Since Kumiko was appointed as a section manager, KS Corporation has been doing well. Because of this, the company president, Sano, seems small in front of Kumiko. One night, on her way home, Kumiko notices a man following her, and she takes him into a public toilet and indulges in lewd acts. In the middle of this, she sees someone peeking at her through the mirror. Kumiko leaves as if nothing happened, but inside she is not at peace. The next day, it is the man she had been peeking at, Yuta, who comes to her company interview.
At dawn, Yuki goes out onto the balcony and indulges in masturbation in a bold pose. Michiko spreads butter on her private parts and writhes in pleasure as her dog licks them.
A cloudy riverbank. Kazuko, a one-piece woman with a floral pattern, stands under the viaduct. She was abandoned here when she was young and raised by a homeless man who lives there.
Jill and Larry are relationship therapists with opposing views on relationships. Steve and Nikki are divorce attorneys with secrets they've kept from each other.
A sizzling review of the decade's most celebrated centerfolds. They're the faces you love and the fabulous figures that leave you breathless--they're the Playmates of the Year, 1990 through 1999.
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
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.
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.
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.
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.
