The Substance

The Substance 2024

7.10

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

2024

The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD

The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD 2011

6.90

By coincidence rather than by design, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact that reaches far beyond the scientific world. THE SUBSTANCE is an investigation into our troubled relationship with LSD, told from its beginnings to today.

2011

The Substance of Fire

The Substance of Fire 1996

7.25

Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.

1996

The Night's Substance

The Night's Substance 2021

5.50

Jaiane now lives in Brazil, while Aissa, a Mozambican sailor who has just arrived in the city, tries to have a real experience on dry land. A story of unconventional passion follows.

2021

Postmodernism: The Substance of Style

Postmodernism: The Substance of Style 2011

0.00

This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern. This film was originally made for the V&A exhibition 'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990'.

2011

Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless

Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless 1991

1.00

A fake documentary disguised as an undercover report on a secret circle that teaches how to freely secrete the brain drug endorphins. At the end of the film, the director (Yoshihiro Kato), who has become a cripple as a result of his undercover work, reconstructs the images in his brain that he sees, and fantastic abstract experimental film-like images appear. It also contained elements of the video drugs that were popular at the time.

1991

The Substance of Things Hoped For

The Substance of Things Hoped For 2006

0.00

After the death of her closest two friends, young Daphne Lessing suffers a loss of faith, then a lapse in memory. Confronted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a pregnancy she neither planned nor is able to explain, Daphne is forced into a terrible choice: lose her child or lose her mind. "The Substance of Things Hoped For" traces Daphne's desperate search for the past she cannot recall, the father she never had, and the child she may never know.

2006

Secure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade

Secure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade 1997

0.00

"Secure the Shadow" is a meditation on disintegration and morality. The film utilizes antique Medical stereoscopic images from the Victorian era, which are simultaneously disturbing and beautiful.

1997

The Mission: Sum And Substance

The Mission: Sum And Substance 1994

0.00

1. Tadeusz (1912-1988) 2. Serpents Kiss 3. Stay With Me 4. Wasteland 5. Severina 6. Tower Of Strength 7. Beyond The Pale 8. Kingdom Come 9. Butterfly On A Wheel 10. Deliverance 11. Into The Blue 12. Never Again 13. Like A Child Again 14. Tower Of Strength (1994) 15. Beyond The Pale (Armageddon Mix)

1994

A Magical Substance Flows Into Me

A Magical Substance Flows Into Me 2015

6.80

Robert Lachmann was a German-Jewish ethnomusicologist. In the 1930s, his radio show "Oriental Music" explored the musical traditions of Palestine and included regular live performances by musicians from different ethnic and religious groups. Inspired by Lachmann’s musicological studies, Palestinian artist Jumana Manna travels through Israel and the Palestinian territories of today with recordings from the programme. What do these songs sound like now when performed by Moroccan, Kurdish, or Yemenite Jews, by Samaritans, members of the urban and rural Palestinian communities, Bedouins and Coptic Christians?

2015

Substance

Substance 2016

0.00

TransWorld SKATEboarding is proud to introduce its 27th full-length video, Substance, featuring Davis Torgerson, Dolan Stearns, Tom Karangelov, Tristan Funkhouser, and Jon Nguyen. Making a conscious decision to free himself of any self-imposed limitations as to what a TransWorld video "has to be," filmmaker Chris Thiessen embarked on a worldwide mission alongside the Substance crew to make a stand-alone full-length with a life and feel completely of its own.

2016

Unexplainable Substance

Unexplainable Substance 2020

0.00

Mr. Manager couldn't even imagine how thoroughly she has been preparing for him to pay a visit. The film is the re-imagining of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

2020

Substance: Milk

Substance: Milk 2012

0.00

A movie about looking for the main substance.

2012

White Substance

White Substance 2008

0.00

Ten years have passed since the First Congo War, six since the beginning of the UN mission there. Rape is still being employed as a weapon. In White Substance everyone involved is given an opportunity to speak: the victims and the perpetrators, and also the individuals in-between.

2008