JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood

An adaptation of the original five volume arc of the popular JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, covering the Phantom Blood chapters. Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps. This film has not been publicly released outside of its original limited run in Japanese theaters and is considered virtually lost.

2007-02-17 | ja

HYPERSONIC Music Club

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

2023-08-01 | ja

Grinder-Man - G-VTR01

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

1998-01-01 | ja

Фарс с Зимовым — «Русским Поксоном»

1915-10-18 | ru

The Square Root

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

1969-01-01 | en

Heartbeat in the Brain

A documentary produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

1970-01-01 | en

Kansas City Blender Massacre

Lost Todd Sheets short about a killer using a blender.

1986-07-30 | en

The Hanging of William Carr

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

1897-12-17 | en

The Fox With Nine Tails

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)

1968-10-19 | ja

Theaters of War

If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? With the release of a vast new trove of internal government documents, the answers have come into sharp focus: the US military has exercised editorial control over thousands of films and television programs. As these activities gain new public scrutiny, new questions arise: How have they managed to fly under the radar for so long? And where do we go from here?

2022-02-14 | en

Wodo

"A vampiric Elf awakens in his eerie dwelling, where the arrival of disturbing figures through a mysterious portal unsettles the atmosphere. An enigmatic and mystical journey into the unknown."

2024-11-18 | it

Episódios Perdidos: Uma História

El Chavo, El Chapulin Colorado, Chespirito: The biggest phenomenon of Latin American comedy in 50 years. Behind the success, there is a mystery that has never been solved: the lost episodes.

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

2019-04-25 | en

Cruel Summer

A car thief (Kid Cudi) falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father allows them to marry under the terms he can help her see.

2012-05-08 | en

The Bannfoot Ferry

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.

2024-06-22 | en

All American Massacre

Unreleased Texas Chainsaw Massacre spin-off revolving around the character Chop-Top. The film acts as both a prequel and a sequel to the first and second films. Shelved because of a copyright dispute regarding who owns the rights to the series.

1998-01-01 | en

Living Above the Mouse's Ear

A short film created by Duane Palyka and Hank Grebe, artists and animators of the lab. It was a joint effort between the Computer Graphics Lab and the 2D animation studio, which was originally founded for the production of NYIT's 1975 film Tubby the Tuba. Animators a part of that team include John Gentilella and Francis Glebas. Mouse's Ear was mostly animated on paper before the drawings were scanned and lined, colored, and composited digitally. The film was originally presented to Vestron Video in 1985 or 1986 for possible distribution, however it was rejected and never saw a public release or screening.

1985-01-01 | en

Cletaraxia

In the 20th century they called it avant-garde cinema, expanded cinema, kitsch cinema, structural cinema, psychotronic cinema, underground cinema, experimental cinema, kinoeye, cult cinema, lysergic cinema, bizarre cinema, Ahora lo llaman cine de DDLM´S.

2009-11-27 | es

Gehenna

In this recently found and restored banned underground classic from 1984, four girls go into a bathroom to hide in the middle of a war and, after an impulsive act by one of them, they find themselves trapped there. As panic gives way to despair, tragedy approaches.

2025-04-29 | pt

Something in the Basement

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.

1986-06-18 | en