Lost in Coney Island (2012)

Actors: Richard Bird (actor), Eric Spade Rivas (editor), Eric Spade Rivas (actor), Eric Spade Rivas (director), Sarah Schoofs (actress), Bob Van Lindt (actor), Alessa Aichinger (actress), Shobit Manchanda (actor), Mark A. Ortiz (actor), James Farley (actor), Andrew Ayala (actor), Sara Jecko (actress), Laura Kiser (actor), Apache Ramos (actor), Antonio Nigro (actor),

Plot: New film From Diamond Minds- A film director on the set of coney island ready to shoot a remake of the 1979 cult classic the Warriors ' and who is in a repressed love situation with his production assistant. Is stuck on set after the bus being manned by Manuel Acevedo with all the warriors are on it crashes on the FDR drive. The director and girl are left in coney island to finally open up about feelings long withheld. When her jealous tattoo filled ex gets wind of the situation he starts a beef between the director of the film and the Outlaw biker community by spray painting the clubhouse of a biker club with the Warriors insignia leading them to the film maker. The ex arrives with his own crew to get the director as well. Action romance and the warriors. The use of real Outlaw bikers in film is a novelty. They usually keep to them selves. But with Mark Ortiz a seasoned Biker who helped get them into film this really makes a good comical wild ride thats similar to the Original Warriors in some ways. Film that started out trying to be the Warriors becomes the Warriors. Coney Island Film Festival Winner 2012 "Best Made in Coney"

Keywords: independent-film, remake
Genres: Action, Short,

Sparkle (2012)

Actors: Benjamin Benedetti (miscellaneous crew), Joel Schumacher (writer), Ruth E. Carter (costume designer), Howard Rosenman (producer), Howard Rosenman (actor), Howard Rosenman (writer), Whitney Houston (actress), Curtis Armstrong (actor), Ruth E. Carter (actress), Whitney Houston (producer), Michael Beach (actor), CeeLo Green (actor), Mike Epps (actor), Fatima Robinson (miscellaneous crew), Pamela B. Green (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama, Music,
Taglines: Celebrate the legend.

Nana (1983)

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Yehuda Efroni (actor), Tom Felleghy (actor), Paul Muller (actor), Massimo Serato (actor), Yoram Globus (producer), Menahem Golan (producer), Émile Zola (writer), Ennio Morricone (composer), Dan Wolman (director), Annie Belle (actress), Ugo Pericoli (costume designer), Francesca Roberti (miscellaneous crew), Kent Adamson (miscellaneous crew), Ursula West (editor),

Plot: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims. She bankrupts him, arranges the debauching of his wife, and seduces his son on his wedding day. What else can she accomplish before she leaves Paris airborne?

Keywords: 1880s, affair, based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, cockfight, entertainer, erotica, europe, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Sparkle (1976)

Actors: Howard Rosenman (producer), Howard Rosenman (writer), Peter Brown (producer), Dorian Harewood (actor), Joel Schumacher (writer), Eugene Jackson (actor), Philip Michael Thomas (actor), Marie Kenney (miscellaneous crew), Beryl Vertue (producer), Irene Cara (actress), Sam O'Steen (director), Lonette McKee (actress), Lester Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Paul Lambert (actor), Mary Alice (actress),

Plot: Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem become singers. Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs, while Sparkle (Irene Cara) ends up being the one who gets famous. This film tells of how drugs ruin Sister's relationships and eventually end her life. It is also about the relationship between Sparkle and Stix (Philip Michael Thomas).

Keywords: african-american, alcoholism, backstage, blaxploitation, concert, domestic-violence, drug-addiction, drugs, fame, female-nudity
Genres: Drama, Music,

Quotes:

Sister: [after Delores and Sparkle discover her drug addiction] Can't you see? Sister can't fly on only one wing.....

Delores: We're old enough to iron for ourselves. You ain't our maid.::Effie: I always iron clothes for the ones that I love.::Delores: I suppose you love them crackers that you work for?::Effie: You watch your mouth. Now, go get your homework before I give you a sign in a place you won't forget.

Sparkle: What do you want?::Stix: Looking for a girl singer.::Sparkle: Didn't you know? This family's fresh out.::Stix: Sparkle...::Sparkle: When'd you get back?::Stix: A few days ago, my grams been real sick...::Sparkle: A few days ago. Must've been out when you called.::Stix: Sparkle... Look, I know how you feel.::Sparkle: I know you do. You know, it's funny. One brain in this room thinking for two people. Since when did you know how anybody feels? About anything except yourself, Mr. Stix Warren?::Stix: Look, Sparkle, we got a lot to talk about. But unless you talk about it, you know, just give me a chance.::Sparkle: Give you a chance? Wanna know something funny? When you first left, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to live without you. Yeah, I used to sit in this room and wondered if I would ever get through another second. Can you imagine a person so unhappy? To not know if they'd live through another second? I got through the second, Stix. Minutes, days, months, weeks. I'm doing fine without you. Just fine.::Stix: Sparkle, no matter what you think of me, I came back because I want you to sing. Why you think I been so busy since I been back? Got me a job at the record company, lined up all my old contacts...::Sparkle: You know, you were always so good at business, Stix. Business! BUSINESS!::Stix: And it's no truer than it is now. I want you to sing, Sparkle.::Sparkle: What have I got to sing about? Sticks, what have I got to sing about?::Stix: I loved Sister too. But what happened to Sister happened to Sister, not to you. You got your whole life. I want you to sing. Don't bury yourself with your sister.::Sparkle: Get out of here. Get out! Nobody ever understood Sister except me! Don't you ever, ever, use her name again! Get out of here! GET OUT!

Effie: [Effie comes in and hears a hallway door close] Delores? Is that you?::Delores: Yeah, Mama. [coming in the front room with a suitcase]::Effie: Where you going?::Delores: I'm leaving, Mama.::Effie: You're leaving for where?::Delores: I'm leaving and I'm going away.::Effie: What do you mean?::Delores: I mean... I can't live like this anymore, Mama. I gotta find another way.::Effie: Well, whatever troubles you got here [crossing to the living room and taking off her coat] are going right with you and that suitcase. [she sits on the couch ]::Delores: You don't understand, Mama. [sets down her suitcase] Like, there's education like there never was before. Mama, we don't have to slaves to the white establishment anymore. [Effie gets up and starts straightening up the room] We don't have to live off what the white man throws our way. Thanking him for his chicken-shit pay and chicken-shit jobs. We don't have to run around shining his shoes and driving his cars and cleaning his floors and being his ma - ...::Effie: [facing Delores] Go on, now, say it. Being their maid. Hmm?::Delores: Yeah, Mama. Being their maid. [near tears] Mama, I seen you, ever since I was a little kid, getting up in the middle of the night to take the subway to ride for two hours to go to their house, to do their cooking and to do their ironing and do their cleaning and wash the shit out of their toilet. And for what, Mama? For WHAT? [Delores picks up her suitcase and heads for the door] Bye.

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)

Actors: Colleen Brennan (actress), George 'Buck' Flower (actor), John F. Goff (actor), Uschi Digard (actress), Don Edmonds (actor), Don Edmonds (actor), Don Edmonds (director), Don Edmonds (producer), Richard Kennedy (actor), Dyanne Thorne (actress), Lynne Twentyman (miscellaneous crew), Max Thayer (actor), Marilyn Joi (actress), Skip E. Lowe (actor), Tanya Boyd (actress),

Plot: Finding a new employer, and looking not a day older since the end of World War II, Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves. An American millionaire's daughter, a movie star, and an attractive equestrian are among his latest victims.

Keywords: anger, arab, arabia, attempted-rape, attraction, b-movie, bare-breasts, bare-butt, beating, black-woman
Genres: Adventure, Horror,
Taglines: Ilsa's back! ...More fierce than ever! With brutal fury she enslaved an empire and shocked the world!

Nachtasyl (1974)

Actors: Carmen-Maja Antoni (actress), Maxim Gorky (writer), Jürgen Holtz (actor), Volkmar Kleinert (actor), Katharina Thalbach (actress), Rolf Ludwig (actor), Walfriede Schmitt (actress), Berthold Schulze (actor), Helga Raumer (actress), Helmut Straßburger (actor), Hans Teuscher (actor), Hildegard Alex (actress), Friedo Solter (actor), Gerd Biewer (actor), Alexander Papendiek (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Nachtasyl (1971)

Actors: Hermann Beyer (actor), Winfried Glatzeder (actor), Maxim Gorky (writer), Thomas Langhoff (actor), Heide Kipp (actress), Joachim Pape (actor), Gerd Funk (actor), Eckhard Becker (actor), Sonja Hörbing (actress), Jörg Gillner (actor), Renate Usko (actress), Joachim Schönitz (actor), Regine Albrecht (actress), Dieter Schindelhauer (actor), Jürgen Gosch (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla (1967)

Actors: Risto Aaltonen (actor), Sasu Haapanen (actor), Tapio Hämäläinen (actor), Paavo Jännes (actor), Arvo Lehesmaa (actor), Vesa-Matti Loiri (actor), Tarmo Manni (actor), Tauno Palo (actor), Joel Rinne (actor), Oiva Sala (actor), Pentti Viljanen (actor), Rauha Rentola (actress), Maxim Gorky (writer), Mikko Niskanen (director), Unto Salminen (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Nachtasyl (1959)

Actors: Paul Verhoeven (director), Konrad Georg (actor), Bum Krüger (actor), Georg Lehn (actor), Rainer Penkert (actor), Sigfrit Steiner (actor), Margot Trooger (actress), Maxim Gorky (writer), Paul Verhoeven (writer), Mario Adorf (actor), Pinkas Braun (actor), Lis Verhoeven (actress), William Trenk (actor), Martin Berliner (actor), Angelika Hurwicz (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Na dne (1952)

Actors: Maxim Gorky (writer), Aleksei Gribov (actor), Sergei Blinnikov (actor), Kira Golovko (actress), Pavel Massalsky (actor), Alla Tarasova (actress), Vladimir Yershov (actor), Vladimir Gotovtsev (actor), Andrei Frolov (director), Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (miscellaneous crew), Konstantin Stanislavski (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama,