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Sherlock Holmes and the Stolen Emerald (2013)

Actors: Tom Bonington (actor), Canelle Hoppe (actress), Daniel Garcia (actor), Anna Fiertag (actress), Meriadec Perrin (writer), Jesmond Murray (actress), Amy Leyshon (miscellaneous crew), Darryl Neville (actor), David Forde (actor), Robert Cook (actor), Céline Terranova (director), Céline Terranova (editor), Céline Terranova (producer), Céline Terranova (writer), Ryan Hogan (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Sherlock Holmes and the Stolen Emerald is a six-minute comedic short film, inspired by the great silent comedies of Charlie Chaplin. Based on the idea that Watson is the real genius of the duo, it features several characters dressed in exuberant steampunk attires.

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short,

Speed Date (2010)

Actors: Valene Kane (actress), Steven Mitchell (editor), Steven Mitchell (producer), Michael Montgomery (producer), Steven Mitchell (writer), Michael Montgomery (writer), Steven Mitchell (director), Michael Montgomery (director), Andrew Dougall (producer), Jon Nicholls (composer), Katie Mitchell (producer), Katie Mitchell (writer), Kevin Mitchell (actor), David Hamilton (actor), Gordon McLeod (actor),

Plot: A silent, short romantic comedy set in the world of speed dating. An unnamed girl watches herself in the mirror as she gets ready for the 'speed date'. Her hopes and dreams are pinned on this one night. Will she find the man of her dreams or her worst nightmares? And will she come to realize that true love is always in the last place you look? Using music and colour, 'speed-date' weaves together a heartwarming story about finding that special someone who understands us as we truly are. Each character in the story has their own 'song'; a piece of music that represents and defines them. To find true love, the girl must find that special someone whose song 'mashes' with hers to create a new one.

Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance, Short,

Carnies (2010)

Actors: Jed Rowen (actor), Doug Jones (actor), Lee Perkins (actor), Reggie Bannister (producer), Ford Austin (actor), Camden Toy (actor), Reggie Bannister (actor), Mighty Mike Murga (actor), Al White (actor), Denise Gossett (actress), Gigi Fast Elk Porter (producer), Gigi Fast Elk Porter (actress), José J. Herring (composer), Sean Clark (actor), Tony Simmons (actor),

Plot: Sawdust in the Blood used to be a Carny compliment...not a description of a crime scene. There are a thousand sideshows playing thousands of small towns in 1936 when the Knuckles Brothers Show rolls into yet another town, ready to delight and dazzle the town folk with amazing acts and puzzling oddities. As they set up their tents they could not know that within days several of them would be dead, ripped savagely apart by a seemingly inhuman force, their souls stolen from their limp and bloody bodies. Step up, step up, ladies and gentlemen, the show is about to begin...

Genres: Thriller, Horror,

The Wizard of Gore (2007)

Actors: Joshua Lou Friedman (actor), Crispin Glover (actor), Evan Seinfeld (actor), Jeremy Kasten (editor), Jeremy Kasten (director), Jeffrey Combs (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Jeremy Kasten (producer), Kip Pardue (actor), Stephen Andrzejewski (miscellaneous crew), Bijou Phillips (actress), Elisa Forni (miscellaneous crew), Laura Irvine (miscellaneous crew), Steve Porcaro (composer), Minnie Duerr (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Montag the Magnificent (Glover) is a master illusionist who performs at underground venues, selecting female volunteers from his rave-like audiences. To their hysteria, it appears he's dismembered their bodies, but his sleigh of hand has fooled them. However, female bodies show up dead from the same wounds performed on stage. Investigators are baffled, and the chase to find the killer begins.

Keywords: bare-breasts, blood, burned-to-death, dead-woman-with-eyes-open, decapitation, disembowelment, female-frontal-nudity, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, full-frontal-nudity
Genres: Horror, Mystery,
Taglines: What are you afraid of?

Quotes:

Montag the Magnificent: Just look at you. Just look at her, folks. In her armor, her shell. Just look at yourselves. Ridiculous. To hide is useless, my little crabs. It is an exercise in futility. What you all are is pulp, when the rind is split wide open.

Montag the Magnificent: What are you afraid of? Exposure. We swim in a shark-infested cesspool, terrified that at any moment things will nip at us. Oh. Ha ha. They will nip at us, and they are hungry. They are those closest to us, our best friends. Our girlfriends. They are us.

Montag the Magnificent: What you are, what you all are, is meat. Cattle that will never escape from the herd.

Montag the Magnificent: Ladies and gentlemen, when you come to my house, you are stripped. This show is about what's on the inside, what is inside you. Is it beautiful? Or is it ugly?

Dr. Chong: Now here is where you come in. I had a girl, one that left me a week before, a real thoroughbred of a girl, had it in for one of my best clients. This guy put so much money on her, it was like he had her on layaway already, so I cut her loose with my blessing.::Edmund Bigelow: And her name is Maggie, right?::Dr. Chong: Merry Christmas, Scoop. From here on, find your own way.

Edmund Bigelow: We met at church.::Maggie: That was a joke that I made up on the spot, remember? It's like our lives started that night. And before that, you were just a whore, and I was a bad man. And our lives now are just an illusion.

Montag the Magnificent: Eyes front. You cannot move. You cannot even know if you are really here. One of magic's many beauties is that the illusion can begin long before the audience even knows it is going to be tricked. Trick. A word with so many meanings. You fake your own reality. You, the things that you believe about yourself. Delusions. The things that you tell yourself. Lies. Are you ready for the truth?

Montag the Magnificent: Ling Chi: Death by a thousand cuts. I will cut you piece by piece. I will open you up, then you can see I am not the magician. I am the trick. Like you, I am a prop to be used for this final trick. I will let out what the magician added to you, and once you are truly opened up, you can put the pieces together. In this world, there are two kinds of people: fools and visionaries. The fool sees the solution, the magician intends him to see. Which one are you? The fool or the visionary?::Edmund Bigelow: The visionary. Escaped visionary. Go ahead. Cut me more, because the more you cut, the more I bleed, and the more I bleed, the more you lose your hold on me.::Montag the Magnificent: That... That was just a means to an end. But you and what you have accomplished, that you have always had within you. The only reason that you haven't seen it is because magic is all about misdirection. But you don't have direction.::Edmund Bigelow: I think now I do.

Edmund Bigelow: Now I live backstage. From my spot here, I can make people dance to whatever tune I want them to.When they come to my house, I hold their lives in my hands. They don't have to see me, and I don't have to parade. I know what's inside me, and whenever I want, I can see everything that's inside of them, if you catch my drift. You wonder how in the hell I got to this place. You should be asking, what took me so long.

The Cools (2006)

Actors: Thomas Russell (producer), Jed Cowley (actor), Justin L. Cook (actor), Justin L. Cook (producer), Lauren Moss (miscellaneous crew), Paul Tuft (writer), Paul Tuft (director), Paul Tuft (editor), Wen-Chia Chang (producer), Paul Tuft (producer), Melissa Brady (actress), Ian Pettigrew (miscellaneous crew), William Newman (actor), Marie Sharon (actress), Ekitzel Wood (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Short,
Taglines: A film student who stands up for form and content.

Hard-bitten (2004)

Actors: Richard Azurdia (actor), Stephanie Thorpe (actress), Marc-Andre Samson (director), Marc-Andre Samson (writer), Ryan Parks (actor), Susan Doepner-Senac (costume designer), CJ (actor), Shawn Barber (actor), Milton Snell (actor), Molly Hawkey (actress), Tori King (actress), Anthony Mendoza (actor), Sam English (actor), Shelly Weiss (actor), Sandra Snell (actress),

Plot: A dog mauling case. Someone's dog attacked poor Carlos Chavez. Sergeant Tom Harris, from the LAPD, decides it would be better to send the dog to the pound. But here's the problem: Some people claim the animal belongs to the Mayor while others say it's only a stray dog. Of course, the Mayor's dog couldn't end up at the pound! But on the other hand, can Harris leave an irresponsible dog owner unpunished? Now caught in a troubling dilemma, how far will Harris go to save face?

Keywords: drugs, los-angeles-california, police, pug
Genres: Comedy, Short,

Soundtracks Live (2004)

Actors: Amy Poehler (writer), Will Arnett (actor), Michael Ian Black (actor), Tina Fey (actress), Amy Poehler (actress), Maya Rudolph (actress), Fred Armisen (actor), Ken Marino (actor), Paul Rudd (actor), Michael Showalter (actor), David Wain (actor), Rachel Dratch (actress), Jon Glaser (actor), Jack McBrayer (actor), Amy Miles (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Music,

Undressed (1999)

Actors: Jason Ritter (actor), Adam Brody (actor), Mari Wilson (miscellaneous crew), Lori Grabowski (miscellaneous crew), Brian White (actor), Jean Beaudoin (editor), Rachelle Lefevre (actress), Arthur Tarnowski (editor), Jay Hernandez (actor), Damon Lindelof (writer), Lance W. Lanfear (miscellaneous crew), Lance W. Lanfear (miscellaneous crew), Amy Weber (actress), Jessica Morris (actress), Karri Lucas (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Lois: As far as I'm concerned, men are like razors. After you use them once, they start to get dull.

Tucker: Lois, looks like you're celebrating. Did you get the job?::Lois: No, but I bought a lot of stuff to drown my sorrows.

Lois: I mean, it's not like I'm trying to break anyone's heart. Its not revenge or anything.

Passion in the Sun (1964)

Actors: Dale Berry (writer), Dale Berry (director), Dale Berry (producer), Dale Berry (actor), Charles Martinez (producer), Josette (actress), Enrique Madariaga (writer), Raymond Lear (editor), Gregg Pappas (actor), Bill Rhodes (actor), Rain Drop (actress), Mai Kai (actress), Liza Marina (actress), Molly Goldberg (actress), Dee Dent (actress),

Plot: A stripper on a flight to Las Vegas has a stopover in a small Texas airport. She gets taken hostage by two Cuban gangsters on the run from the cops, witnesses one thug kill the other and is chased across the desert by the killer, stopping only for some skinny-dipping.

Keywords: amusement-park, circus-freak, dressing-room, exploitation, female-nudity, gangster, geek, independent-film, kidnapping, las-vegas-nevada
Genres: Horror,

Nightmare Alley (1947)

Actors: Clancy Cooper (actor), Taylor Holmes (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), George Chandler (actor), George Beranger (actor), Al Herman (actor), James Burke (actor), George Davis (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), James Flavin (actor), Harry Cheshire (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Edward Clark (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Robert Karnes (actor),

Plot: The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he meets the psychologist Lilith Ritter and he finds that she tapes the sessions with her clients from the high-society. The trickster Stan envisions a scheme to raise a high amount of money swindling rich people. But his ambition brings him back to the life in the sideshow.

Keywords: 1940s, alcohol, alcohol-poisoning, alcoholic, androgyny, arrest, based-on-novel, bath, beer, bellboy
Genres: Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: He was all things to all men ... but only one thing to all women!

Quotes:

Pete Krumbein: Throughout the ages, man has sought to look behind the veil that hides him from tomorrow. And through the ages, certain men have looked into the polished crystal... and seen. Is it some quality of the crystal itself, or does the gazer merely use it to turn his gaze inward? Who knows? But visions come. Slowly shifting their forms... visions come. Wait. The shifting shapes begin to clear. I see fields of grass... rolling hills... and a boy. A boy is running barefoot through the hills. A dog is with him. A... DOG... is... with... him.::Stanton Carlisle: Yes... go on... his name was Jib. Go on!::Pete Krumbein: [Choked laughter] Humph. See how easy it is to *hook* 'em!

Carny #1: How can a guy sink so low?::Carny #2: He reached too high...

Pete Krumbein: Every boy has a dog.

Stanton Carlisle: It takes one to catch one.

Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounced him man. But beneath that shaggy mane of hair lies the brain of a beast.

Pete Krumbein: Throughout the ages, man has sought to look behind the veil that hides him from tomorrow. And through the ages, certain men have looked into the polished crystal, and seen. Is it some quality of the crystal itself? Or does the gazer merely use it to turn his gaze inward? Who knows? But visions come. Slowly shifting their form, visions come.

McGraw - Final Carnival Owner: Wait. I just happened to think of something. I might have a job you can take a crack at. Course it isn't much and I'm not begging you to take it, but it's a job.::Stanton Carlisle: That's all I want.::McGraw - Final Carnival Owner: And we'll keep you in coffee and cake. Bottle every day, place to sleep it off in. What do you say? Anyway, it's only temporary, just until we can get a real geek.::Stanton Carlisle: Geek?::McGraw - Final Carnival Owner: You know what a geek is, don't you?::Stanton Carlisle: Yeah. Sure, I... I know what a geek is.::McGraw - Final Carnival Owner: Do you think you can handle it?::Stanton Carlisle: Mister, I was made for it.