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A short film about the airport in Frankfurt am Main. Re-released in 1973.

Short black-and-white documentary film showing the forging of an anchor.

Inge Karsten receives an unexpected visit from her former student friend Margit from the West. She is even more surprised to hear that she is married to her stepbrother Herbert, who was long thought to be missing and whom she had almost forgotten. He last lived in Canada. This presents Inge's husband Horst, who has an important job as a military pilot, with a conflict of conscience. The situation is even more serious than it seems at first glance. In truth, Margit is an agent and the whole story is a staged game by the West German secret service...

In the 1960s, Jacquie, a rebellious young woman, turns her back on her family to accompany an itinerant guitar player, Pierre, across France. The love affair is short-lived and when Pierre walks out of her life, Jacquie ends up in the bed of the first man she meets, a student. Disillusioned and broke, Jacquie returns to her home, but refuses to follow the example of her sister, who has become trapped in a life of domesticity. Whilst looking for a job worthy of her talents, she pursues a series of amorous adventures with men from all walks of life. Will any of them live up to her expectations...?

Memory of what belongs to the invention of cinema. the film is a single shot to be shown in any order and size (Normal or scope) made in eight hours with a machine that conceptualizes light.

Writer Charles Condomine invites a fortune teller to his home to study for a planned book and learn her particular jargon. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bradman, are also invited to the planned séance. The result of the necromancy is unexpected: Condomine's first wife, Elvia, who died years ago, appears. Was she summoned by her husband's unspoken wish? He is now married to Ruth, which makes his first wife's return from the afterlife somewhat unpleasant. Especially for Ruth, for whom her rival remains invisible for a long time. Meanwhile, Elvira settles down at home and woos her husband. Charles is initially flattered, but gradually two women begin to get on his nerves...

Vaudeville sketch, Striptease, Erotica, Strip in the moon, Mistery dance, Le ballet russe, Cleopatra 2000, La blonde inconnue, Elle et lui, Nuda nella rete, The acrobats, Je me couche avec ta voix; Western strip-tease , Russian strip-tease, Bolero strip, Ice and fire, City by night.

The story of a lodger's arrival and stay at an ominous bed and breakfast in Munich, where he falls victim to the landlady's micro-managing. A montage of film footage, photographs, drawings, graphics, street scenes and advertisements is accompanied by a literary text by Horst Bingel, sometimes read by the lead actor, satirist Hanns Dieter Hüsch.

a 22-minute French experimental short film directed by Marin Karmitz and Jean Ravel, based on Samuel Beckett's 1963 play. It features actors Eléonore Hirt, Michael Lonsdale, and Delphine Seyrig in a stark, black-and-white adaptation focusing on light and sound, which was notably showcased at the 1966 Venice Biennale.

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two women are obedient to him.

Awakening is sort of the history of mankind transposed through the dream world of Peter Foldes who conceived, directed and designed this original work.

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.

In 1943, four Italian Alpini escape back to Italy after their company was decimated in Croatia by Yugoslav partisans. One of the four, Paolo, is seriously wounded and must undergo a leg amputation. The young man, embittered by his mutilation and the end of his soccer career, enlists in the fascist Brigate Nere. Once a member of the Brigate Nere, Paolo turns to evil and captures his former comrades, who must defeat him.

An amusing portrait of the English at work and at play in the industrial north of the country. Photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson. Broadcasted only once, in the cultural program Tempo, in 1963, on the ITV/ABC channel. The photographs filmed in the title box are cropped and augmented with tenderly ironic commentary on the English, inspired by Cartier-Bresson's notes for this commission.

A BAFTA award nominated animated Industrial safety film featuring a clumsy fruit porter who learns the error of his ways, told as a mini-operetta.

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.

Experimental short film made by Hans-Jacob Siber in which certain dramatic aspects of this filmmaker's way of making films are revealed.

On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their lives while the war rages on.

Exciting things happen on Captain Brass' small cargo ship on the last day in port: a windy "doctor" turns the captain on to a strange new ship's pharmacy, in which the medicines are replenished free of charge by his staff in every port of call. The "curbside swallow" Olga has long known that this is really about cocaine smuggling...

A look at the origins of man-powered flight, focusing on John Wimpenny, the first man to pedal himself through the air for more than half a mile.

A look at the mechanical and human components that make a brass band

Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.

She is a nightclub entertainer, in her way a highly successful exponent of her art, but there are moments when the admiration of her Montréal following is not enough. 'Fabienne' is the portrait of a woman who, having achieved enviable fame, is still far from content.

Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.

Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.

Professor Balthazar goes on vacation to the South Sea where his friend Hannibal is a lighthouse keeper. Hannibal loves ice cream, difficult enough to find there. His request for transfer is denied until he can arrange a replacement: Johan the yodeler from the Alps.

The son of a working-class man, Harry Brenner studied medicine at the ABF and quickly made a career as a doctor in Berlin. His lifestyle and his demanding wife swallow up a lot of money, so he takes on any part-time work. After a gross dereliction of duty, he is transferred to Bothenow. He meets Eva again, whom he knows from his student days and who now works here as a nurse. The two hit it off and Dr. Brenner slowly begins to change his life. In doing so, he increasingly comes into conflict with his wife. Their different views on life eventually lead to a separation.

Four cousins meet a new friend who has strange powers over all the animals on Whispering Island. After discovering the crusader's treasure, they are imprisoned in a flooded dungeon.

White Lite is something of a mystical film, evoking the feeling of going 'through the looking glass' to another world, despite the fact it was largely shot in the flat of its director, Jeff Keen. The film greets us with the invitation "meet anti-matter and the bride of the monster", pointing to Keen's love of B-movies (and a reference to Ed Wood's The Bride of the Atom, aka The Bride of the Monster [1955] as it was later known).

From antiquity to Modigliani, women's faces painted through the centuries and edited according to the theme of "Pierrot le fou", composed by Antoine Duhamel.

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with its own observatory.

Film "The Poet" based on the one-act play Il Poeta by Dario Niccodemi.

A documentary feature detailing the engraving of the original plate for this celebrated print; the artist's experimental use of different papers and methods of inking, and the later re-working of the plate.

A girl abused by her widowed father becomes interested in books and witchcraft.

Visual commentary on the way in which the prophetic poems of William Blake are reflected in modern London and the political upheavals of 1968.

An in-depth look at the changing face of the River Rhine.

A documentary short.

Jimmy Orpheus is about a young day labourer at the docks. After a crawl through the late-night bars in the St. Pauli red-light district, he meets a prostitute, for whom he risks life and limb while walking around night-time Hamburg … A love story that is as poetic as it is realistic, with Roland Klick trying out various extravagant editing and camera techniques, such as jump cuts and time-lapse shots, as well as his idea of action movies.

The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from the main story, if only briefly, to parallel events that are not necessarily crucial to the story but illustrate what is suggested by the radio.

For ten years, the government official George Blake, recruited by the British secret service, also spies for the Soviet Union. Over 40 Western agents lost their lives behind the Iron Curtain as a result. In May 1961, Blake is sentenced to 42 years in prison. But that is not the end of the story. In 1966, Blake escapes from prison to the Soviet Union...