Up the Ladder

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.

Two roommates living in an all-girl dormitory. They fall in love with each other.

Mi & Xiao Rou are now in a relationship and must face the reactions of their loved ones when their relationship is exposed.

An erotic film depicting sexual behavior that takes place when a couple who knows their past appears in front of a couple living in the countryside hiding their past.

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

Mi-jin, who is starting a married life that marks a new start, has one concern. She says that she has no sex drive herself. Mi-jin finds massage with the help of her friend. That day she discovers that she is also full of libido.

When rich Jack Talbot falls in love with not-rich Rose Kirby, he doesn't marry her, fearing his mother's disapproval. Rose later marries Clyde Bainbridge, a rotter who knows that under the terms of a secret contract, Rose will inherit the Talbot iron-works. Rose finds the contract but, mistrusting her husband, does not make use of it.

A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.

Sojin and Yoonhee, who are long-time best friends, live together as roommates. However, since there are only two women in the house, there are many things that require a man's help sometimes. Replacing a fluorescent light bulb, unclogging a sink, etc. may not seem like a big deal, but they are simply too difficult for two people to do. Then, he discovered the Daesinman app, which helps with all kinds of chores, and Sojin, who was suffering alone due to a clogged sink, applied for her service. Soon after, ‘Dante’ appears, holding an extension tool and emitting powerful male pheromones… Sojin, who received special optional services from him in addition to sink repairs, begins to become addicted to the Daesinman app along with Yoonhee.

Grietas

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.