Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can ‘win’ their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with his girlfriend, a mysterious power creates Jake Kesey, an extremely cool motor-biker who has a car which is invincible. Jake befriends Jamie’s girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie’s sweet brother Bill under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis couldn’t; eliminate Packard’s criminal gang the hard way…
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W.C. Fields: Straight Up
Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.
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Groper Train: Sensitivity is Good
Three stories depicting three molesters and the women they molest. One is used in SM by the woman he molested, one enjoys an intense affair in a hotel but is left with a heavy burden afterwards, and the other makes a move on a yakuza’s mistress and is thoroughly threatened, leading to an unexpected ending.
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Lohengrin
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first sight. Marton’s heroine is innocent, but she is also a passionate, real-life young woman—which is good, because Leonie Rysanek is positively demented as Ortrud, the sorceress who accuses Elsa and Lohengrin of using magic. With James Levine’s superb conducting, the orchestra and chorus are similarly magical.
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Ginza Neon River Winter Butterfly
Madoka Sawa, a one-woman hostess, faces off against Akira, who is competing for the most popular hostess spot at a gay bar in Shinjuku. Akira steals Kusumi, who was her sponsor, and ends up opening a “Night Park” in Shinjuku, but Madoka falls into a trap set by Akira and is fired from the store. In despair, he vows revenge.
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The Great Battle of Zhifeng
The exploits of General Feng, who defeated the Zhili faction and evicted Pu Yi from the Forbidden City.
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Sarraounia
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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Second Serve
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.
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Invisible Man
While Professor Yun, one of the world’s leading authority on genetics, is abroad, Oh In-cheol and his fiancee Yun Jin-suk take the professor’s papers from his laboratory. In-cheol and Jin-suk are researching the principle of the chlorophyll and a pill that can make people invisible. In-cheol becomes invisible and catches bank con-men and child kidnappers, etc. He works hard to expose society’s evil and he is pasted all over newspapers. However, the criminals follow him and discover his identity. They steal his invisible pills. The criminals become invisible and they go on to commit their crimes such as robbing banks. But they don’t have any pills to reverse the effects. The criminals ultimately come to In-cheol looking for the reverse pills when they are caught by the police.
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Shyam Saheb
Chandra realizes her husband is having an affair with Modhu. She leaves home and is offered a job by the wealthy Shyam, who soon realises her good nature and makes her the heir to his property.