Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

It's not good to turn your back on old friends.

Anna Reringer leaves her husband and goes to San Francisco to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress.

Aysel, a village girl, is forced by her alcoholic father to marry an old man for dowry money. Unable to find happiness, the young girl runs away from home. Some time later, her father, having come to his senses, kills the old man to rescue his daughter from this evil man.

Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.

This concert was organized and recorded on video by Igor Leonov and Alexander Startsev. (Leningrad, 24.05.1987)

The film begins with the funeral of Somying Daorai, who killed himself when his lover, Boontherm, went straight. This lover shows up at the funeral with his ex-lesbian wife. Somying's brother's is brought in to plot revenge, but falls for Boontherm. At the same time, Orn, the ex-lesbian, tracks down her ex-girlfriend. Among all of this is a aristocrat who buys the Tiffany Club, where Somying once sang.

The 1986-87 season saw the return to Arsenal of their former player George Graham as manager. Graham had been appointed just after the end of the previous season as successor to Don Howe who had resigned in late March. He had been a member of Arsenal's double winning team in 1971, but Arsenal had gone since 1979 without winning a major trophy, finishing seventh in the two seasons leading up to Graham's arrival and finishing as low as 10th in 1983. Arsenal started the season well and were top of the league by Christmas, but a 10-match winless run went against their title hopes in the second half of the season and they eventually finished fourth, with Everton finishing champions for the second time in three seasons. Compensation for the failed title bid came in the form of the club's first ever Football League Cup victory, which came with a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the Wembley final. Charlie Nicholas scored both of Arsenal's goals.

At the beginning of this century, huge steamers sailed the Atlantic. A good idea for a honeymoon. This film tells the story of love and the sea.

Shows special features of various Chinese ethnic marriage customs.

It was Christmas time. Three friends - a newspaper reporter, a bass player, and a lawyer - were on their way to visit someone. After buying gifts, they rushed to the train station. However, there were no seats available in the first-class compartment. In the second-class compartment, they found a lady sitting alone. However, the lady refused to let them enter the compartment. The friends decided to play a prank on the lady and took her to the train station to find out if her belongings were in the compartment. As a result, they had to pay for the lady's carriage and were unable to catch up with the train. The lady, who had seemed scandalous at first, turned out to be very nice and invited them to her house for Christmas.

Sarushima Island lies off the coast of Yokosuka Port. In the late Edo Period the island was outfitted with artillery and in the Meiji period a fort was constructed by the Army. After Japan’s defeat in the war, it was opened as a sea park and young people began to make it a destination. Noda visited it to shoot in black and white in 1968, and in color in 1983. In excluding human figures from the screen and filming ruins and graffiti in their materiality, he experiments at creating a visual poem.

1987 straight to video.

On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.

The New York underground linked the paths of the actor and playwright Charles Ludlam, the superstar of avant-garde cinema Mario Montez and the Argentine artist Leandro Katz. An underground community found refuge in a porn cinema that Ludlam rented at night to stage his theater of the ridiculous. In 1970 he premiered The Grand Tarot, an extravagant burlesque where the arcana became characters and a reading of cards before the performance began established the order of the scenes. Rollo Six materializes that furtive experience, recovering in its formal commitment the inventiveness of chance that guided Ludlam's work. Katz superimposes edited scenes in camera, fracturing the screen through the use of masks that cover the lens and allow him to separately expose each corner of the frame.

Two teenagers on their way to a marijuana party are capture by two escaped prisoners and are held for ransom.

Documentary about the Philadelphia Flyers' 1985 - 86 season. Following their loss in the Stanley Cup finals the previous season and the death of their All-Star goalie, Pelle Lindbergh the team rebounds. Features highlights & interviews with the players and coaches.

South African drama set at a roadhouse in Apartheid.

In a meeting in Thailand, it is decided that twenty tons of heroin to be smuggled to Iran and to be pushed in schools, universities, and even the frontline. While the shipment is being moved on Iranian roads, a detective is killed in Tehran. His successor tries to find the shipment with the help from an addicted inmate and his fiancée.

The second of three films about the girl Vera and her monkey friend Anfisa.

This video is about seduction. The audience is seduced by the female narrator, while at the same time repelled by the seductress' desperate need for love and approval. The title is ironic: although the narrator "likes girls for friends better than boys," the attraction is masochistic and destructive. — Video Data Bank

A documentary about the folk country musician Oscar Thiffault, the famous songwriter of Le Rapide blanc.

A half-hour film about three-feet, six-inch Michael Anderson, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or “glass bones” disease, and the positive attitudes that Little Mike maintains about his affliction and life in general.

A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.

GDR, the last working day of an industrial worker between loud machines, shower cabins and life prospects agains all reason.

Nana with her mother come from Thessaloniki to settle in Athens. The mother and daughter relationship is completely liberated from social taboos. Nana written at Athens High School, but from day one faces the bad faith of the classmate. All classmates are girls, the authorities of feminism is the guiding principle of their conduct. Nana between them looks like the fly in the milk and this bothers

The meat grinder disappeared, the telephone disappeared, the TV disappeared, the tape recorder disappeared. It was schoolchildren who created a mysterious computer from household appliances in the attic of their house.

Berlin in the golden 20s. Like no other, the singer and cabaret artist Claire Waldoff found the right words for what the so-called “little people“ thought and felt. Her heartfelt songs with heart and snout triggered storms of enthusiasm and made Claire Waldoff famous. Kurt Tucholsky gave her the nickname "Sparrow of Berlin". With the beginning of the 1930s and the Nazi regime in Germany, the popularity of the Berlin original declined.

A tale about how the hippopotamus Topa and the kitten Tutti made a journey to a distant mountain and felt the joy of discovering a great and beautiful world.

The violence that prevails between men and women often tears cause and effect apart, banishing them to different times and places. Is there such a thing as proportionality of means? The film is about four women of different ages who together could form a story.

Trying to please a group of villagers, Quark the troll is troubled by a horde of mosquitoes.

Mexican feature film

Nongyao is a fake doctor who do an illegal abortion. She fosters Prakong and her daughter, Tubtim, and give her an assistant position. Run, a son of Nongyao, is a handsome young man who flirts with many girl. He always bring women to have an abortion. Tubtim doubts her mother's profession. To tell the truth that Run is one of the children who mother come to have an abortion but survived and Nongyao decides to adopt him. She has to risk her peaceful life.

Mai Toan leaves his studies at the Music Academy to join the army. One day, he is assigned to escort Cam - a prisoner back to the rear for extraction.

Kogoro Akechi attends a party hosted by his old friend, the Japanese-style painter Gozo Yuki. He is introduced to Yuki’s daughter, Shimako, who is soon attacked by an unknown assailant...

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

Mexican feature film

A strange young woman lives for a while with a man and brings troubles in his appartment and his life.

Antypas, a civil servant, lives with his sister and his rocker nephew, who doesn't get along with him at all. He's always complaining. Everything is everyone else's fault, everyone annoys him, and he wants to fix everything. Sometimes he despairs, thinking it would be better to just pack up and leave, to emigrate...

A look at sexual practices in the USA.

Three nimble little devils came out of hell to play pranks on earth. But unexpectedly, one of them met a girl flute player and was so fascinated that he decided to become a human himself...

Inga takes a pregnancy test in the morning in her apartment and places it on the breakfast table. While waiting for the result, she confronts her French lover Richard with the responsibility for their potential children and for the future prospects of their relationship. Inga wants to push Richard to an immediate position while he wants to postpone all the decisions until the test is complete.

Kogoro Akechi solves the mystery of the invisible culprit and the invisible weapon.

The boy Nurdin spent his summer holidays in the mountains with his grandfather, a herdsman. He learned to ride a horse, took part in horse races, showed courage by going with local children to a cave to get mumiyo to cure a sick comrade.

Hıdır, who earns his living as a truck driver, meets Cemile by chance. Cemile is the daughter of a wealthy family from Diyarbakır. The friendship that begins between them quickly turns into love. However, it is impossible for them to be together because Cemile is engaged to someone else.

A documentary about the Cuban Revolution's transition into an authoritarian dictatorship, including repression, imprisonment, torture, and execution of political dissidents, while the rest of the world turned a blind eye.

The nine-year-old Mahmud writes a letter to his 'friends in distant countries' and reports on life in Kabul during the years of the Afghan revolution and counter-revolution.

The story of how, in 1914, the self-taught Indian mathematical genius SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN came to England and Trinity College, Cambridge, to work with the great British pure mathematician GH Hardy.