Episodic
see all genres ›While self-contained features and shorts have always dominated the big-screen experience, cinema also has room for the pleasures of multi-part storytelling. Here you will find everything from recent broadcast miniseries and episodic documentaries by some of the world's best directors to vintage serials, those thrill-a-minute adventures that were parceled out to moviegoers in weekly twenty minute chapters from the silent era until the 1950s.
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Li'l Quinquin
Bruno Dumont proves as eccentric and engaging a director of comedy as he is of enigmatic art house drama with LI'L QUINQUIN, a four-part miniseries with the strangest genre mix this side of TWIN PEAKS. There is a tale of adolescent boredom and mischievous antics over a summer vacation in rural...Watch Movie
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Barber Shop: Detroit - USA
This city, where formerly General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employed almost every citizen, was declared bankrupt in 2013. The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: 'Motown' became 'Ghost town'. In this environment of decay, a...Watch Movie
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Burning Bush
Agnieszka Holland is an extraordinarily gifted and versatile filmmaker and although the events depicted in BURNING BUSH occurred forty-five years ago, the issues it explores are entirely relevant today. Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the...Watch Movie
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The Monster and the Ape
At the Bainbridge Research Foundation, Professor Franklin Arnold displays his creation, a robot called the Metalogen Man, to Professor Ernst and three other colleagues. Shortly afterward, the three associates are killed by Thor, a huge ape trained by Ernst. Professor Arnold,...Watch Movie
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Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing (in a better aircraft) is Rulu, a...Watch Movie
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Agnes Varda: From Here to There
The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's masterful THE BEACHES OF AGNES, FROM HERE TO THERE is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the indefatigable filmmaker's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the...Watch Movie
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Gangs of Wasseypur
Director/writer/producer Anurag Kashyap's ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives, and spectacular deaths, of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by...Watch Movie
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Barber Shop: New Delhi - India
India has only recently openly raised its voice to one of the most violent aspects of society: the incredibly high number of rapes and the impunity of the attackers. Women seem to be helpless and have no chance to ask for justice. Some women, however, have found the strength...Watch Movie
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Zombies of the Stratosphere
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE is for the lovers of old Republic Serials, those incredibly fun episodic films that kept our parents and grandparents coming back to the theater week-after-week. Over the course of twelve action-packed episodes, watch security agent Larry Martin...Watch Movie
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Barber Shop: Clacton-on-Sea - UK
How possibly could the UK vote for Brexit? In Clacton-on-Sea, a small seaside town, barber Susan and her clients reflect on current European issues like migration, religious extremism, economic decline and the position of the UK vis-a-vis the EU. As her barber shop serves as...Watch Movie
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Barber Shop: Smara Refugee Camp - Algeria
Set in the Western Sahara, Barber Shop Algeria tells the story of the last colony in Africa: since Morocco illegally annexed the territory of the Sahrawi, this nomad population has been living in refugee camps along a long Moroccan wall built in the middle of the desert. For...Watch Movie
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Barber Shop: Pretoria West - South Africa
South Africa has known a turbulent history of occupation, discrimination and violence against the black population. With the ANC in power and today in the post-Mandela era, the roles are reversed. We see a true 'Black Economic Empowerment', in which the black people are...Watch Movie
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The Green Hornet
In this 13 episode serial, the city is faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity. Intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid becomes the crime fighter the Green Hornet to take on the bad guys. As far as the police are concerned, the Hornet himself is the criminal....Watch Movie
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Zyara with Rene Deek
Renee Deek is an old Lebanese actress and model. She broke all the rules and fought for her dream and passion for the arts. She now lives with her brother, who is unable to be independent for lack of support by the government. She is still active as an actress and teacher.Watch Movie
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The Phantom
Professor Davidson and his lovely daughter Diana search Africa for the Lost City of Zoloz. Legend pegs it to be the source of a vast hidden treasure. Their search is hindered by a local crook, Singapore Smith, who wants the treasure for himself. It is further complicated by Dr. Bremmer, an...Watch Movie
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Captain Video
"Captain Video" was such a nationwide sensation that in 1951, Columbia Pictures Corporation contracted to produce a theatrical serial of the Captain's exploits, the first television show ever to be adapted to the big screen. The result, CAPTAIN VIDEO: MASTER OF THE STRATOSPHERE has been hailed as...Watch Movie
