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A German Film Award Silver Vase winning short documentary.

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a beautiful young woman, but they are unaware of her ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated.

Film based on the first chapter of Kafka's “The Trial.”

Daily routine in a kindergarten. Advantages of kindergartens for working women.

Detailing the careful construction of the Gloster stretcher/ladder, used for the safe transportation of patients.

A traveling salesman in post WWII Milan pops into a movie house and the camera searches the faces in the dark watching.

When the mathematics teacher discovers a love letter from his daughter, family father Felix Schneider is suspected of having a secret lover.

1958 West German circus drama directed by Harald Philipp.

Italian-Venezuelan co-production directed by Renzo Russo, with text by Aquiles Nazoa.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - made to discover the Servantes de Jésus-Marie, their code of practice, their rules and the rhythm of the convent.

A farmer who has fled the republic returns disappointed from the West to the village of Oslitz (GDR). He and his wife are supposed to get their house and farm back, but the case becomes the occasion for an unusual LPG meeting. The chairman, a comrade from the town and the farmers want to find out what caused the returnee to flee and whether it could have been avoided. The farmer claims that the chairman wanted to force him into the LPG because of illegal fertilizer purchases. He interprets his behavior differently. In order to clarify the matter and learn lessons from it, those present re-enact the events before the escape with reversed roles.

David Gladwell (Requiem for a Village) was just 20 years old when he made A summer Discord, an imaginative amateur, silent short film set in the countryside which tells the story of a little girl who is reprimanded by her mother. Of particular note is the film’s dark nightmare sequence which is shot in colour (unlike the rest of the film) and which anticipates Gladwell’s later, highly poetical films.

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the railways transport it from station to station, seeking its true abode. Finally, one of its owners comes to the nightmare tribunal where those who maltreat their luggage are dealt with. Did it happen? Was it a dream? Be warned. See this film. Avoid making yours 'a desperate case'.

A British documentary that covers the atomic energy developments made in Great Britain since the end of World War II, with a focus towards advancing progress towards space flight.

The murder of a child is solved.

Two rival combos play practical jokes on each other during a festival where they're performing... then a sideshow artist is murdered and several of them fall under suspicion for the crime.

American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.

c. 1957-60 After a breakup, DB is haunted by memories, until fate reunites him with his partner in a quietly groundbreaking embrace, set to “Unchained Melody”.

For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vignettes together. In its own way, Les Etoiles ne Maurent Jamais can be seen as a precursor to those now-ubiquitous "tributes" on such cable services as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies.

Styles of architecture used in the 1951 South Bank Exhibition, London.

In the film, ramshackle automobile-puppets - strange kinetic sculptures built from found objects - wander and stumble through abandoned courtyards, shattered walls, and sun-scorched ruins, their blind mechanical motions echoing humanity’s lost laws and deserted dreams.

A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

Documentary film in competition at the 1st Berlin Film Festival

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

Criminal on the lam assumes the identity of a dead priest and takes his place in a rural parish.

Alexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jean Painleve made Le Grande Cirque Calder 1927, begun in 1953 and completed in 1955.

As a prank and out of curiosity, a childless landowner fakes his death. The greedy relatives who rush to the castle find themselves faced with an original will clause. It provides for an election act from which the testator's illegitimate daughter emerges as the winner.

Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon.

Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?

Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.