Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from World War I that wasn’t lost.
A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election.
After their rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story, the Tuccis exploit a 19th-century legal loophole to turn their hometown into a tax haven.
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Four characters get stuck in a boarding house after the spread of a contagious disease.
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.
When a naive online “soda influencer” is radicalized against the Coca-Cola Corporation by an AI misinformation video, he travels to Atlanta on January 6th to expose the conspiracy. He is joined by his friend/documentarian and a new cameraman hired off of Craigslist to film the journey. But what started as a righteous political cause turns into a nightmare of deceit, libations, and, ultimately, a horrific act of violence.
It's election eve 2016 and five New Yorkers' lives change in an instant, starting with a Black gay man who is Donald Trump's stand in, a Democratic campaign worker who moonlights as a dominatrix, a socialist, a model, and a dog-hating activist.
When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power behind the president. This short was produced as a television special for PBS in 1971 and was scheduled to air in February 1972, but it was pulled from the schedule shortly before its airdate as PBS officials reportedly feared it might adversely affect their government funding. The special never aired, but it can now be viewed in The Paley Center for Media and has been widely bootlegged online.
Little monsters run amok at a heavy metal festival.