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A tragicomedy set in wartime Germany. The protagonist is 16-year-old Bruno, who is considered by everyone to be an uneducated goofus. But he hates the people who mock him so much that he starts to eliminate them with precisely aimed missiles. What the Third Reich's most respected scientists can't decipher, he has intuitively cracked...
A jetliner spans the miles, sheering through clouds to open sky and scenic vistas of the provinces below. Glimpses of town and country, of people of many ethnic origins, of a resourceful and industrious nation - impressions it would take days and weeks to gather at first hand - are brought to you in this vivid 1800-kilometer panorama.
Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get ideas for how to get a scoop for the magazine "Tit og Lyt". They agree to play husband and wife so that Bastian can get an apartment. Lene is deeply in love with Bastian why she gets their mutual friend Soren to send a man from the housing authority. He says that they most have one child to stay in the apartment.
The film features a meeting led by Dave Taylor, the shelter manager, discussing the protocols and responsibilities for staff members involved in managing a public shelter. Key participants, including operations deputy Harvey Johnson and health leader Mrs. Carter, outline their roles in ensuring a smooth entry for occupants during an emergency. The meeting emphasizes the importance of organization, communication, and the distribution of supplies. Staff members are encouraged to familiarize themselves with each other's duties and prepare for potential scenarios, including managing newcomers and ensuring safety and sanitation within the shelter.
Illibatezza ("Chastity") by Roberto Rossellini is a story of a beautiful stewardess who attracts unwanted attention from one of the air travelers – a middle aged American. By chance, the two stay in the same hotel overnight...
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Grace Ting Ning.
Paavo and Eeva, two young people who have moved from the countryside to the city, meet a gang led by Kalle, who spend their time loitering and committing petty crimes. A fateful evening on a motorboat irrevocably changes the young people's lives.
A Taiwanese language film
A poetic documentary observation of everyday life in a Latvian fishing village, where centuries-old traditions and wind-hardened men and women live alongside the optimism of new construction and the smiling faces of the new generation.
Rick is pledging a snooty fraternity at college. He feels out of place because he's a poor kid from the wrong side of town and picks up extra money by fighting in the ring. He doesn't want his potential fraternity brothers to find out about his background or how he makes his money. Trouble arises when the rich, spoiled girlfriend of one of his fraternity "bros" comes on to him.
A Tamil version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
A social drama about relationships in the family of the chairman of the Tajik collective farm, Mukhammedzhan Kurbanov: the sons Zafar and Kurban stand on different positions in life. The eldest son wants stability and silence, but the father says there will be no silence, progress does not stand still. Collective farmers in neighboring areas do not fulfill the norm due to lack of water. Young activists develop a plan to irrigate dry land with electric pumps to raise water up the mountains.
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.
Adventure film about two sisters looking revenge against the man who murdered their father.
Wise began experimenting with animation and live-action film at the age of seven, under the tutelage of several artists and experimental filmmakers, including Len Lye, Francis Lee, and Stan VanDerBeek. Wise created dozens of brief animations using cut-outs, scratch-on-film techniques, as well as conventional cel animation. In 1963, at the age of eight, Wise released a compilation of his experiments, titled "Short Circuit". Distributed by the Filmmakers' Cooperative, "Short Circuit" was shown throughout the world, won several awards, and was the U.S. entry in the "Child & the World" festival in Czechoslovakia. Writing in the Village Voice, filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas called Wise "the Mozart of Cinema."
The adventures of a very beautiful young Cretan, who because of the beauty of the suffering of all women who want to conquer.
YMS 504 was one of the best light war vessels of South Korean navy at the time of the Korean War (1950-1953). When the war breaks out, the ship ventures over the enemy's line and blows up an enemy fortress. And on its way back, it also sinks a boat of the enemy.
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
A prince take decision to leave the palace and begin his journey with his friend, disguise as merchants, in order to know his people better.
TV movie based on the essay by M. Gorky "VI Lenin". In the winter evening of 1920 VI Lenin (Boris Smirnov) met at the apartment of E.P.Peshkova with A.M.Gorky. In the "burzhuika" smoking raw wood. It's cold. And the two thinkers have a heartfelt conversation about the future of Russia. Lenin seems to continue his argument with H.G. Wells. He talks about the role of the artist in the life of society, about his place in the struggle for the future. Gorky is visited by pianist Isaiah Dobrovein. Lenin listens to his performance of Chopin, and then Beethoven's "Appassionata"; he is captivated by the power of Beethoven's genius. An automobile rushes through the night Moscow. Lenin is in the car. Beethoven's music is sounding. On the screen is the Kremlin. The banner of the revolution is splashing over the building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Erol is a former convict who has been released on parole. After leaving prison, he takes on the role of a taxi driver to avoid attracting attention. Nevin is the daughter of İhsan, the prosecutor who sent Erol to prison. Nevin, who is studying psychology, is researching the changes that occur in the lives of ex-convicts at university. In this context, she begins to study Erol's life. Their relationship eventually turns into love. While Erol struggles between his love for Nevin and his hatred for her father, he calculates how to get out of the situation in the most profitable way.
When Maharaja Ajay Singh goes missing, his right hand man Sher Singh takes over the kingdom and makes a claim on the princess. The princess flees and is taken in by a muscular cave dweller named Raja. Together they find that the maharaja is being held prisoner by a demon in the magic cave.
The head of a fashion school spots a girl on television with exactly the angelic face he needs for one of his pictures. He has no idea that she's his student.
As a architectural expert discusses how design and function is of the essence in his craft Russ sees in his mind a a woman getting fitted for a bra using all the same design factors as building a skyscraper.
An unorganized and spoiled guy, Telis Partalis, who is only cut off for his amusement, is squandering all of his father's possessions in feasts and cartogangers. His sister, Ellie, a tasty girl and a serious lawyer, as well as Julie's rich aunt, do their utmost to avert this situation but telis is not at all aware of his own misery. His aunt is forcing him to get engaged to the wealthy Nana, who in turn is a fanatic of the spree and has the ability to bail him out of debt. They once realize that Telis has fallen to the clutches of the deft who, led by the impostor Stelios, want to take away even the factory he has inherited. Then they all buckle together, even his sister and Nana, so they take down the bad guys. The factory survives, the hero's mind is somewhat "coagulates" and the love that arises between dues and nanas seals the happy ending.
A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.
The underside of Mexico City: street performers, factory workers, a drunk, an old man with civic pride, a pickpocket, and others live and interact in a shantytown near the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
Charlie Beary, furiously plowing through a mountain of bills, vows that he's going to cut expenses.
Casper must foil the plans of an evil scientist who is trying to block the light of the sun from reaching Earth.
Film starring Nishi Kohli and Paidi Jairaj.
A physically disabled lady is alone in her apartment one evening and has just accidentally overheard a conversation about a planned murder...
An animated film of children’s paintings that evokes the syncretistic sensibility of childhood and is a curious dialogue between this and a surrealist sensibility... The children’s drawings, which have powerful art brut qualities, were supplied by a friend, the printmaker Udo Sellbach, who was teaching art at St. Peter’s College in Adelaide, and Marek combined them with his own artwork, chiefly the backgrounds.
From the obscure TV series Out Of The Inkwell, syndicated in the early '60s, featuring new cartoons with classic Max Fleischer characters. In Mean Moe Tells William Tell, Mean Moe eats William Tell's apple.
The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has not come home for fifteen years. Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to be let into the office. Ekdal was an army officer and partner to Werle until a forestry scandal sent him to prison over some scandal. He now works as one of Werle's copyists.
An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge
The film is based on a novel by Parappurath and portrays the trials the Indo-China war.
Anne dreamed of meeting Alfred Hitchcock during his visit to Switzerland, but the famous director has already left. Her fiancé, Jean, is completely broke. The young couple then resorts to a scam to pay for their vacation. Anne drops her worthless necklace at the feet of Monsieur Georges, who accidentally steps on it. To make amends, Georges invites her to his room. Anne receives a diamond necklace, but Georges becomes too pushy, and Anne ends up fleeing with the piece of jewelry…Georges then gives chase to Jean and Anne's 2 CV. The two fiancés decide to meet up in Lucerne and split up. Anne gets a lift from Bob, a Dutchman driving a sports car. She tells him that Georges, who is still pursuing her, is a human trafficker. Bob offers to drop Anne off in Rotterdam…
"The Silken Ladder" - Dormont is the teacher and guardian of the beautiful Giulia, and he is determined that she will marry Blansac despite her continual rejection of his advances. The fact is that Giulia is already married to Blansac's friend Dorvil, who every night is able to exercise his conjugal rights because Giulia lowers a ladder made of silk down to him from her bedroom window.
Pablo, a renowned writer, womanizer and in his forties meets Paula, a young and beautiful admirer of his work. He falls in love with her and proposes her marriage.
A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac.
A plane lands one day at Nairobi Airport in Kenya, and among the passengers is a young Danish girl, Eva Axelson, who immediately takes a carriage to the famous Hotel Norfolk. Her arrival causes no stir, but an advertisement she placed in the East African Standard three or four days earlier does—an advertisement in which she asks for information about her father, Carl Gustav Axelson, who was last seen in Kenya, and asks him or anyone who knows him to contact her at the Norfolk Hotel.
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an ample profit. Amongst them, a recently widowed father struggles to overcome the pain of his wife’s death, whilst juggling the fresh financial pressures of raising two motherless children.
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.
Having started his working life at one of the large factories, the protagonist finds himself under the influence of criminals. Realizing this in time and receiving support from his colleagues, Alexei breaks ties with the gang and engages in a fierce and uncompromising struggle against them.
A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
Beatle, Zero and Sergeant Snorkle are assigned to deliver a statue of a famous Civil War general astride his horse for Camp Swamp's courtyard. After picking up the piece from the sculptor, the boys manage to break it. Fearful of the consequences, Sergeant Snorkle disguises himself as the long-dead General while Beetle and Zero masquerade as the horse. As usual, the deception is soon discovered. Meanwhile, To bring Camp Swampy to the attention of The Pentagon, Gen. Halftrack decides to put a man on the moon. And Beetle Bailey is chosen to volunteer.