Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.
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Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.
Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women.
Perdican, his studies completed, returns to his family castle at the same time as Camille, returning from the convent where she was raised. The two young people are promised to each other, but the young girl appears distant. Out of spite, Perdican courts Rosette, a peasant girl, Camille's foster sister who, for her part, announces her plan to take the veil. Perdican announces his marriage to Rosette. On the eve of the wedding, Camille and Perdican finally confess their love to each other. But Rosette, who heard everything, commits suicide, which separates the two lovers forever.
Television adaptation of the novel by the Italian writer Italo Svevo. His hero is Zeno Cosini, the son of a merchant in Trieste. He is a type of useless person, defeated by life and incapable of action. The ironic insight with which the author draws a picture of the townspeople of Trieste at the turn of the century sounds like an accurate diagnosis of a social class that is doomed with its entire lifestyle and morality.
Retired detective inspector Keith Kendrick is to commit the perfect murder and collect 20,000 pounds for it! The shrewd old fox from Scotland Yard can hardly believe it...
This lively, spirit-lifting musical celebrates the sheer joy -- and survival -- of black music, song and poetry since the days of America's Civil War. With utter grace and ease, the gifted eight-member singing ensemble glides from gospel to disco and from slave-quarter sermons to contemporary black poetry.
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her.
Company commander Bicorne, loser at Waterloo, inherits a house and a little money in Andilly-les-Prés.
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Released shortly after his wedding on the Tonight Show, "A Special Tiny Tim" showcases many great performances by Herbie. From Rock and Roll to Music Hall, Tiny covers a wide and eclectic range of material for his one and only television special.
The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.
Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He descends into alcoholism and starts an affair with O-hana, a maid carrying another man’s child. Together, they conspire to poison Oiwa, killing her and disposing of her body in a moat. But Oiwa’s vengeful spirit rises from the depths, seeking revenge.
A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere.
Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles!
An animated adaptation of the notorious satire comic magazine. The skits include a look at a modern American car factory, the inner workings of a hospital, and a parody of The Godfather.
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.
The TV film consists of two short stories. "Love Under a Pseudonym": A comedy about a modern Don Juan, in which the funny and the sad intertwine, forcing the characters to reflect on life... "A Trip Through the City": A comedy about people's responsibility for their actions... If driver Petrov hadn't driven his rattling luggage through the city at night, it's unlikely that anyone would have thought of causing one scandal after another in the middle of the night...
A short documentary subject made for National Educational Television's Black Journal television program documenting a political rally in Newark, the 1970 mayoral campaign of Ken Gibson, and an African-American voter registration drive with special musical performance by Stevie Wonder.
Tinkerbelle and Nancy North interview Coty Awards nominees at the Cinandre Hair Salon in NYC.
Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.
This is the second volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 5 to 8 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to steer the young girl down the path of evil.
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
"I made this in 1975 while in college. It was my anti smoking response to Oskar Fischinger's cigarette commercials. It was aired a few times on PBS." –Jeff Scher
About a little boy apprentice of an icon workshop who dreamed of becoming a circus clown.
Svea hund, complete title Svea Hund på Göta Lejon (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage. The show premièred on 15 February (although it had a sneak première on 9 February) 1976 on the theater Göta Lejon in Stockholm. It was the last of the three "Dog-revues"; the first was Gröna hund (Green Dog) the second being Gula Hund (Yellow Dog). Both Hasse and Tage starred in various roles. Other cast members were Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Nyman, and Tommy Körberg. The song quartet EBBA (Lena Eriksson, Lars Bagge, Kersint Bagge and Bo Andersson) and Gunnar Svenssons Bandhundband.
A musical play based on the story by Friedrich Wolf.
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
TV movie based on the clearing of the Jewish psychiatric hospital "Het Apeldoornse Bosch" on 23 January 1943.
Todri, a patriotic teacher, returns in his homeland to bring the Albanian letters.
'Rocío y los detonadores' is a television musical that includes a fictional script with musical and dance performances. Directed and written by Fernando García Tola, it is an eclectic, bizarre and unusual work that, with Rocío Jurado interpreting herself, portrays in detail many notable points of the province of Granada and mainly its capital. In 'Rocío y los detonadores', Rocío Jurado is a famous singer whom two rival gangs want to kidnap. These bands will steal the artist from each other while they dance to the songs that she is singing through the streets of Granada.
A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.
A musical fairy tale about a lion who got bored living in the zoo and goes wandering around the city of Baku, where he met and became friends with a boy Rustam.
Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its centre.
All of Universal's greatest classic monsters gather at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel for Frankenstein's monster and his bride's Friday the 13th midnight wedding.
'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.
Various explanations of Ko van Dijk, interspersed with shots and explanations of him in the bath and at the masseur, shots of him with wife and child, talking with his son, footage of Biels en Co radio comic, footage of Schick razor blade commercial for STER, monologue in a play, on a terrace in Paris.
A successful lyricist, Sakumaki (Yukio Ninagawa), lives with his partner Kazue (Keiko Fujita) and their daughter, though he has always kept an emotional distance from them. One night, he returns home to find a mysterious woman in black (Yuko Kusunoki) waiting in his apartment. She calmly tells him that he will die the next night at precisely 12:13 a.m. Shaken, Sakumaki flees, only to discover the same woman appearing wherever he goes. As her presence grows more menacing and unexplainable, his fear spirals into paranoia. Directed by Toshiya Fujita, the episode blends domestic drama with supernatural dread, blurring the line between hallucination and reality. With Ninagawa in a rare starring role, supported by Ichiro Zaitsu and Akira Nagoya, the story pushes its protagonist into a psychological nightmare where fate, guilt, and obsession collide.
Vito-Vilūnas' activities in Moscow and interwar Lithuania, the fight against the Nazis and his death in 1942.
A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces are however not able to stop the man from suicide.
One of Ann Hui's most admired works for the small screen, The Bridge examines a complex web of bureaucracy, vested interests, disillusionment and grass-roots campaigning. The title refers to a footbridge closed for demolition by the government, effectively cutting the main route to and from a roadside shantytown and triggering further local issues.
Driven by need and a thirst for knowledge, Krabat wanders through the impoverished country and falls under the control of the "black miller". Krabat defends himself against him, but his opponent still has the stronger means of power.
Play about a student, taken from his point of view, and his reactions to the pressures and vacuums of student life.
This movie short, entitled "The Art of Tajikistan", was produced by the Union of the Soviet Associations of Friendship and Cultural partnerships with the foreign countries, in association with the movie studio Tajikfilm in the 1970ies. It was directed by Boris Kimyagarov , and produced by his daughter Lilia Kimyagarova. The cameraman was Zaur Dachte. The film includes well-known artists such as the opera singer, Hanifa Mavlianova, ballet dancer Malika Sobirova, dancer and actress Gavhar Mirjumajeva, the singer Jurabek Murodov (background singing), and Allo Alaev. The film showcases the development of a multitude of applied, visual, and performance arts in Tajikistan, from the ancient times to the period contemporary with the movie's filming, ending with a display of the architecture of the moderns streets of Dushanbe.
New cooling towers are to be built for the power station in the small village of Zaspenhain. The work is being carried out by builders from Poland, including Jerzy. Gitta, a young woman from Zaspenhain, works at the power station as a laboratory assistant. When the Polish construction workers arrive, she falls in love with Jerzy. But then the past intervenes...
Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and France and his friendship with an African immigrant.
It's a perfectly ordinary day in Rita's life: early in the morning her lover from last night left the apartment, and Rita doesn't dare to go back to work after she stole money in the telephone cabin the day before.
In this episode, Prof. Dr. A.N.J. den Hollander, Professor of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Amsterdam and founder and director of the America Institute.
A satirical comedy based on the novel of the same name by Nikolay Gogol.