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Episode six in a series of eight short films produced for TV, that sadly was never transmitted. Filmmaker Jon Coley reduced costs by taking on the starring roles, performing both innocent man and evil doppelganger. Jon chose an atmospheric Brian Eno soundtrack to perfectly meld with the action, which was shot in 1981 on location at Prestatyn's High Street and seafront. Coley's mother, Shirley, fully supported her son's endeavours, acting as cameraperson in this film. Jon Coley's inspiration came from watching cult TV series such as 'The Outer Limits', 'The Invaders' and Patrick McGoohan's 'Danger Man'. (BFI)

A young, honest cop investigates the arrival of international crime in Barcelona just before the Olympic Games.

Gritty western telling the story of a family at war. One brother is out for vengeance after being kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned in Mexico.

A Los Angeles police officer named Mike Delaney transfers to Nashville joining his former partner. Together they battle gangs and get to know each other again. This is also a unofficial reunion film to the TV series Adam-12 which shared this TV movies two leads, Kent McCord and Martin Milner.

Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.

Filmed before Wall Street's October 1987 crash, this film is a riveting one hour documentary of a fascinating man, Paul Tudor Jones II delivering a rarely seen view of futures trading and an explanation of the workings of this frantic, highly charged marketplace. It also examines Jones' prediction that America is nearing the end of a 200-year bull market.

In the dark of night, a wandering drunkard encounters a captivating shadow. As their paths intertwine, the shadow undergoes a mesmerizing transformation, revealing an unexpected form that 'captivates' the drunkard's attention.

Janet has just returned home from college to visit her conservative family at their remote farmhouse, nestled deep in the countryside. What should be a happy reunion is quickly disrupted by the arrival of an unexpected guest: a mystery killer who photographs their unsuspecting victims before murdering them in a variety of brutal ways. As her family and friends are picked off one by one, Janet is forced to fend off the mysterious maniac, all the while uncovering unsettling secrets surrounding her family’s violent and perverse past…

A carpenter, who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple.

Naturalist Bill Mason on his journey by canoe into the Ontario wilderness. The filmmaker and artist begins on Lake Superior, then explores winding and sometimes tortuous river waters to the meadowlands of the river's source. Along the way, Mason paints scenes that capture his attention and muses about his love of the canoe, his artwork and his own sense of the land. Mason also uses the film as a commentary on the link between God and nature and the vast array of beautiful canvases God created for him to paint. Features breathtaking visuals and exciting whitewater footage, with a musical score by Bruce Cockburn.

An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.

Top Gun - America’s best aviators - train together at “Fightertown U.S.A.” for the most challenging and dangerous air-to-air combat in the world. Fly with Navy’s leading Vietnam War ace, Commander Randy “Duke” Cunningham, TOPGUN instructor and adversary squadron commander. Hear him tell how he put his training from the first TOPGUN class into practice as he shot down five MiGs over North Vietnam. Se actual dogfights, crashes and MiG confrontations. See America’s real TOPGUN pilots in action over Libya, the Indian Ocean and off the Soviet Union. Hear actual air-to-air combat radio. Feel what it’s like to fly at twice the speed of sound. See if you have what it takes to be a TOPGUN pilot.

A departure from most ABC Afterschool Specials, this one focuses on Madeline Green, a teenage girl who discovers her father's affair with a friend of her mother, and struggles to keep it from tearing her family apart.

As Valentine's Day approaches, Cathy, ever the romantic, becomes passionately consumed with thoughts of hearts, flowers and candle-lit dinners.

Disgruntled Sgt. Darkin has to protect a senator who's visiting a Vietnam village. Senator gets assassinated by the Vietcong, and Darkin gets arrested for AWOL. When the Vietcong attacks the base, he and others escape. Now what?

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters.

The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music, stands a a landmark in the experimental cinema of the 1980's. The processing of interruption and fragmentation inform the series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?, reactivating the stakes of montage applied in different artistic practices.

The story of a mysterious woman named Laura, who embarks on a journey to find her true love. The movie's soundtrack is set to four decades of classic rock. Scatman Crothers provides the voice of a living jukebox who narrates the story.

One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris in the 1920s.

Yessi, a wealthy plantation heiress with a scorned heart, takes pleasure in manipulating the men who fall for her. When her cruel games drive a young admirer named Anton to the brink of suicide, his older brother, Dr. Norman, decides to intervene with drastic measures. He kidnaps Yessi and takes her to his remote medical post in the jungles of Irian Jaya. Far from her life of luxury, Yessi is forced to endure a harsh new reality under Norman's strict guidance—a journey that challenges her arrogance and gradually transforms her perspective on life and love.

A look at sexual practices in the USA.

Dennis Jennings is an introverted daydreamer, sleepwalking through life. He is a professional waiter and has an equally-dull girlfriend, Emma. In an attempt to release his pent-up feelings of isolation, he begins seeing a psychiatrist, only to discover that the doctor is somewhat less than interested in what he has to say. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Following the death of a former football player turned private investigator, his daughter, his former coach, and three of his players take over his PI business.

The largest leisure and shopping complex in Europe, the Metro Centre in Tynemouth, and its creator John Hall.

Charts a journey through various `memory' productions such as murals, monuments, TV histories, commemorations etc, and in so doing questions the role that historical memory plays in our society.

Born in a tribe of fierce warrior women, Hundra has been raised to despise the influence of men. An archer, fighter and sword fighter, Hundra is superior to any male. Hundra finds her family slain and takes a vow of revenge until one day she meets her match.

A film with very little dialogue. Set in the Catskills of 1896 – 1916, a farmer buries his deceased wife atop a nearby mountain, then makes the difficult decision to give up his newborn son, Jonathan. Later in 1916, Jonathan returns to confront his past. The only real dialogue is a voice over of the father reading a letter he wrote to his son explaining himself.

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.

A somber, menacing woman washes white dishes and a gleaming carving knife, pours milk into a glass, and then slowly attacks first one young boy and then another. Not a word of dialogue is uttered.

Wiseman enumerates the sights and sounds of Talladega, Alabama – the railroad tracks, quiet streets and homes, a few shops downtown – almost as if to list those things most of us might take for granted. Of the four films in this series, Adjustment & Work is the only one that focuses entirely on adults—specifically adults who have recently lost their sight (and hence are adjusting to this change) and those without sight or hearing who are learning skills in order to enter the workforce.

Short animation

A chemist experimenting with different formulas stumbles upon an ingredient that, when added to beer, makes it absolutely irresistible. Before he realizes it, an international spy is after him to try to get the formula for himself.

Video magazine with interviews and video clips. Featured on this volume is: Queen (Brian May), Kiss (Gene Simmons), Guns N' Roses (Axl Rose), Cinderella, Queensrÿche, Winger, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Megadeth, Mordred, Laaz Rockit, Anthrax, Kings X, M.O.D., Dogs D'Amour, Jane's Addiction, Silent Rage, Underneath What, Roxx Gang, Judas Priest (Rob Halford).

A group of orphans and their guardian get together to try to save their orphanage.

Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.

Canadas contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps performs Édouard Lock's "Human Sex" .

Blinded soon after birth, Fanny Crosby adapted to her disability and went on to pen more than 10,000 hymns, more than any other person in history. This biography follows Crosby's life from her extraordinary childhood and her ability to memorize complete books of the Bible to her formal schooling and speech to the U.S. Congress, her role as a wife and mother, her selfless work as a nurse during the cholera epidemic and her prolific hymn writing.

Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.

A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.

Ambitious reporter, Liz Bartlett, secretly wishes that Jerry Caper, her business associate were dead. Yet her hidden desire soon becomes a reality when he is brutally murdered. Investigative reporter, Dan Walker is assigned to the murder case and becomes intrigued by the pretty reporter. they begin a passionate affair but Dan can't dispel his suspicion of Liz's guilt. When a second murder is commited, Dan probes deeper, looking for clues in Liz's past. But just as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, Dan follows a lead, bringing him face to face with the killer in a shocking ending, filled with suspense.

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, D.C.

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison

Something is going "bump in the night" in the bedroom of seven-year-old Zachary Stevens, but nobody will believe him until it is too late! This student film would become a segment on Fright Show (1985)

A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.

Governor Joe Rouke's (Carradine) daughter is kidnapped by South American Terrorists while she is on tour with the Children for World Peace Choir. Kung Fu Master 'Ly', Joe and eight beautiful deadly women (The Panthers), mount an explosive rescue mission.

Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets three girls the next week and when his mother goes on vacation, one after the other shows up on his doorstep and they move in with him! However that's rather a problem for Danny, because, in love, he's just with one of them.

A group of camouflaged ninjas stealing a small case of plutonium from a transport vehicle in broad daylight in California. Back in his office in Sanzhi, Taiwan, The Colonel (Bo Svenson) receives word of the heist and the top suspect is the Sakura family. Selected for the job of locating this stolen nuke material is Mai Lin (Page Leong), an informant/dancer. Willi (Jay Roberts, Jr.), a drunken American playboy who is prone to playing the harmonica teams up with Mai Lin. Willi also just happens to be a white ninja.

The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside. And in the fourth, a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them.

Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and cooperates with the police to try and stop him. Unfortunately, his lover is a real estate agent, and when it becomes clear that the madman is getting information for his kills from her discarded home listings, they both become endangered.

A young man struggling with his sexual identity is driven to the gay BDSM underworld. There he is preyed upon by other men who exploit him for their own desires. Realising his dire situation he decides get shocking revenge on the people who wronged him.

The true story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for seven years on account of a "five-dollar" robbery. While in prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.

Narrated by Martin Sheen, this documentary assembles archival civil defense films, government propaganda, and educational footage from the Cold War era to examine how Americans were taught to prepare for nuclear attack. Through these materials, the film explores the promotion of fallout shelters and the official message that survival in a nuclear war was possible.

Retells the Japanese fairy tale about an artistic boy whose obsession with drawing cats leads him to a mysterious experience. Uses cel-animated characters and airbrushed backgrounds

The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.

A detective investigates a of case of a beautiful woman murdered along with lover.

The music band Síntesis recreates the Yoruba music, a key part of Cuban cultural heritage, and fuses it with rock sounds. The result is a new rhythm with a contagious dancing character.

A short, hilarious cooking mantra.