Cinematic Era: 1982 Vintage

Short film. Plot unknown.

Vinod (Master Raghu) and Anitha (Devi) are classmates in school and have their own private problems. Vinod's stepmother wants to seduce him, and Anitha is an illegitimate child that her mother never wanted. On a rainy day they take shelter in a train wagon, which starts moving before they could get out and stops next in a forest area a long way away from home. There, they find a couple of recluses - a widow and an ex-army officer - living their own lives and willing to accept them. As they were in early puberty they live like normal children. But as puberty stage starts, both experiences lust over each other. The widow accepts them as foster children and perform their marriage, but fate intervenes as an incurable disease for Anitha.

Nancy is an attractive, intelligent receptionist at a New York publishing firm. She unwittingly becomes romantically involved with the president of her company. As the romance blossoms, Nancy remains unaware that Stephen is engaged to another woman...a money hungry social climber. When Nancy learns the truth she is suddenly promoted but believes her new job was given to her out of pity. To make matters worse, Nancy is being pursued by the office "wolf," a smooth operator who always smells like trouble. The whole affair could topple at any minute!

Dominique Lombardi is news director of a regional TV station. A homosexual, he has a secret relationship with his young protégé, Jean-François Sevran, a journalist and news anchor. To conceal their relationship, the two live in the same building and have set up a trapdoor so they can see each other without bumping into their nosy plumber neighbor on the stairs. As a young man, Jean-François is searching for himself, until the day he meets Florence, the new sub-prefect of his district, whom he is to interview.

Spoof based (loosely) on an old Indonesian film, which has had the old foreign soundtrack removed and replaced by an over-dubbed English track. Central character is a female wrestler who has decided that she no longer wants to wrestle, but whose mother (a former wrestler herself) wants her to keep wrestling to make money so her brother can have the operation (his seminal vessels run to his skull, rather than his groin, which purportedly will cause his head to explode if he gets too excited). During the course of her story (in which a number of brawls ensue), she is befriended by a Elvis-impersonating martial artist. This recut/redubbed version is 72 minutes long.

Conflict arises between generations in this Chinese film

Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.

About the work of the Soviet film director S. F. Bondarchuk.

A spoof of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." Guests arrive at an island mansion. A storm strands the guests. Their host is found dead. One by one the guests are murdered, leaving the survivors increasingly suspicious of each other.

The eventful tale of Worldly-Wise, an adventurer who enters the service of an aging ruler in order to seek for him a successor. Unable to find a worthy heir, Worldly-Wise succumbs to the temptation to seize power himself.

Frances and Dorian live through the last few weeks of their dysfunctional relationship.

About a businessman who murders his stepdaughter after having an affair with her. A crematorium worker who secretly sells coffins to an undertaker discovers two bodies in one of the coffins one day. He suspects what has happened and tries to blackmail the murderer for money.

The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

When they're not romancing their girls, the Warkop comedy trio forms a team to help people in need, which includes solving a child kidnapping case and finding themselves facing off against ghosts and the kuntilanak (the Indonesian version of a banshee).

The young King Parnavaz expelled the conqueror Azon from the Georgian lands and became the first king of the united kingdom of Eastern and Western Georgia.

A contemplation on night travelling in various weather conditions through seemingly endless landscapes in Europe, only briefly disrupted by shreds of conversation in a foreign language.

A young boy is taken by a train on a mysterious journey. BAFTA-winning 14 minute adaptation of H.R. Millar's 1927 book, Dreamland Express.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Grabe.

Seamlessly blending elements of movement and music, Twyla Tharp choreographs a rock 'n' roll dance spectacular, set to a score by former Talking Heads front man David Byrne. Adapted for television by Tharp from the original Broadway production, this memorable performance showcases the talents of dancers Sara Rudner, Jennifer Way, Tom Rawe, Katie Glasner, Raymond Kurshals, Shelly Washington, Christine Uchida and John Carrafa.

Brussels, 1568: Under Spanish rule, Regent Margaret of Parma seeks leniency, but King Philip II sends the brutal Duke of Alba. Beloved noble Egmont ignores warnings to flee, trusting in mercy. Alba arrests and executes him, and Egmont’s death becomes a rallying cry for Dutch freedom.

The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.

The plot follows a psychotic killer who escapes from prison to murder his wife.

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

In his first 16mm film, Christoph Schlingensief plays the German national anthem on the trumpet! An expression of a deep life crisis after being rejected by the Munich Film Academy.

The merchant's daughter Constanze, begs her father to ask a lion for a favor. Her father approaches the lion who agrees to his request with one condition: that he send the first person he meets upon his return home to the lion's den. It is Constanze. Against her father's will she goes to the lion and discovers that he is an enchanged prince and that only a woman's love can release him from the spell.

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.

Bila, a young peasant, decides to go to Ivory Coast to work and is asked by his parents to accompany Pogbi who is going to meet her fiancé, through an arranged marriage, for the first time. However, Pogbi is in love with Rasmane, a pariah from the smiths' caste, and runs away.

Short film directed by Claude Cailloux for the French TV channel TF1 that marked Marion Cotillard's film debut. The adventures of 6-year-old Marion and her dog, narrated by her big sister. Marion decides to wander around Paris with her dog and will discover that a city is not really made for children and dogs.

Summer of 1940. The architect returns from Bucharest to his native Bessarabia with a firm desire to live outside politics. However, life forces him to make a choice.

Two evacuated children in wartime rural England find two German airmen hiding out in the woods. An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1977 novel from writer/director John Krish .

Sissy has inherited a hotel and stud farm from her parents. Unfortunately, her father was very much in debt, so she has to put up with the paternalism of a distant aunt. But she wants to turn everything on the farm upside down and fires all the experienced employees. This leads to huge chaos, as the inexperienced new staff find it difficult to cope with the horses in particular. When Sissy is also supposed to marry a bank manager friend, the trouble is perfect.

Based on Shirley Jackson's eerie short story The Summer People.

Hafiz is a young journalist who tries to help his girlfriend, Ruby, to overcome her bad and traumatic childhood experiences. On the other hand, Arif, a farmer, is struggling to prevent his plot of land from being acquired by land developer. The developer tries very hard to make him give up the property by sending his men to harassed and vandalized the land.

A romantic comedy about the women who work for a fantasy phone service, depicting the madcap world in which they work, their relationships with each other, and the diverse customers with whom they deal over the phone

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in this short, poetic film on the legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great author Edward Abbey along with his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck.

Strong condensed mounted images, cooked (Cutted) down to become a bright essence, carried away by strong framework.

A simpleton from an Indian village is afflicted by an ancient family curse; whenever a woman kisses him, he turns into a Disco Danny ladykiller. Naturally, after that happens, he's kidnapped by Arab terrorists, because duh.

Chi-guk and Kan-to prepare for bar exam, dreaming of becoming a prosecutor and judge, respectively. When they fail their first attempt at the bar exam, they take comfort in their senior Pak who has taken the exam and failed nine times. And they decide they win both love and bar exam so they go girl hunting. Chi-guk meets with the college student Keum-rye. Oh Ki-dae, Kan-to's room mate, introduces him to the beautiful Hong Su-ja but she rebuts him. The poor Kan-to anguishes over his ill father and younger sister, Young-ja. While wandering the streets, Kan-to meets the barmaid Suk-ja and they fall in love. On the other hand, the female law student Ji Hwa-ja is more interested in love than her studies but things don't quite go the way she wants them to. Chi-guk, Kan-to, and their senior Pak all pass the bar exam. Hwa-ja, who failed the exam, earns the love of Ki-dae. Behind Kan-to's success, the corruption of his sister.

Just like every year, Dr. Burke comes to visit the old man who is being cared for by his nurse Dobruše. In a small, not very cosy room, the two friends have incredible adventures in which, thanks to their imagination, the most ordinary things change their function, fantasies become reality and a crazy world is created in which everything is possible. This experimental film, which is essentially a game within a game, completely breaks away from the usual standard of Barrandov productions and has rightly caught the attention of critics and insider viewers alike.

The second-in-command of a gang of robbers in the Chambal valley is forced to interact with Kumar, a police officer, after he learns that Kumar impregnated one of the girls in their community.

Shirley MacLaine uses music and drama to look at ways in which things are not necessarily what they seem to be.

A 1980s educational video that teaches the view how to communicate more effectively in the workplace.

Middle-aged private detective Gopichand and his temporary sidekick Bela don a series of quirky disguises amid a high-stakes theft investigation.

Mario Ferrara Villalta, a nobleman, does not realize that Nino Esposito is secretly a confidant of Don Alfredo Spinosa, a boss of the Camorra , and Roberto's father, his classmate, and appointed him as secretary, unaware of reports of the young with the underworld. Being a close friend of Roberto, Nino agrees to accompany him to a party held in the luxurious villa owned by a girl named Claudia Vieri, daughter of an industrialist friend of Roberto's father.

The original Kingston Trio are joined by Tom Smothers, Mary Travers, Lindsey Buckingham, and current Trio members when they perform together for the first time in 20 years.

"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Tokatsu.

Features the 07.55 from Sheffield to St Pancras. The camera follows to Leicester, where a young man is late for a job interview thanks to a variety of incidents including a freight train blocking the line and an improperly secured door at Derby. The film is a modernised version of an older theme for British Transport 'Right Time Means Right Time', where the accumulation of many minor delays on the part of BR staff soon add up down the line to make a train very late.

Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.

Recorded in 1982, Hand Picked By Billy was recorded at the Cambridge Theatre in London on Billy's "The Pick of Billy Connolly" tour. This show takes the best bits from that 3 night show and includes the infamous story of the Glasgow sewage worker.

Mr. Weng and his partner Gordon take on a gang of ninjas and Mexican banditos in California's wild, wild west.

Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.