City of Pirates (1984)

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.