Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Set in 1930s in Northeast China. Three friends attend the high school in Japanese puppet regime in Manchuria. They are forced to study Japanese and learn to live as conquered people. They see that their patriot teacher is arrested, revolutionists are killed, family members are persecuted. They determine to envisage nationalistic pride and make up their minds to fight Japanese aggressors.

The first part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Loviisa comes to Niskavuori as Juhani's young wife. She has to fight for her right to the house and her husband, but finds her own way of life and takes her place as the mistress of the house. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.

The Christmas star fell from the sky and hides in Monica's house. Monica and Cebolinha try to help the little star back to the sky. TV Special shown on 1987's Christmas Eve on TV Globo

In this short film, we watch Brazilian artist Marcos Magalhães bring an animated figure to life on the drawing board. Using different materials and techniques, he manipulates his character to walk, jump and interact with his surroundings. This whimsical film was made during an apprenticeship program at the National Film Board of Canada.

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.

A Turkish remake of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).

A farmer becomes a notorious killer and bandit.

A young Varsovian talks about discovering his origins and the new identity he is building, Jewish culture and religion. He is supported by an old Jew, a Hebrew teacher.

Director İsmet Elçi tells the semi-autobiographical story of Kemal (played by Elçi himself), who negotiates his identity between two cultures (Turkey and Germany), struggling to find a future as a director in the German film industry.

Danka, a music theater dancer, has no professional success and is stuck in an unsuccessful relationship with Marek. He decides to change his life. She leaves her lover and begins cooperation with the amateur mime group "Arlekin". Together with the group, he goes to performances in West Berlin.

A blown wick, a rejected corner stone, multiplied loaves, mown wheat and the mower watching us. Some Bible verses illustrated by plans stolen in the countryside during the summer.

A middle-class man earns a millionaire fortune that he decides to use to pay Argentina's foreign debt.

Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.

After her husband dies in an accident and she takes care of her children alone, Raja reluctantly agrees to marry Mounir, but she is exposed to many difficult situations that complicate her emotional and family life.

Three childhood friends are discharged from the army and seek ways to become wealthy. They form a partnership and open an entertainment center. Seeing that business is going well, Filotimos forgets his childhood friendships and betrays them, taking over the entire business for himself...

A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.

Playful homage to the spirit of the Nouvelle Vague: a young American in Paris gives chase to, and in the process falls in love with, a Parisian pickpocket.

Free adaptation of the story “Muebles El Canario” by Felisberto Hernández, with Leo Maslíah in the leading role.

A young boy through a period of transition. His last baby tooth, which symbolises this period, is sore. He is scared of pulling it out, of saying goodbye to his dead mother and to his childhood. No one understands him, be is deprived from material physical affection. He himself does not understand his father who has brought another woman home. He feels this is an act of betrayal towards his dead mother.

A recap of the TV series with six and a half minutes of new footage.

An alien invasion of robot foot soldiers attacks a city and kidnaps people, including a young girl. Her companion, an android, is damaged, but retains her locket. A human with superhuman abilities is then seen; he goes through waves of robots before being stopped by two powerful robots.

Mizumori and Aoyagi drive a Cadillac to Roppongi for the purpose of picking up girls. When the Roppongi gals saw the extremely anachronistic Cadillac, they laughed and left. When Mizumori starts driving again, he spots a nice woman, Chikako Aoyama, who is trying to stop her taxi.

In the city of Havana in 1964, Papolo, son of a free slave, decides to give a Christmas toy to his sister. He discovers the city and its inhabitants but also the worrying forest. He will get involved in different situations confronting the reality of those times.

This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see unique sculpture by Mike Rudnick and meet the offspring and pets of the culturally inclined. There is also a gallery encounter with the late filmmaker, Curt McDowell, who attends an opening of his photomontages.

This European Film Award winner documentary tells the story of Recsk, Hungary's most notorious political prison camp, which operated between 1950 and 1953. During the early 1950's the very existence of this camp for political prisoners at Recsk was one of the Hungarian communist regime's deepest secrets. Hundreds of people were taken there without ever actually being sentenced by any court, and had to suffer through the brutal treatment handed down by their sadistic captors. This documentary tells the story of Recsk from both the captors' and the prisoners' point of view, capturing the atmosphere of paranoia, humiliation and degradation that prevailed throughout the Stalinist gulag system.

A look at the history of Andahuaylas in which historical reflection is mixed with the memory and feelings of its inhabitants.

If your life were like a river... could she force it to flow back? A river does not flow backward.

Two close friends fall in love with the same girl.

The story is about Halil Ağa, a businessman involved in shady dealings, who brings Ali from his village to protect him.

About the first Hungarian Beauty Contest in 1985, that led to a tragic end.

One thousand power workers went on strike against the South East Queensland Electrical Board (SEQEB)in February 1985 in protest against the introduction of contract worker hire. This documentary details the industrial relations dispute between the ensuing Joh Bjelke Peterson coalition government and the Electrical Trades Union in Queensland, Australia during 1985.

Animated short film based on comic strips by Argentine graphic humorist Joaquín Lavado, better known as Quino.

Language Says It All is a 1987 American short documentary film about deaf children and their caregivers, directed by Rhyena Halpern and produced by Halpern and Megan Williams. The film follows four families as they come to understand their deaf child's need for language. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Manfred Deix is a cartoonist an painter. Above all, his aggressive caricatures of politicians and political events in the Austrian provinces have made him notoriously famous far beyond national borders. His very personal chronicles of current events and portrayals of human calamities (Deix's people are generally obese and disproportionate) are also the contents of four books which are bestsellers. This documentary film of Peter Hajek describes the career and work of the Austrian, not only at work but among his numerous cats which, apart from his wife, mean very much to him.

A documentary detailing the extraordinary life and career of Turkish actor and director Yilmaz Güney, who wrote many of his films from prison and broke out of jail to edit "Yol". The film includes the last interview Guney did before his death.

The film tells the story of the Moomin family's preparations for winter and their hibernation, interrupted by unexpected events: the appearance of the mischievous Nibling, a visit to Too-Ticky, who lives by the sea, the adventures of Little My, rescued by Moomintroll, the exploits of the Hemulen, a sports enthusiast, and so on. The story ends with the arrival of spring, the awakening of all the inhabitants of Moominvalley, and the return of Snufkin. The film is based on episodes of the television series "Moomin Stories".

Tohoku some live Watanabe Bunta wax in the town of still single in their 30s. While the tutor had been making a living. But, life the first time tutor of this hottest was unusual. Problem child and fell, such as his had to have students truancy and domestic violence.

Break through your writer's block and get the juices flowing with the powers of hypnosis.

The work reflects the historical life of the great general D. Sukhbaatar, who started participating in the People's Revolution.

When a factory burns down the loss adjuster is sent to investigate.

Not a stage direction, but rather something very concrete is hidden behind the technical term. Something which betrays a little of the yearning for intelligent and playful dealings with the medium of short film…

Calling themselves "The Three Fishketeers," a trio of adventuresome fish set out across the ocean floor to seek fame and fortune. Toby, bright-eyed and spunky, Finner, aristocratic and thoughtful, and Gillis, a big "galumphing" guppy who calmly takes everything in stride. Meeting a "damsel" clearly not in distress, the would-be heroes comically try to help her recover a large pearl. But it isn't long before all four of them are swimming for their lives, and The Three Fishketeers finally learn what heroism really is.

September 1938. Tenants of a Budapest block of flats live their everyday lives, conducted by tradition. World politics does not divide them. Their major experience is the private life of the actress in the house.

The tale of the gullible bear.

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.