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Alternate Universe
see all genres ›Stub your toe in the Paleolithic Era and life today might well have turned out quite differently. These films explore realities teasingly like our own… but not quite so, in ways that range from the subtle to the silly to the alarming.
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Astropia
When a beautiful high society girl and a regular guest in the national celebrity press finds out that her boyfriend Jolli is about to go to jail, she realizes she has to learn to stand on her own two feet and quickly. Hildur, possessing no skills that she knows of or any practical experience, tries to find work without...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch
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Conceiving Ada
In this award-winning film (which was the first to use "virtual sets"), Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers were invented. Ada's story is...Start your free trial to watch
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...Start your free trial to watch
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Let the Wind Blow
At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, weigh their options for the future against the reality of life on the streets of Mumbai. Enticed by the promise of wealth and opportunity in the Persian Gulf, Chabia is eager to leave his job as a mechanic. But...Start your free trial to watch
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature from Stephen and Timothy Quay. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to...Start your free trial to watch
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Punishment Park
The war in Vietnam is escalating. There is massive public protest in the United States and elsewhere. President Nixon declares a state of national emergency and the federal authorities are given the power to detain persons judged to be "a risk to internal security." In a desert zone in southwest California, a civilian...Start your free trial to watch
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Racing Daylight
Told as three short movies, RACING DAYLIGHT is the story of Sadie Stokes (Melissa Leo) who's returned to the family farm to care for her catatonic Grandma (Leclanche Durand ). There have always been Stokes in Cedarsville. Sadie and Grandma are the last. Sadie's life has been pretty colorless until the man appears in the...Start your free trial to watch
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Window on Your Present
WINDOW ON YOUR PRESENT is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, written and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often end up taking their own lives. However, two unlikely lovers...Start your free trial to watch
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The Zeros
With only weeks to live, Joe sets out to find his true lost love, make up for missed life experiences and potentially spend his last days on the sleazy streets of New Orleans. Life quickly takes a turn for the absurd when he meets a misdirected crew of cast-offs that includes a religious cult escapee, a novice stripper, and...Start your free trial to watch