Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Rich man's son in a small town thinks he can get away with anything, including rape and murder.

Even the best of resolutions can crumble, especially when late paternal feelings are echoed. Although the protagonist is a lecturer in ethics at the university, explaining the principles of good behaviour to the students, he himself experiences many confusions and troubles when he tries to get his teenage daughter from his first marriage admitted to medical school. The eloquent, self-confident man slowly turns into a bully, who also defies his own principles.

Veeranna and Malli loves each other. But things changes a lot when Veeranna returns home from military service.

Young Ali and his camel-driver grandfather Moussa take part in an expedition through the Australian Outback. Faced with prejudice, Moussa's knowledge and the hardiness of his camels in the punishing conditions quickly prove vital to both the success of the expedition and the survival of its members.

A beautiful rock singer, in need of some extra cash, poses for some sexy photos for a men's magazine, without telling her possessive, cocaine-crazed boyfriend. Matters get complicated when she falls in love with the photographer who's taking the pictures.

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.

This is the story of how Þór and Danni run a farm. They get a job running a farm for a local farmer that is going on a vacation to sweden, they of course pronouns them selfs as experts in the field of agriculture, witch they of course aren't. When they have managed to get the "hold" of things they get the brilliant idea to have a agricultural seminar for city people on the farm.

Mr. Oswal is a very rich, influential, domineering man who lives with his wife and two sons, Jayant and Ajay. Mr. Oswal convinces his elder son Jayant that he cannot marry the girl he loves, Chandra; he must marry the girl of his father's choice.

Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.

Having heard tales of Bigfoot wreaking havoc in the swamps of Louisiana, a zoology professor sets out to investigate these strange occurrences for himself, aided by a ragtag team. Hitting the road in their camper, the group encounter person after person who relay their strange and often frightening encounters with the beast, while the creature itself remains elusive...

In the last days of WW2, the German minesweeper MX12 is on its way into the enemy’s zone to pick up wounded soldiers. When a radio message proclaims the end of war, the crew demands to break off the risky mission. Only the captain wants to continue.

A documentary-style SM film including water torture and crucifixion.

Mohsen lives with his sister Aida and her husband Ezzat. After he graduated from the university, his colleague Najwa urges Mohsen to look for work so that they can get married. Ezzat tries to help Mohsen get a job but Mohsen fails in every job.

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.

Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, the Hawaiians, who wear garlands and drink Pina Coladas.

Hotel switchboard operators try to help a prominent wealthy man whose life may be in danger.

S. N. Balachandran, a young and dynamic lawyer, falls in love with Prameela, a village belle. Due to an unforeseen set of circumstances, their relationship falls apart.

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.

Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos. "Becoming American" records their odyssey as they travel to and resettle in the United States. As they face nine months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new home in Seattle, the family provides a rare insight into refugee resettlement and cultural diversity issues.

Semi-employed street musician butts heads with his wife and grown(ish) children because of his irresponsible lifestyle. Then he lucks into a cushy government job.

Multi-platinum album selling legends Styx dig deep into their rock arsenal and release on DVD for the first time their concert video Caught In The Act. Recorded during their Kilroy Was Here tour in 1983, this concert video centers around this concept album's theme of a futuristic society where rock `n' roll is banned by the masses. Remastered in 5.1 surround, experience the band's classic hits at the height of their career like Mr. Roboto and Don't Let It End, as well as their concert staples like Come Sail Away, Blue Collar Man and Too Much Time On My Hands.

In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.

A young woman follows clues across America, searching for a missing statuette of a golden horse. Viewers were invited to solve the film's mystery to find a real buried treasure hidden somewhere in the United States. No one solved the puzzle by the contest's deadline, and in 1989 the money was donated to charity.

One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.

Vijay Kumar, a diligent army major, is forced to marry Lala's mentally challenged daughter. He is dragged into an unjust legal system where he has to compromise on his morals.

Documentary that profiles Mark Pauline, the machine performance artist of Survival Research Laboratories. As the Title suggests, Pauline lost most of one hand during experimentation. 'Maimed Artist' explores the often destructive world of such performance art, where there is a fine line between entertainment and insanity.

Two brothers separated at youth grow up on different sides of the law - one as a cop, the other as a criminal. Their quests to avenge their father's murderers unites them.

Lalakis, a penniless guy, is obsessed with expensive imported clothing, and through various petty schemes he manages to satisfy his "shopping" addiction. When he gets fired from his job and is left penniless, an Italian woman, Livia, appears and suggests that they import cosmetics from Italy to Greece. Lalakis gladly accepts and goes to Rome to bring them back, but he gets mixed up with a gang of antiquities smugglers, who follow him to Greece. However, he manages to neutralize them and subsequently becomes wealthy from the imported cosmetics.

While investigating a murder KGB detectives discover a criminal group which transfers a stolen artworks abroad .

A group of unemployed and marginalised souls eke out a meagre living by drawing welfare and occupying a derelict squat in an apocalyptic inner city Dublin. Among the undesirables are a gay man estranged from his wife, a pimp and his prostitute, a destitute businessman, and a paranoiac. The makeshift family soon find themselves subject of intimidation from the State, along with other external forces.

Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .

A huge mysterious comet is on a collision course with earth. A crash is averted, but the near miss causes tidal waves, exploding mountains and huge earthquakes. The earth cracks apart and up from the depths come creatures from the past. Huge dinosaurs begin to roam the planet, a planet now covered with swamps and jungles. Then, as suddenly as they came to life, the dinosaurs begin to die. Only the DINOSAUR PATROL can restore order on earth. Or can they?

The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.

When the impoverished Aisha sells her daughter Zeinab to the barren wealthy woman Soraya, she insists on being Zeinab's nanny to raise her. But as her other children grow up and get prestigious jobs, they ask their mother to quit her job, ignorant of the fact that she is staying for their sister.

An old man punishes his son for not having children, so he tells him his inheritance will go to someone else if he doesn't have a child in a year.

The poor shepherd boy Michal signs up for service at the royal castle as a gardener's apprentice. He soon learns his trade well, but he also learns the secret of Duke Rosemary's curse, which forces the three royal daughters to spend every night dancing and debauchery against their will. Everyone from the entire kingdom tries in vain to unravel the mystery of the worn-out slippers that the princesses have in their rooms every morning. So Michal sets out to fight the mystery.

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of relaxers, gels, and curlers. This short film has become essential for discussions of racism, African American cinema, and empowerment.

An alpine village shortly before the First World War. Widowed forester Rufman has little sympathy for his sons Friedel and Elias. Both find it difficult to cope with themselves. One day, a stranger appears whose curiosity confuses the suspicious villagers. Only Elias feels attracted to him. When a murder takes place in the village, suspicion soon falls on the forester's boys.

Twenty-four hours before his wedding, two unexpected romances threaten Arturo's wedlock.

The five-year Senka is home alone because his mom is pregnant and his father took her to the hospital. From this event boy's amazing adventures in the village began

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles.

Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped last will and testament - with a sadistic twist.

The film is set in Europe and depicts the love between a Japanese photographer and a princess from one of the European countries.

A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her further inhibits any impulse to go it alone.

An honest forest officer, Vikram, is in love with Angela, and soon both get married. Their marriage and bliss is shattered when dacait Kehar Singh kills Angela. When Vikram sets out to avenge her death, he himself is framed and sentenced to prison. When he completes his sentence, he comes out only to be a suspect again, this time in the eyes of Neeta, who thinks he killed her dad.

Rajesh Chopra "Farooq Shaikh" meets and falls for a young simple working girl Rashi "Surinder Kaur", an interior decorator. Rajesh mistakes that Rashi is a wealthy and well to do girl while she is buying an expensive carpet for her client. She tries to fake that identity in order to keep Rajesh interested in her. Rashi's boss gives her a responsibility to refurbish a flat of a client, who is away in Delhi for a week. This happens to be actually Rajesh's house but Rashi is not aware of it. Rashi with her friend Neeta "Aruna Irani" starts living in that flat pretending to be owners of the flat. Then starts the roller coaster ride of complex and comical situations. Sudden arrival of Rajesh's mother in the flat adds to the complexity

Vertical Opera is a documentary film directed by Jean-Paul Janssen, with climbers Patrick Edlinger and Jean-Paul Lemercier in the Gorges du Verdon. The film opens with a training sequence of Patrick Edlinger then he links the routes with Jean-Paul Lemercier "L'Ange en décongelation" (7a), in which he falls voluntarily to demonstrate the usefulness of the rope, then "Le Septième Saut" (7b+). Finally, the final scene, an anthology, consists of a close-up of Edlinger who climbs free solo and barefoot the route "Débiloff", still in the Verdon, above hundreds of meters of void, all to lyrical music. It is "Wie Furchtsam Wankten Meine Schritte", the aria for alto voice from Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata BWV 33, music not unrelated to the subject of the documentary: "How faltering and fearful my steps were".

A modern trial by jury at the Old Bailey of one of the most famous events in English history. Conducted on the afternoon and evening of 21st February, 1984, it was held almost 500 years after the death of the last of the Plantagenet Kings, King Richard III, on Bosworth Field, the last of the English monarchs to die in battle. The charges are that King Richard III did, in or about the month of August, 1483, in the Tower of London, murder Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, and Prince Richard, Duke of York. Presiding over the case is Lord Elwyn-Jones, the former Lord Chancellor, and he is ably supported by two of Britain’s leading criminal Queen’s Counsels. A fascinating trial which presents evidence which offers the viewer the opportunity to join the jury in weighing the evidence and reaching his or her own verdict before discovering that of the television jury.

Maria has suffered from depression since the death of her child, and goes to live in a lonely house by the sea.

Tina, Julie and Alfa simply turn the tables on love: they don't wait for the guys to come on, they throw themselves into the action when they meet the bowling clique around Tim, Freddy and Rolf. Although their goal is actually only the bowling competition in St. Tropez, they let the party go on. And then it turns out that Tina's father has a plane that might take the boys to St. Tropez...

Mitică Popescu is a functionary at a bank and he is secretly in love with the owner. She is in financial trouble though, and she is about to lose the bank and everything she has. Mitică finds a way to help her.

Roland Brenner is a young, agile school principal with only one problem: Lydia, his bubbly girlfriend, teaches at a strange, faraway school. Roland now decides to get him transferred there. In order to succeed, he messes up the whole school. He is particularly taken with the schoolgirls... Only after long entanglements does he succeed in his transfer. What he cannot know: Lydia has at the same time obtained her transfer to his school!

"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.

Pink film distributed by Shintoho.

A teenage girl falls in love with a boy, then discovers that his mother is the drunk driver who killed her sister.

Fathi trades in smuggled goods, he lives with his mother Bahia and loves his neighbor Fakiha who encourages him to finish his studies. A matchmaker persuades his mother to marry Said, a professional conman who marries wealthy old women and steals their money. Fathi tries to prevent this marriage.

Crispin is a soltero who has undergone several heartbreaks with women, broken family ties, and his own personal conflicts. In his evolution as a man, he shows his weakness, his strengths, his confusion.

The two directors meander through rural Mississippi in search of the spirit of local music and society. Highlights the heritage of William Faulkner, the role of Black churches, and gospel and blues music.