14 films match GLOW

A look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles. (imdb)

GLOW: The Story of The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling chronicles the rise and fall of the first ever all-female wrestling show through the stories of those who lived it. (imdb)

Aspiring make-up artists compete through a series of challenges.

When it comes to apartment hunting, remember this: If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. When Jackie (Portia de Rossi) and Matt (Dean Cain) move into a unit that's cheap, affordable and in a building with mostly elderly residents, they think they've hit pay dirt. What they've hit, instead, is a mess of trouble in the form of relentless nightmares, strange noises from the basement and other horrors.

Wrestlers will portray heroes or villains as they follow a series of events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series matches. (imdb)

This is an early Screen Song from the Fleischers, in the trough period between their introduction -- in 1924! -- as the first regular sound cartoons, and their glory days of the 1930s, when they would have credited singers associated with the tune singing the song: Cab Calloway, or Ethel Merman, accompanied by elaborate gag sequences. (imdb)

Glowing, Growing is a unique little movie produced entirely by film students in which two young outsiders join a mass suicide group in an attempt to gain freedom. Along the way they both re-discover the positive aspects of life, giving them the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of choosing to live or die.

"If you die, Mum, I'm going to kill myself", are the words that Jenna has written in a poem she keeps in her pocket. At 14, Jenna should of course be worrying about a host of other typical problems such as: why is she so flat-chested, or, why is she not as popular at school as her friend Ullis, or, how she can make Sakke fall in love with her ... But life isn't that easy for Jenna - because Jenna's mother has cancer. (ecfaweb.org)

A woman interested in Persian carpets learns of the 5000-year history behind one carpet, and begins to look for something even more important in life than love and happiness... A co-production between Toho Studios and the Mitsukoshi department store. Based on a novel by Hiroyuki Itsuki. (movie.goo.ne.jp (translated))

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Five thematically-linked vignettes. A man hires a prostitute to pose as a dead body, a performance artist is assaulted during a show, two men hook up in the woods, anarchists dress as demons and murder wanderers in the forest, and a woman monitors a man on the beach using a number of cameras.

A firefly with a miner's lighted helmet explores a camper's tent and the various people-sized items that, from his perspective, are gigantic, then utters the cartoon's single line of dialog. (imdb)

A re-working (uncredited) of a 1930 Fleischer cartoon which visits the insect world and shows a dragon-fly who breathes fire, a horse-fly that whinnies and sports a saddle, and a raccoon-coat carried away by moths. A flashing glow worm, getting ready for a night out on the town, leads to the "follow-the-bouncing-ball" request to the audience to join in on a sing-along of "Glow Worm."

Michael and Jim, two middle-aged gay friends and ex-lovers, penniless and with HIV, reunite after twenty years. They try to make a living in the post-Katrina New Orleans, making and selling small figures from the Cajun pantheon. They carry past glorious loves as a secret refuge from the present mediocrity and, although they revolt against the hardships of their lives, they depend on each other and stick to their commitment to go on trying to survive together (Thessaloniki Documentary Festival)