Visit Pitlochry, a “busy, bustling town” in the heart of the Scottish Highlands featuring boozing stags, ladies lunching, tweed and whisky galore!
An entertaining and informative film about the building of the Luxor Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, and the creation of it's hi-tech attractions by Hollywood special effects expert, Douglas Trumbull. Look behind-the-scenes at the construction of the 30-story glass pyramid, and see how spectacular miniatures, special effects photography and engineering techniques are combined to provide audiences with cutting-edge entertainment experiences. From pre-planning through grand opening day, The Making of Luxor reveals why Luxor is being called "the eighth wonder of the world."
The Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets.
As a working bellboy in 1946, Carl yearns for more. When world-renowned director Charles Cameron steps into the hotel, he gives Carl an offer he can’t refuse. How far will Carl go to earn the appreciation that he deserves?
An art film about the guests at a strange hotel.
Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel, everyone is looking for love. Hôtel des Acacias was an exercise guided in 1982 by Chantal Akerman at Belgium’s INSAS audio-visual college.
A look at a Disney Hotel once the lights are down and the guests are away... and the mystery that may or may not be hidden from the public eye.
Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a bet of what is stronger, love or death.
The sevn sins of a group of hotel employees.
Capri, the owner of a motel, arranges for husbands and wives to meet their lovers in privacy. When a woman fails to show up for a tryst, Capri herself substitutes for the woman. She joins in an orgy with two men and two women and watches a young couple make love for the first time.
Two dimwitted house painters are hired to paint an apartment hotel. It turns out that the hotel's residents consist entirely of beautiful women. The two painters inadvertently mix vanishing cream into their paint, and discover that when they paint the walls they become transparent, allowing then to observe the girls doing their daily "routines"--exercising, showering, etc.
Big shot actor hires a prostitute for 3 days straight with just them locked in a hotel room for an experiment, but does not tell her the full extent of it.
Lisa, who is cleaning hotels, is a person with high work ethics that doesn't always take advantage of her own rights. She dreams about the ocean. 'Soon, I will leave', has been her most frequently used phrase since she started working at the hotel three years ago. Kalle is practicing the work and a different kind of person.
When chimney sweep Joe inherits a ramshackle hotel, he enlists the help of his former army friends to help restore and staff it. Knowing that an airport is due to be built nearby, two cunning property developers try to persuade him to sell, telling him the property is almost worthless. Can he thwart their scheme?
A young woman meets a man in a seedy hotel for a mysterious assignation in this unsettling narrative.
A cosmopolitan Kazakh man decides to ask his rural Kazakh family members to work in his hotel - fun and chaos ensue.
In a stormy night of football, Mr Barrientos receives an unexpected visit from an enigmatic character, who breaks the calm of his scruffy hotel. Misfortune will follow to Mr Barrientos through our history, carrying him to the most unexpected end.
Shot in New York, Cape Town, St Helena and the Atlantic Ocean, Sathima's Windsong, is a lyrical portrait of South African jazz singer, Sathima Bea Benjamin. In her Chelsea Hotel apartment, home for over thirty years, she patches together her journeys, from apartheid's 'pattern of brokenness', to a chance meeting and recording with Duke Ellington in Paris, to making a life in New York. The narrative of her journeys are inter-woven with her music and the musings of folks who know her work. Like her haunting song, Windsong, the film is a meditation on displacement, exile and belonging.
In a hotel hallway, the camera plunges into the microcosm of the hotel corridor carpet. Between crystal structures and inhabitants of this world, we see an American house dust mite at work.