Maid's Night Out

Metropolitan

August 1990 •English

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

The Amorous Milkman

January 1975 •English

Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a little more than just pints of milk, Davey launches into a series of sexcapades that quickly get out of hand. Soon, he finds himself engaged to two women, dodging a local gangster who doesn't appreciate his "service" and fighting false rape charges in court.

The Milky Way

February 1936 •English

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.

Eloise at the Plaza

April 2003 •English

Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Her caretaker "Nanny" watches over her while her mom is away. Then one day, while trying to figure out how to get invited to a fancy ball as well as how to meet a visiting prince, Eloise makes a new friend around her age! So she decides to take him on a tour of the city - and all while plotting some matchmaking hijinks for her other friends too!

The Reluctant Debutante

August 1958 •English

While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."

Argo 2

April 2015 •Hungarian

All's Swell That Ends Swell!

May 2006 •English

Josie longs to have a baby. Her husband Frank would rather have steak. Set against the Technicolor backdrop of 1950's America, Josie sets out on an extra-ordinary tale to motherhood full of twists, turns and tupperware!

Prima Donnas

April 1995 •English

Kim's mother believes being a debutante should be the most important thing in a young woman's live. So she makes a big fuss about it and gets on Kim's nerves. Consequently, Kim refuses to go with her mother's choice: prestigious Scott, a senator's son. She asks out a guy she hardly knows and who - worse for her mother - is Latino. Her mother and Scott try anything to prevent her from this "social suicide".

The Milkman

October 1950 •English

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

Man-Proof

January 1938 •English

A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

Jaalbandi

June 2022 •Bengali

On one hand, a renowned film producer, Adinath Mullick, comes to Anish's place to make a policy of INR 10 crores. Adinath wants Bharat Seva Ashram as the nominee of his policy. Then in the course of events, he wants to replace his nominee by someone called Chitralekha Sen. In the meantime, Adinath's son, Amitabha, and daughter, Gargi, both get greedy and start running after this money. They both want their names as the nominee and Anish falls into their trap. On the other, Gouranga's daughter Champakali sets a trap for Anish. She wants to marry Anish in exchange of convincing his father to make the deal done. In course of events, Anish meets Riyanka, a famous TV star, and coincidentally at that point of time, her husband Bobby takes his own life and Anish falls again into that trap again. Would he ever set free or fall into an unending nadir?

The Milkman

July 2024 •Portuguese

Based on the short story by Stephen King, follow the morning delivery routine of the neighborhood's favorite milkman.

Fiddler on the Roof

November 1971 •English

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

It Happened on This Very Day

June 1987 •

Belgrade in 1963. In a yard surrounded by buildings, a group of young people of different backgrounds and social status, but of similar views about love and self-affirmation, spend their time together. Their friendship is dyed with various events typical for socialism, such as working actions or Youth Day's parade. All what happens within this yard may become an allegory of one generation's destiny.

Milkman

July 2024 •Dutch

Based on a comic by legendary Dutch artist Typex, Milkman is the story of a lonely, old-fashioned milkman fighting a quixotic battle against modern times, whilst feeling stuck in the same old routine of delivering the milk every day. One day, he discovers a mysterious bottle in his cart. A bottle that turns out not only to have life-changing consequences for the milkman himself, but for the entire village.

My Milkman, Joe

January 1958 •English

Educational short film featuring a milkman and his puppet

Coming Out Party

March 1934 •English

In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the strong-willed girl initially demurs until the night of her debut. Her social adviser fills the debutante’s dance card with partners, which inflames the violinist.

I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!

April 2015 •English

This documentary short tells the story of cartoonist David Boswell and his greatest creation: Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. In the late '70s, David Boswell birthed Reid Fleming, a counterculture icon in the form of a comic book anti-hero. Fast forward to the '80s, Warner Brothers aimed for a Hollywood film. Today, three decades later, Reid Fleming remains stuck in a contractual quagmire. Jonathan Demme, Academy Award-Winner (The Silence of the Lambs, Stop Making Sense), narrates "I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!" This documentary blends stop-motion animation with interviews from Boswell, Hollywood cohorts, and fans, exploring the enduring allure of the indomitable Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman.

Antes de Irme

June 2023 •Spanish

Granny Gets the Point

January 1971 •English

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.