The Dark Room (2012)

Actors: Scott Yarnell (miscellaneous crew), Scott Yarnell (actor), Scott Yarnell (producer), Amber Dawn Landrum (producer), Ron Fagan (actor), George Wilson (actor), Chevy White (actress), Christopher Alan Weaver (writer), Christopher Alan Weaver (director), Christopher Alan Weaver (actor), Christopher Alan Weaver (producer), Jamie Norwood (actor), Marshall Woodworth (editor), Marshall Woodworth (writer), Marshall Woodworth (producer),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Today Has Been Weird (2011)

Actors: Quentin Lee (producer), Quentin Lee (director), Quentin Lee (editor), Quentin Lee (writer), Steven Pranoto (composer), Quynh Mi (actress), Harrison Xu (actor), Yogi Omar (producer), Reid Anderson (actor),

Genres: Mystery, Short,

Veiled Truth (2006)

Actors: Leah Tanafranca (miscellaneous crew), Karen Austin (miscellaneous crew), Oliver De Caigny (miscellaneous crew), Sandra Montgomery (miscellaneous crew), John Sereda (composer), Scott A. Matthews (miscellaneous crew), Fulvio Cecere (actor), Kirk Shaw (producer), Emmanuelle Vaugier (actress), Lindsay MacAdam (producer), Nick Mancuso (actor), Kirk Shaw (producer), George Newbern (actor), Scooby Vincent (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Ramsay (actor),

Plot: Runaway Carolyn 'Angie' Owens and NYPC detective Kim M. are the bait in an NYPD entrapment where pimp Jake's brother Duane gets killed. Eleven years later, Jake is released from jail and seeks revenge. Carolyn is now married to unsuspecting senator Andy Logan, the devoted father of teenage jock Josh, in Spokane, Washington. Jake has already driven Kim to suicide (o staged it) and blackmails Carolyn. First for money, then to be visiting Russian mob baron Victor Graznev's escort 'once only'.

Keywords: bed, blackmail, boy, brother-brother-relationship, kidnapping, kissing, love
Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Monster's Ball (2001)

Actors: Albert T. Dickerson III (miscellaneous crew), Wendy Cutler (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Apostolina (miscellaneous crew), Carol Sutton (actress), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Michael Paseornek (producer), Heath Ledger (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Mos Def (actor), Halle Berry (actress), Peter Boyle (actor), Sean Combs (actor), John McConnell (actor), Eddie Frierson (miscellaneous crew), Charlie French (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.

Keywords: adult-diaper, african-american, anger, apostrophe-in-title, artist, automobile, automobile-accident, bar, battered-child, binge-eating
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A lifetime of change can happen in a single moment.

Quotes:

Sonny Grotowski: You hate me. You hate me, don't you? Answer me! You hate me don't you!::Hank Grotowski: Yes, I hate you. Always have.::Sonny Grotowski: Well I've always loved you.

Hank Grotowski: I wanna take care of you.::Leticia Musgrove: Good. Cuz' I need to be taken care of.

Lawrence Musgrove: I'm a bad man.::Tyrell Musgrove: Who says?::Lawrence Musgrove: I do.

Buck Grotowski: Who are you?::Leticia Musgrove: Um...::Buck Grotowski: You just walked in my house.::Leticia Musgrove: My bad. I thought...::Buck Grotowski: Hank? You lookin' for Hank?::Leticia Musgrove: Yes. Is he here?::Buck Grotowski: Who are you?::Leticia Musgrove: My name is Leticia Musgrove... and, uh... me and Hank is, uh... friends.::Buck Grotowski: Musgrove? Please, little darlin', have you got a cigarette?::Leticia Musgrove: Yeah, but it looks to me like you really don't need to be smoking.

Hank Grotowski: I went by our station on the way home... I like that sign. I think we're gonna be alright.

Hank Grotowski: What's that? Some kinda... some kinda annual... school annual or something?"

Leticia Musgrove: Make me feel good.

Ms. Guillermo: You must love him very much.::Hank Grotowski: No, I don't. But he's my father. So, there it is.

Hank Grotowski: Let's get this over quick.::Minister: is there a passage you'd like me to read?::Hank Grotowski: No, all I wanna hear is dirt hit that box.

Buck Grotowski: What the hell those niggers doing out there?

As the Sea Rages (1959)

Actors: Cameron Mitchell (actor), Arnfried Heyne (editor), Peter Carsten (actor), Jovan-Burdus Janicijevic (actor), Cliff Robertson (actor), Maria Schell (actress), Fritz Tillmann (actor), Nikola Popovic (actor), Dusan Vujisic (actor), Gunther Malzacher (actor), Carl Szokoll (producer), Jeffrey Dell (writer), Anton Reimer (actor), Walter Ulbrich (writer), Horst Hächler (director),

Plot: After five tears of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama,

A Crime Does Not Pay Subject: 'Forbidden Passage' (1941)

Actors: Albert Akst (editor), George Cleveland (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Carl Dudley (writer), Fred Zinnemann (director), Hugh Beaumont (actor), William Edmunds (actor), George Lessey (actor), Mitchell Lewis (actor), Dick Rich (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Julian Rivero (actor), William Tannen (actor), Morgan Wallace (actor), Harry Wilson (actor),

Plot: This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Does Not Pay", features the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

Keywords: bar, bartender, belize, boat, british-honduras, cargo, coffee, consulate, corpse, crime-does-not-pay-series
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short,

Ragtime Cowboy Joe (1940)

Actors: Roy Barcroft (actor), Buck Moulton (actor), Jack Clifford (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Jack Montgomery (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), Art Dillard (actor), Harold Goodwin (actor), William Gould (actor), Fuzzy Knight (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Dick Curtis (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Bob O'Connor (actor),

Plot: When Sam Osborne, owner of the Circle S Ranch, is killed by cattle rustler Bo Gillman, the outlaw is advised by crooked attorney Virgil Parker to report the "mysterious" killing to Osborne's daughter, Helen. Steve Logan, a stranger, is jailed for the crime. He escapes and learns of Parker's scheme to steal the Circle S. Steve presents his Cattleman's Protective Association credentials to the sheriff and receives assurances of aid. Steve's former sweetheart, Mary Curtis, confirms Parker's treachery. In a gun battle, Parker, Gillman and the rustlers are rounded up and the Circle S is saved for Helen. Steve and Mary take up their romance again.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, cowboy
Genres: Western,
Taglines: SERENADIN' with SIX-GUNS! A bold buckaroo and his croonin'side-kick...ready for bullets...or ballads! A bold buckaroo and his croonin' side-kick!

Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)

Actors: Miki Morita (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), William Austin (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Donald Crisp (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), John Eldredge (actor), Willie Fung (actor), George Irving (actor), Tetsu Komai (actor), Mitchell Lewis (actor), Keye Luke (actor), Edward McWade (actor), George Meeker (actor), Pat O'Brien (actor),

Plot: An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of fiction. The oil business was chosen because light has ever been symbolic of progress."

Keywords: based-on-novel, childbirth, china, cholera, clerk, communist, dog, drought, employer-employee-relationship, engagement
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The FLAMING HELL OF THE LAST FRONTIER (original print ad - mostly caps) A courageous young American and his bride --- fighting for happiness against ten centuries of darkness --- caught in a maelstrom of mystery, glamor, hatred, intrigue!

Quotes:

Hester Adams Chase: Two things matter to a man, the woman he loves and the work he does.

Young Chinese Soldier: We're in a time of social changes, and social changes cost money.

Stephen Chase: Face and tradition will exist in Chinese business as long as there is a Chinaman to transact it.