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What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the instigation of your wife? In this lamentable situation is Heinrich Karpf. An unfine plan is supposed to bring about the change: where there is no spectacular case, one must be faked...
An executive who depends on his wife's fortune has a great weakness for women. One day, his chauffeur discovers the flat where he has his mistress, a painter who has him totally idealized as reflected in her paintings. But this straight man ends up, by circumstances of life, paired with a homosexual.
A man in a Liverpool office conjures up the last hours of a condemned prisoner, in this reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s poem, given a non-naturalistic treatment using electronic effects and voiceover narration.
Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and critical eyes of a newly arrived "ingénue" who ridicules all customs in order to marry the woman of his heart.
Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.
The railway advertisement To Have A Good Trip Let’s Take The Train, had given me the idea of a speedy violent film with plenty of information, the intensity and speed of which cannot be perceived complacently by the spectator. All this gives an aggression to the film not unlike the actual transport system… the train was a pretext and I started to shoot as though I were using a gun-machine, trains and pseudo amusements becoming all mixed up.
Two 'Trinity'esque brothers bicycle into Silver City and become involved with its citizens and the local rancher who runs it.
Financed by Paul McCartney, showcasing Wings' drummer Geoff Briton karate skills.
This film painstakingly documents the ways in which women are devalued as workers in a patriarchal society.
Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
Sarah Maldoror’s camera roams the famous flagstones and foliage of Père Lachaise, visiting its nooks and cats, to the sound of poems such as Liberté, by Paul Éluard.
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy. The sensational Alfredo Kraus sings her beloved Ernesto. Håkan Hagegård, in his Met debut role and season, is Dr. Malatesta, the man who helps the young couple trick the crusty old bachelor of the title (Gabriel Bacquier at his comical best) into a fake marriage. This being a Donizetti comedy, it all turns out perfectly well at the end—and getting there is pure operatic fun.
An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.
Based on a free interpretation of Gustav Mahler´s Song Cycle by the same name and a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, this multiple award winning film is a striking example of Titus Leber´s approach to visualise classical music. Using his so called “multi-layer-method” to superimpose several image layers the author takes us in a dream-like lamentation-quest of a mother's winter-journey searching for her child who has been carried off by the Angel of Death.
In 1934, young archaeologist Robert returns to his home in Salzburg after spending several years working in Crete. He wants to officially break up with his original fiancée Hannah, as he has fallen in love with his employer's wife. But his personal plans get caught up in the political turmoil of the Austrian coup year. In a small village, he and Hannah find themselves caught between the fronts of the coup plotters and the Home Guard troops. A defenseless deaf-mute is to be lynched as a scapegoat. To protect him, Robert invents a mysterious "man in the reeds." But Hannah also eventually falls victim to the unrest.
Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.
Portrait of Greek filmmaker Katerina Thomadaki, shot in Paris (France) on March 16, 1978 at 11:00 AM.
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.
The story of how Cumbernauld started as part of the solution to Glasgow's housing problem, how it was planned and developed, how it had yet to develop and, above all, how well it works as a place to live in and what it will be like for future generations
Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days Oriana Fallaci waited in the holy city of Qum for her interview with the 79 year old Ayatollah, who is the de facto ruler of Iran. On Sept. 12, she was led into the Faizeyah religious school, where Khomeini holds his audiences. She was accompanied by two Iranians Nyho and Iran prime minster Banisadr who had helped set up the interview and who served as translators. Oriana Fallaci, barefoot, enveloped in a chador, the head to toe veil of the Moslem woman, was seated on a carpet, when the Ayatollah entered, and the recorded interview could begin.
Deals with the case of the only woman sentenced to death penalty in Puerto Rico: Luisa Nevárez Ortiz.
This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems.
The Krautrock band Lokomotive Kreuzberg set itself the goal of combining music with trade union activism. From 1972 to 1977, it toured Germany with cabaret and songs such as ‘Solidaritätslied’ (The Solidarity Song) ‘Lohnpredigt’ (Wages Sermon) or ‘Geldsack’ (Moneybags). The film shows recordings of rehearsals, performances, and political discussions with the audience. The musicians describe their careers from classical music training to political rock.
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
During an evening spent at his house with his sister, a girl realizes that she doesn't really have much in common with her boyfriend.
Action for Michel Journiac.
The young Enrique leaving to study at the University and is married to Juana. One day he meets a painter who takes Enrique into another life and confused begin to think about taking some drastic measures.
A six-year old girl is walking through a super market. Fantastic associations are pressed upon her with men, goods and events being changed into elements of a fairy tale world.
Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.
Rich man suddenly feels compelled to track down his son from his first wife, whom he abandoned in early childhood.An imposter slides into his household on that pretext...
Three examples are used to critically examine what is often used in education under the banner of progress. An analysis of three attempts to bring about innovation in education and schools.
A silent film starring poetess Patrizia Vicinelli, shot in Turin and Morocco between 1968 and 1970. “We set out and traveled far because Patrizia had called us. The film bears witness to what we saw there and what we found upon returning home—the two things ideally united. In addition, it contains my personal inventory of love and visions, as well as the search for love, navigating between reality and unreality along the ideal thread and the obsession of the mind.”
Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a motor-bike petrol tank as a bomb. Campion's Interview by Brian Clark: A headmaster takes on the Education Authorities on behalf on his pupils, exposing the political pressures behind the creation of a comprehensive school.
A documentary portrait of sideshow impresario Wally Shufflebottom, Jr.
Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.
A César nominated short drama looking at the impact of prison life on an incarcerated nine year old boy.
In full tourist season in Torremolinos, three crooks steal tourists in order to support their families. But however they are presented with the opportunity to make a big hit and will try to do it, not without many problems.
A cheeky political pamphlet.
Documentary looking at the history of horse racing in Britain.
Industrialist blackmails unfaithful wife and her lover into helping him fake his own death.
A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.
A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.