Desperate Moves

Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms

September 2008 •Danish

It's not easy to be Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives at the bottom of the food chain. But one day, an old disco record turns his life upside down. Suddenly he sees before him his own destiny, the star of the world's greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms! Okay, he's got no arms, no rhythm and no band. But as Barry says: "We'll do it anyway!"

The Last Days of Disco

May 1998 •English

Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.

Starsky & Hutch

March 2004 •English

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.

Om Shanti Om

November 2007 •Hindi

Reincarnated 30 years after being killed in a suspicious on-set fire, a small-time actor is determined to punish the person who ignited the blaze.

Mystery Men

August 1999 •English

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.

Gigantic

September 1999 •German

The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.

Satan

February 2006 •French

A group of young people leave a disco and bump into a shepherd who is ready to spend his night worshipping Satan.

Disco

January 2010 •English

July 1997. The height of summer. England. Oasis reach number one with 'D'you Know What I Mean'. Tony Blair has moved his stuff in to Downing Street. Meanwhile Danny is trying to tell a girl named Pippa that he likes her. On this Friday we follow Danny through miscommunication, gossip, Chinese whispers and a love triangle between Danny, Pippa and his best friend Greg.

Love at First Bite

April 1979 •English

Dracula and Renefield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may almost certainly, possibly, may be in love with Cindy too.

Liquid Sky

August 1982 •English

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

Can't Stop the Music

June 1980 •English

A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.

Thank God It's Friday

May 1978 •English

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.

Humanap Ka Ng Panget

March 1991 •Tagalog

Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man.

Golden Balls

September 1993 •Spanish

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

A Piece of the Action

October 1977 •English

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

Chiang Khan Story

December 2014 •Thai

Two childhood friends who bonded at their town's cinema reunite as adults when their big-screen passions bring them together on the same movie set.

Vamos Cantar Disco Baby

September 1979 •Portuguese

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

March 2000 •English

It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

Dracula Bites the Big Apple

April 1979 •English

Dracula travels to New York for a change of scenery.

The Best of the Chicago Party

February 2015 •English

For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, The Chicago Party dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens. Pooling business acumen with music scene prominence, James Christopher and Willie Woods opened the CopHerBox II in 1979 at 117th and Halsted on Chicago’s Southside. To promote their venture, they purchased airtime on Chicago’s WCIU-TV Channel 26 for weekly installments of The Chicago Party. Each Saturday, the club’s adult clientele filled the illuminated dance floor, providing vibrant B-roll between tapings of breakdancing magicians and Jheri curled ventriloquists, giving an audience to a rising regime of Chicago Soul heavyweights.