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Portrait of American filmmaker Mike Kuchar, shot in New York (United States of America) on December 2, 1988 at 7:30 PM.

The housing shortage means that two spouses have to continue living under the same roof despite the ongoing legal separation. Incidents and misunderstandings to no end, but the couple's son will take care of fixing everything.

The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.

PETER: What can I do? PHYLLIDA: Surprise me. Faced with that challenge, Peter's imagination takes off in a way which surprises everyone.

While searching for the theme for his new novel, a writer interacts with various characters with whom he interacts.

Temporary landscape; visual and sonic messages; blended; the city. Part of the "New Spaces" project, the film is an exploration of the landscapes and sounds of Hong Kong, seeking its identity between the old China and the new.

This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. The film is the only Disappearing World film made in western Europe and it focuses on the continuity and change in the community. This film shows the rationality behind the choice the villagers are making.

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the GDR. For 100 years it was polluting the environment - now it is closed. What has happened to the former workers? Have they been made redundant? Will the site of the old works be taken over by a new one, or will a park be laid out there for the local inhabitants?

An auspicious day to fill as Paris wakes up under a thick layer of snow; Dévotion is wandering to the Palais de Chaillot through a paralyzed Paris.

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.

At the age of 8 Michael Cooper (known as Mini) began setting things on fire. Eventually he tried to burn down his own house, with his father inside. Ten years ago an award-winning BBC film told the story of this astonishingly attractive and intelligent child arsonist (Mini wasn't allowed to see it at the time). Since then, for more than half his life, Mini has been locked up in high-security psychiatric care. Mini is now 21. He has recently been released on conditional discharge. Hoping to become a magician, he has taken the stage-name 'Johnny Oddball '. Tonight's film, juxtaposing scenes from past and present, follows Mini's first steps in the outside world, and his struggle to build a career on the fringes of show business. He and his parents battle to understand why they failed in the past and what hope there is for the future. And Mini comes face to face, for the first time, with his actions and their horrifying consequences.

Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

'My word is my bond. And I thought only schmucks do business like that.' Gino, a Russian gangster, is playing for higher stakes than most when he invests in the British stock exchange. Any drop in share prices could put his life in immediate danger.

The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain present an abridged version of Shakespeare's play, with explanatory links and introductions by Martin Jarvis. Following the presentation of the play, members of the company are shown in a workshop with actor-director Ron Daniels.

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.

Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1980

Enter the bizarre world of Strangers in Paradise: a felt animation that takes place in a strange aquatic world - a surreal and loose take on Adam and Eve - if their sin was a shopping centre.

Erotic version of the well-known novel "Carmen" of Merimee with the use of the music from the opera of the same name from Georges Bizet. Carmen is a beautiful Gipsy girl and attracks many different men who start to fight for her love.

The Nicaraguan Revolution and the US presence in the country since the 1930s, highlighting the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1978–79.

When the new don discovers that sadistic mobsters were responsible for the death of his young son, he wreaks a deadly revenge.

A train journey is hypnotically transformed into a kaleidoscope of alternating images of the idealised female body being repeatedly assaulted and decomposing, as the enactment of a psychotic drive.

In 1972, Jean Gaumy took some of his first photos in a smoked herring factory in Fécamp. Particularly attracted by one of the workshops, that of the women who cut up the fish, he decided to make his first film with them. Some of them have been doing this tedious work for over twenty-five years. All of them are full of enthusiasm, full of a vitality that contrasts with the dirt and difficulties of their work.

Portrait of the Colombian composer and pianist, one of his country’s most important classical musicians in the twentieth century.

The obscure philosopher Georg Hermes almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his studies, especially Heraclitus, having no relationship since his mother's death. When he wants a new suit for a lecture (actually very minor) about his new book, he meets the sisters Franziska, Breate and Marthe, who run a boutique, share a house and have a lover each. Those invite Georg to dinner, Franziska even on dates. Falling off a boat he gets naked with her, and they become lovers. The girls all take to Hermes and get him to move in, spoiled by all and offered polygamy.

A celebration of Coventry's history & rich industrial heritage.

Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia on the parishes of the route "La Tête de Chien" in Monaco. Director Laurent Chevallier explains the difficulties of filming at height, the kind of shots that are suitable and the specifications of equipment suitable for filming on a cliff.

Julián, a car salesman, must reach the sales objective (the hundred points of the main title) to fill the whims of his loving wife.

The lone survivor of a deadly ambush against him and his team, a narcotics agent swears to avenge the deaths of his friends and fellow officers.

Brilliant and hilarious punk mockumentary, containing faked interviews with young "antisocial elements" from Berlin.

About the life and work of the composer, which includes an interview in which he discusses his musical ideas and important events in his life. Excerpts from a number of key compositions dating from 1925 to 1977 including the choral 'Africa is my name' and Lidice, Five pieces for violin, viola, cello, horn and clarinet' and Dialectic' are used to illustrate the development of his music.

A table in a restaurant, a high-class man who progressively loses his studied composure as he eats and drinks, a waiter who serves him ...

When a barmaid and part-time model becomes a murderer's third victim in Chelsea, the only apparent links are to a local reporter, Mary, and three art graduates financing a film with local part-time jobs.

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

The opera 'Don Giovanni' serves as a basis to explore the relationships between men and women, as well as their failures.

The documentary accompanies the history of the district, its renovation and the struggle of the population against the urban development determined by investors. With interviews, productions and detailed observations, a complex picture of the people in Altona is painted.

Choreographer John Neumeier and dancer Patrick Dupond rehearse for a new version of Stravinsky's "Petrushka"

Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Jeannot has Down’s Syndrome. Living in a claustrophobic suburban setting, he is treated like a child by his parents and denied any responsibilities of his own. Things change when a young woman named Pauline is hired to take care of Jeannot, and his world opens up beyond the restrictive one imposed upon him.

"Out of the Ruins is a documentary film about coming to terms with grief after the Armenian earthquake of 7th December 1988. I made it as a twenty-something trainee producer at BBC Television in 1989. The suffering, faith and hope of the Armenian people at the time shook me profoundly, forever more. Almost 20 years on, we are releasing the film again in the hope that it can be used to help raise money for the Armenian people today. May their courage and strength be an inspiration to us all." - Agnieszka Piotrowska, director.

Documentary by Hans Scheugl on Kurt Kren.

Shows the surveillance of a woman by overseers who have judged her to be mad. What is most provocative about this film is that it proposes multiple credible points of view even as the woman is being certified insane by the Censors. We voyage into the skull of a woman and peer out to a monumentally static cold waste with planetary slow motion. It is the bunker-eye view.

Documentary about the town of Walton-on-the-Naze, directed by Adam Curtis

Observations in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and New York.

Julia is trying to start a new life after the tragic and eerie death of her possessive and domineering husband. After returning home, she is plagued by terrifying supernatural occurrences. A medium arrives at the house with a message from beyond, but Julia dismisses her warning.

Notes on the movie Passion

An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.

A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines which of them is the most likely to have committed the crimes.

A landscape is filmed with a single-frame camera 48 hours from a point of view.

The film is the first part of a three-part series on cycling education. In the form of a feature story from science fiction, this episode presents the equipment of the roadworthy bicycle, its use in the traffic area and the physical-technical conditions of cycling.