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Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, England.

The hotel becomes a temporary shelter for different people facing different situations.

Manolo (Fernando Esteso) is a porn actor who no longer has any attraction towards women, having become "a decent man". But, of course, there is a horny doctor, who happens to be a fan of this actor, that will do everything to help him, even trying to turn him on with his own wife.

Antonio Castro, Sinatra, is a fighter of life working in an old cabaret in Barcelona imitating Frank Sinatra, accompanied in his show by Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich and Lola Flores. But one day, the sky dresses in gray for him; his wife, who works as a waitress in the same place, decides to leave him.

2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolboy models his life on the rock 'n' roll star whose music and untimely death affected the lives of a generation.

Animated short using plasticine models, about the adventures of an English major who leaves his ancestral home to explore the African jungle, where he discovers the elixir of life. No dialogue or commentary. Made when the filmmaker was 15 years old.

Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII. He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies. But everything changes after the appearance of a traveling showman in the xenophobic village.

Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into society. But Gor can't help being what he is, and tragedy and revelations are the ultimate result.

Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector Hugh Munro. The story concerns a slowly dying ten-year-old boy named Conradin, who lives with his strict cousin and guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. Conradin rebels against her and invents a new religion for himself, which centres on idolising a polecat-ferret he calls Sredni Vashtar; a vengeful, merciless god. The film won the BAFTA award for Best Short Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...

To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.

TV broadcast of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera from L'Opera de Paris 1985.

A celebration of Coventry's history & rich industrial heritage.

In The Road to Terror, revolutionaries tell how their dream descended into a nightmare of terror and execution. They speak as exiles in Paris, a city that is preparing to celebrate the glories of the first mass revolution of 1978. Behind its strange images, the struggle for power in the Iranian revolution has followed a pattern uncannily similar to many of the great revolutions of the past: just as 200 years ago in France, the Iranian revolution has gone down the old road from liberation to repression, the road to terror.

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as it happened, I was born in Argentina, my mothertongue is Spanish. I came to Germany 17 years ago." It is here, where author and director Jeanine Meerapfel starts searching for her own Jewish identity, being confronted time and time again with Federal Republic reality.

Legendary opera singer Maria Callas had an extraordinary career, colored as much by supreme success as it was by terrible heartache. Yet despite her tumultuous private life, Callas's powerful soprano voice rarely faltered. Narrated by Rosalie Crutchley, this well-rounded documentary features extensive interviews and numerous performances, including the diva's final concert in Tokyo and a rare recording taken a class at the Julliard School.

The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.

Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, the Hawaiians, who wear garlands and drink Pina Coladas.

Pak tam duda is a small time businessman who lives in a village. He supplies furniture to a middleman in the city. He is known as Pak Tam Duda because he is a widower in his 40’s. He befriends a bright little boy who becomes his assistant at the workplace. One day, while sending some furniture to the city, he falls in love with a flirtatious woman who works at a furniture shop. Since he is so easily charmed, she decides to cheat him of his money. The honest Pak Tam Duda, however, manages to save himself from being exploited.

David flies from Tel Aviv to Munich to study. Through a gay friend he meets Thea, the older quirky landlady of a gay pub. He becomes friends with Thea. She recognizes through a ring David wears that he is her grandson.

A struggling composer named Juan and his bride Ana become targets of spies while on their honeymoon. The spies want to get their hands on Juan’s latest score “Butterfly 2” as they believe that it contains a valuable secret formula.

The Cure perform live at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow on 25th August 1984. Main Set: Shake Dog Shake, Primary, The Walk, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, A Forest, Piggy In The Mirror, Happy The Man, Play For Today, The Caterpillar. Encore: 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Innocence of the young.

Based on real events in Peru, 1963. A team of revolutionary foreigners planned and pulled a heist on the biggest bank in Peru. The loot helped fund the rural revolution in Concepción, Cusco.

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.

Two New York women, Kristin and Doreen, live a black and white life, but in color of Gene Tierney, a star of 40’ Hollywood melodrama, while listening to the old songs of Marilyn Monroe. They go from one extreme to the other (from dream to reality, from day to night, from black and white to color), and so travel symbolically through this timelessness. Kristin disappears and Doreen is lost is the big city. Her meetings with Marcel, a filmmaker, then David, a sculptor, accomplish nothing, and she is destroyed by daylight. But her Memory of Gene Tierney triumphs over night and death, and Cinema can continue.

Amancio is an entrepreneur who needs a son to inherit the shares of the Company to continue controlling the business. But it has a small problem, can not have children. One day, Amancio learns that the farm has on the field there is a gardener who has terrorized the inhabitants of a nearby town, for their ability to conquer women. So he decides to take his wife to the farm in order to stay in a state of good hope.

The Sun rises and greets Clea, a sleeping beauty, a goddess, the spirit of the earth, but she is frightened and flees, pursued by the mighty star, infatuated with her.

With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out by robbing a post office and ends up trying to run over Aurore's boyfriend, an act which finally gets him into serious trouble.

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

Rapine and blood-feuds in rural Mexico.

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect a masterful rendition of this rarely-performed opera involving spectacular scenes of alternating light and dark, pageantry and intimacy. Staged and recorded at Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Bologna, Italy.

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Short report on the making of Paul Schrader's film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, aired as part of the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985.

Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.

The edgy, quirky, nearly disposable life of marginal Berliners. Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin.

a man is made redundant by computers taking over his job

The young toolmaker Gerd Asselt knows how to exploit his acquaintance with the influential Albrecht Maybach for a breathtaking career: With pumped money, he takes over companies in need of reorganization and quickly racks up an entire business empire. But pride comes before a fall...

Clotilde meets Richard whom she has not seen for a few years and who has been through a divorce. He is taking his two sons to Italy. He suggeests she join them with her own son in a house they have taken by the sea. Both this reunion and the holiday prove a disappointment,

"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus [...] On this occasion, we created a production company whose name was inspired by the comic book of Jean-Claude Forest, Mystérieuse Matin Midi et Soir." - Minh

Adapted from Luc Dietrich's touching autobiographical novel, this TV film chronicles the troubled childhood of a boy born at the beginning of the 20th century. Confronted with a drug-addicted mother figure, Luc embarks on a journey of initiation torn between heartbreak and disillusionment, but also innocent mischief and first loves.

The noble Madame de la Lommerane lives her life with pleasure and sophistication, naturally according to her social rules. Her partner, the Marquis d'Arcis, does not play along with her game—he has his own ideas about life. To counteract the somewhat tired relationship, she plays along, pretending that her infatuation has faded...

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working in Europe. With this newly restored print there is also a possibility to discover the relationship between Rousseau's art of filming and Jan Vermeer's famous painting. As Prosper Hillairet wrote in 1988, four years after Rousseau had finished Jeune femme ... (for the first time as we know today): «Without adopting the usual systematic spirit and form of cinéma structurel, Rousseau presents us with simple images and leaves it at that. Keeps the image in hand. A minimalist and ascetic expression of cinema: a shot that lasts.»

A man discovers an island covered in treasure. But when he attempts to fully explore island and collect the treasure, he ends up discovering some mysterious nymphs who seduce him.

Reel 28 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.