2008
A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.
2025
When hyper-assertive Jess trespasses into a vampire’s lair to thrill and satiate her loyal social media followers, the lifeblood of her being, she encounters the 2000-year-old vampire, Count Vicardi, whose millennial-spanning appetite for human blood and savagery knows no bounds.
2024
A man tries to resist the seduction of Kuntilswara.
1963
A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest.
1994
A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen Ferrier sings “The Farewell” from Gustav Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”, (which the composer wrote in 1909 after the death of his daughter) and Heinrich Schütz’s Lament on the Death of His Wife. The landscape also provides solace: the mountain grove where Endymion pines for his beloved Artemis, “a wild thing, untouchable, mortal,” appears to embody the Japanese concept of ‘mono no aware’ — a wistful acceptance of the fleeting beauty of things.
1935
During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William Jenkins, does something different, so he allows his 12-year-old son to put on a kiddie show that packs the house.
2007
For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.
