The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Narrated and hosted by Professor Ludwig Von Drake, this video includes sing-along cuts from several Disney movies, including Alice in Wonderland and Snow White, plus Billy Joel singing "Why Should I Worry."
Hosted by Steve Sobol, this collection of football missteps is one of the last voice acting performances of Mel Blanc, and features a variety of mishaps from the NFL.
The title song "So He Runs" , was written by Michael Patrick, and preformed by The Michael Patrick Band. This is a great video that informs children about the dangers of drugs, drinking and tobaco abuse. The movies is mirrors the Wizard Of Oz. Orlando police were very helpful in making the video possiable. The video is supplied with a guide for teaching. Trouble in Oz is targeted towards children between 5 and 13. The main charactors are all inspired by the the Wizard of Oz film. Each has a specific task in explaning to the audience the responsibilities that come with peer presure.
Petty thieves Jabber and Reno are blackmailed by the police to uncover the identity of a mobster who is killing the city's drug dealers. While reluctant, they're convinced by the offer to expunge their own crimes. They go undercover and track a suspect named Curtis King. Soon they find evidence of Curtis's crimes, but amplify the danger in which they find themselves.
John Cleese corporate training video
A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.
Shows a young woman from Central America struggling to come to terms with the destruction of her family and the requirements of adapting to a new life in the United States
This is a true-to-life story of Turoy Delima, the fugitive leader of Cebu City's dreaded sea pirate gang that carries his name.
Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.
More than once, the fairy tale fairy, whose parents did not choose her as their child's godmother, felt insulted. The revenge that the fairy Noara prepared for the innocent girl was cruel. Fortunately, her kind godmother, the fairy Jasna, was watching over Anuška. She gave her ward a golden braid, and it led her all the way to the royal palace. There, Anuška found her happiness with the prince, but first she had to remove the spell...
About an upper-class family during the Centenary of the May Revolution, which coincides with the decline of the aristocratic classes in those years.
The corrupt leaders of a small rural town learn that an auditor is coming from St Petersburg. Frightened, they try to put things in order. Hlesztakov, a Petersburg official, has been starving for days in his inn in the small town, having gambled away all his money and no credit. In a misunderstanding and a bit of backstabbing, the town's corrupt leaders mistake him for an auditor. The bureau chiefs are watching his every move, and the mayor's daughter is a hit. When he leaves, the whole town celebrates and expects him back for a wedding. But a letter reveals the fraud, and at the same time the real auditor arrives.
A man devoted to his marriage and long-time partner is shaken by an encounter with the pretty young lady who was secretly infatuated with him while she was still a girl.
From an official perspective, marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany. The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR, and groups such as goths, skinheads, anti-skins, punks and neo-Nazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by western countries. Director Roland Steiner had access to such young East Germans in the late 1980s. Over the course of four years, he brought them before the camera in an attempt to understand what drew them to these groups.
Parts of the female body, filmed in the light of a self-made strobe, are multiply exposed and flicker as they perform a graphical dance. In this work, reminiscent of the animation of Norman McLaren, Nakamura’s fetishism transcends physical eroticism and is dedicated to creating abstract visual pleasure. The music, evoking the gamelan, was composed with a computer program that Nakamura personally designed. (CJC, 2020).
Heldenplatz centers on a Jewish family in the Vienna of 1988. The main character, Professor Josef Schuster, a mathematician, who can no longer stand the anti-Semitism he still finds in Austria 50 years after the Anschluss – commits suicide by jumping out of his apartment window onto the historic Heldenplatz before the play begins.
Stage show with Frank Gunnarsson, Claes Malmberg and Mikel Lindberg
A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.
Vitya is a teenage rock-music and motorbike fanatic whose father is arrested for embezzlement. Vitya is devastated, and in this state of shock he falls prey to a supposed mystic called Cassius.
A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories.
The film tells the story of a man who is betrayed by his closest friend while trying to marry the woman he loves. Emrah, a taxi driver, wants to marry his fiancée Zeynep as soon as possible. However, he cannot find a rental home that fits his budget. As a last resort, he asks his boss, Asım Bey, for a loan, but he is unsuccessful. A few days later, he learns that Asım Bey has died. He thinks that Yusuf, the son of his close friend Asım Bey, will now help him. However, instead of helping Emrah, Yusuf will cause him to break up with Zeynep.
Video magazine with interviews and video clips. Featured on this volume is: Queen (Brian May), Kiss (Gene Simmons), Guns N' Roses (Axl Rose), Cinderella, Queensrÿche, Winger, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Megadeth, Mordred, Laaz Rockit, Anthrax, Kings X, M.O.D., Dogs D'Amour, Jane's Addiction, Silent Rage, Underneath What, Roxx Gang, Judas Priest (Rob Halford).
Two men trying to illegally smuggle their Aunt and uncle into the country but are mistaken as drug smugglers by a small group of vigilantes. They are taken to an island where they are to be executed and buried with previously murdered drug dealers. The only problem is, the uncle is a voodoo priest and he raises the dead from their graves to get revenge for the killing of the aunt. A 14 foot monster from hell, crazed vigilantes, and 84 zombies, try to keep our heroes from getting off the island.
Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of schizophrenia. Subjects "Bob," "Missy" and "Steven" have lived for over a decade with schizophrenia. The film documents the difficult day-to-day existence of both those afflicted with this order and the families searching for answers to their loved ones' suffering. This film also shows the varied and variably successful treatment methods for each of the subjects—one is placed in a group home, one is placed in an institution, and one is cared for at home. The documentary was critically acclaimed for its compassionate treatment of mental illness.
Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.
Nandini, an actress, is given an ultimatum by her co-star to find a commoner to star in their upcoming movie. Desperate, Nandini finds her perfect commoner in Raja, a destitute porter.
About Niño, an orphanage boy in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.
The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.
A literature student (Elizabeth Dancoes) and her professor lover (Duncan Fraser) meet her folks, then visit a famous writer and his wife (Barbara March).
The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others.
After his first day at school 6 year old Hugo doesn't want to continue to go to this "institution". He appeals to God to become a grown up, who fulfills his wish and lets him experience life as an adult in the body of his father, a police physician. When Hugo falls under suspicion of having failed in his profession he again turns to God.
The School starts for the standard tour and into madness a tender love story is born ..
A Canadian fire station is threatened by a Japanese business.
Director: Jett C. Espiritu Stars: Roderick Paulate, Joey Marquez, Zsa Zsa Padilla
Mysterious woman appears, claiming to be a newlywed husband's missing wife.
"Hi-chan" delivers a letter to her high school friend "Akya" who had returned to her parents' house for work reasons, that she received from Akya's lover. The Kansai person "Kun" appears in front of these two people, and the three develop a somehow inseparable relationship, but there is no place for such a triangular relationship...
The back to school adventures of Elvis Presto and James D, two bestfriends who likes to act, dress, and look like their idols Elvis Presley and James Dean respectively.
The story concerns Edevart (Trond Peter Stamso Munch), a young man who is learning about life an his place in it. In the story, he at first takes up with August (Helge Jordal), a charming trader who is at least half con-man. After trailing along with him for a while, he decides that August is not a man he wants to model his life after. He becomes acquainted with and falls in love with Lovise Margrete (Marika Lagercrantz) a woman living alone on a sheep farm. She has feelings for him also, but she remains true to her missing husband and their acquaintance does not progress to being a full-fledged romance. It is not until her husband returns to her life that any resolution to Edevart's frustration (which lasts for years) can be achieved.
A bourgeois couple in an identity crisis experiences the thrill of extramarital affairs, giving vent to their sexual fantasies.
Based on the story by Daniil Kharms "First and second."
a cowboy film by Tony Y. Reyes.
Geraldo Viramundo (Diogo Vilela) is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Genial and / or insane, he decides to leave her small town in Minas Gerais and win the world. Your goal is to destabilize the system and their accomplices are the prostitutes and the destitute.
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.
Six women get together one weekend for a reunion. But one by one they are killed by a demonic, female vampire who becomes more and more beautiful after killing each one of her victims.
In a small apartment, a couple wakes up on the morning of their wedding. She is happy and cheerful, he is nervous and tired. The couple prepares under the attentive and ironic gaze of an omnipresent and talkative choir.
Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on stage by behind the scenes.
In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...
Escaping from "marital legitimacy" is an easy task. But in the case of the hero of the story, it becomes very difficult when a thousand diabolical coincidences create a "volcano" of misunderstandings that threatens to erupt at any moment, with unpredictable results. Provocative charmers, clumsy card players, ambitious matrons, penniless poor devils, crazy directors, and uninvited police officers drag out an entertaining erotic dance.
Pharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads the Ethiopian army to invade Egypt. When he's captured, he wants Aida to gain military secrets from Radames.