MVD Entertainment Group (Firm)
1) Riding Bean
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Bean Bandit is the top courier in the Chicago area, and a man who isn't shy about operating on the wrong side of the law. Of course, his clients must also pay a pretty penny for his speedy services. Unfortunately, Bean's reputation catches up with him when he is framed for kidnapping a 10 year-old girl, whom he doesn't realize is in trouble, by a group of shady criminals.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed documentary chronicling the rise of punk rock in Washington, DC. Bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows, without record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 90s..
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world looks to Portland, Oregon as an example of how bicycle culture can blossom out of the ruinous freeways of car-oriented civilization. Aftermass is the first feature documentary to explore the events, people, politics, and social changes that led to Portland becoming the first major bicycle city in the United States.. Aftermass features many of the leaders and major participants behind the growth of bicycling ridership since 1971.. The narrative...
4) Mars
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of life on Mars places a robotic expedition and a manned mission in a race to the Red Planet in this animated feature. On the way we discover that love - biological, spiritual, and even mechanical - can flourish in all kinds of ways.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Can Dialectics Break Bricks is a hilarious spoof of politics, class warfare and consumption that still holds up in today's advanced capitalistic world. Taking an obscure karate film and redubbing the entire movie, a group of Situationists have created the perfect dada film, one rife with political sharpness and theoretical humor that is also a harsh critique of 20th Century work and life.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Residents had recorded their album, The Commercial Album, in 1980. It contained 40 one-minute tunes. The film version of this required enlisting many talented film-makers from around the world, each contributing one or more one-minute videos to accompany the songs.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The Return of Ruben Blades follows the singer to Harvard, where he gets his master's degree in international law; to his old neighborhood in Panama; to California for a recording session with Linda Ronstadt, and to New York for a performance at S.O.B.'s. The music is a joy, as danceable as it is intelligent, and Mr. Blades makes every nuance count. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Eve, a 9-year-old hardened by time as a neglected foster child, is used to taking life seriously. So, when she meets Dave, a drunk thirty something who forgot to grow up, she sees an opportunity. The two take a trip to reunite her with her brother, and Dave finds himself on the run from the cops and robbers. Eve and Dave may find that the quickest route to their destination is through each other.
13) The Trolls
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Texas tech start-up breaks every crowdfunding record in the books, but they lose it all when a patent troll shuts them down. Refusing to go down without a fight, our heroes use a legal loophole to beat the trolls at their own game. By obtaining a patent for BEING a patent troll, they're able to... troll the trolls.
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
If the astonishing true-life story of British writer and poet Micky Burn MC had been written as a novel, readers would readily accept it as invented. Born in Mayfair in 1912, his father worked for the Royal family. He became the lover of the communist spy Guy Burgess, and would initially be taken in by Nazism, expressing an admiration for Hitler. In 1942, he took part in a daring commando assault on the fortified French port of St Nazaire, where he...
15) Blank Generation
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Classic punkrock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell, illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock better than other films. Nada (Carole Bouquet), a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of up and coming punk rock star, Billy (Richard Hell). Featuring members of the Voidoids and the Ramones. A time capsule from '80's New York City
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This look at the unique musical sounds of West England explores the progressive and experimental styles that developed in the region, where a mix of ethnicities and influences helped foster a creative industry just as vibrant as the one in London.
17) Cuddle
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cuddle parties, snuggle houses, cuddle therapy … have you ever heard of such a thing? From Alabama to Colorado to San Francisco to Wisconsin to Oregon and to New York, the cuddling movement is growing bigger and bigger and faces an uphill climb in mainstream acceptance. This new documentary explores this revolutionary trend in restoring basic human needs in a world where human touch seems to happen less and less..
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster over the past two and a half years. Through the news, we only get a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march. At the beginning of July 2013, we witnessed the second president deposed within the space of three years.. The Square is an immersive experience, transporting the viewer deeply into the intense emotional drama and personal stories behind the news. It is the...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Kuma, a young Kazak man, retraces the steps of his grandfather who was formerly eagle master back to the remote mountainous region of his family's origin. There, in extreme western Mongolia, he fulfills his dream of trapping and training his own eagle. Under the tutelage of a local eagle master named Khairatkhan, Kuma learns not only the ways of hunting with eagles, but also the ways of his own people.. Set against the staggering and exotic beauty...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
SOAKED IN BLEACH reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator that was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband (Kurt Cobain) only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling,...