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A couple of unemployed slackers find a millionaire, who according to several newspaper advertisements has gone missing. They decide to use him in a grand scheme to get hold of his fortune, but things go horribly wrong.
A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of two children, a blind girl and a badly scared boy, who are rescued and looked after by a vagabond.
A man saved from death by God and told how God help others.
In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?
1971 documentary short that surveys African American arts and culture, drawing inspiration from the “Black Is Beautiful” movement. Restored by Pittsburgh Sound + Image.
The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.
Hoffi is starting fresh after his release from prison. He travels with his brother to different construction sites in search of Urban, an acquaintance and role model he met during a brief hospital stay. Along the way, Hoffi meets Gila, who sees beyond his past in prison. Despite disapproval from her family, Gila decides to build a relationship and future with Hoffi, but Hoffi initially hesitates at this responsibility. It takes the encouragement of his workers’ brigade for Hoffi to realize his mistake and give his relationship with Gila a chance.
In 1947, among the ruins of war and in anticipation of a catastrophic flood, the locals of a Vojvodina village find themselves caught between the devastation of their livelihoods and the demands of the new Communist authorities.
Sergeant Gidi Tsur (Topol) serves in the reserve in the Suez Canal. He goes on vacation and is supposed to meet with his wife to get divorced in the Rabbinate. Meanwhile, he spends his time in the company of other women.
After a big toad takes over Toro and Pancho's pond, they decided to move to an even bigger pond. However, they have to dodge Crazylegs Crane and a big fish, who both has an appetite for frogs.
The means used by foreign spy services to obtain the trade secret of a French invention.
An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
The well-endowed Gigolo Johnny gets a lucrative offer: He shall receive 100.000 DM for a penis transplantation.
A German race car driver in a yellow love bug named Dudu teams up with a Scottish driver in a hovercraft to win a race in the African desert.
Jayanti takes up a job of a governess in the Roy family. Sanjoy Roy, the uncle of the five kids, is an arrogant man. Soon, Jayanti wins the kids' hearts and Sanjoy's respect.
Ippei was born at the cost of his mother's life. This fact haunts him, he felt a longing for Japan's ancient hot springs and embarked on a journey to find his ideal bath. The pinnacle of baths was the bathhouses with female bathers during the Keicho and Kan'ei eras. Men would drink sake with female bathers, push them down, and moan as they did so. Bathing also had an aspect of women's pursuit of beauty. Beautiful women try out various forms of bathing. Ippei's pilgrimage introduces various hot springs and engaging in sexual acts with the hot women he encounters. He experiences various bathing scenes, including Turkish baths and secretly filmed geishas bathing.
A New York artist gouges eyes out with a spoon after the same is done to him.
Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and megalomaniac. He lived a childhood in the Paris of the 1920s, upset by his love of drawing and painting thwarted by an abusive mother. Delivered to his own fantasies, the hero indulges in the most disordered introspection and will end up consuming himself to become the reincarnation of the one he is trying to copy: Hans Pauli Weyergans, painter of the 18th century.
In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, Amar, the clumsiest of thieves, and Jibé, a public writer for illiterate compatriots whose lives he knows in detail. As he betrays none of their secrets, he enjoys great prestige in the bistros where he works. The three of them lead a casual life, raising money by illicit means. It's only when Poulou and Amar leave that Jibé understands his isolation and marginalization. The images as well as the sounds help to reinforce the feeling that Paris is a city where he is both at home and a terrible stranger.
A group of Red Army scouts are trying to find a secret Hitler's headquarters in Ukraine during WWII.
Young black man joins a black nationalist group, which is betrayed by a turncoat.
1971 Indian Telugu-language drama film directed by K. S. Prakash Rao. It is an adaptation of Kavilipati Vijayalakshmi's novel Vidhi Vinyaasaalu that was serialised the same year in the newspaper Andhra Prabha. The film stars Sobhan Babu, Nagabhushanam and Jamuna.
Oliver Stone's first student film is about a man returning home from Vietnam and not being able to fit in. We see him throw away the stuff he got while serving and then he heads out to walk around NYC.
Newlyweds Jackson and Daphne are on honeymoon when they find themselves in the same hotel as Jackson's old headmaster.
Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away the summer much like they did this past summer. Mike is being pressured by his parents to go to university following graduation from high school, although Mike himself is unsure if that's what he wants to do. Other ideas they discuss are to tour with their band, Arctic Madness, or to start a commune on a five hundred acre parcel of wilderness property outside of Timmins that was deeded to Mike. As the end of the school year approaches and these successive ideas come and fall by the wayside, the four come to a realization of what their future together holds
The Serbian province of Vojvodina is home to a multi-ethnic population of Serbs, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Romanians, and Roma. The different groups seem to coexist cheerfully and peacefully, full of respect for each other’s customs, songs and religions. But the filmmaker’s ironical gaze discovers cracks in a facade that has long been less harmonious than it seems…
A story in which the author mocks the Slovak petty bourgeoisie and denounces the denationalization of the gentry in the nineteenth century. Some problems such as patronage, bribery, and imitation of foreign models sound surprisingly simultaneous.
Igor has a good job as an advertising manager, a nice house, his wife Hanna, and a mistress. He has invited Christine, the mistress, over to his house while his wife is away.
The clever but poor farmer Klaus infuriates the rich big Klaus with his mischief. But little Klaus always manages to get out of the most difficult situations and emerge victorious in the end. But one day, big Klaus has a fit and wants to drown little Klaus. Now he once again has to rely on his intuition and his wit ...
This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally evacuating the building. Or so they think. They missed Gertie Gertel, who was in the bathroom at the time. By the time she is discovered, they are sufficiently besieged that for her own safety, she must stay with them. Gertie, it turns out, is about as pro-British as it is possible to be, and the seven take it on themselves, in the midst of battles and gunfights, to win her over to their cause.
One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village approaches the threshold of adolescence, and begins to discover both the world and herself. - Anthology Film Archive
The Mighty Heroes are called into action in order to prevent "The Super Cooler" from freezing the town of Goodhaven.
Dmitry Ivanovich Kurochkin receives a vacation trip to Crimea and sets off with his wife. But before leaving, he makes a list of 32 possible emergencies that could happen to their apartment. Even while on holiday, he can’t relax — his thoughts are all about home and the lightning rod he might have forgotten.
A biographic movie about famous Azerbajiani baritone operatic pop singer Muslim Magomayev.
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
Three early twenties guys in Acapulco competing for women... they end up marooned on a desert island together...
A short film based on a real case that describes the behavior of a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder confined to his home.
Equal parts dramatic film, investigative report, and sociological experiment, this feature-length picture is above all a community undertaking. Made in collaboration with a group of residents of Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada, the film speaks not just to the community it concerns, but equally to those people who wish to recognize the ever-increasing importance of their social reality.
The story of four Lakeland walkers who attempt to climb a fell. The fells represent the highlight of their year. They all have dull and uninteresting jobs and their only chance of relieving the boredom is in the fells After five years of weekends together they had never managed to reach the top of the Horseshoe, but were always defeated by something trivial. By the sixth year their combined failure to get to the summit took on the proportions of a tragedy especially they all saw it matching the situation in their everyday lives. Filmed on location
Peter is a widower who writes crime novels, signing as Peter P. Peter, and is about to marry Beatriz (Analia Gade), a widow who proves to be a ruthless woman who makes his life miserable. As an expert in inventing crimes committed by his characters, he imagines a plan to get rid of his new wife. The trouble is that she also plans to kill him.
Sri Krishna Rukmini Satyabhama is a 1971 Kannada-language Hindu mythological film written and directed by K. S. L. Swamy under his home banner Raghunandan movies. The film stars Rajkumar, B. Saroja Devi, Aarathi and Bharathi. The music was composed by R. Sudarshanam.
A therapist, Dr. Voxuber, runs a mysterious "health resort" on the California coast. Out of 50 applicants, he picks eight people, from all walks of life, to put them through a series of rituals and exercises in order to make them aware of their bodies in a way they never were before.
Blond German model Cindy arrives in Los Angeles from Germany to try her hand at becoming a Hollywood actress. She is welcomed by her close friend Joyce who is a successful call girl. Joyce puts Cindy up in her apartment and soon Cindy finds out how difficult it is to start a Hollywood career. Despite submitting herself to casting couch hanky panky, Cindy is unable to land a starring role in any Hollywood movie. However, Cindy's sojourn in Hollywood is not all that gloomy when she meets the love of her life at a birthday party.
A film about the Indian government's atrocities in the Indian occupied valley of Kashmir, and the Kashmiri struggle for independence.
The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Teruo Tanashita, Mari Atsumi plays a pickpocket trying to get hold of a valuable but elusive diamond brooch called "Star".
A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.
Mortadelo (Mort) and Filemón (Phil) are visited by Professor Chiflágoras, Filemón's crazy cousin, who has invented a time travel machine in the shape of a closet. (Seven animated shorts with a common narrative: The Time Closet; In Waterloo; The Yeti; Incredible Mission; The Impostors; Count Macula; Maxi-adventure at Sea.)
Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Four girlfriends each one suffers from a problem: one is a Kleptomaniac, another is obsessed with fame and the other two are so emotionally deprived that they have started to hate men. The four of them fall in the hands of three young men who are crippled by self-hatred.
An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
During French colonization, a young Algerian boy is expelled from the French high school where he is able to study thanks to his father's position in the village. For his father, whose dream is to see his son climb the social ladder, this is a disaster, and the young man decides to go to work in the mines. A general strike that is severely repressed makes him aware of the class struggle, and he joins the resistance against discrimination and colonial oppression.