Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. As Max discovers new adventures, he begins to learn about himself and the power of empathy.
In Baghdad, a talented cobbler named Tack dreams of creating magical shoes. Meanwhile, a thief named Zigzag plans to overthrow the kingdom with the help of a wicked sorcerer. When Princess Yum-Yum is kidnapped, Tack and the thief must unite to save her and the entire kingdom.
Lily Powers, a young woman from a small town, uses her beauty and charm to manipulate men in order to climb the social ladder. Starting as a secretary, Lily seduces her way to the top, becoming a mistress and using her newfound power to exact revenge on those who wronged her.
The Lower Depths is a film that explores the lives of slum dwellers in 19th-century Japan. It delves into the struggles of the inhabitants, their romantic conflicts, and the complex relationships amongst them. The story navigates themes of love, social class, and the human condition.
After her divorce, Luna returns to her family farm in Seattle with her young son. She reconnects with her roots and finds unexpected romance during the harvest festival.
A man returns to Paris after being imprisoned for many years, only to find himself caught up in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. He becomes entangled in a love triangle and must make choices that will affect not only his own life, but the lives of those around him.
In this drama/romance film, a new kid in town named Mariano experiences the joys and challenges of growing up in Lisbon, Portugal. He befriends a housemaid named Fernanda and learns the trade of shoemaking from a kind cobbler. Together, they navigate the complexities of love, friendship, and the working-class life.
William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800's. Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time.
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
A young Hans Christian Andersen goes in search of knowledge in the Garden of Paradise in order to make his studies easier. Each time he falls asleep, he experiences in his dreams the different characters he would later write about in fairy tales including The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes.
A film about a life cycle of a shoe. From being bought and worn and then torn by a very rich man to a very different life with a very poor man and it keeps going on as the shoe seemingly gains much experience with the "human life"
A poor cobbler feeds his last crust of bread to some birds that are really elves, who show their gratitude by finishing all his work while he sleeps.
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
To the tune of The Nutcracker, a number of elves do all the work in a shoe shop.
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Panurge, a poor laundress, breathes in the smell of fish glue all day long but grows a meager flower in a tin can. He falls in love with the washerwoman, whose virtue is threatened by Fred's feline seduction. But Panurge and his gentle melancholy disarm fate.
Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.
Poor and unappreciated writer besieged by producer of cinema to give consent for turning a book into a movie.
This animated Cold War film commissioned by the U.S. Information Service tells the story of a cobbler who gradually becomes interested in politics due to business challenges in the 1780s. He becomes a supporter of the new U.S. Constitution, then a delegate to his state ratifying convention. The film sketches the reasons for the Constitutional Convention, the debates in Philadelphia, and the structure of the federal government. It was created for foreign audiences.