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Summer 1914, Vienna. Franz, a handsome young hussar lieutenant, falls in love with Sissi, daughter of the Austrian Generalissimo. Shortly afterwards, the First World War breaks out. It provides Franz with the perfect opportunity to earn his stripes and claim the girl's hand in marriage.
Self-observation of the sleeper in an elliptical time ordered according to the rhythm of the shots. Revelation of a gesture that cinema does not usually take into account.
Drama about organ transplantation.
Five girls from different Latin American countries join young men in a house in the Delta del Tigre. With a psychedelic presentation of the credits, the film's publicity announced it as “the first conditional screening film in Argentina”.
Film by Françoise Janicot & Bernard Heidsieck.
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
The movement of a bullfighter's body died in America originates a massive concentration of people in an Andalusian people. Owed to the influence of so many persons, all the houses are enabled, even the brothel.
A couple of reporters interview married and divorced women about the reasons for their marital crisis.
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
"A brand new home in a brand new town: Thamesmead, the place people have called 'the town of the 21st Century.' " Michael Rodd narrates this schools programme, looking at life in the brand new community at Thamesmead. Thamesmead is a "new town" in South-East London, like Harlow and Cumbernauld before it, it features modernist housing and planning. What is it like to actually live in Thamesmead? Scene follows the Foy family as they move in to their new home, speaks to residents who have lived there for a few years, and to the architect that designed it.
Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but whose style of modern business paternalism and methods ends up driving a wedge between him and his wife.
Luciana, a country girl who has moved to Milan, is married to Mario, an intellectual type who avoids her since an accident forced him to live with his torso permanently in a cast. Lonely and depressed because also of her recent dismissal, she asks for help through a letter and becomes friends with elementary school teacher Anna, who also resents the negativity of her workplace and the world around her. Meanwhile, blue collar worker Marco waits for his fellow paisan Luciana to reciprocate his feelings. The vicissitudes of this quartet intertwine with the comical interludes of a commune of hippies who live in the tunnels of the Milan subway and spend their time pulling pranks on the passers-by.
The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.
An early experimental short film based on Faust.
A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems
TV play from 1970.
Billy gets a job on a farm while suspended from school. The fields offer an escape from his tower block, but his friends think he's daft. Billy can see a different kind of life ahead, doing a job he could really enjoy-but events conspire against him.
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.
In each episode, one or more people find themselves trapped in a seemingly insoluble situation, which is instead resolved (as the series title states) at the last minute.
Comedy about a boy tutored in the ways of sex
A political film about the policy of the anabaptists of Münster (1534) and the 'enemies of constitution' in West Germany (1976).
Judy, Joey and Josh are left for a night at a guest house run by Mrs. Ada Witty. Her nephews are anxious to obtain the house and decide to scare her out by pretending to be ghosts. But when Alice the Chimp goes to investigate, it is the villains who get a scare.
The story of a young, idealistic doctor and his on-the-job training as a rookie surgeon. Dr. Heiner Sommer moves to a small town in the GDR where he will complete his training under the senior physician, also named Dr. Sommer.
Made in Japan was recorded live over three nights during 15–17 August 1972 at Festival Hall, Osaka and at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan. Four of the tracks come from the album Machine Head which had been released earlier that year. The album was at first seen as somewhat unimportant by the band members, and only Roger Glover and Ian Paice showed up to mix it. The release in the US was delayed, until April 1973, because Warner Bros. wanted to release Who Do We Think We Are first. The three concerts recorded were later released as Live in Japan 3-CD box set (1993). According to the liner notes for that set, unlike many live albums, there are no overdubs or studio additions to the original album.
Uses two young western people as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung, Reich and Frederick Perles, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, finding that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, begin to hold together in a truly organic way.
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
It's the night before Christmas, and all the toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the furnace. This includes Quincy, a most lifelike doll. In a last ditch effort to save himself and his "unwanted" chums from incineration, he goes on a long and perilous journey in search of the only one who can save them: Santa Claus.
Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
Since she was twelve, Helga has had to take responsibility for others. She never learns that she also has a responsibility to herself.
Documentary about a country singer from Colorado who voluntarily moved to the GDR in 1972. The camera accompanies him during the rehearsal & recording of a concert, as well as the handing over of his fee to representatives of the provisional government of South Vietnam. The entertainer sings "We Shall Overcome" in front of the Brandenburg Gate, "Mississippi Line" on Mont Klamott and signs autographs on Alexanderplatz.
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the history of the motor car in the 1920s. Part of the six-part "History of the Motor Car Series"
Under pressure from their bloodthirsty boss, several working-class women, employed by manufacturer Mr. Duralac in a remote French countryside factory, are subject to vampirization while accomplishing their night shift.
Charley Farthing is on the run. Chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind, Charley finds himself hopping on a ship, chased by authorities on a politically turmoiled island and forced to skipper an old ship all the way to Ireland.
ORTF adaptation of a work by Tawfiq al-Hakim.
German-made "study" of sexual rapport and rituals in Denmark from prolific exploitation producer Erwin C. Dietrich.
Life in a circus. As of today, this short film is considered to be lost.
Boredom in New York City.
Julie asks Jean-Luc Farlot, authorized signatory of a big European bank to help her disguise a murder as an accident.
After the evil maharajah Varauni exterminated his whole family, the brave Sandokan decides to retreat on the island of Mompracem to meditate a terrible revenge against him
An engineer and former fascist comes back to Italy to resume possession of his own lands. A widower with his sons and daughter befriends a girl who happens to be slightly nuts, the girl, influenced by the speeches of her own father which she had listened to when she was younger succeeds to isolate herself with her lover's sons and pulls them into a dark dimension of madness and murder.
Traces of stories. The images themselves. Tear off. Stain. To paint. Makes light out of them.
Even flirting turns out to be dangerous, especially when the object of desire lives in a maid's room on the 6th floor of a Parisian apartment.
The film features footage of three productions by the Berliner Ensemble from 1953: excerpts from performances of Puntila and Mutter, as well as a fairly detailed recording of the dress rehearsal for Urfaust. The production of “Urfaust,” created in collaboration with Egon Monk, had aroused the displeasure of SED cultural officials. Syberberg and Germanist Prof. Dr. Hans Mayer discuss the controversy.
A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having a great time together, and then things start happening. The brakes of the car fail, and Ruth narrowly escapes death. The driving equipment goes faulty, and Ruth almost drowns. Michel turns up at their doorstep for an uninvited social call, and Paul asks him in. Ruth suspects Michel of being the person behind the mechanical faults of the car and the diving equipment, but Paul dismisses such a possibility - but he does suggest it to Michel. Then, the heat does go up.
Shows John Cleese learning how to deal with "difficult customers" in a professional yet friendly manner and turn them into clients.
During World War I Major Errol Phipps is determined to escape from Stalag Luft 112B but his attempts all fail. However all the other prisoners and the guards succeed, leaving him alone in the camp to make elaborate plans - including a tunnel system so extensive it becomes the Munich Underground. He is so obsessed with his escape plans he fails to realize that the war has ended and dies a disappointed man. He does however manage to escape from his grave after he has been buried though.
Claire returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe. She attends an auction of her friend's possessions, provoking memories of the past.
Monique is a 35 year old French woman, living in New York. The daughter of a French diplomat who has remarried, Monique has no financial worries, and holds a good job with a publishing firm. She finds relationships difficult, and frequently suffers acute depression. Her nights are filled with strange dreams, and apparitions of flashing lights.
Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convince her that radical youth have taken over England are planning to do away with "oldies" like her.
An aimless American translator gets involved with a series of Hong Kong women.