All Films

The Finger Food Cafe Show: A Christmas Gift

2004 • 60 min • United States of America

Dress rehearsal for the annual show runs smoothly until a disgruntled deaf girl named Meghan storms into the cafe pursued by her frustrated and furious hearing father, Jim. Meghan has just learned that, instead of spending time with her similarly deaf friends in Indianapolis, she and her family are all going to Colorado for Christmas vacation! But no one there is deaf, and she feels left out. Carlo, Mark and Rebecca offer some valuable and timely advice that results in an unusual and heartwarming Christmas gift.

Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland

2004 • 39 min • United States of America

This documentary is featured in the 4-disc Collector's Edition DVD set, released in 2004, for Gone with the Wind (1939).

Mujo & Haso Superstars

2004 • 52 min • Slovenia

The DVD include 63 sketches based on Mujo and Haso jokes.

Speed Trap

2004 • 6 min

Yo Ota goes on working on « the space of the unreal movement » on the film medium and on showing time development in non narrative cinema. This film has nothing to do with the English meaning of «Speed trap», that is speed control by police radars. To obtain objects in movement, he set his 16mm camera on the verge of a road. During film shoot, some drivers thought his camera was a speed trap and briskly slow down in front of the camera.

The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

2004 • 19 min

Brian DePalma and Art Linson discuss how the 1987 film "The Untouchables" came together.

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'

2004 • 18 min • United States of America

Documentary about actor Peter Sellers and one of his most memorable film roles.

The Secret History of the Credit Card

2004 • 54 min • United Kingdom

FRONTLINE and The New York Times examine how the credit card industry became so pervasive, so lucrative, and so politically powerful.

The Invitation

2004 • 13 min • United States of America

Jacob is dying and due to his sever case of social anxiety is unable to interact with others. After finding out that he is going to die, he organizes his funeral and invites the public.

La Commune de Paris 1871

2004 • 52 min • France

Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Commune insurgents were deported, including Louise Michel. The director thus tracks down all the still visible traces of the insurrectional movement, in the South Pacific but especially in Paris, by following Alain Dalotel, author of numerous works on the Commune (and who died on May 29, 2020 in Bagnolet). He also tracks down all the archives, allowing us to understand, with the means of communication and information of the time (and with a voice-over by Bernard Langlois), what contemporaries experienced between March and May 1871: their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their anger.

A New Beginning

2004 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A look at the radical changes made to Doctor Who by John Nathan-Turner for his first story as producer, which opened the programme's eighteenth year on BBC1.

Flatlife

2004 • 11 min • Belgium

The lives and interactions of four neighbours in an apartment building are seen simultaneously in four different rooms. Flatlife is an animated film created by Jonas Geirnaert in 2004 was chosen for the competition of short films at Cannes in 2004.

Bears

2004 • 39 min • Canada, United States of America

From polar bears in the arctic tundra to black bears in the Northern Rockies, you'll see some of the most spectacular footage ever shot of these enterprising omnivores. Catch salmon with a group of hungry grizzlies on the McNeil River in Alaska. Crawl inside a den with a mother black bear and her cubs. Learn about the challenges facing each of these species as their habitat diminishes.

Home Video Argentina

2004 • 18 min • France

Xiaoxing hasn't seen his uncle for years, since he left for Argentina. When he finally visits him again, the man has changed completely and his life is in shambles. So Xiaoxing and his mother offer him a trip to Perito Moreno, the world's biggest glacier.

Playboy: America's Sexiest Bartenders

2004 • 52 min

Playboy magazine sent out the call for America’s sexiest bartender and hundreds of mesmerizing mixologists from around the country submitted their hottest photos, posing on bar tops, coolers and pool tables‚ wearing nothing but a smile. We poured over their pictures until we found the top 9 finalists and now we bring them to you as only Playboy can! From New York to California, Ohio to Florida and points in between, these bar babes give it to you straight up, or with a twist. To that we say, "Cheers!"

A Tonkatsu Diner

2004 • 60 min

A small diner in Tokyo's downtown area. The owner, Katsunori, scolds his wife, Shino, and leaves the restaurant. The next day, Shino receives a call from her old lover, Otomo. Shino's heart flutters. Later, Katsunori shows up at the restaurant with a man from a real estate agency, but Shino yells at him, causing the man to leave. That night, Otomo visits the restaurant. The two go straight to a hotel. Shino is embraced by Otomo and gives herself over to pleasure.

Ryan

2004 • 13 min • Canada

Centres on Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

Forced to Kill

2004 • 44 min • Brazil

João Amorim is a quiet country man, he lives with his wife and daughter in their country house. He could barely imagine what was about to happen.

Clive Barker: Raising Hell

2004 • 11 min • United States of America

Career profile of horror auteur Clive Barker.

Remote Paradise

2004 • 6 min • Canada

What do two kids do after their TV explodes? On this quite extraordinary day, they turn into kids again. They burst into laughter for no reason and become so light they float off to a wonderful desert island. But you can't channel-surf on an island, and once the wonder wears off...

The China Syndrome: A Fusion of Talent

2004 • 28 min • United States of America

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of "The China Syndrome."

Suffer or Sacrifice

2004 • 4 min

Double-locked in a storage room with his infected brother, an individual and his brother try to avoid detection by a militia intent on eliminating all infected beings.

The Little Reindeer

2004 • 29 min • France, United Kingdom

Children's seasonal animated feature. When one of Santa (voice of Tom Baker)'s little reindeer is accidentally wrapped up as a Christmas present and delivered to a little boy, he sees him as a very special but unexpected gift. The boy builds the reindeer a home on his rooftop and throughout the year they become very close friends. But as Christmas approaches once again, the little boy realises that he may have to give his new friend back to his rightful carer...

Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

2004 • 53 min • Italy, Uzbekistan

A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.

The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife

2004 • 13 min

A carpenter repairs what he believes to be his wife's inadequacies.