Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)

Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara

Once known for his intellectual prowess, a retired professor (Anupam Kher) begins experiencing memory gaps and periods of forgetfulness. But while he tries to laugh it off, it soon becomes clear that the symptoms are a sign of a more serious illness, prompting his grown daughter (Urmila Matondkar) to move in as his caretaker. Meanwhile, as his mind regresses, he recalls a traumatic childhood memory involving the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

Main Street

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

Maine Pyar Kiya

After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman's father that he is not the same as his own dad.

Sognando il ring

Quando l'undicenne Leo Thompson scopre una maschera da wrestling magica che gli conferisce una super forza, la usa per partecipare a un torneo della WWE. Con l'aiuto della nonna, Leo darà il massimo per realizzare il sogno di diventare una superstar della WWE. Ce la farà un ragazzino a battere tutti i temibili sfidanti e a diventare un campione?

Main Theme

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.

Main Aurr Mrs Khanna

Three people, each having different aspirations from life, are caught in a tangle of emotions and don’t know the way out. There’s a husband and wife with love eroding from their life. And there’s a single, happy-go-lucky dude who falls in love with the wife.

Travelling Hawkers in Frankfurt am Main

A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

Striking The Palace

Eva, 20, joins Safietou, Djaoua, Violette and Simone, a team of chambermaids at one of Paris’s finest Palace Hotels. She discovers the poor working conditions of these invisible women, who work tirelessly to keep the high standards of these luxurious hotels, where one night can cost their annual salary. Many are not even employed by the hotels directly but by sub-contractors, and are therefore particularly vulnerable. While on strike to fight against subcontracting and to obtain better working conditions, they come up with a colorful idea : having their own “Fashion Week” in front of the hotel!

Dil Ke Jharoke Main

Suman and Vijay Rai are childhood friends who are heart-broken when Suman's dad decides to move away. Both have a heart tattooed on their arm to remember each other for the rest of their lives. Years later, they unknowingly meet each other, however Suman is married to Vijay's brother, Prakash, while Vijay is married to a wealthy woman, Rita.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.

Puce Moment

Puce Moment is a short 6 minute film by Kenneth Anger, author of the Hollywood Babylon books, filmed in 1949. Puce Moment resulted from the unfinished short film Puce Women. The film opens with a camera watching 1920s style flapper gowns being taken off a dress rack. The dresses are removed and danced off the rack to music. (The original soundtrack was Verdi opera music; in the 1960s, Anger re-released the film with a new psychedelic folk-rock soundtrack performed by Jonathan Halper.) A long-lashed woman, Yvonne Marquis, dresses in the purple puce gown and walks to her vanity to apply perfume. She lies on a chaise lounge which then begins to move around the room and eventually out to a patio. Borzois appear and she prepares to take them for a walk.

The Severed Heads

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.

In His Hands

In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.

The Overworked

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?

Dr Samir is an absolute charmer when it comes to women, but he poses as a married man to keep them at bay. Love becomes a three-ring-circus for him after he ends up tangled in his web of lies with his girlfriend Sonia and pretend wife Naina.

Maine-Ocean Express

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Nightmare

Un gruppo di adolescenti è tormentato e decimato dal misterioso Freddy Krueger, un killer terribilmente sfigurato che appare e gli dà la caccia nei loro sogni. Addormentarsi può essere fatale e l'unica via di fuga è restare svegli.

The Warrior - The Iron Claw

La famiglia Von Erech ha avuto enorme successo nel circuito del Wrestling degli anni 80, rendendo famosa la mossa detta Iron Claw, ossia una presa alla testa con pressione su diversi punti del cranio. Ma la famiglia è anche segnata dalla sfortuna e, soprattutto, da relazioni fortemente competitive e tossiche, alle quali diversi figli del patriarca Frizt finiranno per non sopravvivere.

Scary Movie

Tutto ha inizio con l'assassinio della bellissima studentessa liceale Drew Decker. I suoi compagni di classe scoprono che c'è un serial killer intorno a loro, anche se non sembra troppo originale... i suoi 'modi operandi' sono infatti ispirati ai classici horror degli ultimi anni. Cindy e i suoi amici devono proteggersi dal pericolo in ogni modo.

Main Tera Hero

Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.

Main Krishna Hoon

In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.

Main Hoon Na

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

Main Atal Hoon

Statesman and poet Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee's eloquence and vision shaped India's destiny. A look at his remarkable life as he led his country through a challenging period of change and development as the 10th Prime Minister of India.

Ni Main Sass Kuttni 2

A vengeful mother-in-law locks horns with her daughter-in-law in a twisted tale laced with dark comedy, political intrigue, and chilling thrills.

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora

The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.

Rambo III

In un monastero buddista dove cerca la pace spirituale, Rambo apprende che il suo ex colonnello è stato catturato dai sovietici in Afghanistan.

Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar

To earn extra cash, Mickey helps couples break up — but life gets complicated when he falls for Tinni, a career woman with an independent streak.

Annabelle

Capace di malvagità atroci, la bambola è custodita in un museo dell’occulto nel Connecticut – visitato solamente da un prete che la benedice due volte al mese. John Form ha trovato il regalo perfetto per sua moglie che è incinta, Mia, una bellissima e rara bambola vintage che indossa un abito da sposa bianco candido. Ma la felicità di Mia per il dono della bambola durerà molto poco. Durante una notte terrificante, la loro abitazione viene invasa da una setta satanica che attacca violentemente la coppia, lasciandosi dietro terrore e sangue. I membri della setta hanno creato un’entità talmente malvagia che nessuna delle atrocità commesse quella sera potranno eguagliare la crudeltà di cui è capace la dannata…Annabelle.

Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII

The next Saturday Night’s Main Event primetime special will air live on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 8/7 C on NBC and simulcast on Peacock. The special will be held at Frost Bank Center – home of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs – in San Antonio, Texas.

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

Rahul and Riana meet each other for the first time, get drunk, and awake the next morning to find that they have gotten legally married to each other.

The Latino List

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Afro Promo

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The James Dean Story

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Das Boot – Welterfolg aus der Tiefe

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Miyazaki, l'esprit de la nature

Focus sull'artista giapponese Hayao Miyazaki, autore che è diventato quasi una leggenda nel mondo dell'animazione con i suoi film, cortometraggi e manga, facendo diventare lo Studio Ghibli un'icona di garanzia nell'industria dell'intrattenimento. Grazie all'autorizzazione dello Studio il documentario ha potuto usufruire di estratti delle opere del Maestro e rari filmati di archivi telvisivi giapponesi.

Dinosaurus

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Le cinque variazioni

Un viaggio cinematografico sotto forma d inchiesta, un vero e proprio film di ricerca in cui i preconcetti e le opinioni dei due registi vengono continuamente messi in discussione. Il punto di partenza è il cortometraggio _Det perfekte menneske_, realizzato da Jørgen Leth nel 1967. Lars von Trier chiede all'amico di realizzarne cinque diversi remake e, ogni volta, impone ostruzioni differenti.

Room 999

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His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th

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Loose Change

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Herederos de la bestia

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Montgomery Clift

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The Pixar Story

L’evoluzione dei film d’animazione si intreccia inevitabilmente con la turbolenta e spettacolare storia della Pixar, studio d’animazione fondato da George Lucas e finanziato anche da Steve Jobs prima di essere acquistato dalla Disney.

Heckler

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A Gray State

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Filmworker

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Overnight

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Ici et Ailleurs

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Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers

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Christopher Reeve : Le Superman Éternel

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