Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

The adaptation of notable work by Slovenian writer France Bevk about catholic priest who maintains national dignity among his villagers, and doesn't fall under fascists' influence during Italian occupation of the area.

A small town in the first year of the war. A story about young seamstress, a student, a traitor and two Czech artists, their joining the partisans. All of them die and girl stays alone. She's looking for a bicycle bell that is gone...

hong kong film

Initially titled "Books for all". A moving institutional commission in which the filmmakers lovingly portray New Jersey's public library system.

An actress is kidnapped and tortured.

A chain-smoking woman has an encounter with a vampire.

Murder mystery in a boarding house based on a Wilkie Collins story.

Older adults cannot believe the things younger people do, but they probably have forgotten they were the same way when they were younger.

Caught between two entirely different women, an artist finds himself in conflict between the spiritual and the sensual, and at the same time lost creatively in the cultural clash between East and West. Based on Ho Fan’s 1966 experimental short Assignment, Part One, Lost depicts the artistic and carnal obsession of the modern creative mind. A departure from mainstream Cantonese and Mandarin films with European and Japanese new wave influences, it is shot with the colours of the 1960s and Lishan, Taiwan as backdrop. Sun Po-ling, an artist in her own right, co-directed and invested in the film, acting also as producer and make-up artist. She took the film to premiere in Cannes in 1970 and then screened it in Germany and the United States, while her ambition to release it locally in the foreign films theatre circuits did not materialise. Lost for half a century, this pioneering independent feature in the 1960s resurfaced in a print found in Taiwan by Reel to Reel Institute (Hong Kong).

A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction

Story of a business man who is falling love with his relative girl and violinists man who has great love for this girl.

We follow Ronsard to the Loire Valley, listening to him evoke his loves through odes and sonnets. Thus, Cassandre, Marie d'Angevine, Hélène de Surgères come back to life for a few moments for us. This evocation does not forget the friendship between Ronsard and another great poet of the 16th century, also born on the banks of the Loire, Joachim du Bellay. It takes us to the castles of Blois and Taley, to the manor of La Denysière, to Couture, Ronsard's birthplace, and to the priory of Saint-Cosme-les-Tours, where the poet died.

The taxi driver, whose job is to guide tourists, becomes infatuated with a wealthy girl whose uncle is trying to marry her off to a rich man before she reaches legal age...

A television film based on a novella "Zhanobená krv" ("Dishonored Blood") by František Švantner.

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was never produced.

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.

Jimmy West abandons his own boxing career to manage Johnny Carlos, a promising fighter who hates boxing. Jimmy fails at his new profession, and as a result of his disappointment with a woman, he turns to homosexual love.

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

An armed robbery with murder was committed in the downtown of Zagreb. That event will have significant consequences on the unusual relationship between a distinguished politician and a young bon vivant, who is connected to a robbed company.

Hmone is a singer and dancer with one of the best known Burmese travelling theatres. One of the leading cast members is the pianist and composer Myint Thu. He has composed the song 'Hmone Shwe Yee' for Hmone which makes her a famous star. The song, praising the beauty and fragrance of the flower 'Hmone Shwe Yee', is a hidden declaration of love, but in 'real' life Myint Thu behaves with rather more reservation, strictness and coldness. He is a man incapable of showing his feelings. The mutual attraction is never admitted openly, and his love for Hmone becomes a real problem when a new admirer shows up. Ye Aung, an officer and Myint Thu's old school friend, falls in love with Hmone when he first sees her on stage.

Lisa, a widow on vacation with her son, meets Alessandro and falls in love. The man is actually a former agent of the communist Germany who escaped from Berlin and is pursued by some former colleagues.

Hong Kong film directed by Chan Wan.

Ekrem is attacked by unknown assailants. When he wakes up in a hospital room, he realizes he can't remember anything. Fearing that his attackers will return, he escapes from the hospital. The only way he can survive is to regain his memory. As Ekrem discovers his past, he finds himself caught up in a web of international intrigue.

A poor college student becomes a homosexual millionaire's lover in order to get ahead in life. The latter marries a woman for convenience, and the newlyweds end up sharing the young man.

Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen but soon realises that she is the daughter of an industrialist. Does Kitsos, the hippie in sandals, stand a chance of winning her heart?

A man who meets with his lover in a hostel is caught in the act by his mother-in-law, who alerts his wife and lawyer.

16mm, color, 3 min. Dir. Donna Deitch.

Taking the form of a travel diary of a television journalist, this documentary tells about the life and work of the people of Yakutia: pilots, artists, drivers, and reindeer herders.

The hard work plays an important role in the personal growth of a runner.

A nymphomaniac recounts her memories of taboo sex.

Sexuality without pretence gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica.

The two main characters of this ironic account of the general condition of intellectuals are the charming psychologist, Korin György, and the unexpected. Korin starts a television series of people in their 40s. In the afternoon just after the first section, however, he is reported to be dead as a result of a rather strange accident. Everything turns upside down.

Erotic entanglements at a summer boarding house. Three young men are all infatuated with the girl Klara, but then another girl, Jenny, shows up.

Pink film directed by Yûsei Takeda.

A young woman recounts her transformation, involving her parents, brother, sister-in-law, classmate, professor, and cycle waala who was in love with her.

The life of a man who discovers two hearts changes abruptly when a group of criminals tries to seize one of them to transplant it to a Mafia Boss who has heart problems.

A short film designed to introduce the youth of America to the joys of Amateur Radio.

An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.

After famous pirate Jeffrey Brook frees himself from captivity, he lands with on a Caribbean island. A lot of gold is said to be stored there. In order to get to the treasure, Brook accepts an offer from the British officer Jackson.

Gummadi leaves his young son, Raja, and daughter, Shanti, to fend for themselves after the death of his wife. Raja takes care of his little sister while vowing to find his father.

Bricks and mortar makes way for concrete and reinforced steel as Wolverhampton sweeps the past aside in a modernist town planning utopia.

The story of a cowboy who fights a bandit gang that is after him.

Devi is in love with Suresh, a lawyer, but is forced to marry Paranthaman, an alcoholic gambler. Devi escapes from him, and obtains work as a dancer in Hyderabad where she gives birth to a daughter named Krishna. When Vasu tries to kidnap the child, she has Suresh adopt her.

A young barber comes to the small village to open a barbershop. He gradually gets to know with the locals and farmers, makes friends with them and even tries to organize the plans, activities and schedules of the village. He also runs a parallel, intimate life with the several village girls. When the locals realize that these plans will not come true, they blame him for the failure.

The film tells the story of the love between Nevin, a poor seamstress, and Kemal, the son of a wealthy businessman. Kemal and Nevin, who love each other, are making plans to get married. However, when Kemal's family strongly opposes the relationship, Kemal leaves home and starts working at a shipyard. The couple speeds up their wedding preparations. One day, while Nevin is at a fitting for a customer, she accidentally meets Eşref, the king of nightclubs. Eşref is captivated by Nevin's voice and beauty and wants to make her a singer. However, Nevin rejects his offer. Eşref, who wants to possess Nevin, will do everything in his power to separate her from Kemal.

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.

When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of the people had returned. This is a colourful recreation of Indigenous life that faded more than two generations ago when the great totems were toppled by the missionaries and the costly potlatch was forbidden by law. The film shows how one village lived again the old glory, with singing, dancing, feasting, and the raising of a towering totem as a lasting reminder of what once was.

The life and career of the controversial comedian, Lenny Bruce.