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The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.

Abstract music notation and something very obvious.

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

Hiwa Natsunagi is a high school student living in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. Worried about what to do with her life after graduation, she spots a poster for Spa Resort Hawaiians the “Hawaii of Tohoku” the place where her sister Mari used to work and applies to their new dancer (hula girl) campaign on a whim. Despite her lack of experience, Hiwa is accepted for the job, and starts on the path towards becoming a Hula Girl with her classmates, Kanna, Ranko, 'ohana and Shion. However, unable to keep in step with one another due to their differing personalities, their first stage ends in disaster. Called the “most pitiful rookies ever” the girls are disheartened, but they learn to share the good and bad...and strengthen their bond despite the occasional fumble. With their hearts and minds firmly set, the girls grace the stage once more.

Sato, a third year high school student, lives with her father and grandmother. While everyone else is anxious about their career paths, she dreams of moving to Tokyo and entering the world of theater, however often leaving the theater club practice early to care for her grandmother, Shizu, struggling with dementia. Although it's difficult, the family lives together happily until recently as Shizu starts to dream about going somewhere by herself, to travel. Meanwhile, Sato is told that Shizu's physical condition has been gradually worsening and there's a possibility of her grandma soon becoming bedridden, which deeply shakes her heart. Sato discovers that it was Shizu's long-held dream to go on a trip to Hawaii, thinking it might be the last chance to create a family memory together, she plans a "pseudo-Hawaii trip'" to Zushi.

The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their famous Hula dance troupe at their tour through Japan and shows the rebuilding of the resort. The film team also goes with one of the dancers to her former home in the evacuated zone near the Fukushima I nuclear power plant.

In Wenshui County, Shanxi Province, a remote place called Yunzhou West Village, where the girl Liu Hulan was born. She was born in troubled times, the feudal dynasty was overthrown not long ago, but the warlords ruled in separate regimes, years of wars, and even more imperialist invaders are sharpening their knives, trying to annex the land of China with a long history. At that time, the reactionary warlord Yan Xishan ran rampant in the Jin area, and even the local tyrants and landlords did evil. All kinds of evil deeds planted the seeds of hatred in the girl's heart. Until the Red Army came here, it not only attacked the reactionaries, but also threw light into Liu Hulan's heart. Since then, she has understood the meaning of revolution. However, when the claws of the Japanese penetrated Wenshui County, the landlord Lu Shanqing was proud of the spring breeze, and the stubborn Liu Hulan also became a glorious Communist Party member during this period.

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Liu Hulan (1932-1947) was a young female spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Guomindang and the Communist Party and stood for Communist. She was born in Yunzhouxi village, in the Wenshui County of the Shanxi province. She joined the Communist Party in 1946 and proceeded to become the secretary of the All-China Women's Federation. She was actively involved in collecting support for the Communist Party of China from the villagers of Yunzhouxi. This is a dramatization of her life.

This resonant documentary chronicles a year in the lives of two ever-squabbling Israeli brothers -- junkyard owners Hula and Natan -- as they face not only frequent missile attacks from the Gaza Strip but government threats to their property.

This documentary features the endangered languages of the Dupaninan Agta in Isabela, and the Tandulanen Tagbanua in Palawan, Philippines. The film follows the journey of Consuelo and Robert against the backdrop of the changing ecosystem in the grasslands of Isabela, where endemic grasses are being slowly displaced by invasive foreign species, and ends in the beaches of Palawan once inhabited by mythological crabs. As a poetic and lyrical rumination on the beauty of words, this docu shows how language is indeed the soul of a culture.

Was it black magic that took him from her? Or the vision of her rival's swaying hips? Lana works at a phone sex company, and hula-hoops when calling her customers to make moaning sounds.

Henry Murdock & Babe London go on Honeymoon to Hawaii.

"Gray's Anatomy" meets "Swingers" in this medical comedy as medical intern Ron Wilson plots to become Chief Resident with the help of Ivy League reject Steven Powell. As Dr. Wilson fights for survival in a busy county hospital, he has to decide whether becoming Chief Resident is more important than personal happiness. Together with Steve they set off on adventure and mayhem.

Follow Elvira as she searches for the Sanderson Sisters, interviewing various figures who claim to have encountered or been influenced by them, including former classmates, fans, rivals, and descendants.

The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.

Join Kili on the beautiful beaches of Maui and experience a creative Hula Workout. Kili has designed this program to allow you to learn a choreographed hula dance while experiencing a fabulous aerobic workout at the same time. This uniquely designed program combines hula and fitness to help you burn calories and strengthen and tone the entire body. The Hula Workout is fun, energetic and a creative new way to workout that women of all ages can enjoy.

Join Kili on the beautiful beaches of Maui and experience a creative Hula Workout. Kili has designed this program to allow you to learn a choreographed hula dance while experiencing a fabulous aerobic workout at the same time. This uniquely designed program combines hula and fitness to help you burn calories and strengthen and tone the entire body. The Hula Workout is fun, energetic and a creative new way to workout that women of all ages can enjoy.

Never one to settle for just another Larry Christmas, Larry The Cable Guy makes a mad dash to the Islands to escape his eccentric family and get some peace of mind. But things are never what they seem as Larry lands on the enchanted island of Hula Poola and the holiday hilarity ensues. Packed with plenty of skits, music, and all-around good cheer, Larry The Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau is feel-good fun for the entire family and a great way to add some Git-R-Done to the Christmas season!

Kekaiulu Hula Studio follows the Proclaimed Hula Halau of the same name, showcasing their twist on what the real reason for hula is and what life as a dancer in the halau is really like. Something previously unseen in the public eye.

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i shows the survival of the hula as a renaissance continues to grow beyond the islands. With the cost of living in Hawai'i estimated at 27 percent higher than the continental United States, large numbers of Hawaiians have left the islands to pursue professional and educational opportunities. Today, with more Native Hawaiians living on the mainland than in the state of Hawai'i, the hula has traveled with them. From the suburbs of Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, the largest Hawaiian communities have settled in California, and the hula continues to connect communities to their heritage on distant shores.

In this MGM Miniature Musical, Harry Owens and his orchestra perform several song numbers.

The BQE is a mixed-media artistic exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway of New York City by Sufjan Stevens. A cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop, and commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, it was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.

This is the story of the Fire Goddess Pele and the dynamics of her relationship with her sister Hi’iaka. Six years ago, the renowned dance company Halau 'O Kekuhi began the ambitious undertaking of assembling and recreating the legend for modern audiences, translating it to the contemporary stage by combining the traditions of Hawaiian chant and hula with innovative elements of Western theater.

This Traveltalk short visits Hawaii's capital city.

We take you through the legacy of an island and show you why Hula is so much more than just a beautiful dance.

A despondent soul arrives in a strange place where he must confront his (mostly) inner demons.

A group of naturists book a private nature retreat.

A short story of hooper Jenny Hill through a six month slice of her life.

Naturists have a garden party.

1930s short of a woman doing a hula dance, initially with a grass skirt, then nude.

A military base. An awkward soldier. A statue of Bach. And suddenly all guns in the area change into music instruments. Great mystery is immediately found by TV station. And soon the military base becomes a stage for huge TV show.

A successful art historian who has trouble telling people difficult truths, finds himself in an inescapable situation when a small lie quickly gets out of hand.

At the funeral of his schoolmate, the nearly-fifty-year old architect Jirí Mánek (Václav Voska) meets his former close acquaintance - physician Jarmila (Blanka Bohdanová). They both are still single. Jarmila has recently returned to Prague after years of work on the frontier. Jirí leaves for a business trip. As a conservationist, he is to grant permission for an adaptation of a Baroque château to office spaces. On the road, a pretty young hitchhiker named Eva (Ida Rapaicová) stops him. Eva is Slovak and her spontaneous behavior enchants Jirí. He thus does not mind making a short detour and takes Eva all the way to the luxurious cottage of her parents. A romance develops between the two people, so different in age and temperament.

Birth movie is a romantic action entertainer with Forest backdrop written and directed by Shivu Holalu and produced by S Chandrashekar while G R Shankar ...

A set of happy-go-lucky teenagers struggles to keep the group together as each of them faces various challenges on life, love, friendship, and family.

A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his mission and his loyalty.

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

A live streamer accidentally invites an entity into her apartment.

A marriage counselor must conduct an exorcism over a Zoom call.

Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.

Follows Kalyani, a small-town girl from Maharashtra, India, who, after losing her job, devises a risky plan with her roommates to marry a UK citizen and secure her future. As friendships are tested, and relationships are at stake, Kalyani learns that true success and happiness demands facing inner fears, ultimately realizing that the path to a meaningful life is a journey of resilience rather than shortcuts.

Elastic Habitat is an immersive installation - you could call it a kind of playground - that invites you to explore, touch, and even carry textile sculptures. Helena Dietrich designed the textile figures with Janneke Raaphorst, based on one-on-one sessions with various guests. In these discussions, they investigated their personal perceptions of their own bodies. Does your personality completely coincide with this body and everything surrounding it? And if you change it in any way, do you change too? You literally inhabit an imaginary body and thus have the time to explore your own identity in an uninhibited, sensory, intuitive way.

Twelve-year-old Abdullah loves photography, so when his father gives him a new camera to reward him for getting good grades at school, he is thrilled. But while he is out and about taking shots, he inadvertently takes a picture of a crime in progress, and soon, the bandits are after him, intent on destroying the evidence. Dramatic with some clever comic relief, ‘A Picture’ is a great play on the old adage that crime doesn’t pay.

A ten year old Mongolian boy discovers a gold coin. Consumed by greed, his life spirals out of control.

In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.

A young married couple is torn apart by WW1. When the news comes of her husband's death, Wanda marries another man, not knowing that her loved one is somewhere deep in the east.

It's a music documentary that tells the story of Roy Gurvitz, who created Lost Vagueness, at Glastonbury and who, as legendary founder, Michael Eavis says, reinvigorated the festival. With the decadence of 1920's Berlin, but all in a muddy field. A film of the dark, self-destructive side of creativity and the personal trauma behind it.

A construction comedy about the labor struggle of two groups of workers in a Prague factory. The old group is led by the grinder Karhan, while the young group is led by his son. The struggle between the two groups leads to the emergence of socialist competition and cooperation, in which the old share their experience with the young, and the young share their new ideas.

An ideologically-oriented film set in a prestigious medical sanatorium - a young doctor sympathizes with the poor people of the area, helping workers and their sick children.

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The fate of Ondrej Horniak, a young civil engineer, who after graduating starts working in a construction company as a deputy construction manager on a large construction site. Here he encounters all the ills of socialist construction - sloppiness, corruption, careerism, irresponsibility. After an accident at a construction site, for which the perpetrators face prison, his superiors want to put all the blame on the young engineer Horniak.

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The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

Barbara Hulanicki will always be remembered for BIBA, the shop that changed the face of UK fashion in the 1960s and 70s. A phenomenon in the truest sense of the word, BIBA would leave an indelible mark on the minds and wardrobes of the customers who ventured through its doors. Following its closure in 1976, many have attempted to reproduce the magic. All have missed the key ingredient: the involvement of its creator, Barbara Hulanicki.

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name Lesley Lawson, whose career kickstarted in the 1960s. It features interviews with Twiggy and her husband Leigh Lawson, as well as commentary from Erin O’Connor, Paul McCartney, Lulu, Poppy Delavigne, Brooke Shields, Pattie Boyd and Zandra Rhodes.

Yakup, a Turkish music teacher seeking political asylum in New York, is trying to keep his head above water as he navigates the US immigration system. Working illegally in a restaurant kitchen with a lively group of fellow immigrants, he is laser focused on laying the groundwork to bring his wife and daughter abroad. In a desperate attempt to expedite the process, he seeks help from a group of shady fellow countrymen who resort to risky methods to get people out of Turkey. But things quickly go sideways and chances to reunite with his loved ones deteriorate by the minute.

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.