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A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.
Political thriller inspired by events in the townships of South Africa. At the same time as protesters weave through the shanty town of 'Dark City', the mayor's home is burgled. These two apparently unconnected events lead to the death of a councillor. Seven people are put on trial and only one person can prove their innocence.
A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.
Dark City Beneath The Beat is an audiovisual experience that defines the soundscape of Baltimore city. Inspired by an all original Baltimore club music soundtrack, the film spotlights local club artists, DJs, dancers, producers, and Baltimore’s budding creative community as they are realizing their life dreams. Rhythmic and raw, these stories illustrate the unique characteristics of the city’s landscape and social climate through music, poetry, and dance. From the city’s social climate to its creative LGBTQ community, Dark City Beneath The Beat showcases Baltimore club music as a positive subculture in a city overshadowed by trauma, drugs, and violence.
Port Park City (港口+园区+城市) visually documents fragments of the industrial topography of Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta in China. This documentary film narrates Shenzhen’s young history, centring on its role in supplying mass-manufacture and labour organisation to global markets, and their hand in catalysing its urban development, which is now in a phase of deindustrialisation. Composed of found footage, pre-recorded footage, sound recordings, and the voices of poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, local artists, researchers and scholars, this film allows frictions between workers’ rights and the waves of development facilitated by modern industrial logistics to unfold.
The man is trying to get close to Gondo, the leader of the Kansai region, to avenge his old friend Shiraishi, who was killed by Gondo, and himself, who was framed by Gondo. However, Osaka Police Inspector Okura warns the man that he is dangerous. Meanwhile, a woman is defrauded and comes to the Sugiyama Law Office for help.
THE CITY DARK is a feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question - do we need the stars? - taking him from Brooklyn to Mauna Kea, Paris, and beyond. Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights - including increased breast cancer rates from exposure to light at night, and a generation of kids without a glimpse of the universe above. Featuring stunning astrophotography and a cast of eclectic scientists, THE CITY DARK is the definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars. Written by Wicked Delicate Films
Volatile triad boss Duanmu (Collin Chou) is in search of three pendants that are believed to hold parts of the map leading to a hidden treasure. He learns that the pendants are now in the possession of three teenagers, so he dispatches his gang henchmen after the kids. Luckily, super cop Lin Dan (Donnie Yen), armed only with his deadly martial arts skills, is there to save the day!
This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.
City of Dark is about meetings, attractions, deception, loss and a trip across town. A journey where men meet with their secret desires and part with longing. Where days have love and intimacy for the two men but the night threatens a different ending for women who wander in the city. Set over two car journeys in a void, the story unfolds in a city hopeful in the day and unkind after dark.
A computer scientist scans dreams with a computer.
Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her friend Zeze (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez); Zeze's daughter Susana (Jimena Ayala); and junkie Vicente (Roberto Sosa). Also on the scene are two corrupt cops (Alejandro Tommasi and Jesus Ochoa) and one good cop (Odiseo Bichir), while Chicken (Hector Suarez) and Casimiro (Alonso Echanove) each tell their separate stories to the same bartender (Demian Bichir). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Richard Schickel and Oliver Stone are among the experts who talk about the film noir Crime Wave.
Toivo, a university student comes back to the City to finish his bachelor's degree. Upon arrival, he meets the face of disaster when his breadwinner brother, Simon, is murdered right before his eyes by a gang from which, Simon, borrowed money that he used to pay for Toivo's tuition. The series of events involves his home being burned, leaving him and his sister, Maggy, with nowhere to go. Amidst all the chaos, Toivo unknowingly joins the same gang that's responsible for his miserable life. As if that is not enough chaos, Toivo discovers that his sister, Maggy, has been prostituting herself in order to make ends meet since their brother's passing. As his life crumbles away, Toivo is forced to put himself through education, protect the family and come to terms with the revelation that has been in bed with the same individual responsible for his current life.
At the Point of Ignition, The Fatalist, Focus Shift, The Wonders at Your Feet, Final Resistance, Misery's Crown, Punish My Heaven, My Negation, Iridium, Shadow in Our Blood, The Lesser Faith, Dream Oblivion, Lethe, Lost to Apathy, ThereIn, The Grandest Accusation, Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)
Set in the city of Mumbai, The Dark Side of Life: Mumbai City is a multi-plotted story which revolves around the lives of seven individuals who are pushed to the brink of depression while battling their emotional and financial problems. Will they fight through it or will they succumb to their circumstances?
Fight: City of Darkness is an Indonesian action film which was released on September 15, 2011 and directed by Nayato Fio Nuala and starring Thunder Triyoga and Volland Humonggio. The story about of true friendship of four young men, in the face of the harshness of life, and challenges problems which they live. They are Reno, Sherina, David, and Galan