“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)
A film on a charming, 'unofficial' subject - authentic ethnographic record or exotica for western eyes?
Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.
In this educational film about personal hygiene, Harv and Marv are animated characters in the real world. When Marv says he wants to become human, Harv shows him that real people have to bathe, wash their hands and teeth, and mind their appearance.
Alt ånder tilsyneladende fred og ro i den lille ferieby Amity i New England, hvor badegæsterne strømmer til. Lige indtil den dag, hvor et skamferet lig skyller i land med enorme mærker, der tyder på et angreb fra en kæmpe haj. Så da endnu et lig bliver fundet i vandkanten begiver politimesteren Brady, hajforskeren Hooper og fiskeren Quint sig ud for et tilintetgøre dræberhajen.
Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) drømmer om, at hendes liv kunne være ligesom en ABBA-sang, og at prinsen på den hvide hest snart kommer og redder hende. I sine bestræbelser på at bevise, at hun er noget ganske særligt, skyer hun intet middel - ikke engang at stjæle fra sin far. Som bekendt står lykken den kække bi: snart befinder hun sig i en hvirvlende dans, som får hende til at føle sig som en rigtig Dancing Queen. Muriel's Wedding er en film om venskab og om styrken i at være den, man er.
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.
When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends and family.
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
Amerikaneren Matthew er en nærmest fanatisk filmfreak. Under 60'ernes studenteroprør i Paris møder han tvillingeparret Theo og Isabelle, der begge deler Matthews passion for det hvide lærred. Men tvillingerne er også mere end almindeligt glade for hinanden og snart drages Matthew ind i deres incestuøse spil.
A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals. A professional diver begins the hunt.
Tre fremmede - håbløst forbundet gennem personlig hjertesorg - ender på dybt vand, og lære, at livet er ikke altid om at kaste lige ind i ting, men nogle gange er du nødt til at tage det roligt.
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.