Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

The tale of a guard at Chapultepec Castle that has fallen in love with a beautiful ghost who haunts its hallowed halls, and his tragic but happy end.

Leipzig is in a period of change. The uproar of Autumn ’89 is followed by a hectic electoral campaign in Spring ’90. Nightly conversations with street sweepers are dominated by hopelessness and broken self-confidence, but one can also recognise a keen sense for the change in social climate following the political unification in the GDR. Despite their lack of illusions, they have an acute view of their surroundings, and for these street sweepers only one certainty prevails: there will always be dirt.

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering for travellers of every kind while in the background the authorities maintain a flow of triumphal statements, but those months between August and October come to feel like sitting out the death throes. Careful observation of people and their work as the current of history suddenly becomes perceptible.

Flea is spending his vacation at a music camp in a spooky old mansion. But he is more interested in scaring people with practical jokes, than in music.

A young hoodlum spawned and raised by a tough neighborhood goes out looking for love and an escape from the harsh realities of everyday life.

Bill Hicks hosts the 1990 Adult Video Awards

About what Minka and Lelya saw during their walk, trying to sell the galoshes that belonged to the guests of their parents to the rag picker.

A baker helps his wife clear her name after being accused of a crime.

Paisley won 20 trophies in nine seasons, when he retired in 1983 Joe Fagan kept the winning run going. And despite the Heysel tragedy Liverpool, under Kenny Dalglish added to the trophy haul. But despite all the success the decade ended on an awful note when death and destruction came to Hillsborough.

Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in interview, rehearsal, live in concert and even at work; Central Station Design in their studio creating something out of a pane of glass and loads of ephemera; Happy Mondays in Amsterdam; 808 State; and MC Tunes. Aired as part of Granada Television's Celebration arts strand.

Master Ota demonstrates all 18 Shorin Ryu Kata, both at a learning speed and at full speed. All forms are performed in the traditional Okinawan style

When Rod Foster, an American diplomat, is coming to Athens for an international conference, a young Russian delegation resorts to his suite to hide and creates a series of comic strikes, with the danger of the conference hanging in the air.

Peter O'Brian (The Stabilizer, The Intruder) goes up against a french mob boss. Cue car chases, explosions, creepy blind kids and finally, an explosion.

A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.

Billy the Fish is a footballing half-man, half-fish who dreams of playing for Fulchester United Football Club.

The Lobangco sisters team-up up for the first time

Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of hyperbolic geometry, a geometry in which the sum of three angles of a triangle always is less than 180 degrees.

The adventures of a young pilot who attends an airforce academy.

The World According to John Coltrane is a documentary film about saxophonist John Coltrane

Documents the life and influence of the Bahaus artist, László Moholy-Nagy.

The story of the Yuma Crossing, the place where centuries of travelers crossed the Colorado River as told in a series of reenacted vignettes by colorful characters from the Quechan tribe, the conquistadores, Father Kino, Olive Oatman and others up until the first bridge was built in the 1920's.

The neighborhood video club has no customers because it doesn't have any tapes. Only Filipinas rent Greek films to learn the language. From them, he learns about their high salaries and so he decides...

The red-haired girl met a wolf in the forest, but was not taken aback. A tale of friendly devotion and a happy occasion.

The situation in Bolivia is a microcosm of the dramatic tensions caused by drug production and consumption. On one side, the traffickers and politicians of course, but also the peasants, ex-miners, unemployed for whom the drug economy is the only rampart against starvation and absolute misery, on the other, the technicians, aid workers and foreign experts who are attempting to persuade the peasants to drop drug production. North-South relations in a nutshell.

Michiko, a female college student, traveled to America for a summer study abroad program. She was supposed to meet a relative at the airport to show her around, but they never showed up. Then, a man named Chandra, who claimed to know the relative, approached her and gave her a ride. However, the car suddenly came to a halt in the middle of the desert…

Kusum, a beautiful young woman who escapes from torturous domestic violence, finds refuge with a compassionate woman. Will life give her a chance to heal from the scars left by sexual and physical molestation and find true love and happiness?

Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth plays, as a photographer offers a model money in order to pose nude. Photographs are taken before the photographer gives the model a massage. The video is set to a 1990 Richard Kern film entitled "Money Love".

A historical reconstruction of a Roman Rite mass as it would have been done October 4, 1450, 18th Sunday after Pentecost.

This work features the salt marshes of Montpellier France, and uses computer graphics to create fantastical imagery.

Stand up special.

A CIA team is sent into Vietnam to rescue two soldiers captured by a drug lord.

Tales of Gil is a live concert, recorded at the Town and Country Club, London, on the 14th of March 1990. Gil Scott-Heron, social commentator extraordinaire, performs six of his best-known tracks, from Johannesburg to Three Miles Down.

Middle East in the Seventies... Soviet and Dutch officers are stuck together in the UN Observation Station.

A story of smuggling and two young people who fall in love with each other. The film was shot in Cyprus.

Film director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne, where he was born on 3 March 1944, at the end of the war.

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Sidney Carton, alcoholic London lawyer and his french nobleman client Charles Darnay both love Lucie Manette. In Paris the French Revolution and his resemblance to Darnay, create a major decision to give Lucie and Charles a life together.

Short film directed by Maija-Lene Rettig

Presents young viewers with the correct ways to floss and brush teeth, information about nutritious foods, and the basics and importance of good dental hygiene

Kieslowski's final documentary, a contribution to the City Life anthology film that was later shown on its own.

A puppet named Slick deals with the nagging overtures of a woman named Liz who has a religious agenda against television.

A referee informs his associates about the nuclear war that is about to begin.

Short film by Tapio Piirainen that is his diploma work when graduating from TaiK / Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

A newlywed couple at a honeymoon resort are terrorized by a monster and the ghosts of a couple that the monster had previously murdered.