his 'victim' and forced to look after the place while she's on vacation. Can the tables be turned again?
- Two princes are separated at birth and reunited only after a crisis grips the country.
- A boy, waiting for a bus. A dog, begging for potato chips. The boy sends the dog away, violently. He sees a hangnail on his finger and shows us, graphically, why you should never pick at them. The dog gets karmic retribution.
- Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker. When she dies, the wigmaker goes to the mass grave where she's buried and cuts off her luxurious red hair; he makes himself a wig from it, and soon dies.
- A vaudevillian's act involving the juggling of dogs is no longer a hit. He and his partner must face a brutal villain and assorted obstacles in order to secure their future.
- Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.
- It's morning in Blue City. Amidst a bleak industrial landscape, a boy, a suicidal man, and two car thieves continually cross paths. In the end, the most unlikely candidate emerges unscathed.
- Think New York is tough? Imagine it a hundred times faster. Except for you. Welcome to Slo-Mo. Struggling through a bad case of writer's block, lazy Alex (Simpson) arrives home to find that his girlfriend Chloe (Marotz) has left him, his apartment is completely empty, and he's still only on the first page of his novel. Feeling like the whole world has left him behind, Alex storms outside to realize that it actually has. The entire city is rushing past him in fast motion. Dodging his way around zooming pedestrians and oncoming taxis, Alex stumbles upon The School for the Motionally Retarded. In class, Alex discovers rebel chick Raven (Moennig) and a group of other down-trodden 'slo-mos' who introduce him to the pleasures of being slow: 'No one asks you for change or directions.' But when Alex returns home to find that Chloe wants him back, he wishes nothing more than to speed back up and leave this slow new world behind. Can Alex climb back up to speed? Will he win back Chloe? Will he ever write the second page of his novel? Sometimes it takes being a 'slo-mo' to discover the right way to go-go.
- Her boyfriend drops her off in front of the EuroAirport terminal at Basel-Mulhouse. She buys a magazine (with a cover story about Turkey) and a box of heart-shaped cookies, then sits in the waiting room, her bag and box of cookies on the small, low table next to her. She notices that the man seated at the other side of the table has helped himself to a cookie. She keeps reading and eating cookies, and he keeps eating as well. Soon, they are in a face off, crunching one cookie after another. She's moved her bag out of his reach and gives him dirty looks, which he returns playfully. She leaves in a huff, to her gate, where she makes a discovery that crumbles her sang-froid.
- Jude Goodmen and Marcus Waters are the two very new guys in the mob. Their first job is to retrieve three million dollars of stolen mob money from the Jones Brothers. All seems well until their mob mentor, Bruce, pulls a double cross and frames the expendable Jude and Marcus. To make matters worse, the three million is hidden in a post office box and the search is on for the key. Now, Jude and Marcus have the Jones Brothers, Bruce and his men, and the rest of the New York City mob after them. Everyone is trying to kill them and the key to the three million, the Key To The Crime, must be found. All this and it's just their first day on the job.
- A young girl's experience as a streetwalker with her first trick.
- Puberty has been good to 14-year old Olivia, who recently out-blossomed her best friend Ann over the summer. When the two girls transfer to an elite private school, Olivia is immediately embraced by the popular girls and coveted by the boys. Feeling betrayed, Ann watches from the social sidelines as Olivia effortlessly wields a newfound power over their classmates. Their friendship finally unravels over an uninvited encounter between Olivia and the brother of the most popular girl in their clique.
- Kid's arm bone is sticking out and the dog is trying to pull it out!
- In 1997, in a theatre in upstate New York, a small band of fans were watching "Star Wars" when something extraordinary happened...
- A man wants to take revenge for a terrible incident with dodgeballs, that happenened when he was young.
- Stacey goes on a desperate final mission in the epic conclusion... in which nothing ends the way you thought it did.
- A clay man encounters a sweet blue clay dog, only to lose track of him during a protracted battle with a huge metal creature. A surreal landscape of cans, bottles, scrap metal, oil, and fissures threaten the protagonist. How will he survive, and where's the dog?
- On an elevator, Stuart sees an attractive blond woman in black boots, but loses his nerve before speaking to her. His life is dull: typical chores include watering his cactus and buying a toilet brush. That Friday night, he sees the woman from the elevator get into a cab. He gives chase and watches her enter a house where a party is going on. Deciding to live dangerously, he crashes the party. The somewhat-stuffy host and hostess have a "shoes off!" policy to protect their new carpet. Before Stuart (plagued by a hole in a sock) can reach the blond, disaster strikes. Will Stuart be booted from the party and shooed away before he can connect with the mystery woman?
- Francis has just changed his new fish's water, and the fish is freaking out. Francis calls a pal who tells him the fish needs salt water, not fresh water, and hasn't long to live; so Francis sets out, fish in fresh water in a plastic bag, to save it. He must first find his car, deal with an unsympathetic vet, tape a leaky bag, get to a pet store where he confronts the manager and the manager's bouncer, stare into the eyes of a helpful clerk who offers ocean salt, and then hightail it for the beach. Luckily, Francis lives in L.A. Will the fish drown before Francis gets it to the sea? Wave good-by.
- Armed with construction paper and a mighty imagination, a receptionist has fantastical adventures.
- In a candlelit room at 1:30 a.m., a dominatrix finishes with a client and relaxes with her wig, gloves, collar, and chains off. A knock at the door surprises her, and in comes an old client (and maybe ex-boyfriend) who urgently tells her she must leave. She follows him down the fire escape to her car, and he has her drive him to a warehouse. He confesses it's a game and no one is following him, but he'll pay her $10,000 to tie him up and beat him. Will she get ideas of her own, once he's securely fastened? If it's a confidence game, which one has the most confidence?