Takako Miura is 92 years old and has lived alone since her husband died six years ago. Since a few years ago, she has regarded herself as president of an imaginary broadcasting station and announcer of a daily morning radio programe. She can hear voices which can’t be heard by anybody except her. It’s an imaginary world only for her. She usually sings old Chinese songs on the radio. However, she can’t get any thanks or reward from anyone, which annoys her. One stormy night, she makes her last speech with anger on the radio about a story which she believes to be true. The next morning she gives up waiting for presents and leaves her room ... Her granddaughter films this documentary from her personal viewpoint. „My Grandmother sings old songs and recounts her life story on her imaginary radio programe but nobody understands her. The only thing that I can do is to listen to her“.
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
A doctor and his wife move to a new city where they plan to start a new life. However, trouble strikes in the form of a police inspector who gets completely obsessed with the doctor's wife.
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
A jaded Lower East Side couple have become bored of straight sex, in a bid to spice things up, they decide to imitate some rough sex scenes as seen on TV.
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
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