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UCLA Student Film. Film begins with train rails intercut with a path in the woods. A man and a woman meet on a train. A man and a woman meet on the path. "You didn't know it until it happened"--woman's voice. "The memory destroys your feeling." "Those memories you recall are not yours." "You are manipulated and too bored to notice it."
The TV dramatization of PO Hviezdoslav's epic tells of a time when the feudal system as a social force begins to disappear. Its only salvation is to merge with the people. Ežo is a supporter of this idea.
Jeunet and Caro capture the story of an attempted prison escape from the Prison de la Santé in Paris. As the escape artists travels through tunnels and squeeze his way through freshly cut bars, he finds himself in an endless labyrinth underneath the confining walls of solitude.
Originally staged by the East West Players, pioneering author Wakako Yamauchi's adaptation of her award-winning play, “And the Soul Shall Dance,” for KCET’s Hollywood Television Theatre is a poetic, haunting drama that reveals the hardships Japanese Americans faced during the Great Depression. Set in California’s Imperial Valley, Yamauchi's moving work explores the lives of two farming families as they struggle to make ends meet and assimilate in a so-called land of opportunity defined by systemic racism. - Mark Quigley, UCLA Film & Television Archive
Winning the affection of classmates can sometimes be a lot of work... A new student, Jana, arrives in the seventh grade of a Prague school. She is a clear top student when it comes to the subject matter, but otherwise she is impractical, clumsy, and completely inept at physical education. That's why she gets the nickname "The Weenie" and the class distances itself from her and even persecutes her with various cruelties. František and Růžena, children of scientists who have ideal parents, try to help Jana, but when Jana reveals how she broke the window and that Růžena encouraged her to deny it, Růžena also hardens against her. In the end, however, the children understand Jana and accept her among them...
Colin Welland presents this confined spaces training video from the Health and Safety Executive, detailing the hazards of entering any confined space without the neccessary awareness, training & equipment.
When a once infamous criminal decides to give up his lifestyle and return the many treasures he has stolen to their rightful owners; he is promptly murdered by his partners in crime. To avenge his death is his son, with the deadly "mantis fist".
The story of a young man kidnapped because of inheritance.
Gantry lives with his adult daughter, Emily. He is working on a book and she is his assistant. His son, James, comes to visit. Gantry pours the sherry, then conversations start flowing, but Gantry has some unexpected news delivered to him.
Broke and homeless Australian teenagers in love.
Teenagers Sandy and Alan are keen motorcyclists, but while Sandy insists on getting proper training, Alan refuses, even though this makes him twenty times more likely to have an accident.
Early work of the celebrated director.
A satirical presentation of the public school debate, exhibiting three different teaching methods. First, the authoritarian education system of old; Second, a more modern form, combining theory and practice; and finally, the teacher's nightmare, where children are taught only the necessities for modern life: sales techniques, status symbols, and how to (quite literally) elbow your way to the top.
While trying by all means to stay out of the bloody turmoil caused by the Battle of Algiers, Hassan, an honest and naive family man, is wrongfully accused of terrorism by the French colonial army in "Hassan Terro." After escaping in "The Escape of Hassan Terro," Hassan is forced to join the resistance in "Hassan Terro in the Maquis."
In Spain, at the end of the Franco regime, students at a strict religious boarding school rebel against the repressive rules imposed by their headmaster.
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The reporter next leans off an apparition that haunts the hallways at night and seems to portend death. Flashlight in hand, she goes off in search of the "Black Nun."
A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, “Effetti speciali”. As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything.
The film is designed to instill in children a sense of respect for work and respect for nature.
A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.
Fists of Dollars & Spinach is a 1978 film directed by Emimmo Salvi. It is the first flesh-and-blood film about the adventures of Popeye, anticipating the Disney film Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman by two years
Father Harpagon is a terrible miser, for whom money is the greatest joy, it is closer to him than his own children. His son would like to marry Mariana, a girl from the neighborhood, while his daughter has fallen in love with Valéro, a young man who is Harpagon's steward. But Harpagon has decided to marry Mariana himself and choose rich counterparts for his descendants. So the servant who steals Harpagon's money box must do the young people a favor...
Having lost his license through driving under the influence of drink, Tom hires Bente, an au pair, to be his chauffeur. He readily succumbs to her charms, resulting in his wife Jacqui hiring her own male au pair, Aron.
Two part film about David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet's major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the Syunik region in the 18th century.
A dramatization of a novella by American writer Henry James. This subtle, psychologically profound story is narrated by young literary scholar Henry Jones, who, while searching for documents related to the romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern, finds himself in Venice at the end of the 19th century. Juliana Bordereau, whom Aspern sang about in his work and who owns much of his correspondence, still lives there. However, Juliana refuses to show it to Jones because these letters are the only link connecting her to life. Jones therefore decides to resort to trickery. He moves in with Juliana under a false name as a lodger and, by pretending to be in love, wins over her niece Tina, who is ultimately willing to help him. However, it soon becomes clear that such manipulation of people, even if motivated by a noble goal, does not pay off.
Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death.
Ahmed gets acquainted with Laila and relates to her, and she agrees to marry Omar without knowing that he is Ahmad's brother. Ahmed informs Laila of a wedding without knowing that he is Omar. Layla thinks he has given up on her and decides to marry Ahmed and Omar lives with them.
Originally a comic aimed at black South Africans, Mighty Man was later made into a movie, released in 1978. Mighty Man was branded as South Africa's equivalent of Super Man, fighting gangsters and drug lords. The spoken language is is Zulu and the film is presumed ‘Lost’.
An iconic Ukrainian play of the same name meets TV.
Taiwanese fantasy film from Yu Han-Hsiang, director of REVENGE OF THE SHAOLIN KID (1978), BURNING OF THE RED LOTUS MONASTERY (1982) and THE DWARF SORCERER (1974)
Mga Mata ni Angelita was written by Ricardo Feliciano and became a number one hit radio drama from 1974 to 1978. It was made into a film by Larry Santiago Productions and catapulted Julie Vega into fame.
'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not many.' Brian is enthusiastic about his new job, but Thomas has seen it all before.
Mondo style fake documentary, revolving around the antics of comedian and voyeur Domenico.
Plácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in 1978 on opera's most popular double-bill.
A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.
The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.
In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.
A pair of vicious killers stalks an acrobatic troop until confronted by the skills of Chi Bun.
In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socialist, flashbacks to Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, and glimpses of Morris stomping about Iceland.
Mina is a commercial model struggling to provide financial assistance to her ill mother when she meets the arrogant painter Dino. He offers her to be a model for his work of art which she accepted. This draw them closer to each other until Mina learns of Dino's past relationship that eventually becomes a hindrance to their budding romance.
Even though we no longer believe in supernatural beings, all sorts of hejkals, hastrmans, melodnicas and fairies, we are still interested in how they fare in fairy tales. In today's fairy tale, the fairy Rokytka fell in love with an earthly young man and who knows how their love would have turned out if it weren't for the magic hidden in what at first glance are ordinary rings from a pilgrimage.
The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel south. His wife Karin and the children will stay in the village until further notice. Nils starts working at a factory. In addition to the job, he has been promised a good residence so that the family can move to him.
Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Italian actors as Walter Chiari and Luciano Salce act in this beautiful movie.
Jeong-ae is a poor girl who lives with her aunt. Despite her financial status, she is self-confident and proud. She finds herself falling out of love with her childhood sweetheart and in love with a wealthy man. Jeong-ae decides to lie to him about her background in order to make herself more acceptable to him and his family.
Animated Soviet satire film from 1978. Demographic problem. For adults. The stork flew over the city and carried a baby in its beak. The stork brought children to different families, but each had its own reason not to have children.
Camouflaged as a political suspense documentary, Plutonium demonstrates the theft of highly enriched nuclear material from a Third World Country nuclear power plant - enough for five bombs of the Hiroshima type. Is this material now in the hands of terrorists – or in the possession of a brutal and inhuman dictatorship?
A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure.
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
A young woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences through parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.
During the Carnival, in Niterói, the son of a Lira do Delírio nightclub dancer is kidnapped. With the help of a journalist friend, she dives into Rio de Janeiro's underworld and meet all kind of criminals. She also goes back in time, to a past carnival, where she thinks she might pin-point the culprit among a group of people.
Japanese crime film
Seung-Hyeon was good in the study at a high school at Mokpo city (Southwestern city in Korean Peninsula), and is excellent in the sports. He is transferred to another school. In new high school, a student named Sam-Yuk can exercise strong physical strength and do sports game well, but is poor in the study. Both young students compete each other in various fields, and Sam-Yuk is steadily influenced by Seung-Hyeon to devote himself to the study to become an exemplary student.
In November 1978, ABBA travelled to Japan for a 10-day promotional trip, the purpose of which was to "break" the group in a country which had so far resisted ABBA's charms, with the exception of the occasional medium-charting hit. In addition to gazillions of press and radio interviews, and television appearances, the main event of the visit was the taping of a television special devoted entirely to ABBA. The special featured ABBA performing no less than 14 songs, three of which were performed live with a full orchestra backing, resulting in unique arrangements never used before or since. The television special, simply entitled ABBA Special, was subsequently released on VHS and laser-disc.
The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Daniel Massey stars as a priest who faces a crisis when the local community turns against him after he is suspected of molesting a young girl who he befriends on a local housing estate.
The film tells the story of police chief Şahin, who fights relentlessly against criminals. Şahin and his friend Turgut are assigned to gather evidence about a global crime syndicate. Haşmet and Denisos are the leaders of this crime syndicate. Şahin gathers a lot of evidence that reveals the true nature of Haşmet, who plays the role of a philanthropic businessman in his normal life. However, the organization sets a trap for the two police officers just as the truth is about to come to light. Turgut loses his hands, while Şahin loses his eyesight. Both friends become disillusioned with life. Şahin's girlfriend Lale helps him cling to life. Şahin begins preparing for revenge.
Bijli, an orphan, works on a farm and develops a close bond with her goat, Ramu. Her life changes when she falls in love with Vijay and gets married to him.