A peaceful vagrant finds his quiet life upended by dreadful news and sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of revenge. (imdb)

Six animated shorts eschew traditional animation by featuring supernatural elements and darker themes, such as alien snatchings, life among mannequins and a spiritual rebirth. Among the films are "Ape," which features a couple fighting over a cooked monkey every night; "The Story of the Cat and the Moon," which is a tale of unrequited love; and "Gentle Spirit," which is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story. (Netflix)

Young woman needs money to pay her mother's medical treatment. She gets a work in a bar that is, in fact, a cover for a prostitution net. She is drugged and raped while some photographs are taken, to be presently used as blackmail, to force her to work as a hooker. She accepts her fate but starts a serious relationship with a reporter, to whom she doesn't dare tell the truth. She wants to leave that life behind and get married, but the gangsters won't allow it... (imdb)

'Grand Champion' weaves the tale of a spunky young boy named Buddy and his prize-winning calf, Hokey, as they climb from the underdog position and up through the ranks of several Texas stock shows to ultimately win the coveted title of Grand Champion. People from all walks of life help Buddy and Hokey make their way across Texas by cheering them on to a toe-tapping surprise ending. (imdb)

A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him. (imdb)

Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery. (imdb)

Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness. (imdb)

When the divorced parents of 8-year-old Jacob insist on dressing him in ridiculous clothes to spite each other, he resorts to desperate fashion measures to assert his identity. (imdb)

In Their Room (2009-present) is an on-going multi-city documentary series about gay men, bedrooms and intimacy. The series veers into the bedrooms of men where you see them doing everything from the most banal to the sometimes more erotic. (imdb)

Where would you be if your mother was not allowed to be born? (imdb)

Jimmy Carr's 2011 stand up special.

Courge lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father, a tyrannical giant who reigns triumphant and prevents his son from exploring beyond limited boundaries. Ignorant about the ways of men, the boy grows up wild, with the placid ghosts who haunt the forest his only company. That is until the day that he is forced to go to the nearest village, where he mets young Manon... (imdb)

A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man called Bee Master and his protégé, Little Scout, who try to convince him that he has more to live for than he thinks he does. (imdb)

A soldier recounts his experiences with women from around the world.

A dying night club run by a drunk and his ex-stripper wife comes to life again when a drifter arrives and becomes a singer in the club. An affair begins between the wife and the drifter, and she persuades the drifter to kill her husband. The murder, however, does not go as planned. (imdb)

When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence. (imdb)

A sailor finds an ancient vase on an uncharted island. He is later hired by archaeologists to lead them back to the island. They discover the temples of a lost civilization. (imdb)

Jack rides into trouble when he meets up with Bill Meeker and his outlaw gang. Rescued from the gang's clutches by Don carlos, he joins forces with Carlos and with the help of Lolita who learns of the gang's next raid, they go after the culprits. (imdb)

A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of money. Soon a local banker and others who scoffed at his ideas see the amount of money he's making and try to cheat him out of his system. (imdb)

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. (imdb)

Sam, Mara, Sterre and Ortwin help bungling detective father Max crack his cases. (imdb)

Molly anxiously awaits her first sign of menstruation, which means that she'll be able to date and go dancing. The school nurses explains exactly what menstruation is to her, by using diagrams and drawings. (imdb)

A comic book artist, a life insurance salesman and a coroner meet in a morgue under a very unusual circumstance. (imdb)

On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the murders. As they get caught in a web of machination of corrupt government officials, their jobs lead them on a head-on collision against each other with their loved ones as collateral damage. (imdb)

A gang of robbers steals the deed to the Pecos Ranch and kill the family. The young son escapes, and years later he returns to the ranch to find the killers and reclaim his property. (imdb)

Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own. (imdb)

Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath (imdb)

Story about a sentinel in war between Iran and Iraq.

A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of the father's crooked partner. (imdb)

A dying Marshal gives his identification papers to Tom. After Tom arrives in town, the papers drop and are found during a fight so Tom decides to assume the Marshal's identity. Mason, the chief, now sends Rattler, the killer of the Marshal, to also kill Tom. But when he overhears Tom is a fake, they change their plans and now go to arrest Tom for the murder of the Marshal. (imdb)

Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart. (imdb)

A suspicious housewife stakes out the buxom beauty she thinks is having an affair with her husband. (videodetective.com)

A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load" (imdb)

Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice. (imdb)

Struggling stand-up comic (Alan O'Black) moonlights as a limousine driver and gets mixed up in a client's (Bradley Coleman) shady business deal.

Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars. (imdb)

A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back. (imdb)

In a small Anatolian town, Cemal -who can see through the walls- has no expectation out of life and looks for a way out with Yasemin -who can move objects with her fingers- as he is trying to deal with the distress that fell on his. However, Defne, who can freeze time will muddle things up; Yasemin’s immortal boss’ actions will contradict the invisible elementary school teacher’s advices who is trying to eliminate the worries of Cemal. (IKSV)

When his family is killed by Indians, a bitter cowboy turns into a ruthless hired gunman. Unbeknownst to him, his son had survived the attack, and is now a lawman. The son, not knowing that the killer is his father, is assigned to bring him to justice. (imdb)

A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy. (imdb)

Tom Hilton and Stub Macey are heading to the Jergenson ranch to buy his cattle. But Jeckyl and Sheriff Slater control the cattle market forcing the ranchers to buy at their price and they intend to keep the newcomers out. (imdb)

Sheriff Bill Jones, in the line of duty, kills outlaw Joe Land and adopts his young son, Tim. They come upon a former silver boomtown, reputed to be haunted, whose only inhabitant is Hiram McDuff, a friend of Bill's. Ranch owner Joan Stanley hires Bill and Tim. Her father has been killed by the gang of Wolf Larson. By mistake, McDuff hires the Larson gang on as ranch hands for Joan. They plan to steal the stock while Bill is away. (imdb)

The director of The Sorrow and the Pity shares with us stories of his exceptionally rich life in this light-hearted yet bitter escapade though the century and the movies. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)

The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head. Sheriff Hartley suspects him, but has been unable to gather the needed evidence. Collins instructs his gang, including young Hartley, to hold up the stagecoach on its return trip from Missionary Flats and take the cargo of gold dust it is carrying. (imdb)

Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love. (imdb)

migration for education of Iranians talent students.

about brain drain in Iran.

Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's quite comically cowardly when the real big game shows up. Mabel is so calm and natural with the bear that she appears like a goddess or other worldly creature. She acts as if she's doing the scene with a cat or dog. (imdb)

Experimental short film by Jeff Keen.

This one is another warning to the French public about the dangers of alcohol. Everything seems rosy at first, but that doesn't last long. After illustrating the 'metamorphosis of money' into alcohol, the film describes the inevitable consequence - which isn't just drunkenness and unconsciousness, but insanity and death apparently. (imdb)

Based on cutting-edge palaeontology and the latest fossil records, DINOTASIA presents a series of vignettes about dinosaurs - both familiar faces and some we have only found out about in the past ten years. Werner Herzog narrates, reuniting with the team behind GRIZZLY MAN and CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS. (imdb)

A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady, and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. Complications ensue. (imdb)

An experimental film by Jeff Keen.

Shuichi Shindo is the famous lead vocalist of the rock band Bad Luck. Shuichi usually writes the lyrics for their songs, but now he's depressed because his lover Eiri Yuki (a writer/novelist) keeps ignoring him. Yuki has been known to be cold to Shuichi before, but he's blantantly ignoring Shuichi this time. It may be that Yuki's latest writing job is the reason for his recent attitude. (animenewsnetwork.com)

Two youths fight for survival in this futuristic environment after alien objects have transformed Earth into a desert. The Rodoist cult controls the meager water supply, and their opposing group is the Hazzard. A boy named Ran searches for the man who killed is mother, but his quest shifts when he tries to save the kidnapped silver-haired Aira (animenewsnetwork.com)

Unlike the usual GTO storylines, the film takes place as far away from the big city as possible. The setting is the rural town of Horobonai, which is located on Japan's northern-most island of Hokkaido. The local high school has a trouble class, which is mostly due to the presence of Ayano Katsuragi (Rena Tanaka), the local ice princess, whose dad ran a theme park called "Canada Land." (asianwiki.com)

Two gun store owners/bounty hunters are forced to get involved in a gun running case that gets them targeted by a ruthless assassin. (imdb)

A simple salvage operation turn into a nightmare journey to the Prison Planet Geo; where evil warden Helga has built an illegal empire based on slavery and exploitation. Dr. Vail, also a resident of Planet Geo, has discovered a new process to turn the inmates in vicious monsters. The appetites of the monsters and Helga's own insanity transform Geo in a literal hell but Guy and Reina know just how to handle it... (animenewsnetwork.com)

Rapid advancement in film technique is seen in His Great Uncle’s Spirit. Especially in the opening theater sequence, and in the climactic “transformation” sequence, several different shots are edited together to create a fluid, dynamic scene. Cinematography shows the first spark of flexibility with a couple of tilting movements. There is a new energy in direction with strong fore-to-back staging. There are also some insert close-ups and some relatively unusual medium close-ups of action. (imdb)

An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America. (imdb)

Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town. (imdb)

An experimental film collage by Jeff Keen.

This magical masterpiece was released in 1912 by Segundo de Chomón. (youtube.com)

When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds. (imdb)

Max officiates between two brawny boxers, then steps in against the cocky larger man, the acclaimed French stage director Maurice Tourneur. To gain an advantage, the tiny Max summons in the gorgeous young model, Hope Hampton, as a more suitable referee, hoping she will overlook Max's big bag of tricks. (imdb)

McBride is asked to defend the suspect accused of killing a good friend of his. (Channel 5)

An experimental short by Jeff Keen.

Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the place her father works want to marry her...both send her letters asking for such. She accepts both! Her father finds out and decides to play a trick on her. (imdb)

French animation from O'Galop is a pretty interesting little film. The movie shows a father going into the bar for a drink and then we see what this can do to his children. We see his children before he starts drinking and then we see the monsters they will grow up to be due to alcohol. (imdb)

Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work. (imdb)

An experimental film by Jeff Keen. Split onto two screens, the creation of a home-made film is detailed.

The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her. (imdb)

Once again, the Rifftrax guys ( formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) have taken apart another terribly done movie and make it watchable with their commentary on the nuances of what they're watching. (imdb)

New hire Ben Madigan comes under the tutelage of jaded John Kreisky, who uses Ben's innocence to his advantage, enlisting the young man in an "experiment." What seems like a plan to save the company money turns into an elaborate scam to defraud it.

A Italian comedy short with Marcel Perez as Robinet.

12 years ago during a scientific expedition 3 animal biologists stumbled upon a great discovery that ended in tragedy. Whatever killed them has awoken and now the legend of the Ancient Snow Beast could prove to be more than just a legend.

A biografy about the earlier years of the career of Renato Russo, the lead singer of brazilian rock band Legião Urbana, died in 1996.

Fred Ward and Mack Sennett are two Spanish brothers seeking the hand of a lovely senorita played by Mabel Normand. They provide some simple amusement in this pleasant little ditty. They cut cards, do shooting tricks with a gun and duel with swords to determine who will be the one to get Mable. (imdb)

Biblical tale about the birth of Christ told with a cast of 100's. (imdb)

Widowed, successful Californian sports journalist King is a great catch. His pride and joy, son David, suddenly says he gave up baseball, and hence his scholarship. Actually he's leaving college, aspiring arts school. King finds out trough his lover, hearts columnist Peyton McGruder. She refuses to marriage, rather concentrating on trying to catch up with the daughter she gave up as fickle young mother. A reader's letter inviting her to exchange stories sets Peyton thinking. (imdb)

A Italian comedy short from Giuseppe Gray.

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand. (imdb)

Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital. One of the girls poisons the other. The story swings into a very pleasant finish. (thanhouser.org)

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand. (imdb)

Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore. (imdb)

Made in 1912, this film has become known as one of the greatest pieces of pre-Soviet cinema. The silent film tells the story of the Patriotic war of 1812 when Napoleon attempted to invade Russia. This joint French and Russian film sparked major excitement in Moscow at its premier screening and continues to entertain audiences throughout the world today. The 32-minute silent film was the point of origin for some of the more advanced camera techniques used today. (imdb)

An advertising CEO wakes up in the hospital speaking only in ad slogans. (imdb)

Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life taken from him. (imdb)

Educational short about grass.

What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents, family, and activists in this conservative, homophobic, and trans-phobic society.

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ulimately disastrous for both of them. (imdb)

Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first reel, with its intimate cinematography and acting and special lighting effect, and the battle scene of the second reel, considered very effective in its day. (thanhouser.org)

When talk with friends, Dr. Hallers, a well-known lawyer in Berlin, said he was skeptical about fantasies on the split personality: he could never believe something like that. During a ride however, he has an accident, after which he often falls into a deep sleep from which he awakens with the feeling of having a dual personality. Later his double starts to rob his apartment iwith a thief. During the robbery the police arrived, arrests the thief.

From Rotterdam, Gerhard Bern has received the terrible news that, for no ostensible reason, his brother has committed suicide. The only clue seems to be his membership of a secret club. To find an explanation, Gerhard, accompanied by a detective, hurries to Rotterdam, where he is given accommodation by Consul Verstraaten, a friend of his father. There he meets and falls in love with the Consul’s daughter Ilse and shortly thereafter they become engaged. (imdb)

AM, closing time: A cocky bar manager with a shady past and a young handsome bartender discover a beautiful woman bloodied and unconscious in the bathroom of a late night lounge. When she awakens, Tony, Matt and the mysterious Rose are plunged into a stirring evening of dangerous role playing in an ever-escalating game of cat and mouse that forces them to face the dark shadows of themselves. As we begin to piece together the elaborate puzzle, nothing is what it seems (imdb)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. (imdb)

A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people. (imdb)

Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on installments. He has trouble making the payments, but then he's injured in an auto accident and the settlement allows him to pay off the ring and propose to Alice. (imdb)

A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Mabel Normand & Fred Mace. (imdb)

Kiki (Kasumi Nakane) was the best performer in the police school. She becomes an attractive police after graduation. although she is a new comer, she has to deal with a bomb attack of the terrorists. Fortunately, Kiki runs away from the explosion at last. However, the hostage and her colleague died in the explosion. (dramadownload.net)

When a group of armed guerillas kidnap Eri Enomoto, daughter of an important Japanese trading company director, the company is slow to comply to their demands. Eri’s father collapses from the stress of the situation and it’s up to Eri’s childhood friend Miki to mount a one-woman rescue mission. (dramadownload.net)

After deciding that violence against women in New York City has gone too far, a group of Manhattan strippers form a vigilante society to fight back as ruthlessly as possible. As the media hones in on the string of murders and castrations that the posse leaves in its wake, two women become drawn to the renegade group in very different ways.

Two boys from Labrador, Canada, visit their aunt in Westcheser, New York. Although it's in the middle of a cold winter in New York, the nephews from Labrador are used to much colder weather and think the New York winter is too warm for them, and act accordingly. (imdb)

A company of soldiers is visiting a small village. The mayor (?) locks away his daughter because she is very adventurous... (imdb)

First Titanic Movie ever. Released only a few Days after the sinking of the Original Ship. (imdb)

"L'Agonie De Byzance" (1913) is a historical film that depicts the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. (imdb)

Colin, a wealthy young man and inventor of the cocktail-mixing piano, wants to fall in love. With the help of his cook Nicolas and best friend Chick, he meets Chloe, the incarnation of a Duke Ellington tune. But soon after their wedding, Chloe falls ill. She has a water lily growing in her chest. Ruined by medical expenses, Colin resorts to increasingly desperate methods to save his beloved's life. (collider.com)

A disapproving magical woman tells people how they should be grocery shopping.

A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave. (imdb)

Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl. They took the girl in and cared for her, and as time went on the mother began to regard her as her daughter. The son regarded the affectionate advances of the girl with only brotherly love. But there came a time when the misgivings of the son changed, for he began to pay scant attentions to a young beauty he met at a reception and who was characterized as a woman with a heart "cold as marble." (imdb)

A boy and a girl The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are...they are brother and sister, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him. (letterboxd)

This short feature -- about three reels, which was a major production in 1913 -- of Beaumarchais' ribald work, shows most of the strengths and weaknesses of Italian film making in 1913. The technical values are exemplary. The backgrounds are fine, making use of the natural world and excellent sets. The costuming is on a par with that, and the camera-work, although stodgy to the modern eye -- it never moves and the cuts are all leisurely -- are handsomely chosen and get the job done. (imdb)

Max looks like a human being and acts like a human being and lives in an ordinary looking home and world surrounded by other ordinary human beings -- but, oh, does he gets into amusing messes! In this one, he gets attached to some flypaper in a middle-class home. His mortification is real and so is his comedy. (imdb)

Many accidental deaths each year are caused by carelessness in the home leading to fires. Such causes are leaving plugged in irons unattended, standing next to gas heaters wearing combustible clothing, hiding frayed electrical cords underneath rugs, placing pennies behind fuse plugs, smoking in bed, dealing with electrical equipment while bathing, burning rubbish in unventilated areas, leaving open paint buckets and oil soaked rags lying around, and using gasoline as a home dry cleaning fluid. (imdb)

A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Fred Mace & Fred Mace. (imdb)

Kim's One Perfect Day was recently released on YouTube and is now available to watch for free with English subtitles in the embed below. The film follows a hapless young man who stumbles through a number of terrible blind dates before finding someone who might be his Mrs. Right. Unsurprisingly, the film looks fantastic and further proves Kim's skills as an effortless genre-hoping filmmaker. He acquits himself very well with this effective and pleasant 35 minute short. (twitchfilm.com)

A talking paper bag shows a young boy where paper comes from

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce. (imdb)

The Pickwick Papers, directed by Laurence Trimble, appeared in 1913. This silent three-reel adaptation of Charles Dickens's first novel starred the American comedian John Bunny, who was very popular in his day but is now almost completely forgotten, and was filmed mainly on location in England. (imdb)

In RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness, Mike, Kevin and Bill deliver their trademark form of rapid fire comedy in front of a live audience! The performance not only includes the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness, but also three shorts... (bingvideo)

Italian slaptsick comedy short with Robinet trying his luck at boxing. (imdb)

Separation follows the story of Liz (Sarah Mannien) and Jack (Peter Stebbings) who are a married couple seemingly on the razor's edge of keeping things together. The couple seem perched on the edge of falling apart in their marriage for what seems like a complicated web of reasons. Obviously things aren't quite as they seem however, as that would make for a dull movie (horror-movies.ca)

Southern California alligator farm shows alligators in various stages of their growth. (imdb)

Walter Miller loves Mary Pickford, but he is very shy and doesn't dare to speak up, so she prefers Bobby Harron. All perfectly natural. But one morning when he is nursing a hangover, Elmer Booth and Harry Carey break into her apartment and threaten her, until Walter rushes in to her rescue. (imdb)

In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger. His shifting eyes reveal his nature; he assaults her, and although her husband and son return in time to save her, the father is killed in the ensuing fight. The stranger gets away, but five years later Bob, now a government scout, recognizes the stranger just as he is accused of cheating at cards. (imdb)

There is this old concertmaster of the Cosmopolitian Orchestra and he is about to realize his life-long ambition of appearing as a soloist with the orchestra, when an accident robs him of use of his right hand. His children, upon learning of his misfortune, immediately desert him knowing he will no longer provide them with money. So Adolph Greig sinks lower and lower and becomes a street beggar, too proud to ask for help from his friends and unable to find his son or daughter. (imdb)

The story, set in medieval Germany, tells of chivalry, mythology and magic (with skillful in-camera tricks), love’s redemption, and tragedy. (thanhouser.org)

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl (Mae Marsh) who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" (Claire McDowell) goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robbery (Harry Carey) has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels. (imdb)

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl. (imdb)

In this one, Mabel Normand plays the title role, a wild child who keeps tormenting people and getting into scrapes. Mack is courting Kate Toncray, who plays Mabel's aunt and William Butler plays Mabel's father and Kate's brother, who tells Mack he may marry his sister if he amuses his daughter. This consists of letting her torment him and of setting a local chicken farmer on them all. (imdb)

An "educational" film describing how awesome it must have been to be white and middle-class in the 1950s

A recreation of the Thanhouser Studio fire of 13 January 1913, it includes the rescue of a small child from the flaming building. (imdb)

Mike Jacobs thinks he's safe in Witness Protection in Spain. However, when he's spotted at an England game, a deadly game of cat and mouse between London, Marbella and New York ensues.

Nam is not your typical teenager. Sure, he spends a little too much time on his computer, and tries a little too hard to meet the gorgeous stewardess who lives in his building. But recently... (imdb)

During an outing Dr. Suraj Rihan, who is married to Shivani, is summoned by DCP Gazala Qadri who wants to question him about the sudden death of his girlfriend/singing diva, Kriya Sengupta.... (imdb)

It tells the story of the poor man Pieter Boes and Sutje Boes, the daughter of a wealthy fisherman. They love each other, but the father supports the intention to marry the rich Dirk de Vaat. (imdb)

The life story of Juan Bautista Bairoletto, the "Robin Hood of La Pampa", who becomes an outlaw after shooting a police officer over a local woman.

A Bandit is a 1913 short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. (en.wikipedia.org)

Bout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with the elephant and begs coins off people--with a sign saying 'blind since birth'. I am not sure if this is supposed to mean the kid or the animal! (imdb)

The film carries the slogan: ‘He Stole From the Rich to Give to the Poor’. It is a story of the ‘nobleman-bandit’, Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails. Recaptured after his escape from prison, he overwhelms a soldier and escapes again. He then holds up Lord Hastings and changes into his clothes. He escapes through a secret passage with Betty, Lady Lorrequer whom he had earlier rescued and with whom he had fallen in love. (imdb)

A Italian variation of the Cinderella story. (imdb)

Mysterious giant beings called "Ryū no Shippo" (Dragon Tails) appeared across the world. Due to the danger it could bring, the Keroro Platoon did a worldwide research on the Dragon Tails, but Tamama suddenly disappeared during the research. Because of this, the whole platoon started their search for Tamama and ended up in Mont-Saint-Michel, France where they met mysterious girl named Sion, who holds the mysterious Ryū no Hon (Dragon Book). (Anime News Network)

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA. The film was produced by Peugeot and directed by Jean Louis Mourey. The record time set was 10:47.77 (youtube)

Karl Valentin gets a new desk one of which absolutely does not fit his needs. He tries to solve the problem in some really strange ways. (imdb)

The premise is something along these lines. Through one of those quirks of law that I hope only occur in fiction, Alice Kensington, an heiress, is obliged to marry before she can claim her inheritance, which is to be substantial. She's an intelligent and independent sort, and decides to enter into a mock marriage for one month, so as to gain her inheritance without being lumbered with a husband she doesn't want or love. She places an advert in the paper requesting a temporary husband. (imdb)

Based on the verse story by Pushkin: Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards officers who pass by her window, and she has one particular favorite. One day, Parasha's mother asks her to hire a cook, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Parasha and her beau soon see a way to use this situation to their own advantage. (imdb)

A group of 20-somethings in Berlin tries to find love, a job and a good working flat share.

Counterfeiters' dollar plates are smuggled in the luggage of two adventurers not too keen on giving them back.

Unable to find help to work his farm, a farmer gets a bright idea--he advertises that any man willing to work on his farm will be permitted to court his two daughters. The girls and their mother don't take kindly to being offered as an "incentive", so when some college boys show up looking to take advantage of both offers, the girls come up with a plan of their own. (imdb)

Film star Ruth Breton has a habit of falling in love. When dating Walter she meets Von Zornhorst. When Zornhorst discards her, she pines away. As a last token of his love for Ruth, Walter writes a play for her, but during the final act of "Pierrot's Death", Ruth expires. (imdb)

“You’ll see, this fire extinguisher is efficient and simple to use” the seller seems to boast to his customer. From behind his desk Fricot doesn’t miss a word of this conversation and once alone, steals the intriguing object. The rascal then goes on the hunt for the slightest bit of smoke to test the appliance in his own way. On his comical journey, Fricot ends up with a lot of casualties.... (imdb)

This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. Sarra could not conceive for ten years, and their Rabbi tells them that according to Jewish law, they must divorce. Isaak's parents push him to sign the divorce paper, then their Rabbi drops the divorce paper to Sarra's feet. She tells Isaac about her grief, and Isaak commits suicide. (imdb)

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings very clearly felt. Even in this early comedy her natural fun comes through. The one she really loves is clumsy yokel Ford Sterling, who is determined to buy an oil well that the con man has for sale. The conman gets a local fellow to pour oil over the property. Ford falls for it and buys it - Mabel and he are to be married. (imdb)

A banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the vault resulting in comedic rescue. (imdb)

A painter in New York City discovers that he has inherited a harem. Since he's already married and his wife would definitely not approve, he must find a way to rid himself of his inheritance. (imdb)

A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley. (thanhouser.org)

This elaborate and well-staged silent version of Hertz' play is exceedingly well produced for 1913: it starts off by introducing the actors by name and role, then showing them in double exposure in street clothes and in costumes. The production values are also elaborate and the look of the set designs reminds one of the elaborate backdrops that Melies used in his shots. (imdb)

"The Amblystoma: Curious Salamander From Mexico". Vintage French educational film from 1913 describing the Axolotl. Very impressive footage for the time. (imdb)

During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.

Experimental film by Jeff Keen.

Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon. (imdb)

Soviet Union want more influence in Europe and decides to get more power by giving the nation of Boufferia a new king. A easy to handle drunkard, because they don't have enough power over the current 7 year old king.

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his rival comes up with a strange scheme to stop them. Soon the Keystone Kops arrive on the scene, and chaos quickly ensues. (imdb)

Nursery Favourites is a marvel. Presented as a pre-recorded number (singers miming to a commercial record). One of the most fascinating film-sound documents of all times. (imdb)

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!). (imdb)

One of the earliest surviving films of Italian director Umberto Paradisi. (imdb)

Polidor goes looking for lost kittens and brings home some lion cubs. He doesn't notice the difference until his employer points it out three months later, after they have eaten all the parlor furniture. (imdb)

Dance of Dust, tells the story of Ilia, a young boy who works in a brick kiln to be able to help his poor family. His days are filled with hard, backbreaking working hours. He is attracted to a young girl, Limua, who has come with her mother as a seasonal worker and they fell in love.

The story, which only runs about 45 minutes, involves a man recently released from prison whose fingerprints from the police records turn up in a house where an unconscious woman has been found at the foot of the stairs- an attempted murder. (imdb)

Live Rifftrax performance piece, featuring the Vincent Price classic "House on Haunted Hill"

Two sisters get a letter from their third sister just after coming from the third sister's funeral. It informs them that a nobleman has ruined her life and is responsible for her death... (imdb)

A religious tale of Judith and Barabbas with Constance Crawley & Arthur Maude. (imdb)

Tom Chatterton is called a coward because he will not enlist in the Home Guard during the Civil War -- his mother is dying and he does not wish to leave while she is still alive. When she dies and the Yankees attack, he seizes command of the Home Guard and leads them to victory, proving himself a hero and dying in the process. (imdb)

The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. This film really doesn't stray too far from the source as we have our hero Spartacus being sold as a slave only to rise up and battle the evil Crassus. (imdb)

early Keystone as Ford Sterling and Nick Coghley fight over Mabel Normand, their weapon of choice being - cheese! Sterling's usual over-the-top mugging works hilariously to express the vileness of the cheese. (imdb)

Die Sumpfblume is a movie that was filmed in 1913 and directed by Viggo Larsen. A large acting role of Die Sumpfblume is portrayed by Wanda Treumann. (imdb)

Family drama of a a brother ("The Kid" Marie Eline) and sister ("The Kidlet" Helen Badgley) who take to the stage. (thanhouser.org)

Toplitsky runs a second-hand clothing shop, but his partner "admires" his wife. Two conniving businessmen, intent on gaining a place in the store, inform Toplitsky of an upcoming tryst. A runaway bear adds to the complications. (imdb)

The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort. (imdb)

An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative. (imdb)

A black teen from a Chicago housing project struggles to find acceptance after he transfers into a suburban high school.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films. (imdb)

Experimental film by Jeff Keen.

This story is somewhat in the nature of a poetical fantasy, and may be construed as the spectator pleases. It is the story of a wanderer who prefers to seek, through his flute, the spirit of truth, that he may give it out into the world as he passes through his various journeys and experiences in life and thus make earth a better and fairer place. He prefers this to the perpetual strife for gain. (imdb)

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend," (imdb)

Becca had it all: beauty, a successful fiance, and the job of her dreams. Everything was going according to her plan until the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the blink of an eye, her entire life came crashing down around her. The fiance ran off with some new fling. The toll cancer took on her body made her feel like less than a woman. She wanted cancer to finish what it started. But in her darkest hour, she found a mysterious ray of hope in the most unlikely of places. (cbd.com)

A hodgepodge of characters descend at a communal wedding, each with a selfish motive - Krish (Kunchacko Boban), the dishonest son of an honest father, out to spoil his proposed wedding to an upright girl, Antappan (Biju Menon), the criminal, looking to loot the gold set aside for the couples, Jyothish Kumar (Jayasurya), the effeminate classical dancer, looking to marry a girl after repeated snubs by girls - and chaos ensue.

Two kids look to throw an ambitious dance show in order to save their struggling youth center. (imdb)

How would you react if your mom told you she had dined with the Almighty? Probably with disbelief---just like Sarah Cominsky after her mother, Nikki, reveals she spent an evening with Jesus. Traveling to college, Sarah strikes up a friendship with someone who shares her disdain for religion. (cbd.com)

A modern ghost story which turns a love/hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror. Some rentals are too good to be true. (imdb)

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan. (imdb)

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film (1929) by master director Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. Sadly, only 25 minutes of it survived.

Container ship captain Marco Silvestri is called urgently back to Paris. His sister, Sandra, is desperate… her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter has been admitted into psychiatric care. Sandra accuses the powerful businessman, Edouard Laporte of being responsible. Determined to find the businessman’s weak spot and exact a terrible revenge for the violence done to his family, (mubi.com)

When a werewolf virus threatens to decimate New York City -- and the world -- a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of super soldiers. (imdb)

A young director's assistant tries to make his no-budget feature debut in a small town but everything turns into a mess

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society. (imdb)

A small boy befriends an atom. Together, they dance, play catch, and bounce on a trampoline. (imdb)

The incredible rise of 62-year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album rocketed him from a hard life in the Brooklyn Housing Projects to Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 albums of 2011. (imdb)

Abused 12-year-old Clancy Miller lives her life with an inspiring faith. But to avoid social workers, she runs away and befriends an ill-tempered homeless veteran called Nick . When the town's corrupt mayor plans to capitalize on Clancy's disappearance to ensure his re-election, his scheme takes an unexpected turn. (cbd.com)

Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires. (imdb)

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey. (imdb)

A group of businessmen and businesswomen find themselves trapped in an sort of office as part of an interesting investigation for their boss' suicide

A sequel in name and stars only, Feel 100%...Once More succeeds at being less silly and frivilous than its wacky predecessor, but a whole lot less fun, too. Marco, a childish fellow who takes a trip to Japan with his high-maintenance girlfriend Yen. (lovehkfilm.com)

A teenage girl thinks that the monkey she owns is her innocent pet, but it turns out to be something much more dangerous: an evil shapeshifter capable of unthinkable acts no loyal pet would ever be able to perform. (ganool.com)

Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany; a series of bizarre flashbacks reveals us that the young man has been bitten by a rabid dog. He remembers things of his past, his fiancée, the attack of the dog and he's seeing things too, sometimes his visions become mad. As his condition gets worse, he and his father, prisoners of their islet, inaccessible because of the raging sea, begin to panic. (imdb)

The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to the North Pole.

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose. (imdb)

A powerful crime lord named Tojo has the town of Tsuson completely under his control with no police intervention standing in his way. Because of his crimes there is an incredibly big reward for his death or capture, but thus far no bounty hunter has been able to break through his defenses to take a shot at him. Gunslinger Saki decides she can be the first. With the help of a mechanic named Akira, she uses a planned theft of 2 million US dollars as her opportunity to take a shot at him. (eiga.wikia.com)

Yuki is a once-idealistic lawyer who discovers her firm has been aiding a particular client in their criminal activities. With her faith shattered she meets a hitman named Takita who trains her in the art of doling out a more direct brand of justice. (eiga.wikia.com)

The Norman Thomas Quintet performs "Sleep Baby Sleep," "Listen to the Mockingbird," and "Melody in F," with quite a flair for comedy mixed in. (imdb)

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance. (imdb)

Working class Irishmen Lars Hanson and Carl Harbord are members of an anti-establishment "Party", where politics is punctuated with gunfire. While maintaining a friendship with his comrade, Mr. Hanson is obviously interested in Mr. Harbord's fickle moll, the lovely Lya de Putti. After Harbord kills the local police chief he is driven underground; leaving Ms. de Putti free to hook up with Hanson. Then, when Harbord surfaces to visit his mother, Hanson suspects he is seeing de Putti. (imdb)

Brothers & entrepreneurs Raja Raja Kammath (Mammootty) & Deva Raja Kammath (Dileep) attempt to open a new branch of their restaurant chain in town. After some initial spats with the Municipal Secretary Mahalakshmi (Rima Kallingal), they are asked to help with her sister-in-law & widow Rekha (Karthika Nair), who was being stalked by her relatives. The younger Deva Raja Kammath falls in love with Rekha & the elder brother tries to unite them against Mahalakshmi's protests.

Ram Mohan (Anoop Menon), a high profile businessman based in Bangkok, brings two criminals - Xavi (Unni Mukundan) & Prem (Asif Ali) - from Kochi to Bangkok to kill a person, so that he can save his sinking business empire. The situation gets complicated when Samantha (Isha Talwar), Ram's assistant & with whom Xavi & Prem bonded, reveals that she too has been forced by Ram into an agreement to kill someone.

Luke Rogers started out on the right path, but when his dad walked out when Luke was just a boy, his world came crashing down. Now working as a bartender to make ends meet, Luke is slowly losing his way. Between the enticements of the nightclub scene and a reluctance to fully commit to his devoted girlfriend , Luke's crisis of faith is coming to a head. (cbd.com)

Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but instead agrees to be stationed in a small valley, at the very borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq. It is a lawless territory, right at the heart of illegal drug, medication and alcohol trafficking. (mubi.com)

This story was, in fact, the story of a serial murderer who played cat and mouse with the police as he tried to escape on the Illinois Turnpike. The existence of the military convoy complicated the plot, as it hampered police efforts to capture the killer, while the manhunt interfered with the convoy. (kraft1963.blogspot.com)

A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can stop the horrible "Horse Boxing Killer" except drunken fighting master Sam the Seed (Simon Yuen) and his swallow-style kung fu students. Classic action tale co-stars Lung Fei, Liu Hao Yi. AKA: "Cute Foster Sister," "Kung Fu Terminator." (amazon.com)

Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail? (imdb)

What if the world threw you a birthday party but you weren't invited? Discover how a spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister receive an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the true meaning of Christmas from a mysterious "drifter" named Jess. The third film in The Perfect Stranger series! (cbd.com)

Despite her successful career as an attorney, Nikki Cominsky's life is far from perfect. When she receives a mysterious invitation to "dinner with Jesus of Nazareth," she accepts, thinking it's an intriguing prank. What ensues is a whirlwind evening of debate and revelation---with an unforgettable man! (cbd.com)

Disenfranchised high school seniors become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona's embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program. (imdb)

An examination of D.W. Griffith's infamous "The Birth of a Nation."

The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name, The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about two teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft. (mubi.com)

A young actress is cast as the lead in a werewolf film which leads to many unexpected consequences in her life. (imdb)

A look deep inside Israel and Palestine at the men and women trying to seize a historic opportunity to end the conflict and make implementing the two-state solution a reality.

"Street of Forgotten Women" is the usual potboiler about a rich girl who is disowned by her father when she decides she wants a career in show business. After sinking her money in a stage production which immediately flops, she's forced to try and earn a living dancing in a saloon in her underwear. Even worse, she is forced into prostitution in a slum apartment that just happens to be owned by HER FATHER!!!!! (imdb)

A slacker hatches a million-dollar idea. But, in order to see it through, he has to learn to trust his attractive corporate counterpart. Based on Max Barry's nove (imdb)

Bright interior, dark outside. Two women, struggling against external hostility and internal demons. Playing with the mood of Alfred Hitchcock’s Trouble With Harry, Serge Bozon invites us in an exhilarating and recreational English crime comedy style. (mubi.com)

Tore seeks a new life in Hamburg among the religious group called The Jesus Freaks. When he by accident meets a family and helps them repair their car, he thinks that a heavenly wonder has helped him. He sparks a friendship with the father of the family, Benno and soon moves in with them at their garden plot, unaware of the cruelty that awaits him… (mubi.com)

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all the illegal shenanigans that went on in America during Prohibition just so a man could get a drink. Joe Smith is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Charlie Dale is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Dale, informing him that he's about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Smith intercepts the letter, and offers Dale a partnership in the pants factory ... (imdb)

Bearcat Turner Stacy loves Blossom Fulkerson and promise her to give up drinking.Turner s after is arrested and he find Blossom in the arms of Jerry Henderson.Kindard Powers attack Handerson thinking hes a Officer.He can rescue himself and hid in Blossoms cabin.Later he is attacked again but this time rescued by Turner.He forces him into marry Blossom from hes deathbed and when he die,Turner goes after Powrs and kill him.Blossom leaves the community,but comes back and agrees to marry Turner. (imdb)

Louis Theroux spends time with English publicist Max Clifford.

Yavuz is a music teacher at a course offered by the municipality and he sings old French chansons at shopping malls. One of his students, Neşe, demonstrates products at supermarkets. Upon receiving a job offer, Yavuz moves to Yozgat with Neşe. Even though they try hard to promote their show with the help of the barber's apprentice Sabri and his radio host friend, the music they make doesn´t attract much interest from the locals. (IKSV)