The bible but with clowns.
A woman is faced with existential crisis after learning that the universe is an untitled simulation.
Guy Manley, formerly the world’s most preeminent secret agent, who, while drowning in his alcohol-filled retirement, is brought back for one last mission by his former boss Buck Cash. His mission? Kill Buck's brother, Rich Cash, keeping him from being elected the city's new mayor, thereby stopping him from becoming the most powerful person in the world!
In this short James Rolleston (Boy) stars as a Kiwi lad who banters with an elderly bearded fulla (Bruce Allpress) who claims to be God; the 'BMX Kid' challenges him to a Lake Wakatipu bomb competition to prove it. Kiwi stuntman/director Tim McLachlan's film was a finalist in Your Big Break, a filmmaking contest run by Tourism New Zealand which attracted over 1000 scripts from around the globe. Five finalists were given the chance to turn their scripts into a short film. The brief was to "capture the spirit of 100% Pure New Zealand — the youngest country on earth".
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Hippie Dippy Julien's doped up antics have gone too far. His moonshine glugging hick fam are sick of his silly shit and want his ass out, leaving poor little Julien lost, stoned and lonely. Until Mama Casserole sets her beady eyes on him. Take a trip with Julien into Mama's world of Bigfoot, bikers, love, rockstars, magic, child-like wonder and all things unfathomable
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
'For the Love of God' is the wickedly irreverent tale of Graham (Coogan); an over-grown man-child still living at home under the suffocating glare of his elderly Mother, in her dusty and forgotten Christian bookshop. Graham has a terrible secret - an unholy fantasy - which only he and his Mother's pet Jackdaw (McKellen) know about. Spurred on by the sinister bird and the possibility of consummating his perverse desire, will Graham do the deed before his Mother uncovers the awful truth?
The God Complex is a comedy re-telling of the silliest stories in the Bible, and with a touch of logic, made just a bit sillier.
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
An inquisitor tries to stop his superiors from burning innocent people at the stake but is burned for his "treason". He curses god and makes a pact with the devil. Now in modern times he must kill to fulfill his pact. Can a group of goths survive?
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present everywhere, he is able to eavesdrop on what's going on: his youngest daughter lives it up with some Teddy boys, his eldest do not intend to marry her fiancé, his son has become a crook, and his wife a gambler.
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Frank is a man who thinks he has lost everything, until his house is destroyed by a tornado. Then when he goes to the insurance company, he’s told they won't pay because the damage falls under the "Act of God" exclusion in his policy. With nothing left, and nothing left to lose, he decides to sue God himself for damages, naming representatives of the world's religions as defendants in the suit. What starts as a ridiculous stunt, becomes a beautiful, funny, soulful odyssey in which he rediscovers that love itself... requires a leap of faith.
After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe for his term in office, but also has to find a successor: the chaotic comic artist Niklas is supposed to be the lucky one. He just ran into pizza delivery driver Tess - and there was a spark between the two.
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.