Movies: Stephen Lighthill

Story about a vampire who falls in love with a woman and tries to "re-humanize" himself in order to be with her....

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the fi...

Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after having champagne spilled on it. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neig...

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuality during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several homosexual WWII veterans....

The true life story of Erik Aude, who was duped into drug smuggling and spent three years in a Pakistani prison....

A middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very strangely indeed . . ....

A dramatic feature from Cine Manifest, Over-Under, Sideways-Down explores the politics of everyday life in America. The film centers on a working-class couple, Roy and Jan Stennis (played by Robert Viharo and Sharon Goldman), who live, with their two...

The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974....

After the death of their child a couple go to stay in an island home. The woman starts to hear the noise of a baby crying and is followed by an old blind women who warns her to get out of of the house before it is too late....

Border Brujo is a ritual-linguistic journey across the U.S./Mexico border written and performed by artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña. In the guise of a cross-cultural shaman, Gómez Peña shifts into 15 different personas, each speaking a different language....

1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal,...

Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to s...

In Host, Missouri, the newcomer Dr. of Veterinary Science Eli Rudkus is called by the farmer Jacob Long to exam one of his cows. The veterinarian finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to a friend in the Department of Agriculture for res...

A French documentary on how Covid-19 affected Hollywood and the cinema industry in the United States....

This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Projec...

Athletic teenager Samantha finds her developing figure becoming a problem. Her mother convinces her to talk to the clothing store "bra ladies" to try to alleviate the difficulties of her bountiful endowments. She ends up learning a great deal more th...

The true story of the first Spanish-language radio announcer and political activist, Pedro J Gonzalez...

Documentary - With David Schickele's dreamy, retro soundscape, CINE MANIFEST captures a resilient group of artists reminiscing about a time when people weren't afraid to fight for their ideals, while also creating a stirring tribute to American indep...

A woman engages a down-on-his-luck sailor to help her find her sister, who was kidnapped by modern day pirates....

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s....