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Nernesio Chupaca, of Andean origin, travels to Argentina, a country experiencing extraordinary monetary inflation. In Buenos Aires, he meets two locals who try to swindle him with currency exchange and take advantage of his naiveté in a context of blatant economic speculation and dubious financial dealings.
Ardently falling in love with the daughter of a pawnbroker, dashing hussar could not imagine to what extent the future father-in-law is greedy. But the hussar was no fool and took the same old sensualist and hunks around your finger, producing money from him.
Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The three episodes are joined together by one film crew at work. In the beginning, the crew is introduced as they juggle their dual roles as State-supported propagandists who laud their government and society, and as private movie makers working on their own film. Next, they are in a restaurant looking for suitable locations to film when the eatery’s owner is induced to wax long and lugubriously on his miserable life. In the last segment, two extras are in the background of a scene, sitting at a table in a restaurant. It slowly becomes apparent to one of them that the man he’s sitting with tortured him more than 40 years ago at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
A comedy special featuring Jay Leno pursuing what passes for the American dream in his pink Cadillac. Included on the tour is a French restaurant, an automobile factory, a classroom, and a bingo emporium.
J.R. has been shot in his sensitive parts. After spending a season in the hospital, and anxious for revenge, he returns to find the culprit. He is accompanied by a bodyguard that prevents the presence of women who could approach him, thus delaying his recovery.
Educating Oz, is a very rare chapter in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet history. Mostly unseen by many viewers it stars Jimmy Nail as Oz, and Tim Healy as Dennis, Educating Oz, is a short public information film made in 1986 to highlight the issue of AIDS and how important it is to practice safe sex, using the characters of the popular TV series.
Abu Zeit al-Hilali works in the sale of beans and falafel, and decides to move to Zamalek, and marries Mervat without the knowledge of her father in his building, but her feelings are still attached to her lover Alaa.
An underpaid and underappreciated man goes missing from his office one day. What happens to the company?
After the accidental death of her mother, 12 year old Nicki must care for the family particularly her two young siblings.
Six stories about the modern Bulgarian family.
George, the director of a branch of a large American company, is a big, incorrigible womanizer. When the General Manager of America announces that he will come for an inspection, George is a little confused, because the General wants to stay at home, in a family environment and not in a hotel. But the good lad knows another path. George rents a beautiful young lady and christens her his husband. Wedding photos and other hilarious tricks are put into action to fool Mr. General.
Witness the adventures of Baggyface, a demented and sometimes moronic saw-obsessed psycho who goes on a rampage in a small Ohio town on Groundhogs Day, 1985.
A 1988 Filipino action comedy film starring Chiquito and Redford White.
Anime based on original story by Kinoshita Renzo.
Richter, Gál and Bakos have stolen valuable paintings from a museum. During their escape, however, they accidentally exchange the black suitcase containing the booty for another. The hunting after the paintings starts.
Antypas, a civil servant, lives with his sister and his rocker nephew, who doesn't get along with him at all. He's always complaining. Everything is everyone else's fault, everyone annoys him, and he wants to fix everything. Sometimes he despairs, thinking it would be better to just pack up and leave, to emigrate...
Mexican feature film
In this animated short, Orpheus becomes the catalyst for a whimsical and symbolic vignette in which a group of nuns briefly abandon their strict discipline for a dance that embodies temptation and release. Through expressive animation and allegorical imagery, the film playfully contrasts spiritual restraint with human impulses, creating a lively and imaginative exploration of paradoxical desire.
An eccentric teacher decides to teach his students, in their final year of high school, everything he knows about sex. However, he is surprised to discover that his students have had more extensive and unusual experiences than he has. So he asks them to tell him their stories, and the lesson turns into an unlikely comedy...
P.C. 369 is a 1987 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P Chandrakumar. The film stars Suresh Gopi, Mukesh, Rohini and Maniyanpilla Raju in lead roles. The film had musical score by KPN Pillai.
An uptight man decides to take his grandfather with him on vacation.
The protagonist of this satirical short is a photographer whose camera captures photos of people's true nature. We often have to ask ourselves whether we see the truth around us. But do we want to see it?
The film tells the story of Adile, a day laborer.
The Daughters of Equality want everybody to be like them...
Postwoman Mrs Skorepa, her husband the ambulance driver Mr Skorepa and their eleven-year-old twins Petr and Pavel live in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), one of the Prague's historical and oldest quarters. The boys are crazy about cars and everything linked to them. They don't share their father's love of classical music. On the other hand, they are crazy about the newly announced scrap yard competition for paper collection. The lottery tickets awarded for every ten kilograms of old paper collected could win them a go-kart.
Having discovered his great luck at gambling, a stingy employee develops into fearless gambler.
A group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.
Based on the plays by A.N. Ostrovsky's tales, staged by the Maly Theater.
Odysseus and Giblas (Giorgos Pantzas and Stathis Psaltis) come to Athens, hoping to make their lives. They find a room and work at the Aristomenos factory (Grigoris Vafias). When the rumors about the attempted murder of his son Giorgos Pantzas organized the factory, Odysseus, who looks amazing, will take on the role of salvation to deceive the killers. Odysseus, without knowing what is happening, charismatically emphasizes his boss's son and gives benefits to the workers. Soon it is revealed that the very son of the factory was the one who spread the rumors and Odysseus, taking the part of the workers clean, destroying an agreement with Arab entrepreneurs, overcoming his superiors and finally resigning.
In 1939 a French policeman (Jacques Martin) is forgotten on a Polynesian island, during an administrative tour. When war broke out, he knew nothing about it and it was only when a German ship called that he learned of the gravity of the events. On the tone of comedy, this drama describes the relationship between this ex-policeman still imbued with administrative stupidity and the naive but joyful population of the island. The comedy prevails over the drama and the gendarme will not take long to acquire the joie de vivre of the natives.
The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.
Pim has a large family with lots of relatives, most of them stick around expecting a share in the family’s will. Pim is being forced to marry someone, but she refuses and decides to move to school down south. In school she meets Alan, after a while both really fall in love with each other.
Benedicte is a divorced woman who is greatly appreciated by those around her. One day, she finds an anonymous declaration of love on her desk. The strange letters accumulate and Benedicta is eager to discover the author. And who better to help her in this exciting investigation than her wild ten-year-old daughter?
Valma wants a baby with her partner Joe but he has trouble sustaining himself financially. She agrees to help Alphonse and to marry an immigrant.
The Vixens are coming! They've landed on earth to wreak havoc on the male student bodies of Mayfield High. You see, there are no men on their native planet, and every so often, they'll visit earth to fulfill their ravenous desires. Unfortunately, the adolescent boys are no match for these lustful aliens, and in their frustration, the Vixens zap them with their ray guns and turn them into garden variety vegetables--tomatoes, zucchinis, carrots, pickles, even squash!
Reconstruction of silent films: a parody of the salon drama of the early twentieth century.
Katrin and Dieter really want a new car, but don't have enough money. They therefore decide to host Aunt Mathilde's 60th birthday party and invite all their relatives, including those they haven't been in contact with for years. Because some of them are said to be swimming in money. So Katrin and Dieter hope for some support, but some of it turns out to be just a sham.
Bugs Bunny gushes with excitement over the end of school, but while stopping to wonder why he's excited about this at his age, he runs into a tree and has a flashback to his youth, when he was just as excited about the end of school. But his nemesis, a young Elmer Fudd, is also out, and he's out to get the budding wascally wabbit.
For many years, Terje Svahberg saved up to buy a cabin. But then something happened, suddenly and unexpectedly. He became obsessed with boats. And before anyone really knew what was happening, he had made transactions that made him the proud owner of a luxury boat...and everything that goes with it.
OV tie in for the hit song We Go to Tokyo
Ernesto Belloni (Che Copete) plays a "BBQ expert" caterer. who is hired to help a marriage from an exclusive neighborhood, that becomes into a total madness.
Complications in life are common. But when they occur in different eras, the situation spirals out of control. A subversive comedy, with songs by Lefteris Pantazis and Stelios Rokos.
In this comedy, a mathematician is so bored and burnt-out with his career that he rebels, first by crawling under a table during an interminable faculty meeting and then by throwing his telephone away, locking his wife out of their apartment, and running off on his own. At this point, the comedy takes a turn when the rebellious mathematician follows a strange wheel and meets a goatherd who shelters him in his humble abode. Events change from a bit odd to totally bizarre as the mathematician continues on his journey of escape.
(Ghawar) is a simple man who loves to do good, help everyone and deal with life simply, accidentally recognizes a person who feels a hidden sadness, so he approaches him and discovers that he and his lover are going through one of the severe crises that threaten them with separation, (Ghawar) decides to reconcile them and help them solve the emergency problems they are exposed to, will he succeed
In this romantic thriller, Zoe (Nathalie Cardone), a girl who has gotten into serious trouble, finds an ally and protector in Bambi (Smain), a juvenile delinquent who has fallen in love with her.
Sotiris Moustakas gets involved in many funny situations.
TV registration of Wim Kan's 1981 Dutch comedy show called 'In een Ommezien' (broadcast in 1984, a year after his death).