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The Fruit Is Ripe 2005

Zhen has postpartum depression and seeks solace in drugs. She transformed from a reserved woman to a hedonist, seducing his husband's best friend.

The Hired Killer

A professional assassin accidentally injures a girl on a hit job. Out of a deep sense of guilt and a need for redemption, he takes on one last job to make things right.

The History & Art of the Geisha

Documentary, Social & Cultural Documentaries - Veiled in mystery, the secret society of the Japanese geisha has fascinated Westerners for centuries. This revealing program charts the history and art of the geisha, from the society's all-male origins to the beautiful kimono-clad women trained from childhood to carry on the age-old tradition. Exploring the contemporary practice of the craft as well as its surrounding controversy, this program offers an enlightening look into the geisha culture.

Documentary

The Hit List

Everybody has a hit list, lines we hope to ski, places we want to go, and tricks we want to stomp. “The Hit List” explores the goals of the world’s best skiers in their quest to have fun, live the ultimate winter, and travel across the globe skiing.

Documentary Music

The Holidaymakers: A Film about The Clientele

The Holidaymakers, a 2005 fan documentary about the Clientele, begins with home-video footage from the early ’90s of the nascent London band — probably just out of their teens at the time — rehearsing in a suburban backyard while the light of a stunning summer’s day begins to fade. Thanks to a combination of outdated technology, a worn and possibly oft-copied videotape, and the perfectly imperfect shadows and sunspots that only nature can provide, the footage is unintentionally, unbearably poignant: a surviving materialization of the blurred memory of lost youth, still tangible but beginning to erode, and all the more beautiful for its apparent fragility.

Drama

The Hostage

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.

The Great Ships: The Pirate Ships

Take a step back in history and relive the terror of spotting a skull-and-crossbones flag with this fascinating look at the treacherous pirate ships that haunted the high seas in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Sneaky, speedy and deathly dangerous, these vessels ruined the careers and lives of many law-abiding sailors. The renegades who manned them lived outside the law, thriving on the adventure and rebellion of the pirate lifestyle.