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A group of criminals storm into a Berlin Bank and escape through a tunnel, which they built earlier.

Growing Up with John Waters, the self-proclaimed Pope of Trash and king of US Independent Cinema. John Waters discusses his traumatic childhood in Baltimore and the films which came out of these experiences.

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.

They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.

Two rollicking fun-time cowboys steal a prize racehorse, disguise it with a dye job, and run it in a race. Plus songs and romances.

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.

In this static film, a concentration camp survivor struggles on his deathbed to convey a sense of what he experienced to his daughter. Standard file footage of holocaust atrocities accompanies his monologues. His wife and daughter also have thoughts on the subject, which they convey in a similar manner.

A pizza baker orders his listless driver to deliver pizzas. The order has been placed by two policemen who are monitoring a property. They plan the big coup by taking the money from the gangsters under surveillance themselves and absconding. The gangsters themselves are expecting a drug deal. However, when the deal goes wrong and the policemen intervene helplessly, the pizza delivery man sees his chance and disappears with the money.

Eleven live tracks recorded during the 1985-1986 Accept World Tour

The pathological-chemical department around the turn of the century. Dr. Isidor Scheminsky, a young doctor, falls in love with a new nurse.

She doesn't talk, she doesn't... but she cuts, stabs, guts, you know the drill.

Tregenza’s second feature takes the form of a highly metaphorical road movie, as the isolated protagonist (Jason Adams) drifts from gainful employment in the East (as an arc welder in Baltimore) to a spiritual apotheosis in the West. “The formal treatment of the material ranges from rapid montage (in the opening sequence) to more conventional editing to lengthy takes without any apparent consistent pattern. Tregenza remains a master cinematographer throughout, and the various ellipses between sequences are often as provocative as the sequences themselves” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

A fashion model in the 1930s, who owns an Art Deco Miami hotel, kills herself when her fiancé is unfaithful to her. 60 years later she returns to life as a vampire, when the hotel is scheduled for demolition. Using her sexuality as bait, she looks for victims.

The Nestenes have made the final connection.

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer’s larger-than-life sensibilities are on full display throughout the score: Along with intoxicating orchestral music that surges in tandem with the couple’s burgeoning passion and a chord left symbolically unresolved until the last moments of the opera, the opera also features one of the repertory’s most soaring and ecstatic final climaxes, as Isolde surrenders to a love so powerful that she transcends life itself.

The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break. What Melody doesn't know is that Kahnitz and Ben are connected by a dark chapter in their past, and Melody is supposed to help Kahnitz settle his old scores. But the intriguing game of love, hate, crime and betrayal inevitably drags everyone involved into a bloody showdown...

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Visconti and Fellini are truly memorable. His movie score and sequences of his performances in theaters all over the world hand us down a full and evocative outline of this outstanding artist.

A portrait of the class of 1978–1982 at the Munich University of Television and Film.

A young heiress, Bianca, blind following an accident, stays in a beautiful hotel in the Caribbean. The business is managed by Anna and her beautiful nephew Max, entangled in dubious circles of clandestine gambling dens and drug trafficking. Sylvia, a writer in crisis (and looking for new inspiration) also stays in the guesthouse accompanied by Joan, a young woman with whom Sylvia maintains an ambiguous relationship. Also staying there are Christine, a hysterical woman with a criminal record and her husband Dominic, a listless and parasitic man. Finally, Dr. Ruby, a young and distinguished doctor who is preparing to hold a conference in Miami and who seems to have known Bianca before the accident that caused her blindness, also arrived a few days ago.

Notorious con artists Lune and Schula are given a second chance by the police: they have to pose as rich art collectors to infiltrate art galleries and confound two famous experts and dealers, suspected of authenticating fake works of art.

Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.

Having lost her job, Beatrice accepts from a friend, an unhappy businesswoman, an indelicate little job: to put a certain Paule Caret, who is said to be a drug dealer, on the phone. Seduced by the voice of the latter's lover, Beatrice tries to meet him...

20th century television chef Ainsley Harriott beams himself aboard the space vessel Starbug in order to test the crew's culinary skills.

A businessman visits his father after a long absence. His parent's house is supposed to make way for a highway. The son wants to send his father to a home. He is unexpectedly confronted with a young woman at the home.

Through the use of archival film and photo images, this documentary examines the political awakening and journey of nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. The film also captures the volatile political and social atmosphere during the 1930’s and 1940’s which gave rise to Albizu Campos and the nationalist movement in Puerto Rico.

A brother and sister travel from London to India for the funeral rites of their estranged Sikh father. For her it is a chance to discover more about her homeland, but for him the confrontation with foreign customs and the burden of new duties is unwelcome and traumatic.

A disaster-movie made in Germany.

In this short two young black men live together in France. When one decides that he's pregnant and the craving that he has for caviar must be satisfied, his lover goes in search. While he may not be pregnant he does reward his boyfriend upon his return for being such a good provider.

A low-income housing estate in the south of France, at the time of the soccer World Cup. The daughter of the leader of an extreme right-wing party sets out to discover the world of the fans.

Melanie Sheffield visits her childhood friend Sarah Rudd at her estate. After her arrival she meets the mysterious Ben Fox. Melanie feels magically drawn to the attractive Ben. Ben also seems fascinated by Melanie, but behaves distantly. When the two finally find each other, happiness is perfect. But then Melanie is confronted with Ben's past.

Nine secretaries dream of life and love musically while typing around.

All the Goals And Games From Liverpool Fc's 1992-93 Season

Where Disney's version marginalized the darker elements of the novel, Gianluigi Toccafondo's adaptation brings them to the center. It's a film he cursed over and which took him three years to complete.

Short documentary directed by Joseph Bitamba.

A photographer becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger she photographs by accident.

A 1992 documentary by Paul Moreira exploring the rise of hip-hop culture in France. Following key figures like IAM, NTM, and graffiti artists, it examines rap’s social impact, its connection to youth, and the cultural movement it represents.

A short film about a boy experiencing immersion and fascination for war as he looks through the old photo album of his grandfather who was a Nazi soldier during WWII.

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

A short film about a family of prehistoric characters.

The Virgin Mary appears to Mario, a provincial barber who dreams of becoming a successful singer. He introduces her to his parents who decide to adopt her and give her a room in their house. The presence of the Holy Mother will soon break the monotony of the household. Teresa, Mario’s mother, starts to talk to a chandelier. Carolina, his sister, thinks she has become invulnerable and begins to hit her teacher. As for Mario, he thinks he has been invested with a special mission, to tell the truth at all times to everyone he meets. It soon turns out the Virgin is not what she pretends to be…

During a business lunch, a hearing-impaired woman becomes an “earwitness” to a murder plot, which she reads from the lips of a man at the next table. She informs the police, but initially ends up with a corrupt policeman who lulls her into a false sense of security, but in reality has been working with the man who hired her for some time. Her life is in grave danger, but the policeman is reluctant to eliminate the witness, especially as he has fallen in love.

A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Godard on the small screen. Godard's presence has never been, and never will be, anodyne or banal. The subversion of everyday television.

Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at any price, fighting with all means, intrigue, deceit and blackmail. After all, the all-important game takes place in the afternoon and 40,000 people want to be there. Everyone is preparing for it in their own way, everyone wants to make the deal of a lifetime. Substitute player Niebitsch is eagerly awaiting his appearance. Player agent Roland F. Beyer is trying to pull off the really big deal. The club is on the brink of financial ruin. President Vischering only thinks about the invitation to appear on "Aktuelle Sportstudio". And Gottschalk begins to systematically get drunk. In the end it is clear: Herberger's wisdom "The game lasts 90 minutes" is wrong. The game lasts all day, every Saturday...