Cinematic Era: 1979 Vintage

Three young friends will spend a season in Alicante (Spain). There life is easy drinks, girls and parties. On one of their usual night trips, they find three women, old friends of more relaxed times.

What if a secret potion could instantly turn you into an invisible man!? Rape a nun, peep into the women's bath, and even butt in on a lesbian encounter… It fulfills every man’s secret desire that everyone has dreamed of experiencing at least once! This is the third installment of a slapstick, farcical pornography comedy, depicting the wild adventures of a man who accidentally discovers a secret potion that makes him invisible. Taihei transforms again into the elusive invisible man, offering us an unvarnished look into a world of unabashed lust. First, an insidious lesbian encounter takes place between two nurses. When the invisible Taihei intrudes on the scene, he goes after both women… Next, he unleashes his mastery of molestation against a nun at a convent. Still unsatisfied, he invades the women’s bath at a public bathhouse, and a series of provocative, titillating scenes unfold as he exploits the effects of the invisibility potion.

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

Two men, a woman, a chimpanzee and a talking horse travel around Argentina to put together a movie.

A lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture as reflected in the love songs of the Tex-Mex Norteña music tradition. Performers include, Little Joe & La Familia, Leo Garza, Chavela Ortiz, Andres Berlanga, Ricardo Mejia, Conjunto Tamaulipas, Chavela y Brown Express and more.

A young man idles around Tokyo, collecting materials to construct a diorama of a cityscape.

Close-ups of fine detail of the ancient skill of quillwork embroidery--brightly coloured geometric designs on high-ankled, Seneca-type moccasins. These moccasins are over one hundred years old, from the fabled Speyer Collection that was repatriated from Germany by the National Museum of Man in 1975.

A man's face appears on the screen with his eyes covered by a black strip. After a while, the strip covers his mouth, and when it covers his eyes again the man begins to say something.

A train is heading for Germany - a train carrying migrant workers. Trains like this have come countless times since the late 1950s, from Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal, and they have brought with them, along with the people they carried, the dreams and hopes of these people for a better life and better work opportunities. In Germany, they were called guest workers.

Set to the narration of a talking buzzard, Charlie moves to a new town with his family. He wants to be friends with the popular kids at his local park, but they all play football and he doesn't because he's a nerd. Charlie vows to find the boys a football to play with, therefore endearing him to the town boys.

A homeless pensioner tries to fathom the correct procedure to get a meal.

This documentary follows the recording process, circa 1978-1979, of Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds & Rockpile. It gives great insight into the process of recording and "getting" the right sound for radio. If you've never had any studio experience before, this video will give you that fly on the wall experience. Cameos by Graham Parker, Albert Lee and Huey Lewis.

Pink film from Toei Central.

The valiant Soviet police are fighting counter-revolutionary banditry, helping the Caucasian poor to follow the difficult road to a bright socialist future.

Haniyeh exchanges love with Ismail, and refuses Morsi, who wants to marry her. Morsi rapes Haniyeh and is forced to agree to marry him and live with him a miserable life. Haniyeh's father dies and demands a divorce from Morsi, but he refuses. Ismail knows the truth, clashes with Morsi and kills him. Ismail is sentenced to prison.

Jaandaar (English: Lively; Hindi: जानदार) is a 1979 Bollywood Action film, produced and directed by S.K. Lutha under the Kareer Films banner. It stars Vinod Mehra, Bindiya Goswami, Amjad Khan, Mahendra Sandhu in the lead roles while Jeetendra has given a special appearance and the music was composed by Kalyanji Virji Shah.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Max is a mentally ill derelict. Kitten steals his money. The film ends in a sleazy nightclub with a performance by a bored stripper, with Max in the audience.

About forest competitions in which Misha wins and becomes a symbol of the Olympics.

An ironic animated cartoon about how a foolish Leopard searched for a home. All the animals in the forest have a shelter where they can hide from bad weather — each of them has a house. Only the Leopard had not acquired a dwelling; his cubs get wet in the rain, and his wife sends him off to find a home. In his search for shelter, the foolish Leopard ends up in absurd and funny situations until he realizes that a home must be built by oneself, not taken from someone else.

Aoife is a thirteen-year-old girl, living with an alcoholic father and taking care of him since her mother has left home. Against what seems like overwhelming evidence, she believes that he is trying his best to give up drinking and that on this particular day he will remember her birthday.

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of English folk rock up to that time.

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local anaesthetic and the vacuum aspiration method. We follow one woman through the termination of her pregnancy, and other women tell why they chose to have an abortion.

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.

Child Wonder Niño Muhlach plays Pepe, a smart but mischievous boy who was abandoned in a church when he was still a baby.

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

An unemployed youth decides to protest against the cruel world.

The film tells the story of two extraterrestrial beings (played by Toninho and Guedes) who regularly visit Earth, coming from a distant galaxy. Extraterrestrials pay a visit to the planet, see that the situation is not very good and decide to fix humanity , which reacts through five battles: 1st) The university; 2nd) The black wedding; 3rd) In the city; 4th) Rural battle against bovine resignation; 5th) In the temple of madness. Extraterrestrials, who pass through all these places promoting the Alternative Society, they are able to fulfill their mission of making the Earth a better planet to live on and, thus, return to the galaxy from which they came.

Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its' surroundings as its only reality. If he found another fetus, his twin brother, he would explain to him what he has learned. If later a third fetus appeared who did not agree with the other two that the womb is the only reality, and it proposed a different possibility. The first two fetuses would reject it. Only the one that understood the process would be born. In order to be born it is necessary to die.

Dedicated Dutch graphic designer Piet Schreuders visits Los Angeles to investigate all kinds of typeface as used in title-credits for movies and TV-series, letters on billboards, shop-windows or street-signs, the banner-headlines of The Los Angeles Times, and climbs finally to the giant letters of the HOLLYWOOD-sign. In the meantime he discovers, to his great satisfaction, the location and stairs where Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot their movie 'The Musicbox', by combining street-signs, partially shown on still-pictures of this movie: "…MONTE" and "…ENDOME", which turn out to be found on the street corner of Del Monte and Vendome in Culver City. This documentary is bluntly intercut with commercials, a phenomenon not yet known in the Netherlands in 1979. (Theo Uittenbogaard)

Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

In an effort to erase his disgrace, the mischievous Kim Hwan starts a movement to build birdnests but the old park keeper gets injured in his efforts. In order to get money for the park keeper's hospital fees, Hwan gets on his friend Chil-sung's boat to catch some fish. However, Hwan gets caught up in the tide and drifts off to sea where he is rescued by a Chinese ship. The Chinese ship tries to take Hwan to North Korea but Hwan resists with an anti-Communist will so strong he's willing to die. Hwan is safely returned to his home country. At the airport, Hwan's friends bring the old park keeper who is in a cast. They receive Hwan with beautiful music and performances.

Wamena is a businessman and widower who has a daughter, Narita. His secretary, Yuni, tries to marry Wamena and also tries to match Narita to Toni, who is actually Yuni’s boyfriend. Together, they plan to seize Wamena’s wealth. Alas, Narita already has a boyfriend, Arman, a poor young man. Yuni tries to manipulate the relationship by sending a fake wedding invitation. This causes Wamena a heart attack, which kills him. Narita is also against her father’s relationship with Yuni, so she storms out and leaves. Then Arman marries Narita and becomes the director of the company. Yuni and Toni resign from the company. Then Yuni tries to trick Arman by sending a pretty woman to seduce him and then takes a photo of them together. With this photo, she manages to trap Arman.

A technical documentary on the development of improved railway brake materials to increase performance and durability.

A family struggles to survive in a slum on the fringes of Calcutta.

It tells the story of two lovers who cannot be together because of a blood feud. Ibrahim returns to his hometown from Istanbul after his uncle is killed and becomes the leader of his tribe. There has been a blood feud between his tribe and the enemy tribe, the Karaçadırlılar, for a hundred years over a land dispute. The court rules in favor of Ibrahim's tribe. This further escalates the hostility between the two families. However, Ibrahim and Zeynep from the Karaçadırlı tribe fall in love with each other. At the same time, Ibrahim's sister Fatma and Halil from the Karaçadırlı tribe also love each other. The lovers will fight to be together despite the blood feud.

Two high school students, Satria and Rani, have tasted the forbidden fruit of sex. But Rani’s father, a rich man, who is authoritarian and very proud; is against Satria, who is merely the son of a poor widow. He regretfully has to give permission for his only daughter, Rani, to marry Satria who has impregnated her. He allows this without any celebration and on condition that they will not be sharing a house, and that they will divorce after the baby is born. Everything changes when Rani gives birth to a pair of twins. Rani and Satria can be reunited.

Irumbazhikal is a 1979 Indian Malayalam Action. Drama film, directed by A. B. Raj. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayan, Jayabharathi and K. P. Ummer in the lead roles.

Promotional film taking a look at the making of John Carpenter's Elvis.

Forty miles northwest of Vancouver Island lies Triangle Island, an ecological reserve and home of close to one million birds. Bristol Foster, head of the British Columbia Ecological Reserves Program, guides us across the island through colonies of birds and sea lions. He stresses the need of preserving the ecological balance for the survival of future generations.

Taiwanese movie

Ella Fitzgerald - Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival

This film with a marked ethnographic nature, which was filmed without a pre-established plan and with a script that crosses the lines of documentary and fiction, tells the story of a group of five Germans who arrive on a remote island in the South Pacific called Parapara and belonging to Vanuatu. Their aim is to prepare a publication on the lives of the inhabitants of this remote island. The tasks were personally assigned: one would study the language, another would study the fauna; another the traditions, institutions and family systems; another the plants and another the songs and stories. However, the blind trust in the western scientific objective clashes head-on with the values and customs of the natives. Therefore, from the very beginning, the head of the tribe does not cease to ask and express his surprise regarding some foreigners “who have not come to rob his land”.

This film exposes the weaknesses found in the high-society consisting of the minister, architects and lawyers. Each has different tastes and desires. As an influential person, the minister used his position to compromise the weak girl. The young lawyer was questioning the good name and status after the girl was betrothed with a tarnished. The young architect ignore Malay art elements. The film also presents a question of love in a family.

Taken during the filming of "West Indies," this film shows the making of the monumental set in the middle of the former Citroën factory, as well as backstage activity and rehearsals on the set.

a film about animation by Vince Collins

Young people discuss life problems such as moving into their first apartment, but also how to shape their own future.

A musical fairy tale about children's dreams using the works of painter Ondrej Zimka.

A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.

The newlyweds, Fusun and her rich husband Ayhan, are rescued by a mysterious Mr. Ali after they survive a plane crash on their way to their honeymoon. Staying at Mr. Ali's cabin, in a valley surrounded by thick woods, away from civilization, Fusun will have the opportunity to reconsider her past decisions.

East German documentary/propaganda film about Berlin Wall border guards