Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist.

Horror and Science fiction anthology from Japan

Drama about the world of deregulated financial trading in the City of London during the Thatcher era.

Gi-yeon is burdened by her half-brother's insidious gaze, but one day when he enters the bedroom, she decides to run away. Gi-yeon, who comes to Seoul for the first time, is caught by gangsters, but with the help of lightning, she gets out of trouble and lives with him in his apartment. Lightning, a member of a criminal organization, rejects Gi-yeon's pure love and for the sake of money, he makes Saron's regular customers Song Jeon-mu and Gi-yeon live. One day, Ki-yeon finds out that she is having a child of lightning. Lightning coolly shakes off Gi-yeon's hand, begging for her to live with her.

In an epic tale of power, pride and love, three men battle for the enduring devotion of one beautiful woman. Vinay (Rishi Kapoor) is a young, idealistic forest ranger who falls for the charms of the enchanting Chandramukhi (Vinita). A tyrannical ruler of one tribe (Amrish Puri) and a young man (Gulshan Grover) of a rival tribe are also smitten with the siren. Who will the mysterious woman choose?

Rahmi discovers that his wife Najwa is in a relationship with his friend Khaled, a writer of crime films. He plans to kill her and agrees with Azzam, who has a criminal record, to carry out the crime, as he covets her great wealth. Rahmi devises a well-thought-out plan, but it fails. He is surprised to find that Hoda killed Azzam in self-defense. Rahmi plans to frame Najwa for premeditated murder, which brings her closer to the gallows.

A clever and cunning tailor deftly deceived his client. He praised the ugly tailored trousers so eloquently that his customer simply couldn't refuse the purchase.

Police officer Zae Zae is falsely suspected of a crime and, as a result, accidentally shoots dead a fellow officer. The only people who still believe in him are his buddies.

Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this light hearted tale of political and amorous intrigue amidst the gaiety of Parisian high society.. First performed in Vienna in 1905 and here performed in the English version by Christopher Hassal.

Time and Judgement is a sci-fi/documentary that combines biblical prophecy with events across the African diaspora between 1980 and 1987. Archive footage includes Haile Selassie, Bob Marley, Kwame Nkrumah, Maurice Bishop, Walter Rodney, Kwame Toure, Bernie Grant.

Documentary by Aby Martínez and Fernando Martínez, about mejorana or socavón music.

A feat that fully matches its title, an alphabetical trawl through both the history of British music and Russell's own likes and dislikes, the latter summed up by a scene in which he takes a phone call and listens for a bit before concluding that 'it's either an obscene call or the beginning of Michael Tippett's Fourth Symphony.' Gleefully exploiting an already contrived format, Russell uses alphabetical coincidence as an excuse to throw wildly disparate material together: Elgar is fused with Elton John, Holst with Heavy Metal and Punk with Purcell.

Janardhan's father is murdered by a group of criminals when he tries to expose them. Enraged, Janardhan sets out to exact revenge for his father's murder.

MISSILE follows the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where Air Force officers are trained to man the Launch Control Centers for the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Sequences include discussion of the moral and military issues of nuclear war; the arming, targeting and launching of the missile; codes; communications; protection against terrorist attack; emergency procedures; staff meetings and tutorial sessions.

On the run from her criminal Italian husband, a young French woman meets a German lover in West Berlin who offers her shelter but who also gets entangled in her threatened life ever deeper.

A young student hungry for cash engages in the world of shady deals.

Sigappu Thali is a 1988 Tamil-language Indian feature film, starring Charan Raj, Nishanthi and Saranya

In a special documentary made for public television in the United States, Eric Luskin goes behind the scenes of the 25th anniversary story, Silver Nemesis.

Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.

There are people who fear the dentist, others fear the IRS and others who fear the earthquake. Manolis, however, Intrepid and nothing scares the except one. The horn. This fear does not become cuckold make him jealous, controlling and suspects his wife, Marina, and why they are beautiful and petachtoula is. So when holidays go, snakes zonoun Manolis, he sees many suspicious moves. To avoid the "fatal", resorting to disguises to watch his wife ..

A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.

Living in an Ankara shantytown, Mehmet plays the clarinet at a nightclub to support his family. When their home is sold to a contractor by his brother-in-law, the gap between Mehmet’s dreams and reality significantly grows.

Documentary about the Swedish submarine Ulven which was sunk by a mine in Swedish waters in 1943 killing all 33 crew members.

A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the early 1950s. Included is footage of performances by major R&B singers of the time, and interviews with singers, producers and others involved in the field.

A young man, who loses his mother at a young age, turns a conman to educate his sister.

The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of annoying her mother Hella who ever since her divorce twenty years ago distrusts men in general, Tom dreads the criticism of his professor, a family law specialist who objects to the concept of marriage. By chance, Caroline gets hold of some juicy information: Her mother and the professor used to be a couple and she is their child. With almost missionary zeal she addresses herself to the task of convincing the two grown-ups to get back together. In the process, however, she steers both her academic studies and her own marriage into a crisis.

"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectivized. Consequently, the leading actor shoots the film's author.

The film, which won the 1988 National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "excellent exploration of complex philosophical theme for the first time in Indian cinema," is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the desert of Central Asia in the 1st century B.C. The town is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have become old, while the boy and the girl have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into becoming a monk, yet the girl wins him back, as a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again..

A dying woman tells her son Luis about the time when his father had destroyed the vampire Dracul, but now she fears he will return and Luis must stop him.

Offbeat Mexican police officer must transport 3 convicts to a trial before a local drug kingpin kills them.

The story of a woman lured from the dullness and predictability of her career by a man of strength and vision.

Canadian documentary film depicting the Soviet–Afghan War of the 1980s. Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989.

Kana has been working as a prostitute since graduating from school, and eventually teamed up with a childhood friend to arrange prostitution for herself. Even now, she sends the two out to meet clients, and is even trying to get them to recruit younger workers. But one day, a rift develops in their relationship when her childhood friend steals money from her parents' house, claiming to be to open a shop..

The Sci-Bots are drawn to a crystal palace where an evil mutant kidnaps the Princess Aurora and our heroes come to her rescue. Jesse's Astrobat saves the day when their ship is later attacked by the Space Apaches. Edited together using clips from the 1970s anime series Starzinger.

Raktha Tilakam is a 1988 Telugu film directed by B. Gopal. The film stars Venkatesh, Amala Akkineni and Sharada in lead roles.

Four men who dream of sailing around the world build a sailboat. They live in the same area and the families socialize. The plan is that their wives shall join the trip in turns.

President Romulo Betancourt's government has just began, an attack is brewing on his life. Braulio an unemployed actor, comes to work in professional wrestling, and falls deeply for Rosario, lover of Buffalo, director of the wrestling group, Ronco, who once is saved by Braulio in a clash with police, offers this winning good money for doing an "important work".

Voiced by Jonathan Pryce, Terry Flaxton’s The World Within Us is a lyrical meditation set inside the mind of a dying writer. Combining original poetry with early digital imagery, the film weaves memory, art, and mortality into a haunting reflection on life’s inner landscapes.

Short feature film, filmed in 1988. One of the first works of the film director Alexei Balabanov, at that time an assistant at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. The film is a course work, filmed while studying at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors; the materials of the film became the basis for the thesis work of the director, the film "Nastya and Egor" (1989).

Doreen Ross plays Laura Zuckerman a young housewife tortured by experiences of childhood sexual abuse. This is a poignant display of the human mind desperately grasping for normalcy while having been "trained" otherwise at an early age. While Laura's mother is in the hospital for a long stay her father terrorizes Laura. Sex then is the next step and before Laura's mother comes home her father makes her promise not to tell her mother what he has been doing to her. Laura's reality is now well tainted as she oscillates repeatedly between what is real versus what she thinks is real in the actions of both men and women towards her.

Animation by John Mareda. These are ray traced images of hot air balloons floating over a lake. Watterberg’s Mesa software was used on a VAX 8600.

The story of a boxer and a gangster's journey. The man, a former boxer, now works as a bouncer in a bar. One night, his old trainer Hüseyin arrives at his home injured. He has brought with him Aykut, a notorious gangster. Hüseyin gives the boxer some money and asks him to take Aykut to the address he provides. Then Hüseyin dies. The boxer will embark on a long journey with Aykut to fulfill his friend's final wish.

A Los Angeles mother and her seven-year-old daughter search for an escape from the poverty in which they live.

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures (straight lines, circles, spirals). In counterpoint to the images, Richard Long explains his approach. Since 1967, Richard Long (1945, Bristol), who belongs to the land art movement, has traveled the world on foot and installed, in places often inaccessible to the public, stones, sticks and driftwood found in situ. His ephemeral works are reproduced through photography. He thus made walking an art, and land art an aspiration of modern man for solitude in nature.

An adolescent leaves his homeland to emigrate to Cuba in 1916. The film covers his life until the 1960s and at the same time reflects on the history of the country that becomes his second homeland.

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Ma Barker and sons Mad Max, Machinegun Nonong and Pretty Boy Fredo want to be the number one criminal family in the land. They think this is going to be their ticket to fame and fortune. But plans go awry when Pretty Boy falls in love with Sheila, a pretty young lounge singer/owner. It turns out that she is the grandaughter of Don Vito , the family's main competitor. Don Vito learns of the relationship and decides to hit two birds with one stone. He sets up Ma Barker and her sons as the fall guys of their criminal operations hoping Pretty Boy will voluntarily leave his precious grandchild alone. But Pretty Boy learns of the plot against his family. His only hope is to convince Shiela of her grandfather's evil ways and help her get him arrested.

Dono, Kasino, and Indro (played by the Warkop Trio) are hired as puppet ballet dancers. Their jokes and fighting stunts, delight the audience. But soon after, Gozal, a real estate businessman acquires the land, where the puppet ballet building sits on. The dispute over the land and its certificate becomes the film’s satire. Finally, Dono and friends challenge the champions of Gozal to a boxing match.

"One year before the massacre of Tian An Men [...] a few hundred meters from this immense square, where the tanks were going to crush the resistance, under the debonair gaze of Mao [...] I was loaned a tiny, autofocus camera, allowing me to shoot without framing, the lens wedged on my right hip. Everything is captured in clusters of images, edited directly into the camera. The diary of a stroller who travels through Beijing on foot and by bicycle - a cyclist among the cyclists who circulate in slow and tight flows." - Sudre

72 years old Martha Jellneck lives alone in a small apartment in Hamburg. Since she's hampered in walking, she never leaves her home. Her only contacts to the outside world are the young social worker Thomas and a neighbor boy who walks her dog. When Thomas tells her one day that Franz Laub, another one of his clients, has his birthday, she becomes suspicious: that was also her half-brother's name and day of birth - only that he died in WW2...