Commercials have come a long way since this 1933 cigarette advertisement. Before smoking's health risks became apparent, civilized people could sit in peace and watch dancers made of smoke.
01 Jan 2009
He, the early riser, and she, the early worker, meet only for a kiss goodbye. It's raining. The great ship sinks slowly but surely. The men do their work, the kind of work where there is no room for haste and only one mistake is made. In such a life, the last cigarette is part of an unbroken chain. Temake, the night dentist, falls asleep and dreams that he will not. It is raining. The evening kiss of farewell approaches.
01 Apr 1981
The Cigarette and the Weed tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner, and a discarded cigarette butt that rolls up to the weed. The two converse before the cigarette rolls into a puddle and is extinguished.
05 Jul 2011
Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.
28 Oct 2016
It's late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the cigarette butts in the city become alive.
10 Nov 1977
A story how traffic inspector Mamochkin punished someone who had disturbed public order.
01 Oct 1980
A humorous and journalistic stop-motion puppet film about a victim of excessive smoking.
01 Jan 1973
A photo animation of a woman standing in a cube. Through the windows of the cube, we see an aquarelle dune landscape. To the music of the pop song Time Takes a Cigarette, the woman smokes a cigarette as the camera makes a 360° rotation.
20 Jun 2011
Three coworkers try a smoking a cigarette and everything goes to hell.
A 75-minute animated feature set in the backdrop of a civil war revolving around a rainy night, sex and cigarettes.
01 Jan 1981
An educational short film made by Disney.
22 Jul 2020
Out of cigarettes, a man goes to unconventional lengths to get his nicotine fix.
07 Mar 1975
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
12 Mar 2004
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
12 Nov 1963
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
06 Sep 2001
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
16 Apr 2009
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
15 Sep 1995
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
26 Jun 2020
Made for straight 8's 2019 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. This film follows two naked people who meet at a café, fall in love, and decide to dress each other in clothes.
17 Dec 1957
An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.
26 Oct 2007
A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit.