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Mondo Movie dealing with various sexual aberrations and perversions. The sources of inspiration include Freud, De Sade and Richard von Kraft-Ebing.

Desirée, a girl of Sweden, niece of a priest, came to Ancona. Uninhibited and a naturist, attracts the attention of boys and dislikes of local women.

Documentary about contamination of the air and other forms of pollution, costing Britain £400 million a year, which are countered by smoke elimination programmes and the use of natural gas, fuel research and other measures.

"In continuo" uses slaughterhouse imagery to present the warlike nature of man, first depicting the cleaning and mechanical preparations for the slaughterhouse and then the killing, however, the animal slaughter itself isn’t shown.

When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Mockumentary about a pornographic film starlet who commits suicide during the filming of a documentary about the adult film business, leading to the discovery of a snuff film.

Barcelona, Spain, June 1977. A chronicle of a demonstration held to demand the repeal of a 1970 Francoist law criminalizing homeless, prostitutes and homosexuals.

The adventures and misadventures in the military service of a short-sighted boy from Chaco.

The young Judas is a rebel intolerant of the Chinese regime, so he decides to go to China with a group of other young revolutionaries like himself.

Mystery thriller, based on a novel by G. J. Arnaud.

Harvey hires Mary to seduce his rival Larry and help him gain his revenge. But Maria and Larry fall in love and things become complicated.

Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, weak, lazy and eager to show off, who lives on the hooks of an elderly woman. The two thugs sympathize and cause, by game, a fatal accident. From perverse games to silly games, they enter a deadly spiral.

The struggle for housing in Rome, in the area of Magliana. Self-organization is opposed to the mediation of political parties, especially the Communist Party, and emerges as the only way for the emancipation and re-appropriation by the exploited.

After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironically, the doctor's life is not a very happy one either, and his boast has a hollow sound. For one thing, although he seemingly has a "happy divorce," in which he, his ex-wife and her new husband are all great pals, it's not true. He wants his wife back. All sorts of complications arise out of these lies and distortions.

A colonel aims to make her regiment compete with that of the men, which is not to the taste of the general, who also turns out to be her lover.

"As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966. It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera. It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a programme which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt. The boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair."

Guillermo's family has been living for years a terrible curse. All the women in his family have died because of love and murdered by men of the clan. The funny thing is that before each death a cat appeared. One day, while Guillermo prepares the papers for his marriage with Beatriz, he discovers that both are distant relatives.

Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre that would like to drive him to revenge, and by Polonius, Ophelia's father, who psychoanalyses him by explaining the Oedipus complex, he imagines escaping to Paris with Kate, the leading actress of the company performing in Elsinore, to become a playwright.

Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab. The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown. This print was specially made for this retrospective by the conservation centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa.

Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.

A movie actress is being raped by an admirer in the night of the release of her last movie. But instead of accusing the man she begins to fall in love with him.

Paul (William Donald Powell), a former American GI gets by as lead singer of a band in the wake of the 1968 cultural revolution in Munich. Paul’s monotonous life plays out between the hotel bar, his adjacent studio apartment, and the rare night out on the town or a visit to the suburbs. Director King Ampaw's thesis film at the University of Television and Film Munich is the second film by an African filmmaker to be shot in Germany (the first being Ibrahim Shaddad’s “Jagdpartie” in 1964).

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

In 1973, Wolf Vostell, an artist associated with Fluxus, made a happening in which participants were required to perform a series of ritual, obsessive actions, such as “go to the trunk of your vehicle, there open and close the trunk 750 times and 375 times put a white plate in it and take it out 375 times.” Described by Ottinger as a documentation of what Vostell called “dé-coll/age-happening”, the film is an illustration of her creative method, a surrealist act, a separate work of art, and a strange object. She would later describe her method as “fragments of reality assembled in an unusual manner”.

A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.

A man rides a VW Beetle through the plains of Niger.

The violin teacher at the Perugia Conservatory in Italy is loved by his female pupils and the rich ladies in town. Later we learn that he was a great concert soloist and had to give up his career because of his drunkard wife.

A kid with a wild imagination overhears the plan of some bandits to hold up a bank. Together with a gang of other kids, he carries out the plan before the adults and when they try to get the gold back, the kid sets up a trap for them with the Sheriff.

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.

Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, a great warrior named Babatou. Nigerian jumper from the region Dounga Gurunsi invaded the country and settled there. The brave prisoners were integrated into the army, women espoused. For fifty years, the adventurous young people from Niger Babatou went to live in the epic.

A boy travels from Chaco to Buenos Aires taking with him an elephant that saved from a circus.

Massage parlors are spread all over the world. Masseuses advertise even in "serious" newspapers in order to loose up every muscle. This movie reports about the experiences in the massage parlours of Rome, Bangkok, Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, Zurich, Stockholm, Berlin, Nice and Munich. There is more truth in it than you would believe.

A documentary looking at the work of the Highlands and Islands Development Board in the Hebrides in the late 1960s.

The Dutch director Bob Rooyens shows Berlin as it pleases young people in particular. His self-chosen "Miss Berlin" takes the viewer on a spectacular tour of the Berlin of the 70s. The film impresses with its innovative camera work, rapid cuts, confused by surreal stagings, in short: fireworks of imagery.

Marchers in an Indepence Day celebration in Mexico are transformed into tiny soldiers, tiny articulated automatons, turning a serious event into childlike playfulness.

Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos. Ana's mother is a former actress and Ana, her mother and a few other actors prepare an act of protest in the theater where an international festival on Strinberg is being held. But there are more things in Ana's life. The mother lives with her uncle, the brother of his father, Norman, an old doctor of devious methods. Helped by Fatima, an old nurse who loves her father, the doctor will try to experiment with Ana's ideas and feelings as well

Italian racing film

Impressions from the wedding of two young Chileans in the German Democratic Republic.

Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.

Produced within the framework of the “Programmi Sperimentali” of Italian public television (structure of the RAI which allowed, in the 1970s, the production of films such as Lutte en Italie by the Dziga Vertov Group, Cancer by Glauber Rocha or Perché pagare per essere felici by Marco Ferreri), Cronaca di un gruppo tells the story of a group of young French revolutionaries who, between Paris and the Pyrenees region, are looking for ways to continue their political activities, through the theater experimental and counter-information, the day after May 68. Produced in collaboration with Gianni Toti, Didier Sandre and the Nanterre experimental theater group.

Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform to the macho culture and is labeled a homosexual, leading to bullying by both the pupils and some of the teachers.

A fateful day in the life of a great composer. A play with music

After she had been raped by her father, a young woman leaves the town with her new born son. Years later, the son can't accept that his mother fell in love with someone else than the mythical father she had told him about.

Company commander Bicorne, loser at Waterloo, inherits a house and a little money in Andilly-les-Prés.

A group of young delinquents navigate the streets of Paris, engaging in petty crimes and reckless behavior. As they form volatile relationships and test the limits of their freedom, their actions lead to inevitable consequences, forcing them to confront the harsh realities of their choices.

DEMON, subtitled „The Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé´s THE DEMON OF ANALOGY“, includes the Mallarmé text, spoken by various performers in its original French version, and in English and German as well. Most of the shots in the film are one word long. In the first scene, three women sit on chairs placed in the foreground of a room and a corps of men stands behind them, spread out over the rest of the space. The woman who is seated in the middle of the three speaks the first word of the Mallarmé text in her particular language with the men arranged behind her; there is a cut, another woman sits in the middle, speaking the first word of the text in her, different language with the men in a new arrangement behind her, cut, another in her language, then back to the first for the next word of the text. From this point on although the poem progresses forward in all three languages the order of shots - French word, English word, German word, doesn´t remain fixed.

Lozana, a young, beautiful and clever woman decides to move to the city after a tragic love story. There, she meets Rampin, a naughty rascal who soon finds out that her wit surpasses his own by a handful. When he falls in love with her, he can't help suffering as he sees how she plays not only with him, but with all of her lovers as well.

At the end of another week of work Rossi returns home with the intention of enjoying a quiet and peaceful weekend. He lives with Gastone, his dog-friend,who, after a week of loneliness, can't wait to go out, for instance to the movies, and have fun. Gastone as a matter of fact is a passionate fan of movies, television and heroes' books. He always compares Rossi with them and nags with a petulant : "Rossi, Rossi, if you only were...braver, stronger, richer...". His continuous complaints push Rossi to identify himself with those heroes; throughout the film we will meet Rossi-Tarzan, Rossi-Astronaut, Rossi-Sherlock Holmes, Rossi-Zorro, Rossi-Hollywood actor, Rossi-scientist, Rossi-Lancelot, Rossi-Aladdin. Eight fantastic adventures in which Rossi, along with faithful Gastone, relishes the joy of being a hero.