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- A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
- In the 1970s, an anchorman's stint as San Diego's top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor.
- Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
- A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
- Set during a crazy afternoon in the lives of a dozen college students at a co-ed dorm that starts with the arrival of two very different women with the same name of Dominique.
- To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.
- Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
- Paul is a student whose family lives in an area surrounded by miles of wilderness where bigfoot sightings have become woven into local legend. After saving the creature's life, it gives Paul a magic pendant that can summon Bigfoot anytime.
- In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
- Boy genius Michael Dean (Adkins) teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker (Modine) to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange the scientist gives the boy some pointers on the girl of his dreams.
- A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.
- In the ensuing years from losing her vocalist brother in a car crash, a young guitar prodigy comes into play - which is left to speculation that he could be a reincarnation of her late brother.
- An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
- Eli, an outcast teen, connects with his isolated grandfather Samuel for the first time, and uncovers his surprising past, when he makes his grandpa the subject of an animated art project for school.
- Biography of Tiger Woods from his birth to him winning his first golf major at the Augusta Masters in 1997.
- Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
- In this lively programmer, a con man hires a character actor to masquerade as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country so he can bilk an arriving American ambassador out of his fortune.
- A monk tells a tale about a woman who can only surrender her heart to a man who can offer her jewels. A poor man falls in love with her and steals jewels off a statue of the Madonna to give to her.
- A Star Wars fanatic decides to sell his toy collection to keep his overbearing girlfriend happy and salvage their relationship. An unbelievable adventure with his toys makes him realize that he doesn't need to change for anyone.
- A college girl with epileptic and bipolar disorder becomes sleep deprived when she contracts pneumonia. As a side effect she gets Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a disorienting and neurological condition. We follow her journey through her hallucinations as she struggles to find her way through the madness and darkness. Based on a true story.
- The picture tells the story of a little Spanish boy who is cast upon the shore of the east coast of Mexico early in the sixteenth century, when Mexico was dominated by the Aztec Indians. Never having seen a white person before, the local natives, a tribe called Tehuans, bring him up as a god and call him Chiapa. When he reaches manhood, Chiapa is given authority over his entire tribe. He falls in love with the priestess, Tecolote, and she yields to his advances although she is quite unworthy of him, and encourages other suitors. Then the Aztecs hear that under the white god the Tehuans are very prosperous, and start forth to conquer them. The Aztec army is under command of Mexitli, the chief general of Montezuma, the Emperor, and having conquered the Tehuans, he carried off Tecolote as his personal slave. Chiapa follows as a spy. In the garden of Montezuma, he is wounded by a guard, but Lolomi, the beautiful daughter of the Emperor, saves him. They fall in love. Meanwhile Mexitli has tired of Tecolote, and now seeks the hand of the Princess Lolomi, who would rather die than have him. As the Emperor gives Mexitli his consent, he tries to get the princess by force, and in doing so discovers Chiapa. Luiapa is sentenced to die at the end of the year on the sacrificial stone. But Lolomi, finding her pleas to her father of no avail, sends word to the Tehuans that their god is captive. An avenging army sweeps down, and there is brought about a sequence of thrilling scenes with a smashing finish.
- Fatty and Mabel, a married couple, visit the San Diego Exposition. After watching the parade, they rent a motorized cart. While Mabel makes a quick shopping foray, Fatty can't keep from flirting with, then chasing after, a petite female passerby. He follows her into a hula pavilion where he is also attracted to the plump Hawaiian dancers. Meanwhile, Mabel is looking for him--and so is the petite woman's husband. The ensuing arguments attract the cops, and it all plays out in front of the Exposition's fountain.
- A young appraiser searches out the value of forgotten relics as she struggles to find the deeper value of her own self worth.
- A documentary showing the daily life of the Panamanian natives (Choco and Guna), spiced up with the capabilities of the US Air Force and, for the movies' distribution, a scene of headhunters.
- Civil engineer Robert Clay (Norman Kerry) is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza (Wallace Beery), the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract. Mendoza begins a revolution against Alvarez, but Clay and his men set out to stop the plan. Meanwhile, Mr. Langham arrives with his two enchanting daughters, Alice (Anna Q. Nilsson) and Hope (Pauline Starke), on board a yacht owned by Reginald King, Alice's suitor. Clay's long-lived attraction for Alice has been met with coldness, but Hope wins his heart by shooting down some of Mendoza's men when they try to kill him. After a savage battle, and the arrival of a U.S. battleship with sailors, Mendoza is finally beaten.
- In 1915-16, San Diego's Balboa Park was the scene of an exposition to mark completion of the Panama Canal. This film takes us through the exposition: from the Cabrillo bridge and a panoramic view of the site, to the facades of the California Building, Horticultural Building, Panama Canal Exhibit, and the reproduction of the locks at Gatuna. We see tourists on the isthmus and a crowd outside the Panama Film Company's exhibit of how movies are made. We watch the feeding of fish at the laguna, and we end at the Plaza de Panama where toddlers are surrounded by pigeons. Fatty Arbuckle makes a brief appearance outside the Panama Film exhibit. Titles give us each structure's cost.
- Dr. Benderfax is on the verge of a mad scientist's career high: the discovery of a mysterious psychic phenomenon that will endow him with boundless fantastic powers. Unfortunately, his enigmatic research often proves fatal to his unwitting human test subjects, and when a young do-good doctor stumbles upon Benderfax's secret experiments, it threatens to spoil everything.
- A young man sets out on a journey of self-discovery.
- Few abandoned places offer the level of beauty and history as does the Starlight Bowl. San Diego's Balboa Park is home to this magical, now empty music bowl, and it is one of the most intriguing abandoned places I've ever explored.
- A group of rejected outcasts decide to kill themselves with a new drug, Dark Paradise.
- Billy, while wearily trudging along the road, sees the San Diego Fair in the near distance. Believing that he might make some money if he could get inside, he steals in under a visitor's coat tails and after wandering through the interesting streets he sits down on a bench to rest. An old rounder sees Peggy and follows her as she runs from him to the store of her friend, an excitable Italian, who pursues her annoyer and punishes him. Billy and the old rounder meet. They are old friends and the rounder laughs when he sees Billy meet two girls and invite them to dinner, for he suspects that bill has no money. Bill, of course, has none, and when the proprietress demands her pay he suggests to the girls that they should pitch dice to see who shall settle. They refuse, and Billy in his efforts to make the old rounder pay up comes to blows with him. The Italian suitor takes a hand in the fight and both are severely beaten by Billy. The girls get the police and Bill is chased through the streets to the Painted Desert, a Fair Concession. He runs to the highest peak of a precipice and defies his pursuers. The Italian hurls bombs at him and for a while Bill catches them and hurls them back at his assailants. At last one well directed bomb shell explodes, and Billy vanishes in smoke and flame only to awake on a park bench. He imagines he is still being persecuted but sees his annoyers are pigeons who literally cover him and when he drives them away he finds two eggs have been laid in his hat. He is annoyed at first, but pockets them when he realizes he has at least got something out of his visit to the Fair.
- Shutters and Bows is a lighthearted romance between two students whose cultural backgrounds are very distant from each other. A young man encounters a girl he believes is Japanese, and invests in learning her native language to befriend her. This film is intended to make aware the value of culture and language learning, as well as the risks that can arise out of cultural preconceptions.
- Mrs. Booth is granted a divorce and their twin children are separated, George going to the mother and Herbert to the father. Mrs. Booth lavishes on George all of a mother's care and affection. Herbert is a true son of his father, profligate. He steals money from his father, and after it is squandered, enlists in the army for duty in the Philippines; but, dissatisfied, he deserts. He meets a Filipino girl, Tatuka, who gives him shelter and supplies him with liquor. George returns from West Point, a full-fledged officer. He loves, and is loved by, Grace Thomas, a wealthy girl. George's commanding officer, Colonel Vail, accidentally hears that Grace will come into a fortune when she marries, and woos her ardently. But Grace refuses him. George and Vail are called to the Philippines. George takes leave of Grace, and gives her a locket which he tells her to wear for remembrance. At headquarters in Manila, Vail intercepts the mail between George and Grace, and the young people begin to doubt each other. Finally Vail receives a letter from Grace saying that she is coming to the Philippines with her father on their yacht, as she fears that something is wrong. Vail is in dismay. And then he makes an amazing discovery. He sees Herbert, the living image of George, being coaxed back by Tatuka to her hut. Vail thinks of a plan. He gives Tatuka money to buy liquor for Herbert, telling her that is the only way she can keep her white husband. Then he dispatches George on a secret mission, which will keep him away. When Grace arrives, and asks for George, Vail pretends to be greatly affected, and after much entreaty, leads Grace and her father to Tatuka's hut. There Grace sees Herbert, whom she believes to be George, intoxicated, and with the native girl fondling him. Aroused by the revolting sight, she enters the hut and casts the locket at the drunken man's feet, telling him they have met for the last time. The Filipino girl takes up the locket and wears it. Vail secures Grace's promise of marriage, and leaves for America with her and Mr. Thomas. Herbert, tired of the native girl, finds her little hoard, which she has been saving, and steals it to get back to America. George returns from his mission, finds a scathing letter from Grace, in which she tells him never to write to her again. He is bewildered at the turn of events, and suspects Vail. Some time later the American troops are attacked and surrounded by natives. George volunteers to ride through the line for assistance. As he nears a Filipino village he is wounded, but is saved by the arrival of Tatuka, who imagines him to be her husband. In Tatuka's hut George sees the locket, and learns the whole story from Tatuka. The American troops are saved by the arrival of another regiment, and when George returns to the post, he tells how he has been made the victim of a plot. They tell him he can get back to America before the wedding, so George leaves. It is the night of the wedding. In a lowly section of the city, Herbert is met by a crook who tells him of a rich haul to be made at the wedding. Herbert becomes the crook's accomplice. George arrives in the city at eight o'clock the same night. He rushes to Grace's home in an auto. The wedding ceremony has commenced when Herbert and the crook steal cautiously into a window of the Thomas home. George sees the men entering. He rushes after them and there is a struggle in the dark library. The ceremony is interrupted by the noise. Grace, her father, Vail and the guests rush into the library and turn on the lights. The two brothers stand facing each other. Vail looks on in horror. And then the whole truth is made known. Several days later George and Grace are seen in loving conversation, and George gives Herbert money to start life anew somewhere else.
- Tells the story of Maliphet, a misunderstood creature who searches the Land of Oz for a cure for his loneliness... Unknowingly, the journey he takes will have a profound impact in the history of Oz we know today.
- Haunted by the end of the big game era, Winston Skinner sets out for one final hunt. In search of the dangerous and elusive Bengal Tiger, Winston attempts to recreate the adventure that once was. Yet when violence erupts in the jungle, Winston is faced with the mysterious presence of the creature which he seeks.
- When a mysterious affliction besets her crew, Capt. Jessica Michaels is forced to seek help from the legendary Alan Downing.
- Revenge can drive a man to kill. Chick, a good man in a land of lawlessness, where death is the reward of virtue, seeks payback for the death of his friend, Zeke. But one thing is perfectly clear. Revenge has never been...Easy.
- When a stolen bicycle carrying priceless loot gets dumped during the getaway, some unusual thieves get involved in the heist.
- Enter a world of beauty, peace and tranquility, where nature's gentle sounds of falling water, rustling autumn leaves, and spring songbirds bring enjoyment and stimulation to a baby's world.