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Directed by Claire Pei and acted by Pei and Michael Lally in New York, You Give Me an Orange, I Give You a Pie is a short film about a pair of lovers on a New York West City road that has been abandoned. Their relationship is erratic. The short film was filmed with a Bolex 16 mm camera.
In order to shorten the completion period of a new work area, the director promises that he will organize a grand concert of famous opera singers at the opening of the new hall. There is an unexpected problem - there is no grand piano. The brigadier sends one of his workers to look for the instrument in the town. He finds himself in a very mysterious new world. After a series of comic situations, he manages to find the grand piano. The grand piano is in the production hall. The order of the day is completed, but is that enough?
Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.
The film tells the story of three thieves fighting over the money obtained from a robbery. Alexander the Great is a mafia boss who has lost his former power. Alexander, who takes action to regain his former influence, brings together three famous thieves nicknamed Atmaca Ahmet, Altınparmak Bilal, and Jet Jale. The trio forms a gang to steal Bayat Hayati's forty million. The robbery is successful. However, Alexander reports the robbery to the police to avoid sharing the loot with the gang. As a result, Ahmet and Bilal decide to collaborate and take revenge on Alexander.
A man becomes convinced that he is being persecuted by a conspiracy of blind people.
Viola's seminal piece, The Reflecting Pool, was made three decades ago on analogue video tape and yet could easily pass for a contemporary digital piece; in it, Viola emerges as central protagonist from a thick forest into a clearing filled by an artificial pool. As the noise of an aeroplane slowly passes and fades overhead, Viola approaches the edge of the pool, whereby he removes his shoes, squats down yelling and then prepares to make a powerful jump.
The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory. Released a year before Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, this made-for-Canadian-TV movie, which also stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall, has been described as a tear-jerker.
Ratnadeep revolves around a person who was fed up with his job and to get out of that situation, he applied for two months leave. The story follows when on the last day of his job he found the dead body of a man belonged to very rich family and the body resembled him, which brought new adventures in his life.
A male cab driver is transformed into a female superhero.
Discusses the importance of the 55 mph speed limit established by the National Speed Limit Act of 1974, which has reportedly saved over 45,000 lives and conserved billions of gallons of gasoline. The film presents various perspectives on the speed limit, highlighting its benefits in reducing accidents and fuel consumption, while also addressing the controversy surrounding its enforcement. It emphasizes that driving at 55 mph increases reaction time and decreases stopping distance, ultimately making roads safer. The film concludes by urging viewers to adhere to the speed limit to save lives and energy.
An Indian film.
A 1979 Filipino action comedy film starring Rey Malonzo.
Filmed piano recital given by the then-28 year-old Cyprien Katsaris. Directed by French cinema legend Claude Chabrol. Contains performances of the following pieces: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) : Scènes d'enfants (Kinderszenen), Op.15 Franz Schubert (1797-1828) : Ave Maria (Arrangement : F. Liszt) Jacques Arcadelt (1500?-1568) : Ave Maria (Arrangement : F. Liszt) Franz Liszt (1811-1886) : Prélude et Marche funèbre Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) : Regard de l'Eglise d'Amour (n°20 des vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus)
Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
Şaban is a minibus driver who is unsuccessful with women, while Ökkeş is a complete womanizer. Ökkeş and Şaban, two old army buddies, cross paths one day in prison. Ökkeş, who is being forced by his father to marry, asks Şaban to take his place, and they switch roles. However, when both of them fall in love with the daughter of the house they go to, things get complicated. The girl they are in love with has switched places with the housekeeper...
The story is about a Brahmin housewife who has to go to her in-laws house. Her Father-in-law dies. She and her husband take a bullock cart to immerse the ashes in a holy place which is the traditional Hindu custom Nimajjanam.
Dissatisfied with life with Jack, Penny offers a home to baby Zero and his homeless mother.
One week in November 1979, passing the time in Carmen Virgil's house. Probably the last in this series of diaries.
Oscar Cardenas is a free young man who dreams of being a racer. One day he is trapped by Isabel Salas, a young secretary, who while finds a husband, she is sleeping with her boss. Oscar and Isabel end at the altar. From that moment Oscar, is falling into the traps that the 'society' puts over him...
The Canadian program for nuclear fuel waste management is explained through interviews with people working inside and outside the nuclear industry and by a visit to the Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment, where a long-range used-fuel disposal program is being developed. Revised version from the film Nuclear Fuel Waste Management (106C 0179 542). Produced for the NFB by Crawley Films Ltd. for Atomic Energy Canada, Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment.
A morality tale from the time of the Saxon Kingdom. The von Siebenthal volunteer fire department has nothing to do. When their local pub is in a very dilapidated state, but the landlord has no money to renovate it, the fire department tries to help out by setting fire to it themselves, but it doesn't quite work. They look for a new object to set fire to, the supposedly empty prison. But there is only one prisoner, who is heroically rescued by Captain Kaden.
At the age of thirty-seven, the artist Sasha believes that love is the lot of the young. However, a meeting with test pilot Ivan Nikolaevich turns her measured, settled life upside down, reveals in her the unspent forces of the soul: emotionality, sensitivity, kindness, reverence.
The film is based on the timeline from 1966 to 1970 when Bengalis began fighting for independence. “Rupali Shaikate” is a rest house near the beaches of Cox Bazar.
In one of the tribes of the Algerian Sahara, everyone awaits the arrival of the hero who will defend the rights of the poor. A man decides one day to put the mark of the "hero" on his newborn son and the whole tribe celebrates the arrival of this eagerly awaited messiah who came to save them. This false hero then grows up by assuming his role of savior. Filled with cynicism, he crosses the countryside and has a number of adventures.
A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".
Jan Kačer became known primarily as an actor, but he also took up film directing several times - not very successfully. Based on someone else's script, he made a committed, building story: it tells the story of an experienced engineer who is commissioned to assemble a team of specialists for engineering the peaceful use of atomic energy. However, the explanation of human dilemmas is too flat and proclamatory, as is the image of Ostrava's industrial environment; the heroes are thinking about one thing: the proper completion of the assigned task...
A man living a regular and not-so-spectacular life, only feels alive at night.
Documentary on the Kentucky Derby.
Pink film from Toei Central.
The original 1979 documentary that introduced the world to Bolton steeplejack Fred Dibnah as he goes about his death-defying job demolishing or repairing factory chimneys, steeples and towers.
Second World War. The fascists attack Svaneti. Old Betkili, whose son was killed in the war, lives far from the village. The old man comes across a Soviet soldier, Lasha, and shelters him in the mountains, but soon finds the soldier’s behavior suspicious.
Pink film from Toei Central.
Darmi, an unfaithful married woman, uses a magical charm to preserve her youth. Once her husband finds out what she's been up to (which includes screwing the village playboy), he seeks the help of a Shaman.
Constable Studer of the Bern cantonal police is stubborn and gnarled. Because of his nature, he has few friends. He has this in common with the murder victim: James Farny was known by everyone as "The Chinese". The man had traveled the world and now he has been found shot dead in the village cemetery: was it murder or did he kill himself? He had the gun in his hand. Studer doesn't believe it was suicide...
Teen idol Leif Garrett headlines this variety music, dance and comedy sketch special with guest stars Bob Hope, Marie Osmond, Brooke Shields and Japanese pop duo Pink Lady.
About how bosom friends ate ice cream, got a signature in a diary, published a wall newspaper and launched a balloon.
Two boys with critical information about a corporate scandal are pursued by two hit men who are pursued by two bumbling, inventive detectives.
Korean movie.
Cleo is a barmaid at Munich's top disco "Sugar Shake". She definitely thinks she's the first prize at any erotic lottery - and she has a heart, too.
Film charting the development of the London bus from 1829 to 1979, with the 150th anniversary of Shilibeer's first service, featuring a procession of many of the Museum's historic vehicles. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."
In an imprecise time and country, General Zog, a neo-Nazi, sets up a concentration camp, with the direct help of a lieutenant and a doctor. Girls who live on the farms are kidnapped to continue the plan to create a pure breed. When the missing girls' parents hire a pair of mercenaries, Joe and Cat, to investigate what's going on, there are bullets and explosions everywhere!
A man and his daughter, tired of fights and routines, miss school and work the same day.
Kolya and the book gnome go looking for the letters that make up the boy's name. Continuation of the fairy tale about the alphabet.
Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.
The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The saga begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope and of strength hidden behind despair.
Countryman Onofre is convinced by his cousin to live in Rio de Janeiro together with him so he can enjoy the delights of summer in Rio.
The film version of the theatre musical production by the "Divadlo na provazku" in Brno tells the tale of legendary bandit Nikola Šuhaj from Koločava.
A story of adventure, as three young campers struggle for survival. A story of discovery, as they face truths about their Christian faith. A story of inspiration as they learn how God sees them.
Four friends grapple with aging and the march of time in this opera based on Ray Lawler's iconic Australian play. For years, cane cutters Roo and Barney (Gary Rowley and Barry Ryan) have bunked with barmaids Olive (Gillian Sullivan) and Nancy in the summer. But Nancy's moved on, replaced by newcomer Pearl (Elizabeth Campbell). Vacation's no longer the unending party it once was as each member of the quartet arrives at a new understanding of life.
A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi.
Academic and activist Stuart Hall and actor and activist Maggie Steed present a rigorous deconstruction of the racism - both explicit and more insidious in its subtlety - of the British media from within.