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A writer's dead wife returns from the grave to haunt him, and he finds himself attracted to her "spiritual" sexuality.

This is a quite a rare example of a political sci-fi filmed without means. An excessive and schizophrenic creature, DINNI E LA NORMALINA allows Grifi’s more playful soul to see the light, while not dispersing the dark reflection on the exploitation by media institutions.

Pierre finally came back to see his dear grandfather. Together, shortly before the beautiful sunrise, they relive a moment in the life of Corporal Pignerol.

Adaptation of the book by same title by Peter Stavinski, the film brings out the relations between children and birds in a new and unknown aspect, as a symbol of the purest and most direct expression of harmony.

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.

A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems

In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict.

A film by Karin Thome.

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

After fulfilling his military service, Juan Pedro returns to Daroca, his small town. He meets Carmela, an attractive gypsy arrived at the town a year ago. Despite the rumors and prejudices, the couple decides to marry.

After the author’s period of experimentation, these American notes are extremely straightforward. As in Migration, however, this America could be a more remote country, and the inspiration is avowedly Japanese (Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North). Implicitly, the film-maker compares himself to an old peddler of drawings, Sam, hawking his wares at the entrance of Columbia’s Butler Library.

Scientific documentary film made by Reinold Thiel. Its the second part of the “Bundesdeutsche Filmpolitik” Trilogie made for german television.

A dazzling, inventive, and rarely-screened fairy tale from the feminist artist.

Sociology student Elisabeth befriends 17-year-old Carmen, who needs an abortion. Drawn into Carmen’s fierce world, Elisabeth accompanies her to Bottrop and then Amsterdam. In Berlin, Elisabeth’s partner Wolf grows jealous as their bond deepens. When Carmen’s volatile ex returns, tensions explode.

The Basilica of Monreale, near Palermo in Sicily acts as subject and springboard of Carné's final film; Its hundreds of gorgeous and intricate tiled mosaics vividly depict scenes from the Bible. Kinetic camerawork and dramatic narration of each scene compliment these stunning pieces in order to retell the Holy Book's age-old Story.

Alan Wellbeck is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.

Terry and his family fight against a planned eviction when the council decides on a road building programme and their house is in its path.

Two roving gamblers. Cockfights, horse-races, a jealous boyfriend and an avenging brother...

Documentation about the so-called “social training”, a new model in the penal system.

The head of the FBI explains that hippies were good, but that they have degenerated due to psychedelic painting, drugs, and becoming addicted to free love. Secret Agent Frank investigates Sandy, whose daughter has disappeared, apparently because of hippies.

A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it. (D.J.)

Short documentary celebration of Britain's first New Town

TV drama about the 15-time poisoner Gesche Gottfried, who was beheaded in front of 35,000 spectators on April 21, 1831 - the last public execution in Bremen.

Documentary film.

This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of the feminist scene. 1977 together with several other artists she organized the first large exhibition in which only work by women was shown. Sarah Schumann paints figuratively, that is to say she has developed a technique using layers of collage and painting worked on top of and into one another. Regarding a picture becomes an adventure. (harunfarocki.de)

OPERA MORTEM is a medium-length film with strong surrealist/dadaist influences where distorted and disturbing images are shown without a real narrative thread which could be a visual dream of death that intersects the story of a suicidal girl and a necrophiliac killer. According to some theological scholars, the film hides a metaphorical evocative code of a satanic ritual. But perhaps David Fleas only followed the manifesto of the Dadaist movement, between anarchist, nihilistic and sarcastic ideas, giving voice to the search for that absolute freedom that art demands.

A young man arrives in London from India, but the job promised to him never materializes.

The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.

Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.

A married couple, he a failed intellectual, she completely unsatisfied, try to solve their marital crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two lovers; he a young Swede, she with a handsome Greek man.

Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he is getting older, and his trade is dying out as people have their own instamatic cameras.

"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.

The castrating mother confronts the young woman who is going to marry her youngest son.

An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.

Intended for school leavers, the promotional film shows the vast range and variety of jobs available within the British Civil Service, highlighting the ways in which civil servants help individuals, the community in general and Parliament.

A silent film

A young woman quits her dull job in the typing pool, and goes off on a search for personal freedom.

Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to sell as bait. His days are spent in a bleak, repetitive cycle of labor and solitude amidst a decaying landscape, moving in and out of hospitals and prisons where he is treated as a number rather than a person.

Ludovique wanted to spend her holidays with her husband Jean,alone together. But she will have to stand her whole family and relations.

Enigmatic, stop-motion, animated story of a man's day.

Short by Bernard Eisenschitz

"This idyll was made for a Dracula film project by Ernst Schmidt of Vienna, who wrote to various European filmmakers in order to produce a bigger film with their participation." (HHK)

Everybody tells Onnie to steer clear of Patsy Gallaher, that he's bad news, but Onnie doesn't see it. Gallaher is Onnie's friend, and he believes friends should be loyal to one another.

Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.

Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the engineer Farnese, who plots kidnappings unsuspectedly. After he cashed from Farnese three hundred millions of lire to deliver to Peseti, Mario lets money be robbed by four pickpockets, which he is naturally in cahoots with and which he will share out it with. Money cannot be used since it comes from a kidnapping and it was marked. The lawyer will be able to make the boss get arrested.

A Pakistani reporter interviews Idi Amin.