Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
Mai and Cañas, a couple of small-time criminals, see their luck change dramatically when a winning lottery ticket lands in their laps.
A film crew is shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused of a robbery. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.
Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.
The night shift clerk at a sex hotel, suffering from narcolepsy, is faced with a night when things are unusually busy and housekeeping finds a gun in room 6.
It's 1987, Kyle has cold feet before his wedding and he's about to stand up to his sister for the first time in his life.
Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisbon Aqueduct and throws the bodies over the high wall, and assaults homes with his large band of criminals. Eventually arrested, he, his female companion and his henchmen are condemned to death by the court.
Ruby and Micky are at the head of Carl's cocaine business. But one afternoon Micky decides to kill Carl by sending his girlfriend as a gift.
A one-shot thriller about a gang leader who refuses to confront the neighbour suddenly blasting music at six in the morning.
After calling it quits with her former pimp, a young prostitute thinks of a way to earn some quick money to leave town.
Jay and Matt move everything out of "Stu's" garage. A road trip of memory ensues.
Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.
Oats and Barley follows a nervous, impressionable young boy called Jamie as he attends his first funeral. Although this isn't your average first funeral. As Jamie nervously arrives at the ceremony, it becomes clear that he is being coerced into a sinister family business.
Discover here a short film made in just 48 hours! The theme was ‘Walls have ears’ with the constraints “parallel” and ‘postcard’.
This short film was made from start to finish in 48 hours, with certain constraints imposed.
"The Big Meet" follows drunken writer Blake (Lane Carlson) on an absurd adventure with a macho stranger called Nate (Mike Genovese) he meets in a bar. Several drinks later, the impaired writer is lured into a haphazard plot to murder his newfound companion.
A man breaks into a flat, startling the occupant. They argue about the new girlfriend of the 'burglar', who's come to get her stuff. Then a third man bursts out of the cupboard...
Professional forger Bill Butters realizes one day that the police are closing in on him, and convinces his daughter Peggy to flee.
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
Four lifelong friends embark on a daring heist to steal back a precious Tamagotchi from former friend turned nemesis Nick Wilkins. Lines are drawn and windows are smashed as they learn the importance of letting past grievances go.