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Dr. Hugo Arranz celebrates his 50th birthday with his wife and daughter when vile hooligans break into their home, raping and killing both his wife and daughter and cutting out Hugo's tongue. Fortunately, he survives, and not surprisingly, he goes "Bronson" on the punks after some self-training with knives, pistols and weightlifting.
The true story of a daring prison break. Wycliffe Kato, Director of Civil Aviation in Idi Amin's Uganda was at the airport to catch a flight to Canada for a conference when he was arrested by Amin's secret police, members of the notorious State Research Bureau, and thrown into the Nakasero prison. This should have meant certain death, but, along with his cell mates, army officers who had come under suspicion of organizing a coup, he escaped and made it on foot to Nairobi. This TV movie is based on Wycliffe Kato's own account in his book "Escape From Idi Amin's Slaughterhouse".
When a young, wealthy Australian crashes (literally) into their lives and whisks them off to Australia, Mandy's thinking wedding bells, Zak looks for his long lost relative Crocodile Dingle, Vic and Terry find someone new to fight over and even Butch finds romance in the most unexpected of places.
An old farmhouse in southwestern France, not far from the Spanish border, serves as a refuge for Jewish refugees during World War Two.
Changing jobs and changing boyfriends - until now, the beautiful Sonia has cheated her way through life. She found the support she needed with her sister Karin. But then Karin doesn't return from a supposed business trip. Sonia sets off with her dog Bigfoot in search of her sister. The first clue leads to an internet chat room where Karin regularly logged in under her alias Demi Moore and indulged in provocative sex talk.
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle class life with his mother (Assumpta Serna), a successful lawyer and former feminist rabble-rouser, but has a gaping hole at the core of his identity: he has no idea who his father is. Preoccupied with the question to the point of obsession, he sets out in search of answers, and finds himself on a trail that leads to the Canary Islands.
In the midst of the AIDS crisis, a young man from the suburbs moves to the big city of New York and ends up working as a hustler.
Mongibello is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot in Châteauroux, Paris, Taormina, Saint-Maurice, in the Vivarais region, in Burzet, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Deauville and Moncton, in New Brunswick, Canada.
In a European city agitated by racial unrest, a powerful tycoon must face the only thing he cannot deceive or corrupt: death. Meanwhile, a detective tries to find the woman he loves, and, at the same time, an innocent young woman follows him with the crazy purpose of bringing her son, who has been killed in the crib by a gunman, back to life.
William Raban's Sundial (1992), shot in the same location as his film Island Race, combines strongly formal procedures with an equally emphatic political message, which is conveyed through careful juxtaposition of objects in the field of view.
The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie's grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.
Boddington's Manchester Festival: Writer Jon Savage explores Manchester's cultural milieu. Aired as part of Granada Television's Celebration arts strand.
Since the death of their parents, while they were still teenagers, Jéremie and Maxime live alone together in an old manor at the edge of the sea. It's the sole remaining link with their family roots. Over the years, Jéremie, taking on the role of big brother and father, has continually looked after Maxime, who is still affected by the accident. Like wounded galloping horses, they have to face their destiny and confront death in order to recover their identity and be at peace with themselves.
To solve the serious problems caused by population concentration around Paris, a team of filmmakers sets out in search of a new capital city... After a long journey, will they succeed in finding a capital? What will they choose?
The bum Gas and the junkie Sebastian comb through the garbage cans for useful things after the Christmas holidays and end up finding a dead baby. In order to honor the death of the baby, they leave the city to bury it in the countryside.
Anne divides her time between her children, a 16-year-old son and twins Lili and Lolotte and her work as an editor. Her life is turned upside down by the reappearance on the scene of Arthur, one of her first loves, whom she never wanted to see again. He doesn't know that he is the father of the twins but he is determined to win Anne over. The trouble is, she is surrounded by men desperate for her hand and thinks she is in love with one of them.
Erich Kasulke and Rudolf Portmann are comedian stars of the former GDR. When the Wall falls, so does their success. Portmann becomes a successful businessman, while Kasulke tries to continue working on the comedy circuit - without success. When his wife also cheats on him, he decides to start a new life in Berlin. There he quickly meets his old friend Portmann, who has built up a huge company. He offers him a job. But Erich puts the entire company in danger...
This short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher is about a down-on-his-luck man in London who lives in his car, trying to get by for one more day.
The mad biology student Henry Degowski has bred a cross between a human and an insect in his basement laboratory. He lovingly raises it with human flesh. But the full-grown mutant gets out of his control. This calls Lieutenant Frank Steele of the Houston Police Department to the scene.
It is an observation of the male body, sometimes solitary, especially in groups, perceived through a codified choreography.
Documentary about Cambridge Footlights presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Stranger. Strange country. Strange city. Stranger in this city. Man from Sri Lanka. Distributor of brochures. Homestead in this foreign city?
A family of 19th century nobles, traveling through the woods, comes across a satanic sect that is performing a ritual. Initially attracted by the strange phenomenon, all the members of the family begin to observe the development of the black mass. But they will soon bitterly regret their curiosity because the hooded priests begin to brutally sacrifice girls and through the ritual resurrect a myriad of hungry zombies. The family runs away to avoid being devoured and takes refuge in an old, apparently abandoned manor.
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.
Time winds backward through a series of vignettes, tracing through the fate of a reckless baroness and two men who fight to possess her.
In the run-up to a song festival, all kinds of intrigues and pressures are unleashed behind the scenes: the script must be continually adapted depending on who momentarily prevails in the backroom maneuvers, with record companies, politicians and schemers of various calibers intent on fighting each other without holds barred to grab victory in advance. In the meantime, the organization is falling apart. Having recruited the almost complete Bagaglino cast, under the parody of Sanremo we see yet another rehash of "Champagne" or "Bucce di banana".
The couple of filmmakers traveled to Armenia in 1988 to film the upheaval of the USSR in the country. During their trip, an earthquake struck, a fatal echo of the political earthquake.
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
Lazy and inveterate player, a French aristocrat has lost everything and his family is ruined. His wife still believes in a miracle. Will this come from their eldest daughter who has developed a gift of double vision since she was pregnant?
When her father suffers a heart attack, Christine, a qualified vet, travels with her two children from Munich to Carinthia to take over his veterinary practice while he recovers. However, this puts her marriage to architect Thomas, which is already in crisis, to the test. While the jealous Thomas is on a business trip to Salzburg, the attractive Christine is being courted in Carinthia by the charming farmer Georg Reiser.
A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?
Blind psychologist Tom Leschek accidentally witnesses a heavily armed SEK policeman running amok and barricading himself in a supermarket with his daughter. The policeman's ex-wife was supposed to take the girl by court order that day. Leschek uses his cell phone to get in touch with the police, who use the blind man as a mediator and advisor in this emergency situation.
Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.
After surviving a helicopter crash in the uncharted South African wilderness, two young men, a girl and a renegade thief discover an ancient city unknown to civilisation.
Helpful hints on making life easier from the pages of adult comic Viz are brought to life by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Save money by filling a glass with marmite and topping it with shaving foam. It makes a convincing pint of stout and has the advantage of tasting nicer.
A comic illustrator thinks he's going mad.
Go with Armin and the blue garbage can through Munich and discover what happens to the garbage: Let us show you how 365 cans fit into just 16 water bottles. See how new paper is made from an old newspaper. Watch how waste from the organic waste garbage can is turned back into potting soil.
In a small village near a beach, Hakim and his little brother Saïd do odd jobs (whitewash a tomb, resell empty bottles).
Munich, World War II: The young Kati Zeiler runs a small barbershop. Her husband Felix is fighting on the Eastern Front. So Kati draws her daughter Marie alone. A bomb attack destroys the shop and the apartment.
Dramatic comedy that raise questions through satire about the moral tradition of Chilean society, its dogmatism and sexual intolerance and the repressive nature of the country's traditional family.
Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.
Santa gets a new computer from his elves as a present so he can keep track of who has been naughty or nice.
A teenager who's fed up with his uneventful life of social isolation decides to try drugs to get some excitement. He sets out to learn about their effects.
Former Mary Whitehouse Experience members Rob Newman and David Baddiel bring their 'Live and in Pieces' television series to the stage. They both perform their solo sets before joining forces for 'the People of Restricted Seriousness' and 'History Today'. Rob Newman also misbehaves in the guise of Jarvis.
Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.
A rigorous reconstruction of Sandro Pertini's (1896-1990) tough and difficult anti-fascist activities, often carried out in secret or in prison. In the role of the future President of the Republic, and in his first film role, is actor Maurizio Crozza, alongside Carla Signoris, Ivano Marescotti, and Augusto Zucchi. Broadcast only once on Rai 3 in 2003, it is effectively a "first viewing," having been harshly criticized in its early stages, for private reasons, by Pertini's widow.
A Spanish movie directed by Carlos García Agraz.
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by filmmaker Wim Wenders.