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- Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
- A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
- A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
- In the heart of Russia, in a forest larger than Germany, where winter temperatures drop to -40 degrees, 7 hours from the nearest city, lies a prison like no other. Home to 260 men, responsible for nearly 800 murders.
- Jerry, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara, a girl accused of murder, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence.
- Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
- The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is passed down to them for generations. Two of the dancers are damned souls that come to life, the third is death and the fourth a child born free, but forced into the other female roles.
- This multi-series criminal drama is a continuation of the series "Unloved" and "The strangers". It is also characterized by trendy plot twists, unplanned turns of love, a completely unexpected ending.
- Three vicious criminals rape and kill a family of farmers. Only one witness can send them to the gallows and he, or she, is one of the passengers of a stagecoach. When some bandits take them as hostages, only a former gunfighter can make justice.
- Four young men from various walks of life sign up for the Lafayette Escadrille, known as "The Legion of the Condemned"
- Aurelia is a Mancha's peasant who can barely keep up her husband's estate while he's in prison for murder. When Juan enters her service as a farmhand, the land begins to regain its former glory--and the boy feels increasingly attracted to his mistress. Although nobody in the village wants to work in the lands of "the damned"--Until one day José regains freedom and returns home, and a fierce rivalry begins between the two men as they vie for Aurelia's heart.
- Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.
- An exiled Argentinean returns home after living in Spain for more than 30 years to help find the remains of a political activist who disappeared during the Junta dictatorship.
- In 1867 Montana, a young mercenary leads a potentially innocent man into the wilderness to dig his own grave.
- A malevolent entity torments a young boy, feeding off the sins he has committed.
- It follows a daughter as she tries to contact her mom with an ouija board, but she conjures up an evil entity. A priest who is struggling with his faith is her only hope.
- Plot undisclosed.
- Marisela Escobedo struggles to put Sergio Barraza, her daughter Ruby's murderer, behind bars. Despite navigating the deficiencies of the recently established Penal Justice System, the culprit goes free due to the incompetence of the authorities, who are unable to present a case.
- A corrupt cop and a small-time criminal face the concequences of a car explosion.
- A condemned woman is to be hanged and all her enemies gather to watch her swing. But one-by-one, they all start dying.
- Those Who Do Not Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It (2020) is an experimental documentary investigating the intersection of People's Temple (Jonestown) with the first-person survival horror game Outlast 2 developed by Red Barrel. Departing as the digital study of the game, this project attempts to recontextualize the relationship between the mass suicide of People's Temple in 1978 and the game's narrative. Composed by the archival materials from FBI and machinima made with the game, this work conveys uncanny audio and visual journey in the understanding the self-destruction, the religious utopia, the binary between capitalism and socialism.
- This is a Western short film. About a man waiting to die.
- Jack Daingerfield has been going a fast pace and has lost his entire fortune. His creditors hold a meeting and after a stormy interview he agrees to give them all he has. One of the creditors offers to arrange a marriage between him and a rich girl, Mary Delmar. Jack weakly consents after he has been introduced to the young woman. Lord Lytton, a jealous rival, breaks the romance, and Daingerfield, in despair, accepts a commission from a moving picture company to make a film of lion hunting in Africa. When he reaches the lion country he manages to get several wonderful pictures of the lions, but one of his friends is attacked by a wounded lion, and before they can kill the enraged beast the man is mangled beyond recognition. Jack moves to a safer place to take another film of a lion that is breaking from cover. At this moment he is shot in the back by the two assassins, Lord Lytton and one of his (Jack's) creditors. Bill Tuttle, a bright young American who was the cameraman for the expedition, succeeds in getting the two villains on his film, and when the triumphant hunters return to England the villains are exposed in their true colors by the indisputable evidence. Daingerfield finally wins the girl.
- This is early production by South African director Jamie Uys (of The Gods Must be Crazy); a government-financed propaganda film showing the benefits of forced removals.
- The criminal who, under promise of immunity, refuses to betray his accomplices may inspire in us something akin to respect, but there is no doubt of our unbounded admiration when he takes the blame of the crime for which his mother is accused and of which both are innocent.
- Pilate is seen here, as the picture opens, seated upon his throne. Christ, still in the hands of the infuriated mob, is dragged before this hater of the Jewish leaders, who would, if possible, release Him. The action here shows that Pilate unwillingly sentences Jesus. He washes his hands saying: "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it." The populace then revile Jesus, crown Him with thorns and array Him in "gorgeous apparel." He is dragged off for the crucifixion.
- Techno music plays at the far end of the earth. Squid gyrate to a strobe light, the crab industry runs like clockwork, and real men earn their peers' respect when their fish traps are full. The sunrise is as breathtaking in Patagonia as it is in the Panoramabar in Berlin's Berghain nightclub. Using luscious colors, rousing rhythms, and meticulously paced cuts and transitions, Mario Pfeifer's "Approximation", a three-channel video installation, caters to contemporary aesthetic preferences with brilliant images shot using high-resolution 4K technology. The footage was captured at the outer margin of the inhabited earth, a place where people sometimes fall over the edge and disappear. This time it is Tierra del Fuego's natives who may or may not still exist. Pfeifer captured them on camera - or did he? What the three projections in KOW's basement gallery show is not a documentary, but a way of seeing. The exhibition presents a new perspective on one of the planet's most ancient and remote indigenous people: the Yaghan, who are in the process of dying out. Formerly aquatic nomads, the Yaghan first settled the southernmost tip of South America thousands of years ago; most of them now live in Villa Ukika, a housing project set up by the military near Puerto Williams on the island of Shunuko in 1954. Not much is left of their culture. Decades ago, the Chilean government brought them churches, schools, wage labor, and an ethnological museum to make sure they understood how they would henceforth live their lives. Scores of international teams of anthropologists have been visiting to take final photographs of the remaining Yaghan, record their voices, and take DNA samples. They trace the image of a culture that has held still for the cameras as long it has been frozen in time. And the Yaghan play along. They make a livelihood of being holdovers from the past. The present? Development? No, nothing. Defying this rearview-mirror mentality in Cape Horn's backyard, Mario Pfeifer has painted the portrait of an indigenous community in the here and now: it is disappearing not on the periphery but in the very center of the world, where global colonialism and capitalism swallow it up. Pfeifer worked on site for four months, adopting a participant observer's perspective to film the indigenous people as they live today. In stupendous and sometimes hypnotizing images, he has created an aesthetic model that runs counter to the conventional templates of anthropological and documentary representation. Pfeifer's exploration - in the language of mathematics, to "approximate" is to forego exact solutions in favor of useful results - is an anti-representational project that blows ancient dust off the Yaghan's shoulders. "Approximation" yields episodic cross-sections of their living conditions today, accompanied by a techno soundtrack that smooths their transition into audiovisual immateriality. The fish cannery and the nightclub, everyday life and nature: everything is uploaded into the global culture industry's data streams, where it must seem as strange to international audiences as to the natives themselves. Pfeifer transposes local culture into a new register, releasing it from the antiquated hardened image of a community disfigured by its submission at the hands of modern civilization, and lending it a contemporary face. Pfeifer showed the members of the world's southernmost people digital copies of photographs of their forebears taken by the German missionary and anthropologist Martin Gusinde around 1920; pictures they had never seen on an electronic device before. The video shows them swiping and zooming through the images on an iPad, identifying relatives and reconstructing lineages that dissolve in the soundtrack's rhythms. The New York-based musician Kamran Sadeghi also used the Yaghan's elegiac dirges, which Gusinde recorded in 1923 for his digital compositions. Pfeifer's "Approximation" is based on research and collaborations with various partners in Chile, Germany, and the United States. A book documenting the project will be published by Sternberg Press in 2015. An editioned album of Sadeghi's music will be released during the exhibition's opening. Approximation will be presented concurrently in the German Competition section at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Pfeifer was born in 1981 in Dresden, and lives and works in Berlin and New York. The project was commissioned by the Museo sin Muros, Museo Nacional de Belles Artes, Santiago de Chile, where a first version was exhibited in late 2014. A bilingual publication designed by Markus Weisbeck and and EP with music by Kamran Sadeghi will be available through Sternberg Press in 2015. "Approximation" is officially selected for the German Competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Apr 30-May 1, 2015
- This tale tells the story of land council president Jean Summers, who is attempting to get a house condemned for her client Aaron, who has plans of his own. Little do they know is that getting this house condemned may be a harder task then they every imagined.
- Theda Valencia, a woman who has had a love affair with Charles Hall, a prominent bachelor, reads a newspaper account of his engagement to Mae Allen. She sends him a note threatening to give Miss Allen his love letters to herself, and he comes to plead with her. "If you send those letters I will kill myself," he says, on hearing that she is determined. "You can't frighten me with that revolver," she replies scornfully. Her Japanese butler overhears these words, and later, when his mistress is found shot, with Hall bending over her dead body, he repeats them to the police. He does not know that his mistress has secretly taken the pistol from Hall's pocket and killed herself because her physician has told her that she has an incurable malady. May Allen visits her fiancé in prison, and believing him innocent, resolves to discover the truth. With a detective, she visits the dead woman's home and after a vain search for clues, is about to give up in despair when she sees the butler using a vacuum cleaner to take up some torn bits of paper. Demanding to see the rubbish which has been swept up during the past few days, she is led to the basement, where, after a search of the cleaner, the torn bits of the doctor's letter are found. On the back of the reconstructed letter is a note in Miss Valencia's hand, addressed to Hall, stating her reason for ending her life. On reconsidering, the dead woman had destroyed the note unsent, not dreaming that, by so doing, she would endanger the man she loved. But for the providential discovery of the torn letter he was doomed. Hall and his sweetheart are quietly married after his exoneration.
- John Stewart is greatly jealous of his wife. That she danced twice with Richard Noel, fiancé of a girlfriend, Guilberta Allen, while the four were together in a café, made him furious. However, next day he invites his wife to take lunch with him downtown as a peace offering. She pleasantly declines, pleading indisposition. Guilberta calls to exhibit flowers sent her by Roger and persuades her to meet him at lunch. John is absent from his office and they cannot locate him to include him in the party. He happens to drop into the same café just as Guilberta goes to telephone, leaving Mrs. Stewart and Roger seated at the table. Only the return of the girl erases his sudden fury. But the pang of jealousy has not yet been eradicated from Stewart's make-up. The day following the girl again visits Mrs. Stewart to tell of a lovers' quarrel. The latter attempts to arrange matters. She dresses the younger woman in one of her prettiest frocks and phones Roger to come to her home immediately. Crossed wires put Stewart on the line and he is vivid with rage. He rushes home and seeing Guilberta in his wife's dress clasped in the arms of Roger, in the room beyond, points a revolver at them. His wife rushes in before he shoots. The young couple are unaware of the action. John Stewart, prostrated by the narrowly averted tragedy caused by his ungovernable jealousy, has learned his lesson and his wife is content.
- A man obsessed by an uncertain future has his fears exacerbated by a fortune teller predicting a dire fate.
- Erskine and Colby pursue a pair of bank robbers from Philadelphia to Oregon. The criminals, Perry and Shep, are an odd mix of urban and rural backgrounds. Perry plans the robberies while Shep (a "redneck" as Perry calls him) specializes in gun play. Their eventual target is the payroll of a tunnel construction project in Oregon. Along the way, Shep is drawn to a woman, who tries to play the criminals off each other. Shep also is a bit of ticking bomb. The FBI agents try to catch the criminals before fatalities occur.
- By-the-book Captain Fomento is getting bored in San Tanco, a town where he says nothing exciting happens, and is thinking of resigning. He has even resorted to threatening the sisters with a ticket for their non-licensed old clothing drive, and has given citations to his own mother for jaywalking and his brother-in-law, who happens to be the police chief, for littering. To get him from not resigning, Sister Bertrille tells him that there is a crime wave at Carlos' casino: ashtrays have been stolen. Carlos actually encourages it as they have the advertising "Stolen from Casino Carlos" on them. Captain Fomento just sees Carlos as aiding and abetting thieves. Once the captain raids the casino and threatens to haul off all those with ashtrays in their possession, Carlos decides that he is going to take the Mayor of San Filipe up on his offer to move the casino there as San Filipe does not have a Captain Fomento with which to deal. Sister Bertrille, playing on Carlos' philanthropic nature toward the convent, hatches a plan to keep Carlos in San Tanco. In the captain's presence, the sisters imply that there is one building code violation after another at the convent. The captain promptly condemns the building. When Sister Bertrille tells Carlos what has happened thinking that he will stay and bail them out, Carlos seems non-plussed. In actuality, he sees through the sister's story and is touched by the act and decides to stay. Now they just have to convince the captain that the convent isn't really in a condemned state. They tell him that because they cannot afford to make all the repairs, they are selling the convent to Carlos, who will turn it into a nightclub. For the pious captain, that move would be sacrilege, and thus he overturns his own decision and declares the convent a national historical monument exempt from building code requirements.
- Pressed for cash, Morgan Tate leased a large portion of his plant to Lewis Dunn a year earlier. Now, Tate has discovered that Dunn is not what he appears to be, and that the plant is now a front for a communications center. Tate has managed to seize and hide a file named "Command Roster One" and the aliens are desperate to recover it. They bring in Tate's estranged daughter Carol to pressure the man, but with David Vincent's help, Tate may manage to save his daughter and recover the hidden file. If he can, it would be a terrible setback for the invaders.
- After finding his wife beaten to death in her apartment, a has-been boxer and his drug-addicted friend take refuge in a church and hold the priest and two women as hostages.
- Episode: (1958)1947–19581h6.3 (46)TV EpisodeTodays theme is a Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned.