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The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and 1980s Buppie efforts to use white-owned platforms (banks, media) to uplift the community.
A promotional video showcasing behind-the-scenes footage of the film "Project A-Ko", complete with interviews with the film's cast and crew.
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity and placed in an institution for four years. Meanwhile, the dead girl's father, Tom Nolen, and her sister Wynn, bitterly prepare a campaign to put Nolen away in prison for life. Things come to a boil when Bo is released--and Tom and Wynn take "due process" into their own hands.
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mitchum
Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also finds his family has been slaughtered and so now it is up to him and his pals to kick the heck out of Kogar and return the planet to its rightful rulers. This film was assembled from episodes of the Japanese TV series, Message from Space: Galactic Warriors (which in itself was a spinoff from the feature Message from Space).
The youngest daughter of a divorced woman seeks an independent career, resisting her mother's pressure to make herself desirable for marriage as her sister prepares for her own nuptials.
Liza's husband becomes impotent after a physical altercation with a thief. Because he can't satisfy her anymore, he leaves and begs Liza to divorce him from afar through his lawyer. She doesn't give him the divorce because she still loves him, but in his absence, her friend's boyfriend forces himself on her, she has drunken sex with the rich kid neighbor who was initially stalking her, and has a one night stand with a guy she picks up in a bar when she got horny watching her maid and her gardener do it. Eventually, her husband comes back to his senses and calls her, telling her of his intention to get back with her. She is elated and fainted on the news. Her driver, who has been lusting on her for some time now, takes advantage of it and rapes her. With her dignity tarnished, will she be able to face her husband once he returns?
One twenty-year old boy, driven by what is right and just, overcomes the forces of unconscionable greed. This classic tale of human nature is brought to the screen in this entertaining animated feature.
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution. He is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love and be loved for the first time in his life.
Mike and Terry DeBray are a happily married couple whose lives change when the young daughter that Tony fathered out of wedlock suddenly appears and comes into their lives.
A greedy Indian persuades his tribe to sell the lonesome 'Spirit Island' for a congress center. Instead of transferring the historical graves on it like he tells his tribe, he plans to wipe them out. By accident a group of two Indian kids and two friends from Chicago on vacation are flown to the island and get in his way.
While siphoning bank funds, computer-wise lovers spot a plot to sink the Federal Reserve.
This collaboration between dancer Douglas Wright and director Gregor Nicholas was one of a series of music and movement-based films that established Nicholas’ reputation. A dramatised film noir sequence leads to a cross-dressing dance duel between Wright and Debbie McCulloch, shifting between an Orwellian cityscape and a retro nightclub. Wright choreographs the bodies, and Nicholas the bold and sensual visual rhythms (shot by Stuart Dryburgh). Nicholas went on to direct high profile commercials and big screen romance Broken English. Wright died in November 2018.
Director Tex schemes his way back into being on The Meadowlands Showcase.
A mother of two with another on the way, is abandoned by her husband when he embezzles $ 150,000 from the farmer’s co-op in their small town. Shunned by the community, whose life blood has been drained by the theft, Jessie sets out to repay the debt.
Something is out there - in the bush - near the dilapidated old cabin, which a family from Sydney has rented for their vacation.
Henpecked hubby and battleaxe wife prepare for their son's upcoming wedding.
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.
In order to rescue the son of a diplomat who has been kidnapped by terrorists, a group of Las Vegas showgirls undergo commando training and organize a rescue operation.
Sarah Erulkar revisits the world of stamp collecting, in this short narrated by Tom Baker.
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
Overnight Sensation is a 1984 short film directed by Jon Bloom, based loosely on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady." After housewife Eve Peregrine writes a sudden hit novel, her husband George, a successful fashion photographer, finds it difficult to deal with the attention being showered on her. His difficulty in getting through the book increases when he begins to suspect that the steamy affair in its plot is drawn from her real life. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
Mickey and his friends take a close look at important street safety situations and tips.
Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.
As an older man, the Apostle John was sentenced to forced labor on the Island of Patmos. God honored John with His visions, faithfully transcribed to become the Book of Revelation.
Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of her parents.
Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.
The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors are vividly chronicled via newsreels and photographs. The narration is taken almost entirely from journals and diaries of those who lived–and died–through the course of the occupation, with the number of different narrators diminishing as the film progresses, symbolic of the death of each narrator.
Set in Brooklyn, New York this Dutch film is based on a true story that appeared on a New York newspaper in 1980. Desirée lives in the past. A series of flashbacks expose us to her psychologically troubled childhood very much affected by a promiscous mother.
Starring musician B.A. Robertson as Ritchie Hannah a singer/songwriter returning to his mediocre life in Glasgow after the death of a friend Living Apart Together remains an important record of a culturally significant time in the city of Glasgow. Ritchie s wife Evie (Barbara Kellerman), tired of the constant upheaval in her marriage, uses the opportunity to walk out, leaving him to care for their children. Ritchie goes in search of Evie with the help of his manager s assistant Alicia (Judi Trott), however, an attraction grows between the pair and as they widen their pursuit, it becomes apparent that Evie is not ready to return home. Featuring original music from satirical post-punk musician B.A Robertson and early screen appearances from Peter Capaldi (Local Hero) and John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory s Girl), Gormley s bittersweet take on relationships is a fresh and captivating insight into how our actions affect the people we love.
The top snooker pros show their skills
The Beaver Kid 2 features Sean Penn as "Groovin' Larry" Huff in a dramatic interpretation of the original documentary. It incorporated some scenes from the original documentary. The Beaver Kid 2 was shot on a budget of $100.
Walks Far Woman is a an Indigenous woman of the Blackfoot tribe. She takes revenge on two men who killed her husband and then she is ostracized by her tribe. She then is adopted by the Sioux, the tribe of her mother, and there she tries to start a new life.
Brother and sister go on the run with their divorced mom, not realizing until later that their mom has kidnapped them from their dad.
An overview of hate group Ku Klux Klan and their activities up until early 1980's, attacking minorities in American states.
Village bumpkin Jayakrishna goes to the city to earn money and meets the rich and arrogant Bhanumati. Bhanumati offers him a proposal he cannot refuse. Their lives get complicated when cupid strikes.
Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. Also staying is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past.
About five men who live in Tasmania and earn their living by working with wood. David Ralph makes small souvenir animals and furniture from horizontal wood; Kevin Perkins makes furniture which allows the natural shape of the wood to be shown; Merv Gray and Peter Mevre make bowls and spheres, and Peter Taylor sculptural pieces.
An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.
A portrait of a brutal Pinochet military dictatorship made during a three month visit to Chile in 1985 by David Bradbury. The footage reveals a country torn with civil strife and political unrest; military intimidation of the population; indiscriminate arrests: murder torture and disappearances were facts of Chilean life.
Filmmaker Don Amis was one of the very few Black student filmmakers at UCLA (including Carroll Parrott Blue and Denise Bean) working in a documentary mode. In this film, preparations, parade and performances from the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s annual Festival of Mask illustrate L.A.’s diverse racial and ethnic communities (African, Asian, Latin American) expressing themselves through a shared traditional form.
A secret agent searches for a sunken treasure of rare coins. He must battle a Nazi who is also searching for the treasure, and is helped by a 10-year-old genius who builds electronic weapons for him.
When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
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 middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
About an estranged husband who, in an explosive rage, decides to have his wife murdered by a hired killer.
Deep Hearts is a film about the Bororo Fulani, a nomadic society located in central Niger Republic and the title is a reference to an important aspect of these people’s thought and demeanor.
A young boy named Melvin and a purple television dinosaur named Ted have happy adventures that lead them into the clutches of Randy the Killer Clown and his Goon Squad.
TV movie by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Rahela Ferari.
Linus has to break devastating news, his father has a new job and has to relocate his family. Charlie Brown and the gang make their goodbyes and prepare for Linus and Lucy's departure.
In the future, a warrior nun on roller skates must rescue a seer, who is to be sacrificed by a band of mutants.
John Bardon performs his acclaimed stage show tribute to the comedian Max Miller for Channel 4. Miller's story is told as a part of his act, weaving biographical details amongst the gags and songs.
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
The powerful industrial tycoon proposes a dangerous deal to the man sentenced to life imprisonment. He should find three people infected by a special drug and inject them with an anti-serum. His reward for success is instant freedom.
A veteran and tough sheriff's wife has a gambling problem. He works both sides of the law. He gets teamed up with a young cop who he is told to take under his wing. They end up working together well and the young cop's martial arts skills are very useful.