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About young people learning that happiness comes from learning how to give of one's self. MANYIKA is about an enchanted doll who came to life and taught two orphans the value of love. BANANA-CUE is about a rich girl who found happiness in the company of a classmate who sold sweetened bananas in order to see himself through high school.
A cowboy seeks to rescue, then woo, a damsel in distress. But he is constantly thwarted by the scratches, breaks, and other imperfections present in the film print itself.
Although scores of people migrate to Bombay, from all over India, most do not even have a roof to live under. Some who are lucky manage to find accommodations but pay very high rents, and others who find accommodations refuse to vacate under any circumstances. Two such tenants are Mrs. Laxmi Abhyankar and her employed daughter, Jaya, who live in a flat in Pali Hill area. They had rented this flat from Lucknow-based Kundanlal Choudhury 15 years ago and have been paying him the same amount of Rs.500/- since then. Kundanlal's son, Anil, comes to Bombay to seek employment, and does get employed. His dad wants him to go and live with the Abhyankars, which he does.
"The Crown of the Sultan" - a fairy tale/comedy/drama taking place in an ancient court where a mole is conspiring.
Dr. Petypon wakes up after a wild party with a young lady called Räkan, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. He has messed it up badly. How can this be explained to his wife?
A comedy cartoon that shows in a funny manner that rudeness is a vice that needs to be combated immediately...
Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - but their plans don't work out as expected.
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
Billyjo is a girl from a small Ohio town who moves to the big city to become a receptionist for Red Rooster Rejuvenators. What this company manufactures, or pushes, are little red pills that help to engorge a man's member with 'red, healthy blood' and make him feel like he's 'on his honeymoon again'!
Şaban returns to Istanbul from Germany to solve a fraud crime that was framed on his father. But the people who meet him at the airport see Şaban as a punk and think that he can't help them…
Men fight over men with velvet gloves in this sophisticated comedy about the alternative lifestyle of filipino male homosexuals in the 1980s.
Lydia Lunch and Penn & Teller jazz up the Jenkins' family picnic home movie, turning it into a backyard SOV slasher.
A woman becomes addicted to the rhythm and joy found on the train. Various men are encountered...but when will they get off?
The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. She is accompanied, as might be expected, by a woman Watson, and must fight off the affections of both a Scotland Yard inspector an a parody Latin lover from Spain.
Haunted by his mother’s overbearing presence, reluctant young virgin Freddie embarks on a hilarious journey of self-discovery in order to please his girlfriend Melody. With the help of his eccentric buddies and an assortment of others, Freddie hilariously navigates romance, confronting fears and finding love along the way.
Dimitris Thalassias is a single singing teacher at a senior high school in Athens and undertakes the care of a child abandoned by its mother at the door of the foundling hospital. He does everything required to raise it right, but he sees his life changing unexpectedly, since his fiancée leaves him, and his relations with his students go from bad to worse. While this is happening, the mother shows up to claim her child. In the end, everything is corrected, and a solution is provided through marriage.
A Czech psychological film about the school of life, its sorrows and beauties. The main character is a young aspiring nurse Marie Sahulová, who, after a trouble in the hospital - she secretly brought a boy to her boarding school - is transferred to a rural health centre, where together with an old doctor and a peculiar nurse she has to travel around twenty-five villages and a number of solitudes in the harsh environment of the neglected villages of the 1950s. The nurse, a wise and experienced woman whom no one calls anything other than "babi", becomes her guide, who introduces her to the practice and the pitfalls of private life in a distinctive way. In the mosaic of everyday worries and more or less serious medical interventions, Marie matures and finds the meaning of her work and life.
A group of guys takes their ice cream truck to the beach and meet some girls
Three reporters from the school paper get transported back to the Edo period.
Third wine session, this time with a computer. The film was made in direct relation to the audience success of the previous two: "Stormy Wine" and "Ripe Wine". In the comedy-oriented story, the computer is an important actor, around which all the events actually revolve. It is reliable, powerful, but unused. Its future lies in the hands of those who do not yet know how to use it.
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
The film is the first part of a three-part series on cycling education. In the form of a feature story from science fiction, this episode presents the equipment of the roadworthy bicycle, its use in the traffic area and the physical-technical conditions of cycling.
Four friends go to an amusement park, where they discover an unusual attraction that works like a time machine and takes everyone back in time to the scenes of old vaudeville shows...
Professor Panicker sets out on a trip with his two friends, Varma and Stephen. Among the three, Stephen is a bachelor. Troubles shoot up when Varma tries to find a girl to share his bed.
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.
A couple in their mid-thirties meet seven years after a falling-out, only to push this chance meeting into familiar territory too quickly for their own good
Ezzat and Hassan are friends and co-workers. Hassan admires Soad but he can't tell her about his feelings because of his shyness. He asks his friend Ezzat to tell her instead, but things don't go as expected. Ezzat also receives letters from an unknown person threatening to kill him.
A young Czech couple are terrorized by their funny family.
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose presence divides the community.
George Carlin hits the boards with the former Hippie-Dippie Weatherman's take on Brooklynese pronunciations of the names of sexually transmitted disease ("hoipes"), plus a prayer for the separation of church and state, feuds between breakfast foods, and the absurdity of wearing jungle camouflage in a desert.
A man wakes up in the desert and meets an alien girl, throughout they meet various strangers who all ask for tickets. The man navigates through his past to become the person he's been wanting to be.
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher at the school who, becuase of his gentle character, has hardly any enemies - in fact, the rest of the staff confide in him or generally pplay on his good nature. Then Derek Meadle arrives on the scene. He is a new part-time teacher who really wants to be full-time, but people like Quartermaine are in the way.
Badul, a part-time musician gets a job as a debt collector at Haji Lamin’s firm. Haji Lamin is impressed with Badul who pretends to be a pious person. He intends to make him his son-in-law. But one day Haji Lamin was so shocked to see Badul dancing away at a restaurant. But Badul claims that it is his twin brother, Badal. There is utter chaos when Haji Lamin falls in love with badul’s mother while his daughter nora, falls for Badal.
To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.
Gus Van Sant, dissatisfied professionally, counts five ways to end his life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Tamil-speaking Priya and Punjabi-speaking Dr. Kiran meet and fall in love with each other, and get married. Kiran likes to drink and likes the company of women, Priya is aware of this and always suspects him of having an affair. When Shobha decides to go for a vacation to her parents' house, Kiran meets with a dancer/singer, Lulu, spends the night with her, and wakes up next morning to find her dead body. Fearing that the Police will arrest him, and his wife will leave him, he disposes off the body off of a bridge into a river, and returns home to try and lead a normal life. When the Police find Lulu's body, they discover that she had taken a taxi to Kiran's house on the night of her death. It looks like Kiran may have to face the consequences of being arrested and his wife leaving him.
The story is about a family of vampires that due to genetic imbalance doesn't have fangs.
A magical tree has a 7 dwarves taking care of it. The tree is bearing money and only good people can take it and prove that the tree has money on it.
Mexican feature film
Love and friendship, lies and betrayal - comedies often deal with existential themes. But not always. Sometimes everyday life is enough to pick up an audience and entertain them. The audience suddenly sees themselves as experts who can give an informed opinion on what is happening on stage: In the case of "Pantoffelheld" from 1983, it was probably primarily housewives, ironing men were rather the exception back then. Among them was the newly minted househusband Daniel, who struggles with an ironing board and creased jeans. Paul Bühlmann as his buddy Georges does a much more confident job.
Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.
The story surrounds the lives of Dr. Rehman (Shashi Kapoor) who believes in saving the lives of the poor, instead of opening up a clinic in a big city and making money; Soni (Rekha), an innocent village girl, who was abducted by dacoits during her marriage with Dharma (Puneet Issar), and when the police rescue her and bring her back to her groom, he and his family reject her, making her seem like a fallen woman; Dr. Kumar (Ashok Kumar) who is the very opposite of Dr. Rehman; and Dr. Anand (Vinod Mehra), the son of Dr. Kumar. Dr. Anand practices under Dr. Rehman, who testified for him during a criminal trial for malpractice which resulted in the death of the husband of Rani Sahiba (Moon Moon Sen). Soni has fallen in love with Dr. Anand, but Dr. Anand has strong reservations against her, due to her background.
Captain's daughter Josephine and common sailor Ralph Rackstraw are in love. However, their relationship is complicated by her arranged marriage to the high-ranking Sir Joseph Porter. A secret about the characters' true identities revealed by Little Buttercup, which leads to a farcical resolution. Filmed live from the 1980 Stratford Festival in Ontario.
A collection of skits and songs from Israeli television shows from the 1970s.
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
Silent about two clumsy glaziers.
Moises is a mature homosexual, which is having an affair by correspondence with Hilario, a recently widowed man who lives in Valencia. They decide to meet in Madrid and live together. But the chosen day is 23 February, the one in which Lieutenant Colonel Tejero attempts a coup d'etat.
A crusty old General leads his dotty family on a relaxing weekend at the seaside, and comic chaos ensues.
Two streetwise childhood friends and powerful financial tycoons who never quite managed to graduate from high school
Dono, Kasino and Indro (the Warkop Trio) live in a boarding house. Amusement starts when the flat owner, Aunt Sarah, goes on a date. Dono installs a microphone so that the conversation between Aunt Sarah and her date can be heard in every room. As a result, Aunt Sarah starts fighting with the three friends. Then Erna, Aunt Sarah’s niece, arrives for a visit. The three friends compete to attract her heart. One day, the three friends are invited to go with Erna to a nightclub. Inside they meet Aunt Sarah. To avoid conflict, the three friends disguise as women.
Three stories everyday madness. A retired headmaster angers me when I see the marks of his granddaughter and soon discovers that most education is dominated by bribing. A civil servant who lives a boring life with his wife and his mother in law, and a woman who has been trying for years to get its land in the city plan!
An alcoholic major Remes gets frustrated in the barracks and asks for a leave of absence. It is agreed to on the condition that Remes conducts one more military exercise. During that, Remes runs into a cunning career criminal Oiva Juntunen, who has hidden gold bars in the forest.
Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.
Fanus is a nerdy sound technician who is never noticed by anyone, and especially not by the boss’s pretty but temperamental daughter, Linda. All this changes with the arrival of alter ego 'Blink Stefaans', who has plenty of advice for Fanus, from how to be more assertive to how to dress. 'Blink' translates to bright or shiny. Suddenly Fanus life changes into a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs. Blink Stefaans, in this gentle romantic comedy.