A finalist for the 1980 Student Academy Awards, Neil Ruttenberg's The Mask of Sarnath is structured as an entry in the horror film genre. The theme of 'Evil Never Dies' dominates the narrative backed by a hauntingly eerie soundtrack recorded by Throbbing Gristle.
When a contentious couple is arrested for a DUI, they soon discover that their arresting officer is under the influence of something far more sinister.
Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
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Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian.
University professor Ramsey returns from London after obtaining a PhD in English literature. He collides with students and cannot reason with them, including the three friends who discover the murder of their old beggar neighbor and are arrested for being in the same place.
Nina Kern, a divorced woman in her late twenties, will soon be fully deprived of her custody rights for her three children, who already reside in a home for the displaced due to Nina’s many years of willful neglect.
A group of friends on vacation in Deauville take on the challenge of hitting on as many girls as possible, collecting the underwear of each of their "victims" as trophies.
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father.
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