The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.
4,802 Matches Found
A celebration of how the very young and the very old appreciate and enjoy each other via sketches and variety performances.
Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?
Oui, allô! Estelle?
A rich cornhusker and his social climbing wife find themselves in the company of royalty. While the wife is entertaining a high and mighty prince downstairs, the husband is entertaining a threadbare princess upstairs. It doesn't take long for the husband to realize he has more in common with royalty than his wife does.
Come Into The Garden Maud
Johan runs across a road to get his ball when a car appears out of nowhere and strikes him dead.
Johan är död
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
The plot takes place in pre-war Yugoslavia, and the protagonist, interpreted by Zvonko Lepetic, is Jefto, a prison guard who lives with his family as a tenant in a basement. The plot shows how, convinced that he is destined for great things, he betrays his family, a friend and subordinates everything to his vanity.
The Man Who Could Tell North from the South
Himeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto region, and Himeshiro took over the knowledge of medicine from his father. If he encounters a sick person on the way, he uses his right hand, wrapped in a rosary, to give medical attention, while if he sees a bad person, he draws his sword with his left hand and uses it to punish the evildoers. So he travels on the verge of life and death along the Nakasendo highway...
Wandering Himeshiro
The film takes us to the Far North. A criminal escapes from prison, and on his way through the tundra meets an old native man who is carriying the salaries of reindeer breeders. Their joint struggle for survival results in the spiritual purification of the protagonist.
Fighting
Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her miserable childhood, a troubled young woman finds her new friendship with a neighbor has her stuck in another family drama.
Vengeance Is Mine
A documentary featuring the making of the July 1987 recording of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony conducted by magazine publisher Gilbert Kaplan, who developed a passion for this piece of music at an early age and has conducted the symphony with major orchestras.
Mahler and the Millionaire
A young woman must face her insecurities when she is tasked with an assignment for her speech class.
The Drop Card
Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett team up for this festive comedy show from 1988, featuring their own version of Gone With the Wind with guest star Fiona Fullerton as Scarlett O'Hara.
Bruce and Ronnie
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.
Fireworks for Elspeth
It is the time before the First World War - in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea coast, the unusual love story of the young, ambitious lawyer Belling and the fun-loving actress Franziska begins. The young couple believes in career in the neighboring big city, would not be there the rich businessman of Elchem, who limits their love power of his money. Franziska has found an admirer and patron in the entrepreneur - a woman between two men who plays, but cleverly he makes the couple financially dependent on himself... The film adaptation of the novelle by Heinrich Mann describes the moral decay of a social layer fixed on success and money at the beginning of the 20th century.
Suturp - eine Liebesgeschichte
Follows the tragic pages of our history, when the so-called “special meeting”, consisting of three people, passed harsh sentences on innocent people.
Three
11-year-old René loves his Punch and Judy puppets and dreams of becoming a kindergarten teacher - a dream for which he is often ridiculed and even his father shows little understanding. Deeply hurt, he withdraws and finds solace in the children's home, where he plays stories to the young children with his puppets.
Ich bin nicht Don Quichote
An internist is accused of murdering the sixth of his seven wives. During the court hearing, numerous statements, especially those made by his former wives, confront him with his past. Finally acquitted, the doctor loses himself in feelings of deepest guilt and confusion as he searches for the truth about himself. The strict film adaptation of the novel by Max Frisch (1982).
Blaubart
After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their damage control options.
Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once loved her but is now divorced and clearly suffering from loneliness, reappears in her life.
Waiting
Katera
Two days before their wedding, Shmulik and Annat have a fight in the midst of a traffic jam when Annat decides to jump out of the car - straight into Mickey's car. The film depicts the relationship that forges between the two strangers, while they both know that time passes and the wedding is just around the corner.
פסק זמן
A fairy tale about a king who does not solve his worries and problems, but runs away from them into dreams and visions. He trades everything he has for his dreams. The castle, the crown and the happiness of his only daughter. But in time, the poor shepherd Martin intervenes, who knows that dreaming is beautiful, but the ability to make dreams come true is much more valuable.
O houslích krále snů
This film is about the administrative center of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, about the social and political problems of its inhabitants.
America of the seventies. Gateway to the South
While performers Frankie and Annette are going new wave and even punk, they find out that the old tunes and attitudes are not completely washed away.
Beach Blanket Armageddon
King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage
Stage show with Frank Gunnarsson, Claes Malmberg and Mikel Lindberg
Det smakar fågel
The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.
Na własną prośbę
"D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay. Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses und Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance." - MoMA
A Proposition in Four Parts
The little coastal town of Clark's Harbor seems like the perfect place for psychiatrist Brad Russell and his wife to get a little peace and spend more time with each other. But the locals don't seem very friendly and every time a storm rolls in another mysterious death occurs... Could an ancient Indian legend of ghostly tribes and human sacrifice have anything to do with it?
Cry for the Strangers
A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage.
The Capture of Grizzly Adams
When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.
Fars lille påg
Flohr und die Traumfrau
Tales of love and marriage are spun in four short adult comedy stories.
Bedrooms
A documentary about Jānis Bērziņš - a Soviet politician and military intelligence officer of Latvian ethnicity.
The Head of Intelligence Service
About the funny adventures of Mishka, Shavkat, and Ulubek from the 6th "A" class of the Tashkent School.
Teddy Bear the Telepath
Mykolko – hop!
A little known cyberpunk musical with a love story twist set in a distant future made by Denis & Denis, featuring the most famous songs from their albums "Čuvaj Se" (1984) and "Ja Sam Lažljiva" (1985).
Denis & Denis: The Movie
A look into the lives of eagles.
Where Eagles Fly
The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.
Stanley
Presented in Naples by the Napolinovantove Foundation, it received in the same year the panansonic Filmmaker Award 1985, Milan.
Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli
When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.
A Small Mourning
Sarah Jane Smith arrives at the home of her Aunt Lavinia in the cozy village of Moreton Harwood, only to find that Lavinia is nowhere to be found and that the Doctor has left her a parting gift in K·9 Mark III. With the help of K·9 and Lavinia's young ward Brendan Richards, Sarah Jane starts investigating her aunt's disappearance. In the process, they discover that Moreton Harwood is home to a coven worshipping the pagan god Hecate and preparing for a human sacrifice...
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war—a Luftwaffe pilot.
To the Camp and Back
The film tells about man's love for nature and the importance of preserving the environment.
The Old Hunter's Grudge
Ingvar lives a normal life until one day an old friend needs a ride home.
Ibland tänker jag på Ingvar
Written on the basis of story “Tattooed Life” by Dusko Radovic, this TV movie directed by his son Milos Radovic tells about Andja, a young saleswoman from the outskirts of Belgrade, who falls in love quickly and honestly, with only desire that this romance ends with marriage.
I See Your Boat at the End of the Road
A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including footage of the cast rehearsing and the triumphant first night.
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
TV movie based on the 1981 Fukugawa shopping street murders.
The Fukugawa Street Attack Murders
A week in the life of Redditch investigative reporter Kevin Turvey. As you would expect, not a lot happens!
Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door
Plumber Martin and his younger colleague Frank are on call on Christmas Eve of all days. Frank's girlfriend Regina, who is expecting her first baby at any moment, is anything but thrilled. But it doesn't help, duty is duty. One emergency call follows another, but this evening it's not just broken water pipes that are waiting for the two plumbers...
Die Weihnachtsklempner
Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles Deleuze, who wrote a book about it before even seeing it. Bene strips down the original Shakespeare play to the core, rejecting plot and characters, leaving on stage only Riccardo III and his ghosts, the female characters. The TV version is characterized by an exstensive use of close-ups and strong light contrast.
Riccardo III
The resourceful rural tailor Vincas offers the wealthy but tight-fisted landowner Antanas to lend his impoverished neighbor a couple of thousand rubles and in return get his daughter Agota as a wife with a large dowry. Then Vincas easily persuades Agota to steal the borrowed money from her father and flee to America together...
America in the Bathhouse
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Director Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) knows how to construct and, when necessary, even milk a laugh for optimal effect. This second riotous volume in the Partners in Crime collection features more ribald moments culled from Townsend's laugh-filled HBO variety show. Sinbad, David Allen Grier and Damon Wayans also star.
Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2
Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of a child! The small but brave heroes Tom and Huck search for the treasure, become "pirates", enter into a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
The television musical film is based on the story "Dičius" by Teofilis Tilvitis.
Dičius's Career
A young music journalist dreams of meeting his idol, Bob Dylan.
Bobby Wants to Meet Me
A satirical stage play that explores the challenges facing sports in Kuwait, including fanaticism, social issues affecting athletes, and the role of official committees sent by the federation to represent the country in international events.