Takeshi Kimura

biography:
Kaoru Mabuchi (馬淵 薫 Mabuchi Kaoru), known by the pen name Takeshi Kimura (木村 武 Kimura Takeshi), was a Japanese screenwriter who wrote many of Toho's non-Godzilla tokusatsu films during the Showa era. Unlike his contemporary Shinichi Sekizawa, whose screenplays were noted for their lighthearted and "fun" tone, Mabuchi's screenplays were comparatively more gloomy and contained more political themes. Mabuchi considered his screenplay for Ishiro Honda's Matango to be his best work, and was considerably less enthusiastic about his later work. Kimura passed away on May 3, 1987, due to a throat obstruction.

Wrote screenplays under his birth name Kaoru Mabuchi as well as under his pen name, Takeshi Kimura.

Human Vapor

job: Original Film Writer

overview: A death on live TV. A culprit who turns to gas. Behind it, a secret project that used and discarded the vulnerable. One detective pursues the dark truth.

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Takeshi Kimura

biography: Kaoru Mabuchi (馬淵 薫 Mabuchi Kaoru), noto con lo pseudonimo Takeshi Kimura (木村 武 Kimura Takeshi), è stato uno sceneggiatore giapponese che ha scritto molti dei film tokusatsu non-Godzilla della Toho durante l'era Showa. A differenza del suo contemporaneo Shinichi Sekizawa, le cui sceneggiature erano note per il loro tono spensierato e "divertente", le sceneggiature di Mabuchi erano relativamente più cupe e contenevano più temi politici. Mabuchi considerava la sua sceneggiatura per Matango di Ishiro Honda il suo miglior lavoro, ed era considerevolmente meno entusiasta del suo lavoro successivo. Kimura morì il 3 maggio 1987, a causa di un'ostruzione alla gola.

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also_known_as:
Kaoru Mabuchi
まぶち かおる
Kaoru Mabuči
Mabuchi Kaoru
Kimura Takeshi
馬淵 薫
馬淵薰

title: Destroy All Monsters

overview: At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

original_title: 怪獣総進撃

title: Frankenstein Conquers the World

overview: During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.

original_title: フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣

title: Gorath

overview: In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

original_title: 妖星ゴラス

title: Matango

overview: Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

original_title: マタンゴ

title: Heso no taisho

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: おへその大将

title: Daredevil in the Castle

overview: During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.

original_title: 大阪城物語

title: Farewell Rabaul

overview: A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.

original_title: さらばラバウル

title: The Spell of the Hidden Gold

overview: Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

original_title: 眠狂四郎無頼控 魔剣地獄

title: Young Swordsman

overview: This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.

original_title: 秘剣

title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls

overview: In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.

original_title: 柳生武芸帳

title: Samurai Pirate

overview: An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.

original_title: 大盗賊

title: Rodan

overview: Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

original_title: 空の大怪獸 ラドン

title: The H-Man

overview: When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

original_title: 美女と液体人間

title: The Mysterians

overview: In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists.  Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.

original_title: 地球防衛軍

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

overview: Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.

original_title: 奇巌城の冒険

job: Original Story

title: Godzilla vs. Gigan

overview: Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.

original_title: 地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン

title: Whirlwind

overview: Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army.  Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed.  One wants to attack the enemy head on in a final honorable death. Another decides to commit hari-kiri but wants to find a glorious view to do it. His close friend, the "coward", just wants to run and give up the life of a samurai.  The final two set their own castle on fire to garner favors from the enemy and therefore avert their own death during the massacre of all defeated soldiers as

original_title: 士魂魔道 大龍巻

title: Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender

overview: In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio has failed. They send their passengers ashore and go out to face a final battle...

original_title: 潜水艦イ-57降伏せず

title: The Last War

overview: A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

original_title: 世界大戦争

title: Scoundrel

original_title: ならず者

title: The Red Light Military Base

overview: Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

title: Godzilla vs. Megalon

overview: Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated their society.

title: King Kong Escapes

overview: An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.

title: The War of the Gargantuas

overview: Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

original_title: フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ

title: Matango

title: Godzilla vs. Hedorah

overview: An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.

title: The Human Vapor

overview: A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?

title: Bloodthirsty Hawk

overview: A mining community discovers that men are dying from unknown circumstances which leads to the discovery of a giant flying monster vulture by the name of Rodan that promptly attacks Japan.

title: Reporters from the Sky

title: The Last Escape

overview: A group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart China, but on the way back to Japan is captured by the Chinese and coerced to instead treat the Chinese army at a clinic. Caught with the group is also a Japanese doctor. When the Chinese army faction itself loses in battle the Japanese plan their escape.

title: The Human Vapor

overview: Narrated by Mizuno himself, it tells the story of how he transformed into the Human Vapor, his human love for another, and the impossibility for him to be stopped. However, can Japanese authorities figure out a way to destroy him before his powers choke the people of Tokyo?

title: The Last War

overview: Told in flashback by Takano during the Kasagi Maru's doomed return voyage to Tokyo, it tells the story of how every nation on Earth began the total annihilation of each other.

title: Gorath

overview: In the year 1980, every nation must unite to figure out a way to stop a rogue star from colliding with Earth.

title: Destroy All Monsters

title: Frankenstein Conquers the World

original_title: フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣

title: Gorath

title: Matango

title: Heso no taisho

title: Daredevil in the Castle

title: Farewell Rabaul

title: The Spell of the Hidden Gold

original_title: 眠狂四郎無頼控 魔剣地獄

title: Young Swordsman

title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls

title: Samurai Pirate

title: Rodan

title: The H-Man

title: The Mysterians

title: Adventure in Kigan Castle

title: Godzilla vs. Gigan

original_title: 地球攻撃命令 ゴジラ対ガイガン

title: Whirlwind

title: Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender

title: The Last War

title: Scoundrel

title: The Red Light Military Base

title: Godzilla vs. Megalon

title: King Kong Escapes

title: The War of the Gargantuas

original_title: フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ

title: Matango

title: Godzilla vs. Hedorah

title: The Human Vapor

title: Bloodthirsty Hawk

title: Reporters from the Sky

title: The Last Escape

title: The Human Vapor

title: The Last War

title: Gorath


Lucy Marlow

biography: Lucy Marlow (born Lucy Ann McAleer; November 20, 1932 – December 18, 2018) was an American film and television actress known for her roles in Bring Your Smile Along (1954), My Sister Eileen and Queen Bee (both 1955).

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biography: Lucy Marlow, nascuda Lucy Ann McAleer (Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 20 de novembre de 1932 - Beaumont, Califòrnia, 18 de desembre de 2018), va ser una actriu de cinema i televisió nord-americana.

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Lucy Marlowe
Lucy Ann McAleer

title: A Star Is Born

overview: A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

character: Lola Lavery

original_title: A Star Is Born

original_language: en

title: Queen Bee

overview: A wicked Southern woman ruthlessly manipulates her family.

character: Jennifer Stewart

original_title: Queen Bee

title: My Sister Eileen

overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.

character: Helen

original_title: My Sister Eileen

title: Tight Spot

overview: A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.

character: Prison Girl

original_title: Tight Spot

title: He Laughed Last

overview: A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster's empire.

character: Rosemary 'Rosie' Lebeau

original_title: He Laughed Last

title: Lucky Me

overview: Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.

character: Troupe Member (uncredited)

original_title: Lucky Me

title: Man on the Beach

overview: Adventures of a private detective in Los Angeles.

original_title: Man on the Beach

title: Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer

overview: "Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer" is a feature-length documentary. In this entertaining look at the legendary singer's life, hosted by two-time Grammy award singer Lou Rawls, Frankie tells his own story. Classic archive footage of the great performances of the past has been painstakingly collected, and new interview material shot with distinguished guests such as Clint Eastwood,Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Dick Clark, Ringo Starr, Patti Page, Pat Boone, Maria Cole, Mitch Miller, Michel Legrand, John Williams, Kay Starr, Jack Jones, Herb Jeffries, Peter Marshall, Howard Keel, Terry Moore, Lucy Marlow, Sammy Nestico, and A.C. Lyles. From Dick Clark's American Bandstand to The Bob Hope Show, from Rawhide to Blazing Saddles, from the Ed Sullivan Show to Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, audiences will journey through the life of one of the most popular male vocalists of all time.

character: Self

original_title: Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer

title: Bring Your Smile Along

overview: Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine). When Nancy and Martin fall in love but quarrel over her old flame, David Parker (William Leslie), Nancy returns to her teaching job. Jerry reunites Nancy and Martin and, in turn, succumbs to the charms of his new secretary Marge Stevenson (Lucy Marlow).

character: Marge Stevenson

original_title: Bring Your Smile Along

place_of_birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

title: A Star Is Born

media_type: movie

title: Queen Bee

title: My Sister Eileen

title: Tight Spot

title: He Laughed Last

title: Lucky Me

title: Man on the Beach

title: Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer

title: Bring Your Smile Along

known_for_department: Acting


Greydon Clark

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Greydon Clark (born February 7, 1943) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor, whose career spans several decades and genres, although the majority of his work has been low-budget action/horror productions. His most recent work was writing and directing the 1998 science fiction movie Stargames, featuring Tony Curtis.

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title: Dracula vs. Frankenstein

overview: Judith Fontaine is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out that Joanie has become fallen victim to Groton, an ax-wielding homicidal maniac under the employ of Dr. Durea, the last living descendant of the Frankenstein family and is now both running a house of horrors on the beach's boardwalk and performing experiments on Gorton's victims in his basement laboratory.

character: Strange

original_title: Dracula vs. Frankenstein

title: Black Shampoo

overview: A promiscuous Black hairstylist has sex with his white female clientele, but when he begins a relationship with his Black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.

character: Wilson's Man on Phone (voice)

original_title: Black Shampoo

title: The Mighty Gorga

overview: A circus owner and a hunter's daughter go into an African jungle in order to capture a giant gorilla named Gorga just so that he can be used as an attraction for the former's circus.

character: Dan Remington

original_title: The Mighty Gorga

title: The Making of Final Justice

overview: In-depth documentary about the making-of "Final Justice", a 1984 action film starring Joe Don Baker.

original_title: The Making of Final Justice

title: The Foreign Eye

overview: Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features interviews with non-Brazilian directors, writers and stars who have been involved in some of those films.

original_title: Olhar Estrangeiro

original_language: pt

title: The Bad Bunch

overview: A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.

character: Jim

original_title: Tom

title: Hell's Bloody Devils

overview: Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.

character: Anderson

original_title: Hell's Bloody Devils

title: 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

overview: The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.

title: Wacko

overview: Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.

character: Lawnmower Killer

original_title: Wacko

title: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

character: Self - Filmmaker

title: Satan's Sadists

overview: The Satans, a sadistic biker gang led by Anchor, go to a diner in the middle of the California desert where they terrorize owner Lew, waitress Tracy, and the patrons. One patron manages to escape, and must reach a town before the Satans catch up to and kill them.

character: Acid

original_title: Satan's Sadists

title: Psychic Killer

overview: Hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, Arnold Masters learns astral projection–the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul elsewhere. Upon release, Arnold uses his new powers to take out those he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while imprisoned, and the price of meat!

character: Police Sgt. Marv Sowash

original_title: Psychic Killer

title: Stargames

overview: A young space prince on the run from an evil space villain, stranded on Earth and waiting for his grandfather the king to rescue him, befriends an Earth child named Brian and together they evade robots, bears, and triangles.

character: Adam

original_title: Stargames

title: Survival of the Film Freaks

overview: Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies.

original_title: Survival of the Film Freaks

title: Dance Macabre

overview: American ballerina Jessica reluctantly enrolls in a Russian dance academy, where she meets charismatic choreographer Anthony. A dead ringer for his late lover, Jessica becomes his favorite student –– and his personal obsession.

original_title: Dance Macabre

title: Uninvited

overview: A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.

character: Lab Doctor

original_title: Uninvited

title: Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

overview: Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and more.

title: Final Justice

overview: Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one, and the other vows revenge. The thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.

character: Sheriff

original_title: Final Justice

job: Director

title: Black Shampoo

department: Directing

job: Screenplay

title: Black Shampoo

department: Writing

title: Angels' Brigade

overview: Seven women decide to fight the local drug cartel. When Las Vegas pop singer Michelle's brother is found severely beaten, he's discovered to have been on illegal drugs. Michelle meets with April, her brother's teacher, who reveals that she's secretly been gathering intelligence on the cartel's local processing plant, and Michelle agrees to help April with a plan to destroy the plant. With Michelle's fame opening the door, they recruit four more women with special skills and connections to help them carry out their audacious goal.

original_title: Angels' Brigade

job: Writer

title: Angels' Brigade

title: Joysticks

overview: A successful businessman attempts to shut down a video arcade he believes is harmful to the mental health of children.

original_title: Joysticks

title: Satan's Cheerleaders

overview: The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the cheerleading squad to use for their rituals. However, unbeknownst to the devil-worshipers, one of the cheerleaders is actually a witch, and has plans of her own for the Satanists.

original_title: Satan's Cheerleaders

title: Without Warning

overview: When a mountain town is besieged by aliens, stranded teens Sandy and Greg team up with a local hunter as a paranoid war vet becomes convinced they're the enemy.

original_title: Without Warning

title: Uninvited

title: Wacko

title: Hi-Riders

overview: A group of denim-clad drag-racers find themselves in trouble when a wealthy rancher's son dies during one of their competitions.

original_title: Hi-Riders

title: The Bad Bunch

title: Dance Macabre

title: Dance Macabre

title: The Return

overview: Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

title: The Forbidden Dance

overview: A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.

title: Russian Holiday

overview: American tourist Susan runs into trouble when she tries to smuggle precious artifacts out of St Petersburg. The government suspects her and her companions and, to make matters worse, a killer starts stalking her group.

title: Mad Dog Coll

overview: New York City is torn apart by an all-out mafia war. With brother Peter at his side, Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll blasts his way from streetfighter to kingpin in the dangerous world of organized crime.

title: Stargames

title: Stargames

title: The Bad Bunch

title: Wacko

title: Without Warning

title: Satan's Sadists

title: Hi-Riders

title: Dark Future

overview: In an apocalyptic future, human survivors are used as slaves and prostitutes for Synthetics – cyborgs with human brains. When the first baby in 30 years is born and then captured by the Synths, the human race revolts in order to save the infant.

title: Dark Future

title: Dark Future

title: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

overview: A rich woman becomes paranoid after losing her daughter to a so-called Kabuki Killer.

title: Skinheads

overview: A group of students traveling to California are menaced by a vicious group of skin-heads in the Colorado mountains. A WW2 vet living in the mountains comes to their rescue.

title: Skinheads

title: Skinheads

title: Uninvited

title: Joysticks

title: The Return

title: Stargames

title: Psychic Killer

title: Psychic Killer

title: Satan's Cheerleaders

title: Uninvited

title: Walk of Fame

overview: Jake Taylor, frustrated with Hollywood and trying to make it, caves into his demons.

title: Final Justice

title: Final Justice

title: Final Justice

title: Black Shampoo

title: Dracula vs. Frankenstein

title: Black Shampoo

title: The Mighty Gorga

title: The Making of Final Justice

title: The Foreign Eye

title: The Bad Bunch

title: Hell's Bloody Devils

title: Wacko

title: Satan's Sadists

title: Psychic Killer

title: Stargames

title: Survival of the Film Freaks

title: Dance Macabre

title: Uninvited

title: Final Justice

title: Black Shampoo

title: Black Shampoo

title: Angels' Brigade

title: Angels' Brigade

title: Joysticks

title: Satan's Cheerleaders

title: Without Warning

title: Uninvited

title: Wacko

title: Hi-Riders

title: The Bad Bunch

title: Dance Macabre

title: Dance Macabre

title: The Return

title: The Forbidden Dance

title: Russian Holiday

title: Mad Dog Coll

title: Stargames

title: Stargames

title: The Bad Bunch

title: Wacko

title: Without Warning

title: Satan's Sadists

title: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

title: Dark Future

title: Dark Future

title: Hi-Riders

title: Skinheads

title: Dark Future

title: Skinheads

title: Skinheads

title: Uninvited

title: Joysticks

title: The Return

title: Stargames

title: Psychic Killer

title: Psychic Killer

title: Satan's Cheerleaders

title: Uninvited

title: Walk of Fame

title: Final Justice

title: Final Justice

title: Final Justice

title: Black Shampoo


Kenneth Lonergan

biography:
Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his works, which explore complex emotional and interpersonal dynamics. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award, as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Tony Awards.

In 1982, Lonergan wrote his first one-act play, The Rennings Children. He then earned acclaim for a string of off-Broadway plays, including This is Our Youth (1996), The Waverly Gallery (2000), and Lobby Hero (2001), which were later revived on Broadway, earning him nominations for three Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play in 2015, 2019, and 2018, respectively. For his work on The Waverly Gallery, he was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

He directed and wrote the drama film Manchester by the Sea (2016), which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. He was previously Oscar-nominated as a writer for his first film, You Can Count on Me (2000), and as a co-writer for Martin Scorsese's historical epic film, Gangs of New York (2002). He also wrote and directed the psychological drama film Margaret (2011) and adapted E.M. Forster's novel Howards End into the 2017 miniseries of the same name.

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RIPLEY

overview: A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

character: Herbert Greenleaf

original_name: RIPLEY

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

overview: Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

original_name: Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Off Camera with Sam Jones

overview: Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.

original_name: Off Camera with Sam Jones

Howards End

overview: The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

original_name: Howards End

Doug

overview: Doug Funnie experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington, Virginia.

original_name: Doug

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biography: Kenneth Lonergan (New York, 16 de outubro de 1962) é um diretor de cinema, dramaturgo e roteirista americano. Ele é o co-roteirista do filme "Gangues de New York" (2002), e escreveu e dirigiu "Você Pode Contar Comigo" (2000), "Margaret" (2011) e "Manchester à Beira-Mar" (2016). Lonergan também é conhecido por seu trabalho como dramaturgo. Suas peças mais notáveis incluem "This Is Our Youth", "Lobby Hero" e "The Waverly Gallery". Lonergan ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Roteiro Original por "Manchester à Beira-Mar", pelo qual também foi indicado para Melhor Diretor.

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title: Margaret

overview: 17-year-old Lisa feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in causing a traffic accident that claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right, she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and, most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course with the realities and compromises of the adult world.

character: Karl

original_title: Margaret

title: White Noise

overview: Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.

character: Dr. Hookstratten

original_title: White Noise

title: You Can Count on Me

overview: A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

character: Ron

original_title: You Can Count on Me

title: My Friends

overview: This intimate dramedy follows three friends, Rachel, River, and Paul, as they learn to be better to themselves and others over a long and boring summer week.

character: River's Dad

original_title: My Friends

title: Manchester by the Sea

overview: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

character: Manchester Pedestrian

original_title: Manchester by the Sea

title: Marie and Bruce

overview: A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate and committment.

character: Herb

original_title: Marie and Bruce

title: Debaters

overview: In a debate chamber, affluent high schoolers argue a bill on minimum wage in an effort to impress two working-class adult judges.

character: Ted

original_title: Debaters

job: Characters

title: Analyze That

overview: The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

original_title: Analyze That

title: Gangs of New York

overview: In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

original_title: Gangs of New York

title: Analyze This

overview: Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.

original_title: Analyze This

title: You Can Count on Me

title: You Can Count on Me

title: Margaret

title: Margaret

title: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

overview: Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into reality and team up with Fearless Leader, an evil criminal turned media mogul with some evil plans up his sleeve. Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the three of them before they wreak havoc.

title: Analyze This

title: Manchester by the Sea

title: Manchester by the Sea

title: I'm Still Here

overview: I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.

title: This Is Our Youth

overview: The play takes place in Dennis Ziegler's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in March 1982. Dennis's friend Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old, has just been kicked out of his house and stolen $15,000 from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father. Dennis, the more wily and domineering of the two, spends some of the money on cocaine, hoping to sell it to a friend for much more. Jessica Goldman, an "anxiously insightful" fashion student, comes over and Warren hopes that he can use the money to entice her into bed.  The play explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity, as well as the Reagan Era in which it is set: the characters feel adrift in 1980s-style materialism.

title: Tomorrow Is a Drag

title: Tomorrow Is a Drag

title: Margaret

title: White Noise

title: You Can Count on Me

title: My Friends

title: Manchester by the Sea

title: Marie and Bruce

title: Debaters

title: Analyze That

title: Gangs of New York

title: Analyze This

title: You Can Count on Me

title: You Can Count on Me

title: Margaret

title: Margaret

title: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

title: Analyze This

title: Manchester by the Sea

title: Manchester by the Sea

title: I'm Still Here

title: This Is Our Youth

title: Tomorrow Is a Drag

title: Tomorrow Is a Drag


Franz Kafka

biography: Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.

Theatre Night

job: Short Story

overview: A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

original_name: Theatre Night

Folio

overview:
Folio, a precursor to CBC's renowned fine-arts series Festival, aired for four years starting in 1956. The series showcased original dramas, music compositions, and ballets, many originating from diverse regions across Canada. Notable episodes featured Barry Morse in a new staging of MacBeth, along with performances by Canadian talents like Robert Goulet and Sharon Acker. One of the highlights included a musical adaptation of the beloved Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Airing without sponsorship, Folio thrived until its conclusion in the fall of 1960.

Producers: Robert Allen, Harvey Hart, David Greene, Mario Prizek and Ronald Weyman.

original_name: Folio

Screen Two

job: Novel

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

original_name: Screen Two

Theatre 625

overview: Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

original_name: Theatre 625

Linhas Cruzadas

job: Dramaturgy

department: Crew

original_name: Linhas Cruzadas

Thirty-Minute Theatre

overview: An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

original_name: Thirty-Minute Theatre

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弗朗茨·卡夫卡

biography: 弗朗茨·卡夫卡是一位德语犹太裔小说家与短篇故事作家，被广泛视为20世纪文学的重要代表人物。他的作品融合现实主义与奇幻色彩，常以孤独的主人公为核心，展现其面对荒诞离奇的困境与难以理解的社会官僚力量时的处境。其作品多被解读为对异化、存在焦虑、罪责与荒诞主题的深刻探索。

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弗朗茨·卡夫卡

biography: 弗朗茨·卡夫卡是一位德語猶太裔小説家與短篇故事作家，被廣泛視為 20 世紀文學的重要代表人物。他的作品融合現實主義與奇幻色彩，常以孤獨的主人公為核心，展現其面對荒誕離奇的困境與難以理解的社會官僚力量時的處境。其作品多被解讀為對異化、存在焦慮、罪責與荒誕主題的深刻探索。

title: Kafka Goes to the Movies

overview: While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's journals about his own moviegoing. Zischler, who also wrote a book of the same title, spent the next twenty-five years combing through archives and libraries to locate many of the now-extinct films cited by Kafka in his journals. The result is a witty conjecture on the Czech writer's fascination with film and Zischler's fascination with Kafka.

character: self

original_title: Kafka geht ins Kino

original_language: de

title: The Trial

overview: Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

original_title: Le Procès

title: Rider on a Bucket

overview: Happened in Prague on a cold February evening, 1917: the poor violinist's atrium runs out of coal and his dancing mouse becomes ill. The coal bucket is empty, and without sparing any effort, the faithful bucket rides its master through the air towards the home of the carbon trader...

original_title: Hiilisangolla ratsastaja

original_language: fi

title: The Chamber Stork

overview: The second part of the Kafka trilogy. In the evening, the fluffy bookmaker arrives at his home, in the elevator engine room, and finds an immense, humming egg on his table.

original_title: Kamarihaikara

title: The Country Doctor

overview: An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards.

original_title: Maalaislääkäri

title: The Burrow

overview: Being the story of a critter and his "perfect" burrow. A stop-motion animation by Forrest Rice. Based on the original story by Franz Kafka.

original_title: The Burrow

job: Author

title: America

overview: A story about growing up, making decisions, and the daily cruelty of the world, based on an unfinished novel by Franz Kafka. An older servant seduces Karl Rossmann in his family home. To avoid scandal, Karl’s parents send him to America, where he is thrown into the vortex of a strange and ruthless world. He begins an endless journey in search of his place in an unknown country.

original_title: Ameryka

original_language: pl

title: The Castle

overview: When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.

original_title: Das Schloß

title: Artist of Fasting

overview: A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

original_title: 断食芸人

title: The Metamorphosis

overview: Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

original_title: A Metamorfose

title: Class Relations

overview: A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

original_title: Klassenverhältnisse

title: The Trial

overview: An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

original_title: Proces

title: The Trial

overview: Franz Kafka’s novel moved to today’s Japan

original_title: 審判

title: K.aF.ka - Fragment

overview: An experimental study about the love between Franz Kafka and his adored Felice based on their correspondence.

title: Jackals and Arabs

overview: A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris.

title: Métamorphose

overview: One morning, after a night of anguish, a symptom of an unconscious revolt, a man wakes up transformed. He tries to reach his parents who knock on his door. With painful effort, he manages to open the door, but at the sight of him, frightened and disgusted by his disturbing strangeness, his parents close the door on him. Placed outside the world and desperately alone, he will have to endure the process of annihilation that is set upon him.

title: The Metamorphosis

overview: As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

title: The Trial

overview: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.

title: Az ítélet

title: Kafka: Proces

overview: Mauro Bigonzetti's ballet based on Franz Kafka, performed by the National Theatre Ballet. Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, fascinated by the irresistible language of Prague native Franz Kafka and the enduring relevance of his novel "The Trial," was drawn into the dark world of Josef K and created a modern dance production depicting the world of the protagonist and his hopeless struggle with a cold and heartless modern society. Bigonzatti used music by a number of composers from different historical periods, from D. Buxtehude to H. Górecki, C. Monteverdi, and M. P. Mussorgsky. This selection is remarkably balanced and surprisingly contemporary.

title: "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.

overview: Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

original_title: "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.

title: The Hunger Artist

overview: Set in a city both past and present, on a deserted street where only the distant sounds of life blow by. The Hunger Artist stands alone, locked in his cage. Once famous and adored by the crowds, he now performs alone.

title: K

overview: Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

title: The Country Doctor

overview: Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.

title: The Castle

overview: Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.

title: The Island of the Dead

overview: A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

title: The Judgment

overview: Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

title: The Toledo Report

overview: A series of 15 prints inspired by "A Report for an Academy" by Franz Kafka, provokes this look at the life of the artist and social activist Francisco Toledo.

title: Metamorphosis

overview: Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from Gregor's point of view, continuing to explore themes of alienation, family duty, and the absurdity of modern life as the Samsa clan cope with how to go on with the situation at hand.

title: La Metamorfosi

overview: The short film, a collaboration between the multimedia research group Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici and Loretta Mugnai, combines both film and electronic elements. It is an adaptation of the famous story by Kafka. Julia Anzillotti portrays Mrs. Samsa, known for her work with the Italian theater-dance group Parco Butterfly, while Rolando Mugnai of the Magazzini plays Mr. Samsa, having previously performed in computer comics by GMM. Teresa De Sio makes a friendly appearance as an ironic Grande Diva who communicates solely through soprano vocalizations, accompanied by comedian Daniele Trambusti as her interpreter. The true core of the story consists of the Samsa household televisions, which emphasize and amplify the narrative's emotions.

title: L'arresto

overview: Film based on the first chapter of Kafka's “The Trial.”

title: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

overview: An animated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s acclaimed novella, “The Metamorphosis,” made from carving images into sand with glass.

title: Bättre utan hund

overview: On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.

title: The Damned Yard

overview: In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Inspired by the novel The Damned Yard by Nobel Prize-winning Bosnian writer Ivo Andrić, this is a masterclass in slow cinema, a pure 16mm cinematic pleasure by André Gil Mata.

title: El prontuario del señor K

title: Metamorphosis

overview: This short follows Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". It is set in the modern world and shows the events leading up to Kafka's metamorphosis. Gregor is a young man working for a textile company, who breaks down mentally after his job becomes overwhelming. He slowly loses his sanity and touch with reality.

title: The Castle

overview: A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle.

title: Das Schloß

title: The Warden of the Tomb

overview: An nobleman question an aged grave warden, whose sickness seems to be due to the ghosts who haunt his workplace.

title: Amerika oder der Verschollene

overview: Young Karl Roßmann emigrates to the USA, meets a rich man whose money Karl initially lives off, but who soon throws him out again.

title: The Penal Colony

overview: A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.

title: The Metamorphosis

overview: A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed  into a large, monstrous beetle.

title: Une villa aux environs de New York

overview: Karl, a young immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York who jealously watches over the education of his nephew. A friend, Mr. Pallunder invites Karl to spend a night at his house. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl agrees. On the way, Karl realises he may have displeased his guardian. His desire to turn back will be prevented.

title: Linna

overview: Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.

title: Procesas

overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka.

title: The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka

overview: Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.

title: Amerika

overview: Vladimír Michálek chose an unconventional adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel for his feature debut. Artistically reminiscent of the classic films of Karel Zeman, the director reinterpreted this dark story of a man vainly seeking a place in a rigidly ordered society by changing the desperate conclusion into a happy end. The film provided Czech comedian Jirí Lábus with a new kind of role: that of the despotic uncle of a main hero Karel Rossman (Martin Dejdar).

title: Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door

overview: In director Norith Soth's modern retelling of Franz Kafka's classic tale, young Tom Gregor wants nothing more than to support and serve his family -- a mission that falters when he's overcome by a mysterious illness. With his parents too old to work and his younger sister turning to prostitution, things go from bad to worse when Tom's abusive boss fires him -- but then continues to show up at his house -- and his health fails to improve.

title: Metamorphosis

overview: Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.

title: K

overview: Three stories. We see, but little is explained. In "The Married Couple," a salesman pays a call on an old customer who is with his wife in the upstairs bedroom of their ill adult son. Another salesman may beat him to the punch, but not before disorienting changes. A maid scrubs the floor. "In the Penal Colony": a man arrives at a penal colony where an officer demonstrates a bizarre apparatus, one that punches a message into the skin of a prisoner strapped beneath it. Who will be punished? In "Fratricide," a man is murdered at night by someone he knows well. A woman grieves.

title: Metamorfosis

overview: A young man's family has trouble adjusting to his sudden transformation into a giant bug.

title: The Man Who Waited

overview: For his entire life, a man has waited outside a closed door. What lies behind? The truth he seeks or another door?

title: People in Places

overview: A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

title: Metamorphosis

overview: Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.

title: The Burrow

overview: KAFKA'S THE BURROW tells the story of a man's "metamorphosis" (as Kafka would put it) in a rapidly changing and increasingly isolated world. A man, who has seemingly achieved everything, ensconces himself in his burrow, a fortress-like apartment complex. But no matter how hard he tries to keep the outside world at a distance, he gets more and more entangled in his own web of fear and paranoia: those outside know he is there, they want him, they want his wealth, and they are inevitably going to get him ...

title: K

overview: A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".

title: Mr Rotpeter

overview: The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past and our recent reality. Mr Rotpeter's interest is strongly connected to human nature, society, politics, inner behaviours and emotions. Antonietta De Lillo's short movie will drag us into a very unique atmosphere, causing us a sense of disorientation and commotion.

title: The Great Wall

overview: ‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film.  In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.

title: Crust

overview: 12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

title: Human Body

overview: An adaptation of Kafka's "A Country Doctor". A doctor is to make out a death certificate to a little boy, but the disorder is different from what he assumed.

title: A Hunger Artist

overview: Based on Kafka's 1922 short story about a hunger artist.

title: A Report to an Academy

overview: An ape named Rotpeter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.

title: A Report to an Academy

title: Piquenique no Castelo

overview: Friends who intend to have a picnic at the Castle go through a bureaucratic tangle to obtain authorization for the picnic to take place. Based on the book "The Castle" by Franz Kafka.

title: The Mix-up

overview: Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis  loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

overview: A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers, who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.

title: Metamorphosis

overview: Based on 'Frank Kafka"s Metamorphose story, the documentary presents 2 metamorphosis of the present society: anorexia, as an disruption of our self-perception; depression, as an isolating illness ; and physically handicapped conditions, as mobility problems.

title: In Our Synagogue

overview: A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel.

original_title: אין אונדזער שול

title: Prosessen

overview: Adaptation of Kafka’s famous novel for Norwegian TV. Joseph K. discovers two policeme in his appartment, while in the middle of the morning routine. These men lead him into a nonsensical labyrith of a legal system.

title: Ein Brudermord

title: A Daily Mix-up

overview: A short film based on a story by Franz Kafka. Two men meet to resolve an issue, but are unable to do so due to a series of adverse circumstances.

title: Josephine the Singer and the Mice People

overview: The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina.

original_title: Співачка Жозефіна й Мишачий Народ

title: Les animals

title: La metamorfosis

overview: Gregor Samsa tries to get up to go to work, but realizes that during the night he has turned into a gigantic insect.  Venezuelan adaptation based on Jorge Luis Borges' translation of Franz Kafka's novel.

title: Odradek

overview: In a huge and empty neoclassical mansion surrounded by an indefinite war, the daughter of a bourgeois family returns from Europe bringing a Kafkaesque toy. Because of this object without specific usefulness, everyone in the family begins to discuss life and discover their own weaknesses and follies. This process of self-discovery will lead them to meet phobias, hypocrisies and prejudices, but also their most intimate truth.

title: An Imperial Message

overview: An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft.

title: Metamorphosis

overview: TV film of Steven Berkoff's stage adaption of Kafka's famous story in which a young man, who is the sole financial supporter of his family, awakes one morning in the form of a giant dung beetle and thereby becomes a nuisance to his family, who must now learn to rely upon themselves.

title: Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis

overview: Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis retells Franz Kafka’s account of human struggle as a young salesman finds himself morphed into an insect.  Captured live at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2024, this adaptation by poet Lemn Sissay OBE uses powerful lyricism, sound, and physicality to bring this tale of extraordinary transformation to life.

title: A Fratricide

overview: A man murders his brother in a crime of jealous passion. An adaptation of Franz Kafka's short story of the same name.

title: La Métamorphose

overview: A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

title: Lo strano caso del signor Kappa

title: The Village Doctor

overview: Based on a short story by Franz Kafka, Masloboyshchikov’s debut film is a parable about the relationship between faith and salvation. A strange doctor comes to a neighbouring village to cure a sick child. The doctor thinks the boy should stop pretending, but the boy himself begs the doctor to let him die.

original_title: Сельский Врач

title: The Metamorphosis

title: SapienZ

title: Metamorphosis

overview: Metamorphosis is a much darker retelling of Franz Kafka's classic providing a look into a modern family's reaction to their teenage son's revelation of his new identity, a hideous, human-sized cockroach.

title: Franz Kafka's THE BURROW

overview: Larry Cedar stars in Franz Kafka's THE BURROW, directed by Pamela Cedar, from an adaptation by Howard Colyer.

title: The Castle

overview: Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the locals as the Land Surveyor "summoned by the Governor himself." But he is denied work and a place to stay. The only person that doesn't turn her back on him is barmaid Frieda, lover of the powerful official Klamm. K. seeks a meeting with Klamm thinking that is the only way to get something out of the soulless bureaucratic machine. But without realizing it, he soon begins to play by its rules, setting himself up for inevitable defeat.

title: The Tragedy of Professor Samsa or: How Gregor Learned to Relax and Drink his Milk

overview: A man wakes up in an unpleasant predicament.

original_title: The Tragedy of Professor Samsa or: How Gregor Learned to Relax and Drink his Milk

title: 'GIVE IT UP!'

overview: Loosely based on Franz Kafka’s short story, 'GIVE IT UP!' is a live-action animation odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The narrative follows a lone salesman trapped in a timeless city, increasingly lost in his feverish dreams. Desperate, he races towards a train station as his last hope of escaping the city, encountering divine light, winding roads and the forces of bureaucracy. This deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurd humour and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but also elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness.

title: The Man Who Waited

title: Land Surveyor

overview: Animated film based on F. Kafka's work "The Castle". It was created at the studio of the Naumov brothers in 1993. Technology - plasticine lining.

title: Josefine

overview: This 14-minute film, inspired by Franz Kafka's last short story, "Josephine the Singer," and produced in collaboration with Maestro Broadcasting, is directed by Scottish Opera's resident filmmaker, Antonia Bain, and composed by former Emerging Artists resident composer Samuel Bordoli, with a libretto co-written by both. The soundtrack features Emerging Artist (2022/23) Zoe Drummond, a choir, and the Scottish Opera Orchestra, conducted by Susannah Wapshott.

title: Mutant Action

overview: Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception.

title: Appunti per un film su Kafka - Nella colonia penale

overview: A soldier is sentenced to death for failing to “honor his superior.”

original_title: Appunti per un film su Kafka - Nella colonia penale

title: The Hunger Artist

overview: A man starves himself for the entertainment of others.

title: The Judgement

overview: Georg writes a letter to his distant friend to announce his engagement. This seemingly ordinary act triggers a harrowing confrontation with his domineering Father.

title: The Metamorphosis

overview: When Gregório, a modest sales representative, mysteriously transforms into an insect, his social relationships and ties to the world begin to disintegrate. Tormented by incessant thoughts, he struggles to feel and remain human.

title: La porta divisoria

overview: Composed by Fiorenzo Carpi to a libretto by Giorgio Strehler based on Franz Kafka’s famous short story *The Metamorphosis*, this one-act opera is divided into five scenes and remains unfinished. The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale has commissioned Alessandro Solbiati to compose the fifth scene.

title: My Neighbor

overview: Based upon a short story (of the same name) by Franz Kafka, My Neighbor deals with anxiety and suspicion. This film was produced in conjunction with the Experimental Narrative Filmmaking class at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee during the spring of 2002.

title: Frühlings Sonate

title: Schron

title: Do You Know Kafka?

overview: A portrait of the German-language Czech writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924), a mysterious, strange and solitary individual, but also a visionary creator.

title: Do You Know Kafka?

title: Do You Know Kafka?

place_of_birth: Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

title: Kafka Goes to the Movies

title: The Trial

title: Rider on a Bucket

title: The Chamber Stork

title: The Country Doctor

title: The Burrow

title: America

title: The Castle

title: Artist of Fasting

title: The Metamorphosis

title: Class Relations

title: The Trial

title: The Trial

title: K.aF.ka - Fragment

title: Jackals and Arabs

title: Métamorphose

title: The Metamorphosis

title: The Trial

title: Az ítélet

title: Kafka: Proces

title: The Hunger Artist

title: K

title: The Country Doctor

title: The Castle

title: The Island of the Dead

title: The Judgment

title: The Toledo Report

title: Metamorphosis

title: La Metamorfosi

title: L'arresto

title: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

title: Bättre utan hund

title: The Damned Yard

title: El prontuario del señor K

title: Metamorphosis

title: The Castle

title: Das Schloß

title: The Warden of the Tomb

title: Amerika oder der Verschollene

title: The Penal Colony

title: The Metamorphosis

title: Une villa aux environs de New York

title: Linna

title: Procesas

title: The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka

title: Amerika

title: Metamorphosis: Beyond the Screen Door

title: Metamorphosis

title: K

title: Metamorfosis

title: The Man Who Waited

title: People in Places

title: Metamorphosis

title: The Burrow

title: K

title: Mr Rotpeter

title: The Great Wall

title: Crust

title: Human Body

title: A Hunger Artist

title: A Report to an Academy

title: A Report to an Academy

title: Piquenique no Castelo

title: The Mix-up

title: Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor

title: Metamorphosis

title: In Our Synagogue

original_title: אין אונדזער שול

title: Prosessen

title: Ein Brudermord

title: A Daily Mix-up

original_title: Співачка Жозефіна й Мишачий Народ

title: Les animals

title: La metamorfosis

title: Odradek

title: An Imperial Message

title: Metamorphosis

title: Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis

title: A Fratricide

title: La Métamorphose

title: Lo strano caso del signor Kappa

title: The Village Doctor

original_title: Сельский Врач

title: The Metamorphosis

title: SapienZ

title: Metamorphosis

title: Franz Kafka's THE BURROW

title: The Castle

title: 'GIVE IT UP!'

title: The Man Who Waited

title: Land Surveyor

title: Josefine

title: Mutant Action

title: The Hunger Artist

title: The Judgement

title: The Metamorphosis

title: La porta divisoria

title: My Neighbor

title: Frühlings Sonate

title: Schron