Bless the Beasts & Children

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Woody Allen, David Cale

Cast

Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, Mia Farrow

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An a...

Runtime

3h 3m

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentaro Mikuni

During his vacation, Piksi finds his brother's cassettes in the basement and spends three days listening to rock music, which changes his life. He decides to start his own punk rock band. The band consists of Piksi (electric guitar), Pejo (bass guitar), Sani (drums), and Edi (vocals). At first, they called themselves Avtsajders, then I...

Runtime

1h 26m

Cast

Lan Artis, Toni Cahunek, Jure Dolamič

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Nicholas Ray

Cast

Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Michael Pate

Cast

Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa