Tag: mortality

  • Wings of Desire

    Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of…

  • Checking Out

    When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray’s life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.

  • Touch Me

    Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that’s run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and…

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature “Dragon Inn”.

  • The Turin Horse

    A monumental windstorm and an abused horse’s refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

  • Archive

    2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

  • Old

    A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.