Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Mozart's famous Singspiel after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's work "Belmonte und Konstanze", DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL comes to life in the sumptuous setting of Topkapi, the Ottoman sultans' own Istanbul seraglio (palace harem). Belmonte finds his fiancée Konstanze and her English maid Blondchen, who were captured and sold by pirates, in the Mediterranean seraglio of the Ottoman pasha Selim. Belmonte's servant Pedrillo gets him engaged as builder. After Selim tried to enforce himself upon Konstanze, Pedrillo and Blondchen, his own sweetheart, prepare their flight, managing to get Osmin, the pasha's overseer, drunk. Yet Osmin and Selim's guard still capture them, already in the garden; however the touching display of true love melts the pasha's heart, so he lets them go.

Jin wants to make a tape of his own songs, so he moves to Bangkok. Manee hears Jin’s song and together they decide to produce the tape. After that Jin becomes even more popular.

Uma shoulders the responsibility of bringing up her two young brothers after the death of her parents. Subba Rao, who falls in love with Uma, wants to marry her and share her responsibilities.

Paco, a poor street hunchback lives in an improvised shelter under the Brooklyn Bridge. In order to survive, Paco carves wood figurines, trading them for food for him and his faithful dog. But on one cold, dark and violent Brooklyn night, Paco witnesses an art theft and is promptly run over by the thug's van. Later in the hospital, a lovely nurse, who takes care of Paco, appreciates his figurines and decides to introduce Paco to her friend, an art dealer. Unfortunately, the dealer recognizes Paco as the only witness to her well organized crime of art theft. A nail-biting finale ends this extraordinary story.

To help the starving peasants of 1918 Turkestan, the Soviet government sends a caravan with bread from Tashkent. This path is dangerous - gangs of Basmachi and White Cossacks are rampant here. The detachment commander, after a series of exhausting battles, decides to distract the gangs - and sets off on the wrong path a “false caravan” led by Commissioner Archman...

Detail from 1987 Australian tour, a collection of music videos from the abstract industrial group.

Sayonara Goodbye is a China-Japan Co-Production starring Cherie Chung.

The lonely boy Rune at the egg packing house has trouble being accepted by the cool guys at the local rock club, because he copies the others instead of inventing his own identity. The solution comes when he takes the gun in his hand.

Monkey-like lemurs, found on Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Included: the ring-tailed lemur, which forages for fruit pods, leaves and roots; the indri; the red-fronted; and the lesser mouse, with an average weight of 2 ounces.

Much confusion in the absurd dialogue between a TV presenter and a housewife occupied with tragic aspects of her existence.

Exposed (Bipanah) is a melodrama film produced in 1987 and directed and written by Alireza Davodenjad, which, like some of his other works, deals with youth problems and social concerns.

Directed by : Samir Al Asfory

A man isolates himself from his environment and finally disappears into a white wall in his home.

Donika Sara is the director of an important enterprise. Unexpectedly her husband has an accident. She has to choose between her social life and her duty as a wife.

Jorge and Alberto are unemployed so they decide to try their luck as employees of a gallery soon to be inaugurated.

A factory worker in the south of Italy, frustrated by work and marriage, withdraws into nature, but in the search for love and human warmth he ends up "on the dog" in the sense of the word.

A man tells a story from his childhood, comparing it to his current experience.

About a boy who wants to bring a Christmas tree into his house for the first time.

Talking Feet is the first documentary to feature flatfoot, buck, hoedown, and rural tap dancing, the styles of solo Southern dancing which are a companion to traditional old-time music and on which modern clog dancing is based. Featuring 24 traditional dancers videotaped on location in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.

An anti-American terrorist group calling themselves People For Freedom who set about blowing up and shooting various folks for reasons best known to themselves.

The widowed king was bewitched by the beauty of the devils' lover. The new queen wants to create the opportunity for the devils to gain power on earth. Only one man can stop their plan: John, who can do anything with his miraculous magic.

A pebble sets on a journey to help a sick girl.

Iron Maiden at RPI Fieldhouse, Troy, NY, USA Intro Caught Somewhere In Time 2 Minutes To Midnight Children Of The Damned Stranger In A Strange Land Wasted Years Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Guitar Solo Heaven Can Wait Phantom Of The Opera Hallowed Be Thy Name Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast Run To The Hills Running Free

Documentary following some stoner friends over the course of roughly a day. Featured here is Bill, a guy who got kicked out of the Marines for doing dope steadily for six years (I'm not gonna do it forever--or maybe I will, who knows?) and Barry, a forklift-driving doper who wins the Employee of the Month plaque while stoned (Live for yourself--live today and then worry about tomorrow when it gets here--that's the way I go).

“Her Fragrant Emulsion is an obsessional homage to the ’60s B-film actress Mimsy Farmer. The film’s visceral collage images act as a metaphor for sensuality and move in and out of sync with the soundtrack to evoke the distancing and intimacy cycles that are common in love relationships.”—Lewis Klahr

Based on Jafar Jabbarli's play.

Charles Durning as Pope John XXIII

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Portrait of the Swiss artist H.R. Giger.

A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to perform on a huge turntable. Our look at this garishly lit spectacle is mediated by the gaze of a female Red Guard. All flesh and brilliance, this tape appears to critique popular culture by robbing it of any ostensible content. Hollywood proverb says, beneath the surface of fake tinsel lies only the real tinsel – the detritus of our times.

The birth of the alphabet.

William Lee wrote, produced, directed and starred in this film, which concerns a secret agent guiding an adventurous female professor on a search for the Treasure of the Ninja.

The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.

Films for children gradually fell into the grip of expressive and content sterility, succumbing to exhortative, educational tendencies. This is also the case in the story of a 14-year-old girl who has been accepted to the conservatory, but a sudden accident, a broken arm, makes her rethink her priorities - she learns that it is possible to engage in other activities than the tedious practice of piano etudes.

At a maternity ward in South Vietnam, a midwife adopts three orphaned children after their mothers, undercover Communist spies, go missing or die in action.

Following the trend for dangdut musicals, such as the successful ones starring Rhoma Irama, Elvy Sukaesih, and A. Rafiq, this film even features a lead actor who looks like Rhoma Irama, and the character also uses a similar name. Herry Irama has always wanted to be a singer. He is fired because he is considered undisciplined. His hard luck worsens when his father kicks him out of the house. Then his first effort to apply for a job in a recording company is rejected and he ends up being a gardene

An emperor tries using paintings to find a wife.

Mexican feature film

Documentary about art theft during the nazi era.

A man wants to take a shower in a public shower, but it is only for "naked showerers". But he is wearing swimming trunks...

A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal.

Valmar Adams (1899-1993), writer and literary historian with artistic nature, has played an important part as a mediator of Russian literature and culture while working in the faculty of Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu during 1931-1974. First poems in Russian and German were published already in 1915. However, his hot-bloodedness often caused trouble. Trivimi Velliste, Rein Veidemann and Linnar Priimägi talk to the 87-year-old Adams.

The second part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Heta Niskavuori marries Akusti, a farmhand. Together, they build a magnificent house from a croft, and Akusti forges a distinguished career in society. To Heta, however, he will always be a farmhand.

Mexican feature film

Using interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on both sides of the camera as they direct their multi-racial cast in an insightful profile of older-younger relationships. Their subjects are candid and comfortable discussing the joys and problems of loving someone of a different generation.