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127 Total Short Movies Found, Now Showing Movies 1 through 30
Exhibit A: Leary Verses Hicks
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: EXHIBIT A: Leary Vs. Hicks is an experimental documentary meditation on the dangers of artistic theft in the world of stand-up comedy, and an expose on the little-known yet long-standing allegation that performer Denis Leary lifted much of his persona and act from fellow comedian Bill Hicks. Culled from hours of archive footage and presented here for the first time ever, the similarities in question are shown back-to-back allowing audiences to decide for themselves. ... more » Download Exhibit A: Leary Verses Hicks Movie |
See the Dead
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Sarah awakens to a dead world. As she struggles with her emotional traumas, she must survive the advance of nightmarish ghouls. ... more » Download See the Dead Movie |
Freeheld
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel - a veteran New Jersey detective - launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman's bitter fight to provide for the love of her life. ... more » Download Freeheld Movie |
Out of Water
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: On a family holiday at the seaside, misfit Maria is swept away by strange and unnatural passions in this blackly comic fairytale. ... more » Download Out of Water Movie |
Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A behind-the-scenes mockumentary of Tropic Thunder. ... more » Download Tropic Thunder: Rain of Madness Movie |
Mickey's PhilharMagic
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Stagehand, Donald Duck secretly puts on Mickey's sorcerer's hat and conducts an anthropomorphic symphony orchestra. But the proceedings go awry when the irascible Donald is sucked into the tuba and taken on a wild fantasy ride through a variety of musical numbers from classic Disney films. ... more » Download Mickey's PhilharMagic Movie |
Most
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty. ... more » Download Most Movie |
Chernobyl Heart
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: This Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster who have been born with a deteriorated heart condition. ... more » Download Chernobyl Heart Movie |
Rejected
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: An animator's commissioned works, rejected because of their increasingly absurd and violent tone (reflecting the animator's own progressive breakdown), eventually find their entire animated world collapsing in upon itself. ... more » Download Rejected Movie |
Partly Cloudy
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Everyone knows that the stork delivers babies, but where do the storks get the babies from? The answer lies up in the stratosphere, where cloud people sculpt babies from clouds and bring them to life. Gus, a lonely and insecure grey cloud, is a master at creating "dangerous" babies. Crocodiles, porcupines, rams and more - Gus's beloved creations are works of art, but more than a handful for his loyal delivery stork partner, Peck. As Gus's creations become more and more rambunctious, Peck's job gets harder and harder. How will Peck manage to handle both his hazardous cargo and his friend's fiery temperament? ... more » Download Partly Cloudy Movie |
Das Rad
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: The stone-people Hew and Kew have seen a lot in their everlasting lives on top of their mountain. Therefore they're only mildly amazed by the ongoings in the valley below, they've got their own little problems to deal with - But all of a sudden, Mankind is discovering and inventing, instead of just woozeling, and this new behavior starts to threaten Hew's and Kew's stoic peacefullness... ... more » Download Das Rad Movie |
Danger! 50,000 Zombies!
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: What would you do if suddenly all those who have died suddenly come back to life and try to eat you... more ... more » Download Danger! 50,000 Zombies! Movie |
The Ballad of Big Al
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: This new, extra chapter of _Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) (TV)_ focuses on an allosaurus later discovered in 1999 affectionately called "Big Al", who died as a late adolescent/early adult of six years of age. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who also narrated the original series. ... more » Download The Ballad of Big Al Movie |
For the Birds
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: This animated short starts with a group of small birds perched together on a telephone wire. When a much larger and awkward-looking bird arrives, the smaller birds reject him with taunts and insults. Still, he persists in trying to win their friendship, until at last the smaller birds decide to shove him from their perch. Only too late do they discover that there may be a problem with this plan. ... more » Download For the Birds Movie |
Sztuka spadania
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection. ... more » Download Sztuka spadania Movie |
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is a giant-screen film that tells the dramatic true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. A testament to heroism and human endurance, the 28-man crew survived nearly two years in the Antarctic when its ship, the Endurance, was trapped and then crushed by pack ice. ... more » Download Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Movie |
The Final Days
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A tongue-in-cheek look at President Clinton's final days in office. ... more » Download The Final Days Movie |
Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A parody on a safety instruction video for forklift drivers follows young Klaus as he begins his first day on the job as a qualified forklift truck driver. The film spoofs the original genre very effectively, notably through employing the best-known German narrator of instructional video clips on traffic safety for the voice-over. ... more » Download Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag Movie |
Life, Death, Afterlife, Etc.
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A surreal trip through the stages of life...like being buried alive, trying to reinsert brain matter or stabbing yourself in the ear with a pair of scissors. ... more » Download Life, Death, Afterlife, Etc. Movie |
Outsource
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: In a future world, Human Processing Units are bred to perform menial tasks for people on Earth. But when one HPU discovers he's not alone, he will do anything to make contact. ... more » Download Outsource Movie |
The Babysitter
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Allison is an 18-year-old high-school senior. She shows up for a babysitting job at the Jones' and discovers that they want her to watch their 20-something son, Jimmy, whose just broken up with his girlfriend. She says no, so they sweeten the pot, offering $100. After Mr. and Mrs. Jones leave, Jimmy asks Allison if she'd like a beer. Is this a set up? ... more » Download The Babysitter Movie |
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. The chance discovery of an abandoned dirigible leads Jasper through unchartered waters to an island on which lives a terrifying creature that may be the cure for the Plague. The journey back to civilization is filled with horrors but in a shocking climax, Jasper discovers that the greatest horror of all lies within man himself. ... more » Download The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello Movie |
Ward 13
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Ben is taken to hospital. But the hospital is not the one he would like to be in. After waking up in the hospital, Ben realizes that he's being held in an experimental hospital, where everything is mysterious. After seeing one experimental patient in the next room, Ben realizes that it is time to get out of the hospital as soon as possible. Go Ben, run for your life. ... more » Download Ward 13 Movie |
Harvie Krumpet
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck. After a childhood tragedy, he emigrates to Australia, where he has a succession of menial jobs, eventually ending up in a retirement home. Along the way, he has a string of bad luck, leaving him with, among other things, a steel plate in his skull that becomes a magnet. ... more » Download Harvie Krumpet Movie |
BURN-E
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: If BURN-E (a repair unit) had known how much trouble he'll be in because of WALL-E (the last cleaning robot from Earth), who is pursuing EVE (a robot sent to investigate if the situation on Earth has changed since the human kind left it), then he'd taken the day off. ... more » Download BURN-E Movie |
Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Wallace and Gromit try out a number of their latest inventions which rarely work as planned. ... more » Download Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions Movie |
Hoshi no koe
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: The story of the high school students Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao. When the alien Tarsians attack, Mikako volunteers to be a pilot in the space force that will protect mankind. The lovers try to remain in contact using cellular telephone text messages, but as each battle takes Mikako further from the Earth, each message takes longer to arrive. Will their love stand the tests of time and distance? ... more » Download Hoshi no koe Movie |
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A gang in a Volvo have staked out a flat; when its occupants leave to walk their dog, the six break into the place. One keeps his eyes on a stopwatch: they have only ten minutes before the couple returns. Instead of stealing things, the gang goes from room to room making fascinating percussive music with found objects: first in the kitchen, then the bedroom, the bathroom, and the salon. Cabinet doors, pot lids, light switches, a pill dispenser, a lamp, books, and a vacuum cleaner hose all add to the suite in four movements. The drummers keep the first three rooms tidy, but what will the flat's occupants make of the hurricane that hits the living room? ... more » Download Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers Movie |
Custody
Plot Summary / Mini-Review: Custody (2000) is a short post-modern screwball comedy about a custody battle. ... more » Download Custody Movie |
Deep Sea
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Plot Summary / Mini-Review: A 3-D digital exploration of the ocean's depths and its creatures. ... more » Download Deep Sea Movie |