Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down...

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and...

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo...

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is...

An exploration of the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from...

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.

On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an...

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no...

When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money...

The Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all.

When a group of former childhood friends reconnect, their reunion takes a wild turn as they stumble upon a dangerous international plot—and...

Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without...

Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and...

In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World...

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys...