Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Yessi, a wealthy plantation heiress with a scorned heart, takes pleasure in manipulating the men who fall for her. When her cruel games drive a young admirer named Anton to the brink of suicide, his older brother, Dr. Norman, decides to intervene with drastic measures. He kidnaps Yessi and takes her to his remote medical post in the jungles of Irian Jaya. Far from her life of luxury, Yessi is forced to endure a harsh new reality under Norman's strict guidance—a journey that challenges her arrogance and gradually transforms her perspective on life and love.

Noutenki faces off against Mecha Noutenki

An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

A subtle account of the chimpanzees' behaviour in Burgers Dierenpark in Arnhem, on the occasion of the publication of the book Chimpansee Politiek by ethologist Dr. Frans de Waal. A unique experiment shows us how complex the social strategies in the community of this fascinating anthropoid ape are. Haanstra managed to capture almost all aspects of chimpanzee behaviour: display of skill, teasing and pestering, grooming, resting, playing, motherly behaviour, submission, sex and violence. Eventually, the film was also screened to the apes.

Mistaken identity, unrequited love and the supernatural combine in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

AC/DC's second historic appearance at the UK's Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Park, Derby, England on 18 August 1984. 1) Guns for Hire; 2) Shoot to Thrill; 3) Sin City; 4) Back in Black; 5) Bad Boy Boogie; 6) Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution; 7) Flick of the Switch; 8) Hells Bells; 9) The Jack; 10) Have a Drink on Me; 11) Highway to Hell; 12) Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap; 13) Whole Lotta Rosie; 14) Let There Be Rock; 15) T.N.T.; 16) For Those About To Rock.

A woman tries to regain her dignity, both in her personal life and her career, after spending five years in prison, because of a false accusation that she was a saboteur.

Utpal Dutt's character lives in a joint family with his two sons. The eldest son is married. The younger son is looking for a groom. His strict principles rule the house which none of the sons dare to go against. The younger son marries and brings in his wife. Problems start arising when his mother arrives from the village with her own set of archaic rules. Finally the new wife adjust to these strict principles.

Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about her own desires, daydreams and nightmares.

This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto Maria Ewing, baritone Dennis Bailey, and several other sub-leads is not to be missed and will be fully enjoyed. No lead tenor here and none needed. No soprano here as a lead and none needed. One of the joys of my watching and listening outside the opera hall. The story line is strong and the tale well carried out.

A father teaches his son to read, illustrating the origin of Chinese characters by explaining pictographic characters. The film tells an interesting story through 36 active pictographic characters.

Middle-aged couple's adult children decide to emigrate to USA. Third movie in trilogy.

A side-splitting, rip-roaring madcap of a musical, giving you an insider's view of the early movie-making days. Laugh along with Mack Sennett as he creates the most memorable comedic scenes of the century. This is a musical comedy feast about the youth, the enthusiasm, the work, the zany fun, and above all, the innocence of those great times when America first started going to the movies.

The original 16mm short film which inspired the film of the same name

A heartfelt period drama that delicately portrays the joys and sorrows of a thief and the people living on the margins of society. Ihei, played by Tatsuya Nakadai, works as a painter by day. In reality, however, he is a skilled thief. To target the home of a moneylender’s mistress, he recruits a group of amateurs to join him. Men in need of large sums of money for various reasons begin to gather around Ihei, but…

A behind-the-scenes story that depicts the money and sexual desires of men who live in the entertainment world, including men who admire the entertainment world and those who try to prey on them by taking advantage of that admiration.

Varvarushka, the restless main character of the cartoon, went with her goat friend to pick flowers in the field. She ran and walked through the grass, and didn't even notice how she ended up in a dense forest. She came across a hut in the forest in which there was no one. In the hut, as usual, there were three beds, three chairs and three bowls on the table. Varvara sat on all the chairs, tried all the bowls, jumped on all the beds, and fell asleep on the smallest one. Meanwhile, the owners of the hut - three bears - returned home.

A must-have Wing Tsun (Wing Chun) Video. This is the video you can see the AUTHENTIC WING TSUN KUNG FU demonstration of the Siu-Nim-Tau form and the most advanced 116 wooden dummy techniques by the late Great Grandmaster Yip Man. Grandmaster Leung Ting demonstrates the Chum-Kiu form, Biu-Tze form and the Six & A Half Point Long Pole techniques as well as the Double-Knives techniques. You can also see the demonstrations of "CHI-SAU" techniques, fighting, footwork, etc. both in normal and slow motion in this video.

A cheerful music film with the Austrian pop star Johann Hölzel (better known as Falco), in which he travels around the world.

Version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen with the American mime team Shields and Yarnell.

After having a close call performing self-bondage, Jan Collins, a wealthy divorced woman, goes to a discreet wish fulfillment service. After agreeing to their terms of service, she's blindfolded, taken to a warehouse, and chained up to become the submissive slave of a blonde dominatrix. Her new mistress might have more evil plans in her mind for her though.

The animals hold a congress to decide what to do about humanity and the nuclear bomb.

A blue bird whose feathers bring happiness visits a mountain village.

Yi Jie, Mu Zhen and Ah Wei run a busy noodle shop, but Yi Jie can't stop thinking about Hainan

A tribute to cinema and to all those who take part in the production of a film, always with the desire to convey feelings and emotions. Dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard.

Broderick Crawford narrates factual accounts of Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and other '30s gangsters.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Directed by Chakki.

The times of serfdom in Latvia. Brothers Tom, Michelis and Andris, driven to despair by the cruelty of the Dormuizh landowner, decide to start a liberation struggle. Tom and Michelis go into the forest and tame a wolf pack there. Taking advantage of the folk legend that a person can turn into a werewolf and live in his guise, the brothers intend to fight the German barons with the help of a wolf pack controlled by them and a messenger Andris, who has remained in the village for the time being...

A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.

Made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Germans. The film won second prize at the XXII Leipzig Festival of Films for Children. In a German concentration camp Russian prisoners fashion a Don Quixote doll from a bit of metal. It becomes their symbol of hope. The lyrical film is bracketed with references to the Spanish Civil War, which led to decades of authoritarian rule by Generalissimo Franco, and the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile which toppled the socialist, pro-Soviet regime of Salvadore Allende. ('Clear skies' was the codeword which launched Francos 1936 coup, supported by the fascist governments of Italy and Germany and opposed by the USSR and France).

In the Pyrénées, in the nineteenth century, Gaston is one of the seven sons born into a family of poor peasants.Wanting to escape his condition, he captures a bear cub, raises it secretly with the help of his fiancée Estala, and trains it with a view to showing it in the fairs and the villages of the region. He has become a bear leader.

A man nicknamed 'Magpie' kills his former best friend Geun-ho. As Geun-ho dies, he begs Magpie to care for his younger brother which the murderer agrees to do.

Silvio, a young poet and inventor, struggles to find employment and to give meaning to his life. Silvio has a homosexual relationship, which leaves him traumatized.

The Angler claims he will use a toxin which will kill sea life unless a ransom is paid. Aquaman races to stop him.

Rajanna and his brother, Vicky, vow to avenge the murder of their mother at the hands of their cruel and greedy uncle, Rangappa.

Andrei is now a truck driver, but in one of his travels to Germany, he must become once again a boxer just for one night at the middleweight category.

"Thou shall not kill" is God's command that tortures the mind of David everytime he is in the brink of killing out of anger and revenge. But until when is the challenge of the said commandment?

What happens when Dad exchanges lifestyle with his son? Join Ariel (Aga Muhlach) and his widowed Erpat (Eddie Garcia) in this riot of a comedy on young and not so young love.

Jacques Rozier followed Bernard Ménez's tour in 1984 after the surprise success of his song "Jolie poupée". From a timecoded video in the possession of Jacques Rozier, post-production work was carried out in 2001 under the supervision of the director for his retrospective at the Center Pompidou. The element resulting from this work was digitized by the Cinémathèque française at the Hiventy laboratory in 2021.

1984 Kannada film directed by Joe Simon

“Exploration of the themes of human alienation through technology.”

The Delfin family moves to a new house after the husband migrates to Saudi Arabia for work. The family consists of Lorna, her daughter Virgie, their housekeeper Nelia, and the husband's lecherous nephew Dodong. Their home includes an old refrigerator from the kitchen.

Home video release of a show from Amy Grant's Age To Age Tour.

Lisa is 6 1/2 years old and goes to kindergarten. One day she gets lice. The film shows how the peers and the adult environment react.

Kunz, the poor day laborer who is richly blessed with children, discovers the secret of the cave in the Simeliberg while collecting wood. Robbers keep their looted treasures there. Kunz takes some of it from time to time so that he can put a little more on the table for his family. Kunz's rich, stingy and suspicious neighbor discovers the secret of the treasure cave. His greed blinds him so much that he runs into his misfortune.

The Time Machine is purchased from an antiques store by a physician from Berlin. Much of the script plays out in one room in the Berlin villa of Dr. Erasmus Beilowski. He and his well-educated friends have an intelligent discussion about the world and the future, with a view to the Time Machine. What to use it for?

The Manchu are out to destroy the Shaolin's temple and their way of life. The Shaolin master has just chosen his successor to be Rocky, a young Shaolin monk awaiting enlightenment. However, Rocky falls into an evil plot set up by the Manchu, and now he must fight to save the temple and preserve the Shaolin Buddhist way of life!

The film describes the first working day of a twelve-year-old girl, shortly after the turn of the century. After a miserable childhood in a proletarian family, where she was mother to five toddlers, the sensitive girl follows in the footsteps of her parents and seventeen-year-old sister and sets off for the brickworks. The girl bravely defends herself at work, enduring the boys' bullying without tears, but when the day comes to an end, the foreman tells her that she must go to Krevelt, the boss, to be registered.

The fairy Illusia and the goblin Pessi meet. Pessi, who has only recently become independent, is a member of the Pessimists' family. They are proud of their practical and sensible attitude to life. Illusia's father, on the other hand, is Mr Illusioni, a famous visionary living on a rainbow.