Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

During a storm on a Christmas tree farm, a dove and her family asks a small tree for protection, which the tree gives straightaway. The shelter it created for the doves bent the trunk, and causes it to grow crooked. Now, no one wants the small imperfect tree. Based on the book by Michael Cutting.

Luděk Krejza, a tile-layer, returns from prison after serving time for manslaughter. In a retrospective, the viewer is introduced to his story. It is a not very well-known film, which with the passage of time has completely disappeared from the awareness of even the more deeply informed interested in domestic cinema. The song "Dudes, you're on" is sung by the Yo Yo Band.

The Islamic world is in crisis with the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Rushdie wants Pakistan, the stronghold of Islam, to fall. Determined to foil his plans are a trio of brothers who form a holy army to destroy Rushdie. Rushdie plans to drive the final nails into the coffin of Islam by opening a new chain of Casino's and Disco's spreading contemptable vice and debauchery. Mustafa Qureshi, hen pecked to death by his demented wife, decides to call it a day with his day job at the Police station and induct his unemployed brothers to create a Mujahid (God's soldiers) trio whose sole aim is to seek out and destroy the despised Salman Rushdie before he manages to destory all virtue and decency on the planet.

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

The wise otter saves the hunter who falls into trouble.

A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy of the French Cinémathèque, "Astonishing unpublished travel diary, shot by Chris Marker in analog video on the occasion of a screening of L'Aveu in Moscow in 1990 [...] Armed with his camcorder, Marker films and records the comments, takes on the role of contemporary capital according to this unique ethnographic method that he has perfected".

A breakdown occurs in a factory on the banks of the Danube and a ministerial team begins an investigation. Alexandru Nedelcu is the inspector who came to investigate and has the complicated mission of finding the truth.

The Classic Cinema on Lord Ayyapa Swamy born with Culmination of Lord Hari and Lord Hara. The childless king Rajasekhara Pandiyan finds an abandoned child in the forest and adopts him. The child grows up as a prince and is sent on a dangerous mission into the same forest.

Nesibe lives with her poor family in a slum in Istanbul. Her father, who can't hold down a job, often takes out his anger on his family. Knowing that this is not all there is to life, Nesibe finds solace in movies.

A young man comes home to his Kazakh village after finishing up his stint in the Soviet Army. All that he finds are his old friends drinking, senselessly carousing, tumbling into one violent brawl after another.

Prohibition-era: Mexican farmer and his two sons get caught up in a smuggling gang, importing contraband liquor to USA.

How do you become a Frankfurter?

Magdy and his sister Safiya's friend get engaged, and then he meets his first love, Salwa, by chance, whom he had difficulty marrying before. They keep meeting and talking about the past, and their feelings for each other return once again.

During the Vietnam war, the American army forms a special unit called "tunnel rats" to go down into the elaborate system of underground tunnels constructed by the Vietcong, kill anyone they find in it and destroy the system.

Rosalia Zelma employs a traditional drawing to offer a story in which a scarecrow is attracted by a white hare. Sadly, the long-eared beauty’s affections hop elsewhere, in search of a suitor with deeper patchwork pockets filled with carrots.

Anti-Narcotics Police Captain Nadia Azmi tries to prove her ability to work as efficiently as her male colleagues. One of her colleagues has problems with his teenage son and the captain tries to help him.

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses.

Based on the Belarusian folk tale about the struggle of the hero Pokatygoroshek, born from a swallowed pea, with various kinds of evil spirits.

This is the Sosai Masutatsu Oyama documentary, the founder of Kyokushin Karate aka "The Strongest Karate." This is the DVD print of the same title that was released in 1990, four year before Sosai Oyama passed away. This version contains the full length Mas Oyama's duel with the bull. A HIDDEN GEM! Available on the request from enthusiastic Kyokushin Karate practitioners. This documentary features some of the top fighters in Kyokushin history such as Kenji Yamaki, Kenji Midori, and Shokei Matsui. Synopsis: For the first time Mas Oyama's early training scenes are shown and Oyama Karate secrets and Kyokushin mysteries are revealed!

A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.

A young woman leaves the man she lives with in the middle of the night. All the next day, she searches for a place to sleep, in vain.

Robotopia uses the same blend of magic realism and poetic journalism to unpick contemporary Japanese culture. Post-war Japan is viewed as a vortex that sucks in imagery, ideas and applications from all over the world and somehow translates them into diverting artefacts. For a country that never had an industrial revolution, Japan has a unique relationship to robots. Haggerty's investigation of the how and why of this phenomenon bravely slides us up and down the interface between humans behaving like robots and machine robots behaving like humans.

The adventures of a young commie activist, whose love for the party is not even close to the one he has for women. Every action he undertakes is somehow connected to the love adventure, and his rise on a social ladder doesn't stops even in the turbulent period of Informbureau crisis.

Tom, Dick and Harry were falsely accused of killing a popular radio commentator and their girlfriends, Amy, Susie and Tessie were helping them prove their innocence.

Debut film appearance of Guy Pearce

Sleazy comedic character "El Mofles" goes to Acapulco where he gets unknowingly involved with a robbery.

The film tells the story of Liao Jun who found a smuggled pistol on a fishing boat, was chased by the underworld and chased by the police, and fled with Zhuo Shengli and his wife who rescued him, and took refuge with his nephew Qiu Wenyuan. The five went north to join Asi, but found him down. Fortunately, with the help of the rich widow Bai Bingbing, the seven-member universal service company has experienced the warmth and coldness of human feelings, experienced the dignity of life, and reflected on innocent humanity. When the business is successful, the underworld seeks revenge, and the seven work together to subdue it. Qiu Wenyuan married Cai Jiahong, and the story of Cai using a steam roller to crush smuggled pistols at the wedding.

A series of mysterious numbers began arriving at the Tamamura family, a family of jewelers. They were terrifying death threats. Kogoro Akechi sets out to investigate, but the culprits strike first and kidnap him, holding him captive. With Akechi in a life-or-death situation, is there any way he can escape the man who calls himself “The Magician”? And why is this magician, possessing the cunning of a devil, targeting the Tamamura family?

Seasons in the Sea, Best Picture of the prestigious WILDSCREEN 1990 film festival in Bristol, England, takes you on a spectacular tour through the giant-kelp forests of Monterey Bay, just off the California coast. Bathed in sunlight and by cold, nutrient-rich waters welling up from the ocean’s depths, this huge submarine forest sustains a complex undersea community. As you move through the seasons, you'll discover how winds, tides, and currents shape Monterey Bay life. You'll see combat between an octopus and a ferocious moray eel, and watch opalescent squid, borne on cold currents rising from the depths, breed, and die. You’ll behold the miraculous birth of a swell shark and observe male Garibaldi fish constructing elaborate gardens to attract females.

A man goes to hell after driving his car off a bridge and returns to Earth as a vampire.

A gold digger kills her rich old husband and then is driven to the brink of madness when her late hubby starts haunting her. Is he really dead or a vengeful ghost?

Directed by Mike Relon Makiling. With Dolphy, Gretchen Barretto, Romnick Sarmenta, Joonee Gamboa.

About Daniel Lanois, the Canadian musician and producer, during one of his most productive years in life, living and recording in New Orleans, LA. Daniel Lanois was born in Hull, Quebec. Sept. 19, 1951. His family moved to Hamilton, Ont. in 1963. In 1974 he and his brother Bob built and operated the Grant Avenue Studio, where he produced records by acts such as Martha and the Muffins, Parachute Club, Raffi, and Ian Tyson. In 1989 he released his first solo album, "Acadie". He also produced "Oh Mercy" by Bob Dylan and "Yellow Moon" by The Neville Bros. during the same year.

When her ex-lover takes a job at her club as a dealer, a beautiful but bitter casino singer avenges herself by conspicuously bedding everything in pants, including their Mafioso boss. But when the two reunite, the double crossed Mobsters demand payback.

Everyone is chasing a little wooden dog. Old and young, they all think it contains an elixir of life. Miranda, a manic cosmetics tycoon, thinks it's worth millions. A mob of old folk led by a pair of deranged doctors is convinced it contains the secret of eternal youth.

Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe".

A mother wants to tell her daughter her opinion via video, but because she is untrained in using the new technology, she returns to the familiar letter form.

Elderly jewel thieves on the run from the law pass themselves off as wizards to a village of bewildered Africans.

Grachow, a researcher, is to escort a car to a distant place of the foreign exchange horse Favorite. The driver of Locha drives fast, although he was supposed to not exceed a speed of 30 km per hour. They experience various adventures along the way. Grachow, who drives the car, cannot control the speeding machine, he saves himself at the last moment by jumping out of the cabin. The car with the horse on the platform rolls down to the river ...

The story of a young Calabrian widow who initially reclusive, must come to terms with her loss and live her life.

A short, graphically dynamic work contrasting contradictory views of perception and interpretation, by way of society's assumptions vis-a-vis phallocentrism and fetishism.

While three close friends Murthy, Gopinath and Sekar start liking the same girl named Chitra unbeknownst to them, they are more shocked to encounter a genie who escapes from their broken violin.

Awaragira is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films. It stars Joe Abeywickrama, Iranganie Serasinghe and Tony Ranasinghe in lead roles along with Lucky Dias and Vasanthi Chathurani. Music composed by Premasiri Khemadasa.

Al-Aseel Mahrous decides to marry his neighbor Zaynab despite his mother's objection to her because she is divorced and permanent. She is harassed by her husband, who harasses her on the day of her marriage to Mahrous, who kills him in self-defense, and enters prison for three years. What he discovers is that he tries to exploit her as a woman to complete his deals, and resort to Mahrous after his release from prison to help her get rid of him.

Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents.

Another awesome Panna film, but for a different reason. Less emphasis on crazy falls, and more on fight choreography. Panna did some closer shots with this one too, rather than only using wide ones like in GML and Plook1. Acrobatic/stunty/fighting leads are well worth their long action intros. (Eric Jacobus)

Cheng Yaojin was the legendary hero in the Sui-Tang Dynasty, and this movie was about his fantastic legend.

Mark Huestis' low-budget, shot-on-video feature casts Doug Self as Steven, a young San Francisco man whose lover Victor has just died of AIDS. Following Victor's dying wishes to have his ashes scattered in Maui, Steven travels to the Hawaii-based New Age community founded by Victor's former partner Robert (Emerald Starr). Despite an edgy relationship with Robert, who never visited Victor in his final months, Steven finds romance with the camp gardener Peter (Joe Tolbe), a matter complicated by the fact that Steven has never undergone an HIV test. Robert admits that he, too, has never had an AIDS test--his fear of death is the reason why he built his closed-off island community. After hearing of another friend's AIDS-related death, Steven leaves Peter behind to return to California

In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.

Trouble ensues when Chandru and his brother, Sundaru, return to their native place and their envious aunt tries to fix Sundaru's marriage with her daughter to gain his wealth.