Manpower

Strictly Personal

March 1933 •English

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.

Gigolette

February 1935 •English

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he'll give it to them, albeit he does apply some principles regarding the matter. A Broadway playboy, Greg Emerson, falls in love with Kay and proposes but his high-society parents object strongly. Terry. although he also has fallen in love with Kay and doesn't realize she feels the same about him, sets out to provide a happy ending for the couple.

Life on the Line

November 2016 •English

As a huge electrical storm sweeps towards Texas, lineman Beau Ginner is haunted by memories of his brother's death by lightning years earlier. Since that tragic day, he has raised his niece Bailey and risen to foreman of a lineman team. However, there is friction when Bailey's on-off boyfriend Duncan joins the crew, while another new recruit is hiding PTSD symptoms. Beau and his team are soon putting their lives at risk in a race to replace miles of power cables to keep the electrical grid running before the deadly lightning storm strikes. Based on a true story; this film is a tribute to the heroes who risk it all to keep us safe.

Boulder Dam

March 1936 •English

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

The Amazing Colossal Man

October 1957 •English

Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is inadvertently exposed to a plutonium bomb blast and although he sustains burns over 90% of his body, he survives. Then he begins to grow, but as he grows he starts losing his mind. By the time he stops he is 50 ft tall, insane and is on the rampage.

Hansel and Gretel Get Baked

February 2013 •English

An intense new marijuana strain named “Black Forest” is taking Los Angeles by storm, and Gretel’s stoner boyfriend can’t get enough. But when the old woman growing the popular drug turns out to be an evil witch, cooking and eating her wasted patrons for their youth, Gretel and her brother Hansel must save him from a gruesome death — or face the last high of their lives.

Hard Rock Harrigan

July 1935 •English

The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley. At the center of their conflict is their mutual affection for heroine "Andy" Anderson (Irene Hervey). But when the chips are down and Riley is trapped in a tunnel cave-in, it is Harrigan who comes to the rescue.

Hollywood Heist

Invalid date •English

An agent trying to land an actor tells the story of a movie producer and a fading movie star, as they race against time and defy famous actors, drug lords, and death to save their latest production after their funding is stolen.

Hopeless Situation

July 2022 •Chinese

During the Period of the Republic of China, the land was devastated by domestic troubles and foreign aggression. When foreign powers plunder China's cultural relics, revolutionary Liu Yunfei rallies capable folk to protect the treasure from being looted and embarks on an adventure with the forces of all sides. They all went to find the treasure that buries at the bottom of the valley, unexpectedly, somebody want to steal the money and touched the trigger of mechanism, the mountain collapsed. Liu Yunfei sacrifices himself to rescue the people.

Madwomen: to be a sparrow not a canary

May 2023 •Estonian

A housewife confronts situations to which no sane response exists... “Madwomen: To Be a Sparrow Not a Canary” is an experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969. An experimental collage creating an alternative narrative to the storylines in the animations, documentaries and feature films of that time period.

Mozartovy moravské vánoce

December 1983 •Czech

Hélène Berr, une jeune fille dans Paris occupé

December 2013 •French

Ingenmandsland

October 2023 •Danish

Immersed in the gripping tale of survival in Denmarks' menacing underworld, a young man's desperate flight from relentless gang members leads to a fateful night of high stakes in a pulsating neon-lit nightclub.

He11 Hotline

February 2024 •English

A telecommunications employee struggles with his mundane and routine work life and attempts to escape it.

Dans

October 2023 •Danish

Kathrine is building a career as a ballet dancer. But when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has to face the fact that she will not dance again. Through an unexpected friendship, she wanders off on a journey to accept her destiny.

Shaitan

January 2017 •English

A short film that “gives a nightmarish spin to a conversation between two friends at a psycho-spiritual crossroads” - Tega Okiti.

The Source of Happiness

August 1915 •English

Jonathan Rodd, a wealthy old widower, has a son, Frederick, who has become entangled with an adventuress, Olga, who is forcing him to financial ruin. The old man strives to break up the infatuation, but for the time being fails to do so.

Learning to Be a Father

June 1915 •English

Captain Silas Tugg, of the schooner Helen, is a hater of women and all their doings. He has forbidden his mate, Tom Burns, to marry.

Their Golden Wedding

May 1915 •English

Jane Darling is an invalid, whose husband, Charles, was formerly a famous actor, but in his old age has come down to be doorkeeper at a theater. For his wife's happiness, Charles still lets her think he is a famous star.

Mercenaire

September 2024 •English

Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.