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15 Dec 2005
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The Secret Life of Words
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Music was his world. Then silence revealed a new one.
Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.
Ruben Stone
Lou
Joe
Diane
Richard Berger
Michael
Jenn
Shaheem
Harlan
The Man
Pharmacist
Michael's Father
Audiologist
Dr. Paysinger
Pianist
ASL Teacher
ASL Student
Karl
Hanna
Toldeo
15 Dec 2005
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
02 Aug 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
17 Apr 1986
A portrait of a group of youngsters in Agger at the west coast of Jutland. They listen to the raw metalrock. They dress in leather and rivets. And that doesn't exactly lessen the generational divide.
20 May 1949
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
08 Aug 2006
Swedish death metal greats Arch Enemy deliver a powerhouse performance in this concert that was filmed live in England at the London Forum, 17 December 2004. Selections include "Enemy Within," "Silent Wars," "Dead Bury Their Dead," "Instinct," "Savage Messiah," "The Immortal," "Snow Bound," "Ravenous," and more.
17 Jun 1988
An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..
10 Jul 1987
At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their first night in the farmhouse after dinner, and weird little beasties suddenly appear, and strange things start to happen. Band members (and their tag along girlfriends) begin to act strangely and vanish one by one. Soon, only John Triton remains, and he holds a secret. Finally, the evil shows itself and a battle between heaven and hell ensues....
20 Aug 2003
When average 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, Tracy's world is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
02 Feb 2018
A mostly black-and-white, narrated dramatization of WASP's 1992 album The Crimson Idol, filmed in 1992 and finally released with the 2017 re-recording as the soundtrack.
07 Aug 1981
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
10 Jul 2012
A man plays his last coin on a slot machine and wins. He leaves to go home. Suddenly, he notices someone is chasing him...
18 Feb 2003
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20 Sep 2018
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
20 Jul 2006
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
21 Apr 1995
A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
11 Apr 2024
Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.
05 Aug 1994
The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.
16 Dec 1994
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
20 Jun 2008
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.
29 May 1998
Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.