Hai cercato: It's a Match
Box of Matches / 2020
The Association of DJs of Flammable Beats — these are the people who made soul, funk and hip-hop familiar at Moscow parties: for 20 years, they systematically educated the public, offering an alternative to a straight barrel. "Box of Matches" tells about the times when broken rhythms were not yet mainstream, and immerses us in the current life of each of the characters, interrupted by musical pauses.
Perfect Match: True Love / 2018
Ren Hao Ming and Ruan Qing Tian is a couple with special identities. They are suspended temporarily due to a failed mission. During this unsettling time, Ruan Qing Tian announces that she is going to marry someone else. To unravel the conspiracy and get back his lover, Ren Hao Ming starts an intense wife-chasing operation.
Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match / 1976
The Gorenger try to retrieve rocket plans stolen by the Black Cross as Daita meets a mysterious girl he saves from them. This is a theatrical version of episode 36 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
The Matchmaker / 1959
Mr Wong falls head over heels for Lan, a beautiful waitress. He bugs her constantly to ask for her hand, and even goes as far as lying about his wife being dead and secretly planing to marry his wife off to a friend. Lan decides to play a prank on him to teach him a lesson.
The Match / 2008
In a Dutch village, an eighty-year-old widow is murdered. The perverted modus operandi turns the crime into a national media event. It made the authorities decide to set up one of the first large-scale DNA investigations in the country. The men who were interrogated and investigated by the police are interrogated once again for the film and have to describe the dramatic events and try to put their feelings into words.
The Match / 2018
The action of the film follows the artist who, since the girl left him, lost his inspiration.
A Home Fan Match / 2019
On the penultimate round of the 2008 Brazilian Football Championship, São Paulo would play against Fluminense at home, needing a simple victory to be the Champion. In amidst of that, we follow Laura's family and her expectation, along with her brothers' and father's, to go to the São Paulo stadium, Morumbi, to watch the game, which supposely everyone would attend.
A Wily Match / 1980
A martial arts expert trains the son of a wealthy man while dealing with various enemies.
Children and Matches / 1969
A cut-out animation warning for children about the danger of fire and playing with matches, far from the grim warning of your typical PSA and anticipating the complicated human psychology of Norshteyn's subsequent work. And, no doubt, there is a metaphor aimed at the power structure. 1968-69 was a crucial period of transition for the animator, breaking out of the pack at Soyuzmultfilm and beginning to script and co-direct films. Not listed on imdb, this is one - if not the first - of his first solo works as director.
The Croquet Match / 2008
There is only one human left on earth, and he's about to attend an all-Neanderthal croquet match.
Fancy Matches / 1914
To the rhythm of a frenzied choreography, acrobatic matches come to life on a black background. Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in circular, concentric movements. In an almost aquatic momentum, the squadron of little bits of wood mould the contours of a character, a run-of-the-mill smoker, before transforming into a funny harness. The film ends when the matches, again transformed, take on the appearance of a distinguished man who, after several attempts, finally finds a way of lighting his cigarette.
Matchmaking Dog / 2022
Higepon is 46. He has never had luck at work and never has had a boyfriend. As he attempts suicide, he laments: “My life is shit. I wish I had just one kiss with a hot man like a go-go boy.” Then suddenly a dog appears. He then takes this dog to his watering hole, where he meets Ten, a super hot guy sitting next to him. Ten tells him “You’re hot. Let’s forget the bad stuff” and gives him a bear hug. Higepon is thrilled, never having experienced this much luck in his life. However, the miracles that this dog brings have only just started.
Little Match Girl / 1996
Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Rough like strike a match /
In 1989 the ecuadorian writer Gustavo Garzón Guzmán was arrested and acussed of being part of a political movement the Movimiento Montoneras Patria Libre (MPL). A year pass to get his freedom but in the time returning to his job and literary studies on de 10th november of 1990 he was vanished during the Rodrigo Borja Cevallos presidential time.
Matchmaking Hussar / 1980
Ardently falling in love with the daughter of a pawnbroker, dashing hussar could not imagine to what extent the future father-in-law is greedy. But the hussar was no fool and took the same old sensualist and hunks around your finger, producing money from him.
Like A Matchstick / 2016
A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.
Home Match / 2017
Short documentary depicts the life of Alina Shilova, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty. Alina is now a professional player, but her situation remains uncertain: her mother suddenly dies, leaving behind Alina's beloved siblings, Renat and Regina, 6 and 7 years old. Alina becomes a substitute mother. Her career plans are on the verge of collapse. The whole dysfunctional family is living in a cramped one-room apartment. Alina wants to give her brother and sister a better life than the one she had. Will she find the strength to cope with everything? How can you win the match of your life when the odds are stacked against you?