Drama, Comedy
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Pět z milionu
Rebel Without a Cause
Rashomon
Ett sommarspel
The Acid House
Sen
Dreams
New York, I Love You
GrimTrax
Guilt
Three Times
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
Crossroad
The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Kin chan no Cinema Jack
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Tabloid!
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
History of the World: Part I
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
SIMILAR MOVIES
Pět z milionu
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1959
Five short stories: The Master and the Twentieth Disciple; Every Week is Sunday; It's Boniface's Fault; The Raggedy Song; The Spider's Web.Rebel Without a Cause
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1955
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.Rashomon
IMDB 8 | Aug , 1950
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.Ett sommarspel
IMDB 0 | May , 1994
A woman named Agnes who emigrated to the USA returns to her home village with her new husband Algot. When Agnes' childhood friend David turns up it's the start of a love triangle.The Acid House
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 1998
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.Sen
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1956
Dreams
IMDB 7.7 | May , 1990
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.New York, I Love You
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 2008
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.GrimTrax
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2024
For the first time ever, we’ve assembled five shorts about death, loneliness, and dismemberment into one big, old-fashioned yukfest. On their own, they would have been too depressing to put out into the world. But together, they form into a Voltron of hilarity, if Voltron was eventually going to die facedown in the snow, sad and alone.Guilt
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1990
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin. However, a local madwoman, who secretly loves Martin, reveals the location of their meetings to Rozina's father, who banishes Martin and marries Rozina to the son of a rich farmer against her will. Disappointed, Martin joins a gang of smugglers. The fates of all the characters inevitably lead to tragedy...Three Times
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 2005
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1972
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.Crossroad
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2017
Crossroad is a first -of-its-kind portmanteau movie celebrating womanhood and tells the story of ten women, facing ten different life situations and explores how they tackle it. The movie encompasses ten feature films of fifteen minutes each, with each featuring prominent female artists from Malayalam film industry as the protagonist and is directed by a prominent Malayalam filmmaker. The movie showcases the vibrant facet of each woman and tells the story from her perspective.The Cat Who Walked by Herself
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1988
Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs.Kin chan no Cinema Jack
IMDB 0 | May , 1993
Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
IMDB 5.3 | Dec , 2019
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.Tabloid!
IMDB 4.2 | Sep , 1989
Aliens invade an aerobics class before the credits roll in this horror anthology spoof illustrating outrageous stories that could easily be found in a tabloid newspaper at your local grocery store checkout! The stories are: Baby Born With Full Beard, BBQ Of The Dead, and Killer Vacuum Destroys TownJosee, the Tiger and the Fish
IMDB 8.3 | Dec , 2020
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.History of the World: Part I
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 1981
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
IMDB 5 | Jan , 2020
Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.