Abby, a college freshman, is determined to distance herself from her troubled past while also trying to resist her growing attraction to Travis, a charismatic bad boy. As time goes on, Abby and Travis become close friends which eventually leads to them falling in love. However, Travis is not interested in commitment and prefers one-night stands. Despite their differences, Abby and Travis must learn to trust each other and challenge their beliefs about relationships. Beautiful Disaster is a captivating story about two individuals overcoming their painful histories and finding solace in each other's arms.
Aquaslash is a horror-comedy movie about a group of teenagers who attend a graduation party at a water park. However, their celebration quickly turns into a nightmare as a mysterious killer starts murdering the attendees one by one. The movie combines elements of comedy and horror, providing a thrilling and entertaining experience.
In Short Circuit, a military robot named Number 5 is struck by lightning and gains human-like intelligence, leading him to befriend a young boy named Johnny. As Number 5 navigates the world and tries to escape capture, he learns about friendship, love, and what it means to be alive.
Miss Representation is a documentary that exposes how the media portrays women and how it influences the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. It examines the negative impact of media stereotypes, sexism, and objectification on women's empowerment and equality. Through interviews with notable figures and experts, the film reveals the harmful effects of media portrayals on women's self-esteem, body image, and aspirations. Miss Representation also highlights the importance of media literacy and advocacy to challenge and change these harmful narratives.
Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
Two out of work men come up with a money-making promotion to find the most beautiful woman in the world and to set up a raffle where the winner wins a date with her.
In Parts: The Clonus Horror, a politician discovers a secret facility where clones are being created for organ harvesting. As he uncovers the truth, he must escape from the evil doctor and the power elite behind the operation. With themes of nonpersonhood and government manipulation, this cult-favorite psychotronic film takes viewers on a thrilling and thought-provoking journey.
On a secluded prairie farm, adolescent boys labor in wheat fields for a sexually predatory warden and his farmhands, who threaten to feed them to a voracious beast if they ever disobey. The newly arrived Linus instantly catches the warden's eye, and begins to receive secret visitations from a mysterious girl. The other boys tell Linus the legend of a special boy who fled the farm and became a glorious angel that will one day return to free them all. When Linus asks the girl if she is the angel, her answer is enigmatic. After the warden's favorite boy dies, Linus is poised to become the next victim. The girl reappears and promises to help him escape, but with hope comes punishment.
The American Meme is a documentary that delves into the lives of social media influencers and explores the dark side of attaining celebrity status. It examines the lengths people go to attract attention and become famous, touching on themes of shallowness, objectification, and the pursuit of fame. The film also highlights the challenges and consequences that come with sudden fame and the soul-selling nature of the industry.
Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever since his early youth women with big breasts have fascinated him, because they symbolise a kind of earth mother to him. He has never had an especially close relationship with his own mother; she was too 'bony' for him. Object of Rene's fantasy is the actress Senta Berger, to him everything a woman should be. Standing by the blackboard and explaining the mathematical laws of sine and cosine ('sinus' is bosom in Latin), Rene sings the praises of the female curves and those of Santa Berger in particular. Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl let the former teacher speak freely about his obsessions and desires, intercutting his monologues with scenes from the protagonist's day-to-day life.
A documentary that follows a new piece of legislation on its way to Capitol Hill. The Internet Community Port Act, also known as CP80 or Community Port 80, asks that adult content be placed on separate channels (ports) on the Internet so that parents can keep it out of their homes and schools. What ensues is a ferocious debate between parents, pornographers, doctors, technologists, addicts, business owners and children. But one voice is missing: our political leaders.
Young people are discovering pornography at an increasingly early age. How does this early exposure affect them? Filmed in Europe and the United States, this is a comprehensive and nuanced scientific overview of a massive phenomenon.
A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agrees to assist his former professor in a cloning experiment in which a duplicate of himself is created -- and which then, with a mind and will of its own, falls in love with the biologist's wife.
The most beautiful man in the world, who, sick of being objectified, devises a plan to free himself of other's attention.
This documentary reveals the shocking truth behind Secret Project 4 1, a classified government experiment in the South Pacific that caused environmental destruction, radiation sickness, and forced relocation of indigenous people.
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women is a documentary from 1999 that delves into the way women are represented in advertising. It analyzes the impact of advertising on society, focusing on themes such as gender roles, femininity, objectification, and misogyny. The film aims to educate viewers about the harmful effects of these portrayals and advocate for equality.
In 'The Feminist on Cellblock Y', the film delves into the intersection of feminism and toxic masculinity within the confines of a prison. It examines the struggles of incarcerated individuals as they navigate traditional gender roles, objectification, and fitting in. The documentary also tackles topics such as drug addiction, suicide, and the impact of patriarchy in the prison system. Through the lens of gender stereotypes and the need for rehabilitation, it sheds light on the challenges faced by inmates in a patriarchal society.
Lesbian director Brigid McFall and lesbian photographer Vic Lentaigne create a series of intimate, revealing portraits of what it means to be lesbian in 2022, exploring why it is that so many young women who are sexually attracted to other women now prefer to identify as queer.
Filmmaker Chico Colvard investigates the propagation of demeaning representations of African-Americans. From industrial China to the rural American south to contemporary Brooklyn, we observe the people and places that reproduce, consume and reclaim BLACK MEMORABILIA. This feature documentary takes us on a journey into the material culture of racialized artifacts and confronts us with the incendiary features of these objects. BLACK MEMORABILIA also moves beyond perverse attractions and absolute objections to collectibles and antiques that serve as reminders of America's troubled racial history. In the midst of roiling ethnic unrest in the US today, the film's confrontation of our feelings about these objects strikes at the heart of a pressing contemporary issue and opens a unique dialogue about the continuing legacy of racism in America.