When Cam returns her movies late to the video store, she finds out that she has to pay her late fees - with her life.
All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently even imprisoned and then deported to an open-cast lignite mine. Seduced by a lavish salary, Micha confirms the story, although only fragments of it are true.
Celluloid Cortex is your normal, everyday video store in 1999. The owner stays in back, the general manager gives no shits, the clerks are sometimes friendly and occasionally helpful, the local FCC has a fit... oh, and the ghost of a porn star lives in the basement.
Surrounded by a rapidly-developing marketplace, local Western Australia video rental stores struggle to keep themselves afloat.
Rod O'Hara bought Bellingen Video Connection in 2018 when video stores were already considered to be on the way out – if not already dead. Now, years later, against all the odds, and after facing many personal setbacks, Rod and the local community have kept this iconic local business and bastion for lovers of television, film and screen culture alive - but for how long?
Marjorie, a video store clerk with a childhood fear of monsters in the closet, thinks she's in for a normal night at the video store, until a strange customer comes in with an odd request.
The last video store in all of Lancaster County prepares to close for good. This documentary follows the Stalter family as they cope with leaving the video rental business after 35 years.
Two newly hired video store clerks are asked by their new boss to deliver a package to a theater across town. Unbeknownst to them, the package is truly a shipment of cocaine for a local drug kingpin.
20th Century Flicks is the oldest video rental store in the world. Its small, close-knit crew has unwittingly become custodians of the largest collection of DVDs and VHS tapes in the UK, and faces a constant struggle to adapt and survive in the age of streaming and downloading.
A young man working the graveyard shift at an old video store soon discovers something very sinister about the place.
A video club clerk, a porn buff, a beer and cigarette buddy, a heavy metal-loving biker, and a fan of modern teen horror all fall into the basement of a video store and become, respectively, a man. wolf, a zombie that later mutates into a satanic leader, a smoking zombie, a punk and a hooded knife-maker. As if this were not enough, the spiritual leader of this horde of infernal beings is Dr. Vornoff, a scientist who has become a Satanist.
Calvin Carl is an adult video store clerk who grew up immersed in erotica to fill a loveless childhood. When his best friend decides to get married and give up porn, Calvin is forced to face his fears and find a way through Adultland.
A documentary ode to legendary New York City video store Alan's Alley, where bizarrely arranged movies enticed clientele from cinephile to celebrity to local prison inmate. Charismatic owner Alan Sklar sifts through the nuance of his neon-flickering livelihood, in his store’s last days as a fixture in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
3 Wayward youths wallow aimlessly in a video store.
Synchronize is a tribute to the powerful effect movies can have on our imagination. This short film takes the viewer through the dream of a video store clerk whose vision is formed by the movies he sees and hears.
In this romantic comedy, a lonely man meets a lonely woman after they each post ads in the lonely-hearts section of the classified ads. Unfortunately, neither one is totally honest about themselves and merry mix-ups ensue until a romance finally blossoms.
A young vampire, named Selena, resides in Los Angeles and has her mute lackey Monk hunt down women to kill and drink their blood. Selena brings into her small group Antonio, a hulking wolf-man to assist and further terrorize the people of L.A. In the meantime, a dogged police inspector and a resourceful young woman try to piece together the strange murders and disappearances before more victims turn up.
An architect becomes a voyeur when he spies upon his female neighbor.