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Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.
A group of hunters and photographers reaches the secluded area of Canada. Soon they discover that they are camping near an ancient Indian burial site. According to some legend a magnificent treasure is hidden there guarded by a mighty spirit of the wind Wendigo.
Two bored teenagers on holiday at an English seaside resort race against time to foil a sinister plot at the local Naval College.
About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former miner, and now a pensioner Panteleimon Dmitriyevich Grinin, who on Victory Day decided to introduce children to his “lady of the heart” hairdresser Zinaida. The action lasts only a day, but a lot happens during this time with the sons, daughters-in-law, daughter and Zinaida...
Documentary about Cambodia featuring a long interview with Pol Pot
A colourful animation about a red vacuum cleaner that threatens to swallow the whole world.
In a series of sketches, professional film extras come before the camera one by one to recite the text printed on the back of the resumé photos sent to film producers. If some of these presentations elicit laughter, don't blame the extras, victims of their own illusions, obliged to take part in these cheap displays. A film about the cinema and about life, Nature Morte goes beyond cruelty to create a comi-tragic human document.
This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York.
Tod is a war veteran who is always haunted by the images of the battle field. Tada brings him home after he has been treated in the hospital for a while. Tada’s boss takes her along on a business deal, and she sees her boss’s men being arrested for transporting heroin. Her boss and his men are coming to make her shut up, because she has seen and knows too much, but Tod sees the images of the enemy coming to attack him and Tada, so he kills them all.
Workers' struggle for justice triggers the political tensions of the period.
Sometimes during the war, a train station master receives an apprehended prisoner from army officer to keep an eye on him. During the talk, the station master finds out that the youth was a resistance member, empathy grows in him but in the dawn he hands him over to military transport.
Fairy tales are full of fairies who would like to become humans. There probably won't be that many Hejkals who want to turn into humans. We only know of one from "The Doctor's Fairy Tale" who was pushed into the human world by the writer Karel Čapek. That Hejkal then found great success as a singer at the Vienna Opera. However, we recently learned that a Hejkal in South Bohemia is drawn to humans and wants to give up his Hejkal craft. Let's go see him.
The story revolves around the revenge that three girls, raped when they were younger, pretend to perform with all the men who cross their path.
The action is set in a deserted contemporary village in which a handful of old men while away their time lost in memories of their carefree youth. Every evening in the village pub old Toshe spins a yarn about his feats of arms and love affairs, while his old friends prefer to believe him. It seems that he himself begun to believe his stories. However, the idyllic existence comes to an abrupt end. On her deathbed Toshe's wife Granny Petrushka confesses that she has been unfaithful to him. He is shocked into seeing his whole life in a different light. As luck would have it, the ailing Petrushka gets better, while Toshe, previously always healthy, self-confident and levelheaded, is taken ill. He is reviewing his life, passing stern judgment on his own actions. Confined to his room, in his thoughts he is taking his farewell of the people among his life has passed.
A theatrical group prepare Voltaire’s play “Alzire”. From this the ideas of Voltaire are examined as they relate to the present day political situation.
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'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
Slovak psychological drama from the end of World War II. The plot of the film takes place in a short period of time just before the outbreak of the uprising. It is the story of a man who wages his "private" war against the man who is responsible for the serious injury of his brother. The upcoming Slovak National Uprising becomes the backdrop for a model-built story that touches on stubborn personal revenge in a situation of war conflict, when human life loses all value. The actions of the main character thus sound like increasingly absurd actions, his motives and the impact of his actions are relativized, the very legitimacy of such a belief appears shaky.
After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.
Candy returns to Pony's Home and she meets a girl who has lost her parents and doesn't associate with the other kids. In order to cheer her up she decides to tell her about herself from the moment she was found by Miss Pony and sister Lane to her decision to leave the boarding school in England and walk her own path.
My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.
The Masters of Modern Sculpture series concludes with a look at post- World War II America, where sculpture became a deeply innovative art form. Using the objects at their disposal and the inspiration surrounding them, artists such as George Rickey, Claes Oldenburg, and Louise Nevelson cast sculptor in a new light. The New World observes the sculptors creatively utilizing wood, metals, and junkyard finds, bringing forth lively and shocking work. America's remote spaces, discarded objects and abundant materials enabled them to add to the concepts of European modernism in daringly unique ways.
Ubu kills the king to take the thrown but doesn't realize the prince will fight back for revenge. Based on Alfred Jarry's 1896 play Ubu Roi.
A love story is born between the poor student Tarek and Amal the wealthy girl, they face a lot of financial problems, while her father wants her to marry the rich man Ashraf. Amal escapes and marries Tarek, but their struggle still continues.
About the difficult life path of a woman who became the chairman of the Village Council. Fulfilling his duty, Raushan comes into conflict with the aul kulaks and with his own husband.
Young boy treating his donkey in a cruel manner sooner or later realizes that animals also should be treated kindly.
In 1948, the people liberation army launched a strategic counter-offensive across the country.
A girl and her fantasy universe in the brick ovens.
A married man in an intoxicated state sexually assaults his female servant. When she gets pregnant, he gets a doctor's certificate stating that he is impotent to cover up his crime
Directed by Tiernan MacBride, this short film – nominated for a Palme d’Or in 1978 for Best Short Film – is a visual representation of the Irish folk song Arthur McBride and The Sergeant, played and sung by Irish singer Paul Brady. The lyrics tell the story of Arthur McBride (Paul Bennett) and his cousin (Paul Wilson) who fight off a recruiting sergeant (Godfrey Quigley) when he tries to enlist them in the British army.
Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.
Beto, a young gigolo playboy, convinces his friends to break into a house to rape Marlene, a wealthy woman. They can not complete the mission, but the woman fall in love with Beto, who returns to become her lover. The case of the two, eventually involving the husband of Marlene, causes problems that the two can't solve.
Taiwan Films
Kaan and his wife Prae quit their jobs at Steve's dive shop to try their luck by purchasing a small boat to trap crabs.
Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.
The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting Kluth's child, they terminate their friendship and threaten to press charges. Kluth commits suicide.
The events in the film take place in and around the family of Khosrov Atayev. Khosrov Atayev's wife, Dilshad Khanum, who lives an honest and upright life, is a woman obsessed with fame and money. This moral gap between them, and the mistakes made by Dilshad, eventually put an end to their family life.
A comic strip detective and a superhero are hired to investigate separatedly the successive murders of CEOs within a real life corporation symbolizing a nation, while subversive groups and members of the establishment lead a war for power.
George Melly explores his lifelong relationship with surrealism in all its forms and prominent personalities.
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.
In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.
When orphaned Anu decides to help her childhood friend Malathi escape a forced marriage and finance Malathi's education, Anu finds herself making unexpected decisions
El Pato faces a gang of spies who use a stuntman to seize an atomic pile.