Cosmic Motion Podcast - Films to Discuss

A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God." Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.

A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit the city within 70 minutes.

After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.

Truckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

Surreal dream-like tale that combines several themes into one fantastical world.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.

Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to "give birth" to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the body, only to end up unintentionally spreading chaos.

In México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way.

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

An ex-con's first act of freedom is moving to Miami where he restarts his old criminal ways with even more potency.

Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.