Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

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A young lawyer named Vakil Ahmed earned the nickname "The Oddball" for his honest and truthful words, as well as the purity of his soul. Many people in society give and receive bribes, including Vakil Ahmed, which causes him to lose his faith. Thanks to the worker Salim, Vakil Ahmed is released from prison.

Bugs has a "run-in" with a pixilated stork in the bridging sequence of this tribute to mothers.

Jasper Carrott travels to Tampa Bay, Florida (a city just like Liverpool, but with palm trees), to research the state of soccer in the USA, in general, and the local team, the Rowdies, in particular.

A young writer revisits the events leading up to the murder of the couple who were sheltering her.

A short illustrating Wade Hemsworth's folk song about a woman's admiration for the agility of her boyfriend, the log driver.

This is the story of the Great Barrier Reef, from man's ancient awareness of it, to his realisation that it is a major world wonder of great value to mankind. Beautiful, dangerous and diverse, the Reef provides escape and recreation, a vast resource and limitless retreat for the fisherman, tourist, adventurer, industrialist, scientist, artist and sportsman. But — a small increment of pollution or a slight deprivation of sunlight may set in motion a chain of events that could precipitate a decline and decay of the Reef on which little coral polyps have been working for some six hundred thousand years.

To the intolerant and bloody-minded Prague actor Bergner (Milos Kopecký) is the lead in Moliere's Misanthrope which he is studying now as tailor-made. On top of that he is malicious and he advises to the new actress Helenka (Dagmar Havlová) in such a way that she upsets the theatre director. If Bergner accuses somebody of a mischief and he is wrong, he never apologizes. When he almost crashes an older elegant lady by his car on the zebra crossing, instead of an apology he calls her an old ballet dancer... But in Brno's TV he takes part in a discussion on manners and he gives himself as an example of good manners and grace. In the train he meets a magic old man (Ladislav Pesek) who warns him and admonishes him to change his behavior. After he arrives to Prague the old man's threat comes true.

Winnie, buried to her waist, follows her daily routine and prattles to her husband, Willie, who is largely hidden and taciturn.

Based on the eponymous story by Canadian writer E. Seton-Thompson about a wolf named ‘Lobo.’

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.

A young man meets a pretty woman on the street. They have a wonderful time together, walking around Kyiv and riding along the Dnipro River, and in the evening they come to the house, where two children rush towards them with a joyful cry. Everything is explained simply: it turns out that they are husband and wife, and today they decided to relive their first day of dating.

Celso Ad. Castillo's film about villagers retelling the story of their hero and the revolt he waged in the countryside.

Brave peasant of the country of Caux, Henri Duchemin is recovering badly from the death of his married wife, whom he loved dearly. After seeing a TV show, the man is convinced that his late wife has reincarnated into a cow.

The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.

Little is known about this probably never released film.

Antonio Barracano is a man who enforces his own law in the Sanità district, which is why he is recognized as the neighborhood's "mayor." He dispenses advice and opinions and solves the problems of poor people.

A martial arts master is betrayed by a bandit leader, who wants to destroy his business. The bandit leader kills most of the master's family and takes his property. Years later, the master's son comes looking for revenge...

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.

The story of a young violinist whose desire to be recognized by a famous artist leads her into various situations.

In Naples, gangsters have seized the American ambassador. The authorities respond by assembling a special squad; to command it is Borri, a former commissioner who has a personal vendetta against the racket.

Commissioner Bartošek is visited by Dr. Goldberg, who reports the disappearance of his friend, the famous actor Benda. From the flimsy evidence, it appears that Benda left his apartment one night without taking anything with him and was taken away by car. He had not gone out for the entire week before, had not washed, had not shaved, and had drunk until he was debauched. The police search has reached a dead end. The actor Lebduška reveals to Goldberg that Benda had an affair with the actress Gréta, the wife of a prominent businessman, Bartošek's classmate Korbel. Goldberg eventually manages to exhume an unknown vagrant, whose body was found shortly after Benda's disappearance...

Couleurs mécaniques presents, in the order they were filmed, six different viewpoints of a merry-go-round. In each case the focus is adjusted so as to select, isolate and inscribe parts of the filmed scene onto the film strip in a way that allows elements of color in movement to be recombined in a particular manner during the projection of the film.

Rawya and her husband Hamdi get separated and she goes with her daughter to live in her father's home while Hamdi marries the young Mervat. Rawya gets a job as a secretary in a newspaper and meets Tarek, the editor-in-chief, and they feel attracted to each other.

It shows the inclusion of a backward country in the age of technical progress with all the doubts, dilemmas and contradictions that arise in such crucial moments. It was made on the basis of authentic parliamentary records and memoirs, as well as records from the satirical press of that time.

The story follows five months in the life of Belgrade student Maja Sabljic, an actress-to-be, from her high school graduation day (at the end of May) until mid September when she tries to enroll at the Film Academy (FDU). The story is presented in the documentary style, involving the real-life persons of the late seventies' Belgrade scene.

Flashing colors. Scored by “A Rainbow in Curved Air.”

The linear inspector of water protection Ivan Karnavin enters into a confrontation with the leadership of a large industrial enterprise...

Documentary about João Nogueira, popular singer and composer from Rio de Janeiro

Fragments of the works of Soviet and foreign science fiction writers: “Hello, Parnassus!” Valentina Berestova, "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain, "The Abyss of Marakot" by Arthur Conan Doyle and "The Conqueror of the Impossible" by Evgeny Veltistov.

Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness… an insensitive un-involvement in the human condition and our own humanity. —Chick Strand

Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.

The 17-year-old, musically gifted Stephan is expelled from school for making statements critical of the regime. With his future as a musician now blocked, he commits suicide. His girlfriend Cornelia wants to follow him to his death, but is prevented from doing so by her parents at the last moment.

Pink film by Ichirô Kitami,

The biography of famous Chinese geologist Li Siguang.

Aivars Līdaks is 12 years old and not very tall, but his dream is to play basketball at the highest level. During the summer holidays, Aivars trains relentlessly and inspires other teenagers with his determination, achieving the seemingly impossible – in a match against basketball players from a sports school, Aivars is named the best player.

One day, a chick hatches from a chicken egg that has rolled away from the others. Without its mother nearby, it cannot understand who it is. The little one sets off on a journey in search of its identity.

Depicts the birth of an independent TV station.

Based on real events, this story traces a young district governor’s moral awakening as he confronts a powerful landowner in rural Adana. What begins as a routine bureaucratic act soon turns into a struggle to shield villagers from exploitation, greed, and the threat of malaria.

A dramatization of the Gleiwitz incident.

Social ballad. Three short stories – "Uzlík tepla", "Chlapec a pánboh" and "Rubári" – depict three different human stories, the common denominator of which is suffering and existential threat.

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

Amateur animation by 20-year-old Hikeaki Anno while he was studying at Osaka University of Arts. The short is an animated form of the idiom "even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots".

Hare is working at a construction site with a welding machine, from which sparks fly off and hit the Wolf. Wolf notices Hare and starts a chase, but the Hare defends himself with the welding machine. At the end of the issue Wolf crashes into an advertisement for a polytechnic technical school and expresses his desire to learn to operate welding machines there, but it turns out that this technical school accepts only athletes. The episode focuses on the problem that some technical schools and universities at that time, accepted students not based on knowledge, but by athletic merit, so that the institution could show sports results.

Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimately find that there is no way back to the world they once knew.

The story of the exposure by criminal investigation officers of a gang of criminals who steal and sell Soviet watch parts containing precious metals to foreigners. The plot centers on a duel between two heroes: a young, brave and charming investigator and a cold-blooded bandit villain named Krest.

Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.

The super agents in this mission must act in the middle of the fight of two enemy gangs to capture a scientist and produce changes in the weather.

'Yedi Kocalı', one of the films shot in the 1970s, which took Yeşilçam by storm, tells the story of a woman who marries seven different men due to financial difficulties and spends time with someone else every day of the week. Things get complicated when husbands realize they're not the only one over time. Ülkü Erakalın, who was known for his erotic films shot at that time, is in the director's seat of the film, and Zerrin Egeliler, who we also know with this genre, is in the leading role.