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poster The Pay-Off

The Pay-Off

70mn - Drama, Crime

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the coupl…

poster The Floorwalker

The Floorwalker

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.

poster The Weak-End Party

The Weak-End Party

A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers.

poster A Monster Among Men

A Monster Among Men

Five friends escape to a secluded cabin near Six Rivers National Forest for what should be a relaxing getaway. When a heated argument tears the group apart, tensions rise and hidden secrets emerge, turnin…

poster Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…

poster Go for Broke!

Go for Broke!

92mn - Action, Drama, War

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Gr…

poster Bully Boy

Bully Boy

6mn - Animation

Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.

poster Crashing Broadway

Crashing Broadway

When cowboy performer Tad Wallace's western act flops on Broadway, he heads west with a traveling troupe only to discover their destination theater has been burned down by a local criminal. Joining forces…

poster Unwritten

Unwritten

84mn - Thriller

An agoraphobic failed writer living in a remote bookstore becomes convinced that a mysterious customer is actually the villain from an unfinished story he wrote as a child, forcing him to confront his dee…

Work

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. …

poster They Go Boom!

They Go Boom!

Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Stan snores. Both of them have trouble falling asleep because of this. They try to solve their proble…

poster Big Business

Big Business

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…

poster Shootdown

Shootdown

100mn - Drama, Short

Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the "official" story maintains that the flight accidentally veere…

poster 3 Hours till Dead

3 Hours till Dead

An AWOL soldier with PTSD goes into hiding along with his brother and a few friends. They retreat into a rural farm area unaware that the outside world has ceased to function. On their way back to civiliz…

poster Dangerous Days

Dangerous Days

Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.

poster Lost for Words

Lost for Words

107mn - Drama, Romance

A wounded ex-Marine seeking a fresh start in Hong Kong falls for a talented Chinese ballerina from Beijing, but as their cross-cultural romance deepens through language lessons and shared dreams, mounting…

poster Back Stage

Back Stage

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

poster Suddenly

Suddenly

77mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's …

Runt

Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.

poster X's & O's

X's & O's

93mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodra…

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