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- Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
- The life of 'Cengiz', who is a singer in a tea garden in Bursa and whose biggest passion is to produce cassettes, changes when he meets 'Taskin'. The chain of unfortunate events that Cengiz, who borrowed from his brother, thinking that it would be a very good start for the tape of a composition composed by the famous composer Serafettin.
- It follows Grace, a university student, on her reckless path through the different stages of PTSD. The film explores the lasting impact of sexual assault and the courage it takes to overcome it.
- Elias has hardly left his childhood behind him than he is sent to boarding school with his older cousin.
- Hassan is a bus driver and the only male sibling of five sisters, his father owns a workshop that got suspended due to taxes problems. Hassan tries to provide money before the workshop is sold on the auction.
- Oscar Wilde's savage fairytale of the ecstatic first love.
- A young boy will be able to go to an aristocratic ball with a girl he loves, if a nightingale can find a red rose for him to give her. The bird begins it's search.
- The story of an elderly man and his granddaughter who walk together through China with a bird in a cage.
- Bernie Krause, the legendary pioneer of Acoustic Ecology, takes us on an immersive journey to understand the road map that natural soundscapes can offer for overcoming the climate crisis.
- A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.
- Nick sleepwalks through life. Withdrawn from his computer-addicted mother and alcoholic best friend, he loses himself in a fantasy world of his own creation. Stumbling upon a long-abandoned swimming pool, Nick encounters the Nightingale, a young woman he thought existed only in his imagination.
- A short-lived spinoff of M.A.S.H. that followed an all female run military hospital .
- A down-on-her luck prostitute embarks on a wild adventure that puts her in contact with the Mafia.
- Animated music documentary about "the World's First Superstar", the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Opera star Thomas Hampson guides us through her life, telling about her success, the hysterical audience and her contacts with the greats of the time, such as Chopin, Mendelssohn and H. C. Andersen. Soprano Malin Byström sings Jenny Lind's most popular arias and the young talent Annie Ternström plays Jenny Lind herself. Conductor Evan Rogister leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with classical repertoire and Swedish folk songs.
- A lifelong champion of new music, first with punk, then new wave, acid house and dubstep, Annie Nightingale is still at the cutting edge in her current incarnation as the 'Queen of the Breaks'.
- When a new, reclusive neighbor moves into the apartment building and plays the old-time blues, 9-year-old Beanie Chau's life turns upside down.
- A chronicle of the heroic life of one of the greatest singers of our times.
- A Chinese emperor is gladdened by the song of the nightingale and is moved to play his own song. One day, the Japanese send a music box with a mechanical bird; the nightingale feels rejected and leaves. But soon, the clockwork breaks down, and the emperor dispatches his crow to go look; meanwhile, the emperor grows sicker with the passing months.
- Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment. Andrea, a worthless son, and a member of the notorious "Red Galvin Gang," is a great burden on his father and sister. Nathan Marden, a wealthy banker, is attracted by the wonderful voice of Isola, the street singer, as is his son Charles Marden. Andrea, the worthless son, upon refusal of his continual demand for money, is overheard complaining by the gang, who send his father a black-hand letter, threatening destruction if their demands are refused. Charles Marden, unable to forget the street singer's wonderful voice and attractive appearance, solicits his friend David Mantz, a vocal instructor, to help him find the unknown artist. Mantz locates Isola and offers her vocal training, but her father will not hear of it, and she reluctantly declines. Franti, refusing the demands of the black banders, is killed by a bomb, and Isola and Andrea left alone divide their meager inheritance. After her father's death, Isola goes to Mantz and accepts his offer, not knowing that Charles Marden is interested, and is later on sent to Paris to continue her studies with Jean De Resni. The story of her entrance to the Paris opera stage, the longed-for opportunity and her success and popularity, are cleverly told on the screen. Charles Marden is present the night of Isola's debut. Enthusiastic over her success, he arranges a dinner party in celebration, and afterward, having partaken a bit too freely, he forces his attentions on Isola, and finally brutally tells her that she owes him everything for her success. Brokenhearted on learning this, she moves, leaving no trace. Meanwhile an offer has been received for her for the Metro Opera of New York. Every nook and corner of Paris are searched and she is finally located in poverty, singing at a cabaret entertainment. She returns to America, and at her debut at the Metro Opera House, Charles Marden endeavors to see her. and meets with refusal. His efforts later on are successful, and love shows the way to a happy marriage. Nathan Marden, the father, refuses his permission, but with the coming of Nathan Marden the second, the happy grandfather forgives. In the meanwhile, the worthless brother, Andrea, goes from bad to worse, and having located Isola by chance, demands money. Later urged by Red Galvin, the gangster, they plot to rob the home of Nathan Marden, Sr., who is killed in the robbery. Galvin is arrested, but Andrea, although wounded, makes his escape. He sends for his sister, and she, while searching for a bandage, discovers a scarf pin which connects Andrea with the robbery. Charles Marden suspects the frequent absence of his wife while nursing her brother, and traces her to Andrea's room where, misunderstanding the situation, he denounces her. He takes their son and leaves home, vowing never to return. Later, he reads of the death of Andrea Franti, and learns that he is Isola's brother, whereupon their love returns to build for future happiness.
- After witnessing the suicide of her sister, a young woman is suddenly plunged into a criminal world when she meets an ex-boxer with a violent past who might be able to help her find the answers she's looking for.
- A beautiful singer, Maria Malibran, is forced to turn to the stage after her husband takes to gambling, and goes to Paris where she falls in love with a famous violinist. When her money-seeking husband reappears, the couple go to London, where they find happiness. A composer falls in love with Maria but when his affections are unrequited, he becomes broken, takes to drinking and dies.
- TV Series
- Short promo video presenting excerpts from Tennessee Williams's "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale", a stage production by Pacific Resident Theatre, Venice, CA.
- Madalena and Eduardo are in love, but their future is at risk when he accepts to follow a competitive cycling career, and she rejects to be a stage actress. He will be acclaimed during the Portugal Tour, and she becomes jealous, knowing that he is having an affair with Dina, a stage actress in Lisbon. Madalena braves to leave her peaceful town of Alcobaça, accepts a humble position as chorus girl in the same theatre where Dina works. Soon Madalena ascends is more popular than herrival Dina. She is not happy yet.
- The documentary film is a study of the problems of Ukrainian language in Ukraine. It debunks common myths about Ukrainian language, and explains how those were created, ultimately showing that language is the root of personal identity.
- A quartet of short stories in Greece during the various occupations during World War II.
- A jaded fashion/glamour photographer, ready for a new direction, hesitantly accepts an unusual assignment -- to find a reclusive doctor who posts humanitarian videos -- only to discover that the lens can point in both directions.
- From Dharavi's slums to Navi Mumbai's heights, a couple sheds their past. Two kids find a discarded keyboard, sparking unexpected joy. Amid urban contrasts, they learn that discarded dreams can still sing anew.
- While on the road pitching the new independently imported sleep aid TranqWell to potential investors, Stanley is short on sleep, highly stressed, and desperate to make a better life for himself. Stanley is forced to deal with his problems head on, that is if he isn't first driven crazy by the voices he hears at The Nightingale hotel. The film The Nightingale is a suspense drama about a man being pushed to his breaking point, and finding redemption from an unexpected source.
- "Teaching the Nightingale" is based on a story from In the Empire of Dreams by Dianne Highbridge. Teruko, a Japanese woman in her mid-thirties, is struggling with a secret dilemma, but she cannot tell anyone, not even Larry, an openly and happily gay Australian who she thinks of as her best friend. When she meets Larry for lunch one day in an upscale Tokyo coffee shop, she is reaching a crisis point. As Larry begins to sense that Teruko is holding something back, we see what happened to her the previous weekend when she went hiking in the mountains. The two days she spent in the mountains led Teruko to a turning point in another significant relationship and a decision to move on, but now she feels trapped and hopeless. In a moment of weakness she asks Larry to do something for her that will bring their friendship to a turning point. "Teaching the Nightingale" is a film about about secrets and lies that we tell ourselves and others, about private passions and public personas, and about the difficulty of breaking with the past.
- A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.
- The events in the film take place in pre-revolutionary Russia. A riot of workers of a large porcelain factory is taking place. Grunya urgers the workers to fight.
- Throughout Pakistan's turbulent history as an Islamic state, it's female singers have been both honored and reviled-- but the song continues!
- A nostalgic tale of loneliness and loss set in the twilight of a technicolor childhood.