The day after the last performance of the ballet Cinderella. The author alone in the empty theater. Then the show from yesterday evening unfolds.
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The day after the last performance of the ballet Cinderella. The author alone in the empty theater. Then the show from yesterday evening unfolds.
The heroic epic of Turkish youth against Greek gangs in Cyprus.
This fascinating 60s tour catches London's South Bank in the middle of a cultural metamorphosis.
Reportage sur Orly (Reporting on Orly ) is a short film directed and written by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in 1964. It is a documentary and its existence is attested on other film platforms, such as IMDB (tt0208401) and on written works on film, such as The Encyclopedia of Film (James Monaco, James Pallot, 1991, p. 225), Contemporary Theater, Film and Television (Gale Research Staff, Linda S. Hubbard, Sara J. Steen 1989, p. 155) and Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film (Maryel Locke, Charles Warren, 1993, p. 127). It is not known to have been publicly displayed and may have been lost.
Egon Brümmer and his half-strong "boys" are an integral part of the Borkenheide Musical Club. When the manager of the clubhouse forbids them to rehearse in his rooms, Egon and his friend Paul react by hitting on the visitors to a nearby Christmas party. Both are sentenced to six months in prison without parole for assault. When Egon gets out of prison, he wants to leave his old life behind him. He tries to avoid the boys, but they don't understand his change of heart. He starts working as an unskilled laborer on a building site, just as he did before he went to prison. At a graduation ball, Egon meets Christine Lange, who wants to study medicine. Her friends call her the "eighth wonder of the world" because it would be a miracle if she were to fall in love. Egon pretends to be a construction specialist and the two dance together.
Madhuri cannot bear a child yet her husband Shatadal is fond of children. They decide to part ways but years later when they meet in a railway station they realize their fondness for each other hasn't died.
To save her husband and child from drowning a woman seeks help in a village nearby.
In this short fiction film, Marie has been living in the midst of a nightmare since the accident of Bernard, her brother. Clinging excessively to this handicapped being, she wants to take charge of it. Étienne, her fiancé, has no taste for sacrifice. He reproaches Marie for languishing in her adolescence. Love will prevail. In a definitive gesture, Marie will free herself from the bonds that still held her back to her childhood.
A young couple becomes entangled with a younger woman, resulting in tragic consequences.
A popular science film about the exploration of one of the planets of the solar system - Mars.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a social reformer, stands against the evil customs of the society. Soon, he starts a battle to abolish 'Sati Pratha' in the Hindu communities.
A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
The workshop of painting, modeling and sculpture for children under fifteen, at the Museum of Decorative Arts, rue de Rivoli (1st arrondissement). Pierre Belvès, creator of the workshop, animates the work of the children. A report from the magazine "Chroniques de France", produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for dissemination abroad.
In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.
A young shepherd abandons his family's traditional way of life, as well as his young love, when he succumbs to the allure of urban living.
A melodrama that recounts the extremely difficult conditions under which a couple tries to live and find happiness. However, their quest for happiness turns into a harsh struggle for survival.
The film tells the difficult love-story between Bobby Tonner, an American singer who came to Naples to meet his old music professor, and the charming daughter of the same professor.
Point of Order is compiled from TV footage of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, in which the Army accused Senator McCarthy of improperly pressuring the Army for special privileges for Private David Schine, formerly of McCarthy's investigative staff. McCarthy accused the Army of holding Schine hostage to keep him from searching for Communists in the Army. These hearings resulted in McCarthy's eventual censure for conduct unbecoming a senator.
Akis abandons Mary, the poor girl he loves, without knowing that she is expecting his child. When her father learns that his daughter is going to give birth to an illegitimate child, he kicks her out of the house.
After a fight with her father on who her future husband should be, Nalina leaves home on the first night of Navaratri. For the next nine days, she experiences nine types of human behaviour.
A young man Bakhtiyar falls in love with a girl he saw on the TV screen.
F.B.I. agents David Blair and Thelma Avery are assigned to search for Professor Weiss, who had mysteriously disappeared after discovering an antidote for atomic radiation.
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
The original TV production of the fairy tale by M. Rázusová-Martáková.
Professor Hermes conducts a research on fear, for which he passes contract with a patient to live a supposedly empty mansion. He's counting on his assistant Chico Mota to play a phantom, but soon comes about that there are phantoms (plural) in there.
A drama depicting a girl's suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
"Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock speaks candidly in this one-on-one interview with director and host Fletcher Markle, filmed in 1964 for the television documentary series "Telescope." During the discussion, Hitchcock talks about his early career as a silent-film editor, offers his take on the building blocks of his works and relates his theories on the impact of horror films on society and human behavior.
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
Two shades of paint are pitted against each other in a bullfight that spills self-reflexively from the page into the animator’s studio
Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.
Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.
Three retired soldiers - veterans who wander the world - receive magical gifts from elves - a bottomless bag of gold coins, a hat for any wish, and a harp for conjuring giants. The soldiers, thus gifted, set off for a kingdom that is a bit strange. King Pikola lives there with his daughter Bosana, with whom Bimbác falls in love. Bosana is not only beautiful, but also treacherous and gradually deprives the soldiers of all their gifts and has them banished...
Subho O Debotar Gras was a film in 2 parts- one was the story of the deaf-mute Shubha who features in a short story by Rabindranath Tagore & the second part was based on the poem titled "Debotar Gras", in which Tagore describes the frantic desire of a dip in holy waters during the Ganga Sagar pilgrimage as well as the selfishness of the pilgrims.
Codeine has been stolen from Philippe Calaro's pharmaceutical laboratory. The police are investigating and ask the young chemical engineer to remain at their disposal, as one of his direct employees is under suspicion. On his way home from an evening out with a friend, whom the case has forced him not to accompany on a trip, he discovers the corpse of an unknown man in the boot of his car. Distraught, and without thinking about his imprudence, he disposes of the cumbersome and inert passenger in the woods of St-Cloud. After the departure of his girlfriend's plane to Orly, he is accosted by a young girl who tells him she knows the dead man from the previous evening, and begs him to join her on the Air France bus, to disguise the fact that he is being followed.
An experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.
Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to go to Africa.
A wealthy couple of Greek-Americans arrive in Greece with their three daughters, who meet three young men- pretending to be rich- and fall in love with them.
In the first action he filmed, 6/64 Mama und Papa, Kren’s editing leads to many interlocking continuous shots; central takes recur like a leitmotif, circular motion and networking can be observed throughout the film. Kren painstakingly weaves the fury in front of his camera lens into dense geometrical figures. Shot/countershot sequences alternate, lumping back and forth between single (!) frames, they turn the Actionist turmoil into ornaments, rigid geometrical patterns, the equivalent in time to what Mondrian used to distill on canvas in space. (Peter Tscherkassky)
The artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from his first explorations and settlement to his death in 1635. This is an edited version of his 28 minute short documentary on Champlain.
Ramudu and Bheemudu are look-alikes who are both fed up of their respective lives. They incidentally end up taking each other's place in their homes, which leads to hilarious consequences.
An investigation of the business side of the music industry which includes a live performance of the Rolling Stones in concert and interviews with pop stars.
This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a view of Cuba as a picturesque country, the product of an earthy mix of black and criollo cultures. The film uses historical images which portray the end of the eighteenth century when Haitian slave owners fled with their slaves to Cuba after the Haitian Revolution.
During the Agrarian Revolution, the Red Army passed through the Liuyang River area, and the rich man fled to the city in fright. The fat and thin rich brothers were afraid that the villagers would catch up, so after crossing the river, they burned the bridge on the Liuyang River. After the Red Army entered the village, they helped the villagers build a new bridge. In order to thank the Red Army, the villagers erected a sign on the new bridge with three characters "Red Army Bridge" engraved on it.
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Sonny Rollins and others sparked the change from traditional Jazz to “Bebop” in mid-1940s America. The film includes rare images of Gillespie playing on his famous bent horn and talking about his beginnings, as well as his theories about music.
Mexican singer responds to ham radio operators' invitation to come to Peru and perform a benefit for a children's hospital.
The story of the ruthless female boss of a hacienda who meets her match in the city-educated Santos Luzardo.