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Film profile of gay rock star/political activist Tom Robinson, intercut with the Tom Robinson Band in concert

David Crosswaite references Dziga Vertov’s 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera, but rather than treating the camera as a metaphor for the eye looking out into the world and making sense of it, for this film the focus is on the camera itself and the filmmaking process. Through the use of mirrors, manipulations of focus, aperture and composition, film camera and filmmaker are progressively revealed, and the construction of illusion in film is broken down.

A married fur trader makes advances to a woman who is also married. He offers her a fur coat, which her husband is to buy at a low price so that their true intentions remain hidden. However, the husband wants the expensive item for his own mistress.

A writer attempts to blackmail a publisher into printing his latest book

An examination of the art of pottery through the works of two world renowned potters –Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. The film traces the entire process of pottery making, beginning with the digging of clay and its preparation, and on through the long sequences of pods being thrown on the wheel.

A woman is hired to care for a young paraplegic girl at her father's estate. Unbeknownst to them, the woman is a devil-worshiper who sets out to steer the young girl down the path of evil.

This punk-infused documentary by the Newsreel Collective invites young working class Londoners to discuss their experiences of racism. First and second generation Black and Asian immigrants, as well as ex-National Front members, paint a detailed picture of discrimination in 1970s Britain. The film uses lo-fi animation, archive footage and a pulsating soundtrack to compare racial inequality in London to Britain's colonial 'divide and rule' policy, European fascism and the rise of Nazi Germany.

Schoolgirls of a girls' boarding school tell about their erotic dreams.

36 year old welder Karin works at an agricultural factory in Mecklenburg, Germany.

A wacky coup d'etat masterminded by a Russian call girl, in of all places, staid Switzerland, is the subject of Daniel Schmid's black humorous satire on power and its misuses.

A simple tax collector suffers from a deep depression. He flies from his dominant mother to a dangerous company in violent left-wing circles. And discovers a cure for his impotence.

A group of men team up against a ruthless mob.

A couple has found peace in a strange manor by the sea but, on a hot evening, a visitor comes, troubling their solitude. However, three is not actually a crowd and they start start talking, exchanging points of view about philosophy, sociology and politics, eroticism as well.

Ritter Blaubart is a DEFA studio recording, commissioned by East German television, of Walter Felsenstein's production of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Bluebeard in three acts at the Komische Oper Berlin. The operetta was recorded in color at the DEFA Studios for Feature Films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The film was first shown in theaters on April 27, 1973, in a gala preview at the Kino International in Berlin.

In a parallel universe, where a sauna bath represents the policies of ancient Rome, the poet Gómez Rojas and a group of Socialist men try to free their fellow prisoners from the judge, tyrant and teacher, Astorquiza.

Separated Mom, Dad and son all come into conflict with each other during a brief reunion visit. Everyone learns and grows.

Filmed record of a major rock and roll festival held at Wembley Stadium, London, in August 1972. London Rock and Roll Show begins with excerpts from numerous "warm-up" performers shown singing either covers of 1950s hits, or original tunes, including a performance by Screaming Lord Sutch that threatens to end the concert prematurely when he brings a stripper on stage. The main concert segment begins with Bo Diddley and continues with a string of other major performers including Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bill Haley and His Comets. The concert ends with an extended performance by Chuck Berry, who at the time was enjoying major chart success in Britain and the US with his "My Ding-a-Ling" (although he does not perform that song in this film). Mick Jagger also appears in several non-musical interludes in which he is interviewed about the performers.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan.

A young suburban man who takes the same train every day, except on Sundays and holidays. When he his briefcase stolen in the rush hour he has some trouble recovering it.

Angela think that she's guilty of a car accident in which her husband and mistress died. She is in depression and convalescing when she meets a veterinarian who falls for her.

Experimental documentary that reflects the historical and socioeconomic situation of rice cultivation in Valencia and its crisis, while researching the material production process, both of this agricultural product and of the means of expression used: cinema.

In the medieval Castile, Don Tello de Buinesa, the boastful feudal lord, lives with his three sons and their beautiful wives.

After the death of Franco, the nostalgic fascist regime attempts to preserve the 1936's order.

In the late seventies director Wolfgang Büld hits the Screen with his historic documentary "Punk in London." The follow up of this rough document in the annals of the youth culture and it's first steps to become a worldwide phenomenon was the production of "Bored Teenagers" for German TV Station ZDF, which showed it in the frame of "Das kleine Fernsehspiel". Filmed at Locations around London, Cologne, Wuppertal and Büld's Hometown Lüdenscheid, it's parted into rare recordings of Adverts Live-Gigs mixed up with a little Storyline of a young couple that supports the Band around TV Smith and Gaye Advert on their Tour across Germany.

A sadean "huit clos". Originally inspired by Octave Mirbeau's Garden of Torture. A banquet organized by a lord (Hervé de Luze) and his companion (Anne Angel), turns into an orgy and the forced marriage of two guests. Happiness in crime, hence the title of the film. The film was shot with real blood and animal skulls.

Teenaged girl isn't emotionally mature enough for marriage, but she gets hitched anyway.

A look at the economy of the Scottish Highlands.

Sequel to the 1970 "Sex-Export from Amsterdam", which consists largely of archive material.

A short Sheila Graber cut out animation.

History of the development of the sports in Puerto Rico and its insertion in the idiosyncrasies of our people.

German film.

Another mondo documentary.

Connie decides to defend her pregnant friend Gina, but soon discovers why people may not always be willing to tell the truth.

A BAFTA award nominated film dramatising how one firm and its employees faced the inevitable changes caused by automation and made the best of the situation.

This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail there.

Neglected by her husband, a woman takes refuge in love for a young director. But he only thinks about sex and does not give her anything that can comfort her emotionally.

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

A musical play based on the story by Friedrich Wolf.

Suspected UVF leader Gusty Spemce was abducted while on leave from prison to attend his daughter's wedding. A TV crew tracks him down.

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.

A film about painting and its denial concerning Giordano struggling with the Sleeping Beauty, this is the challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies be able to give back to the child raped and abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Giordano, Prince Charming bearing butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, plods along sinking into the snow and… but revolutionary creativity is not the one that makes the bird in the cage sink: is it the reason why the imprisoned bird breaks the cage.