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Tommi Fischer, a newly divorced copywriter is looking for a replacement mother for his son. When he falls for the emancipated costume designer Evelyn he soon finds himself in the undesired role of a stay-at-home dad.

Live at the Brixton Academy in London, England on the 12th of December, 1986. Setlist: 1) Ask 2) Bigmouth Strikes Again [with "Panic" drum tease intro] 3) London 4) Miserable Lie 5) Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others 6) The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 7) Shoplifters Of The World Unite 8) There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 9) Is It Really So Strange 10) Cemetry Gates 11) This Night Has Opened My Eyes 12) Still Ill 13) Panic 14) The Queen Is Dead 15) William It Was Really Nothing 16) Hand In Glove *This concert, put together as a benefit for the Artists Against Apartheid, was originally due to be held at the Royal Albert Hall on the 14th of November but it had to be rescheduled following Johnny’s car accident. It turned out to be the last time the Smiths were on stage together, bar a few TV appearances. This was the only time “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, “Shoplifters Of The World Unite” and the “London”/”Miserable Lie” medley were ever performed by them.

Dressed as a virgin mother, Michel Journiac tears down his garment and reveals a rag doll tied to his belly. He frees it carefully, presses it against his heart and caresses it gently, then he smears it with blood and stuffs it with raw meat dripping with blood. Finally, he wraps it slowly in a white shroud, he buries it, then collapses to the ground, overcome by grief. This action took place without an audience and was prepared with a screenplay.

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.

A German Film Award winning documentary.

An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.

In 1984, David Byrne put together a TV special on the Talking Heads for U.K. TV’s Channel 4, a 68-minute mix of live material filmed at Wembley Arena, interviews with the band, TV news clips, commercials and other various bits of found footage and sound.

Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love. Boy and girl ...

1415: at a council in Constance on Lake Constance, high church dignitaries of the time come together to discuss which of the two popes should be followed in future, the one in Avignon or the one in Rome.

A young college student from a good family feel great vocation as an actor. One day, you're invited to a party at the home of a well-known film producer, fifties and homosexual. Since then, his life will never be the same.

The last of the five films in the original film series is composed of footage from Ebel shot between 1979 and 1982 and most closely reflects the original concept of Hübner and Voss.

A voyeuristic panorama of a specific moment in the German independent music scene.

Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

Short documentary about celts

Photographer Gundula Schulze wrote her graduate thesis on "nude photography of women in East Germany". It's a subject she continues to pursue in her photography. She considers the stereotype of superficial nude photography anachronistic, and talks vividly about being at pains to develop a relationship of trust with the women she photographs. Schulze wants to show what makes up the "whole woman", living up to her position in East Germany. Scenes of women in the professional world have been edited into the film.

A romantic comedy about teen surfers.

Stefan's mother is interviewed by a television crew at her home. On the subject of how a single mother, who is actively involved in the work process, copes, the son, who is present, only gives snotty answers. Stefan works as an apprentice bricklayer and helps to build the French Cathedral on Berliner Platz der Akademie. On the day of his 18th birthday, he tells his mother that he is moving out. In his new surroundings, Stefan meets Christel, a telegram messenger, with whom he falls in love. An attempt to spend a night together in his mother's spare apartment fails, as Christel immediately wants to tie him down. Stefan's mother also arrives earlier than expected. She still hasn't given up on her son. There is a lot of trouble when she catches him working as a toilet attendant in a pub.

BRUTE!'s Malcolm Bennett wrote and acted as special consultant on this 1987 trailer for Mallet!, a ultra-violent cartoon noir directed by Blink animation director Bob Lawrie. Although it was never picked up by a major network, Mallet's influence can be seen in many films and animations that followed, namely the film adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City. Starring Bob Pugh as Mallet and featuring Stephen Haley as Skillet.

Documentary in three episodes, "The Miracles of Moscow," "Lunch with a Great Painter," "The Enchanted Island."

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

In 1989, this film was part of the PAMEZ project in Senegal which was part of the sea program of the CCFD, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development. It presents the economic and social role of women in the Casamance region for the development of fishing. These women who process and market fish, who are responsible for management, have a voice and express their opinion.

"Despite the multitude of characters and situations, the plot is simple: the eternal flow of life. It is based on Les contes fantastiques d’Hoffmann, a play by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, who were inspired by some of the stories of the German E.T.A. Hoffmann. On a drunken night in the city, Hoffmann tells how he courted and lost three girls, his impossible loves: Olympia, a mechanical doll that only he believes to be truly human; Giulietta, the courtesan who steals his reflection in a mirror; and Antonia, a young woman who sings until she literally dies." Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Regio di Parma Recorded: 1988 Singers: Alredo Kraus, Ruth Welting, Jonathan Omilian, Barbara Hendricks, Elena Zilio, Nicola Gjiuselev, Bruno Buulgarelli, Francis Egerton, Aldo Bottion Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia-Romagna "Arturo Toscanini" Chorus: Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma Chorus Master: Adolfo Tanhzi Stage Director: Beppe de Tomasi

Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.

The history and consequences of the Fatima apparitions in a small Portuguese village, which has since become a prominent place of pilgrimage.

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Neat Records, the Tyne & Wear based label that gave us many notable Geordie metal acts like Venom and Raven here present a showcase of some of their 1985 roster. Featuring video performances from Venom, Warfare, Saracen and Avenger interspersed with candid and "humorous" skits between.

The Deutsche Bundesbahn presents the intercity train system.

Shakespear's Hamlet Act V. animated. Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

The sixteen-year-old Giulia, daughter of a successful writer and painter, leaving the college, spends her holidays in the family's villa, at the seaside, with a group of friends of her age. One day he arrives at the villa Paolo, a colleague of Giulia's father, who has to complete a screenplay with him. The girl decides with cold determination to entrust precisely to Paul the "task" to "free her" of virginity, thus beginning a skilful maneuver of priming. At the same time, Giulia's mother falls in love with Paolo, and just when he decides to declare his love, he is rejected by the young man, who is now entangled by the sixteen year old. At the end Giulia, having achieved her goal - declaring however, immediately afterwards, repentant - unloads Paolo and returns to her peers.

A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The camera films with a powerful telephoto lens. This idyll is radically destroyed when the woman suddenly looks directly into the camera. There is an immediate cut (the voyeur has been discovered) and the whole sequence of events begins from the beginning again, but each time re-filmed from the last till finally, only a completely abstract, flickering picture remains.

The film explores the first Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It shows moving images of resistance against the Israeli occupation, while exploring the steadfast determination of the Palestinian People, confronting a modern army with stones. The film highlights the active and important role of women in the intifada.

Joan Tewkesbury reflects on her collaboration with Robert Altman and her first feature, Old Boyfriends (1979). This excerpt, from an unfinished working print by Katja Raganelli for the 2024 Robert Altman retrospective at the Munich Film Museum, serves as a starting point to explore her production process, how she found collaborators like Tewkesbury, her development of project ideas from these encounters, and why some projects never reached completion.

Ian Dury, singer/songwriter of Kilburn and the High Roads and the Blockheads, talks about how becoming disabled has affected his life and music.

Domenico, known as Mimì, must prove to his parents that he is not impotent and homosexual, only this way will he be able to unlock himself and receive the rich family heritage.

Maldoror traces the dramatic life of the self-taught sculptor Alberto Carlisky, who fled his native Argentina after being imprisoned in 1944 by the Perón regime for his political views, and who apprenticed in the Paris studio of the Russian Cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine before striking out on his own.

Isaac has separated parents, attends third grade, and soon befriends two classmates, Fiorello and Gabriel. All three want to leave with the circus, but on the appointed day, Gabriel is assigned by his mother to take care of his newborn sister, Fiorello hears his brother's recommendation of his parents, and Isaac sees his daddy coming off the train.

Mrs. Ahrens is preparing for her trip to the Maldives by trying out her XXL diving suit when she collides with the gay couple living on the same floor for an improvised Xmas Eve gathering starring a special guest, the famed singer Boris.

Short educational film about television