Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

A comedy about not so successful businessman who suddenly becomes a spiritual leader of a new cult.

Yoko Yuki is a genius female gambler born with a keen sense of luck. She has a winning streak at all kinds of gambling, including horse racing, boat racing, and roulette. This is because she inherited the blood of her mother, a female gambling expert. One day, Yoko is introduced to a roulette club, where she meets Ichimatsu Rikio, a notorious land grabber, and is challenged to a one-on-one challenge

A Russian Drug Lord employs the help of Baron Samedi, a voodoo priest to take out his enemies. Standing in his way are a Kung Fu master and a police officer named Liscombe.

Once in a God-forsaken place, the heroine and her adopted daughter are forced to look for a bed for the night. Having found shelter in the building of an abandoned boarding school, she meets there close people from her past.

Sheer brilliance. Billy Connolly's razor-sharp mixture of bewildered surrealism and ultra-perceptive observational comedy is showcased here. If you're not pained with laughter at the routines on football, swimming and cookbooks, something vital has been removed from your brain. Buy it - it's better therapy than the stuff you get in clinics.

Once again, our entertaining little band of singers takes us on a musical journey of discovery . . . helping each other and the viewer learn about prayer, service, gratitude, and the beautiful truth that I Am a Child of God.

Seven young people from the urban jungle are transported to an isolated mountain farm deep in the mountains. There are three girls and four boys. Since childhood, they have always been dealt the worst cards. They know more about prostitution, drugs, violence, and escape than they do about trust and love. Two social workers accompany them to the mountains. They believe that pure nature and new experiences can have a positive effect on the young people's destructive tendencies. But the mountains and isolation from the outside world hold surprises that no one in the group is prepared for.

"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the wife gives birth to their fourth daughter, father decides that the child will become a so-called "Virgina" and that she will live as a man.

Drama based on a true incident showing how a seemingly minor event, the theft of a cigarette from a guard, in the lives of 6 political prisoners in Iran ultimately leads to the death of one of the group. The film focuses on one man's need for relief from the physical and mental torture he suffers (despite the universal ban proclaimed by the United Nations) and how it temporarily rekindles the groups' collective will to survive.

Explore the treasures and histories of eight of England's most splendid homes on your own private tour.

Two police officers investigate the case of the women from a brothel who died of pleasure. Their investigations will guide them to the real culprits.

A young man, Yusaku, who bets his youth on taking pantographs, accidentally takes a pantograph of an idol, Yuka, and sets off for his dream overseas location as a photographer.

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Tadeusz, a junior high school student, visits to his forester grandfather who lives in an ancient forest. During one of the hunts, his grandfather tells him about the rumors circulating around about a treasure sunk in the lake.

The sadistic sexuality of a doctor makes beautiful women disappear. A brave reporter gets an interview with the maniac, during which she delves into the depths of her unbalanced mind, little by little she will discover that she is dealing with someone beyond madness and with bloody erotic games.

Venkataramaiah (Gummadi) is a respectable person in the society, who runs a timber business. He does not take up any responsibility, neither does he earn anything. Accidentally, he meets Kavita (Vijayashanti), who works as a dance teacher in a school. They both are very opposite to each other. Sivaram (Satyanarayana) is an opponent businessman to Venkataramaiah, who once was a worker under Venkataramaiah, and always had quarrels with Venkataramaiah and Anand. After some time, Kavitha understands Anand's love, but his family members did not agree to their marriage, so Anand leaves the house and marries Kavitha. Meanwhile, Sivaram throws Venkataramaiah into heavy debts, so entire property comes to auction. The remaining children leave Venkataramaiah alone, which leads to his heart attack and his wife's death. Finally, Anand comes to their rescue and how he keeps up his parents prestige and honor, forms the rest of the story.

The film "Nights full moon" shows the tendency of moral decay in society. The main character is torn apart by internal contradictions, leading him to the path of Evil. Bans on self-identification - philosophical, existential, sexual, and then permissiveness spawn a monster that is not aware of its true nature and genuine desires. Throughout the film-trilogy, the protagonist goes through a series of temptations that ruin his soul and lead, after all, to a madhouse. In a general sense, the film allegorically shows the tragic path of the Russian lumpen intellectual, lost between the past and the present, not finding the strength to accept and comprehend the unexpected changes that happened in our country twenty years ago. In the global sense - the tragic circle of Russian history.

Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century war lost to Chile.

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. The film, which includes rare government and underground footage, follows the lives of three Czechoslovak students whose leadership helped ignite the 'Velvet Revoution' and eventually establish a democratic government. Directed by Oscar-winner Allan Miller, it features interviews with students, activists and the country's new president, Vaclav Havel.

Animation based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

Pink film directed by Mototsugu Watanabe. Named second best film of the year at the 91' Pink Taishô awards.

The hero of the film, Askold Epov, grows up, searches for himself, makes mistakes, gets bruises, desponds, and experiences his first joys and first love. It's just like in real life...

Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

An intensely dedicated runner discovers there is more to the race than just winning.

Paul Reiser says, "I kid, I joke, I come from love". Actually he comes from N.Y.C., just 3 1/2 blocks from the Palladium nightclub where this riotously funny special was filmed. In this intimate showcase of his stand-up style, Reiser tackles such problems as sharing food at Chinese restaurants, finding your seat in a darkened movie theater, and pretending to know someone you don't remember.

A Russian KGB backed rebel group is attacking villages outside of Bangkok. They want to overthrow the government. The U. S. responds by sending CIA agents to help back a Bangkok special forces unit to fight the rebels.

Actor and master impressionist Kevin Pollak delivers sharp wit, spot-on celebrity impressions, and hilarious Hollywood tales in his first hour long stand-up special for HBO.

Volodya, a man of about fifty, is traveling south with his charming mistress Olya. At the same time, he tells his wife that he is going fishing on Solovki. And she also goes south...to her lover Givi. Having accidentally seen an unfaithful wife, the first couple takes her under surveillance - and the serene love of the heroes takes on an adventurous character.

A film by Junn P. Cabreira.

Filmmaker Sibylle Schoenemann, imprisoned by the GDR in 1984, was released to the FRG after having West Germany literally buy her freedom. In 1990 she went back and questioned those responsible.

Good friends (Maricel Soriano & Rene Requiestas) bent on becoming cops always end up getting on each others nerves. One ends up as a Jeepney Driver and the other as a Traffic Enforcer. This inevitably reunites them in all sorts of crazy situations. - Written by ledster

July 18, 1902. A woman and her daughter are brutally murdered in the Extremaduran town of Don Benito. Everybody knows the depraved town boss was responsible, but nobody dares to declare against him.

A greedy king tells a young daughter that she must spin a room full of straws into gold by morning... or die. Then a little man tells her anything she please.

Something strange is afoot in the suburbs of New Jersey! Carnivorous entities from out of this world have invaded the Garden State, seeking out the tastiest dish in the entire universe: human flesh! Now only a gang of burnt-out metalheads and one sexy psychic starlet can stand up to the alien invaders devious plans of world domination and human consumption!

A man works in a jewelry store, and his task is to deliver jewelry to customers at their homes, which exposes him to many funny situations, and dangerous situations as well. His colleagues agree to steal his jewelry one time, taking advantage of his trust in them, so will they succeed?

We have teams from China and Japan seeking out a black stone that can create immensely powerful magic. There's some resistance and the local population calls up a shaman who announces he will be a shaman for a thousand years. Yes, he's evil. So we're off to more wackiness with wizards, ghosts, zombies, and a few of those female ogres/ghouls. There are a few gut-munching scenes. It all ends up in a magical war.

Noboru and Mika are former lovers. They have never seen each other since Noboru broke up with her because of his infidelity, but after a dispute over a debt, they decide to meet again for the first time in six months. As they spend the night alone, their intentions become intertwined, and the subtle interplay of truth and lies in their conversations reveals more and more of the unrequited feelings of their former lovers... In this vivid romantic drama, the psychology of a man and a woman who have parted ways, but in their hearts have not yet become strangers, is portrayed more realistically than in reality, using documentary techniques. In the latter half of the film, the conflict between the two men's hearts is clearly revealed through their conversations alone, and the film is brilliantly directed.

Profile of Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his new film Santa Sangre (1989) also including interviews with Jodorowsky on the set of his film The Rainbow Thief (1990).

Shot primarily in Fisher-Price pixelvision, for the “murky look of memory," COAL MINER'S GRANDDAUGHTER is a profoundly moving family portrait focusing on the youngest daughter Jane, as she leaves her Pennsylvania home and finds sexual independence in San Francisco.

GOOD vs. EVIL - When some rowdy teenagers break into an old crypt for a place to play spin-the-bottle, they accidently awaken two beautiful vampires. Sisters put to death two hundred years earlier. Angela falls in love with, then marries Bob Friedman, a struggling stockbroker. Her evil sister Cassandra wants Bob also, but not for his love, for his blood. For Bob, the route of discovering his wife's vampirism is both blood splattered and sensual. Vampire's Embrace unfolds this strange love story with attention to suspense and macabre humor.

When an honest policeman's rivals brutally murder his informants and his sister, he decides to take the law into his own hands to seek justice for them.

In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people’s waste items. The four boys call themselves "Bulk Rubbish" and they drum out their resentment, having grown up on the new housing estates of East Berlin. A straight-up picture of the GDR youth is presented here, which in no way conforms to the official image. The film crew concentrates on the observation of the boy Enrico and his mother Erika: when the mother marries in the West, her son decides to stay in East Berlin, bidding her farewell at the border-crossing. Only shortly after, the tables are turned again: as the events in Berlin leading up to the fall of the Wall are practically captured live from the film crew, Enrico insists on maintaining his cultural identity, even after the fall of the Wall. The "Bulk Rubbish" musicians want to remain citizens of their own state and perceive the looming reunification with scepticism.

A middle-aged musician speaks of various themes - innocence, friendship, seduction, fascination, love, death - immediately portrayed in paintings, which the actors interpret, in different situations from the character they embody. In the spotlight, a young photographer, a strange-looking dancer / model, a bullfighter who lives his dream, a retired old man ...

The relationship between Reiko, the daughter of a company president, and her husband, Takashi, is cold. Takashi was originally after the company president's position and wealth, so he does not love Reiko and is busy having an affair with his secretary, Mitsuko. Mitsuko, who is more ambitious than Takashi, encourages Takashi and devises a plan to take all of his wealth.

The Comedic Stylings of the superb George Wallace from Chicago.

Young doctors Bomgard and Polyakov, after graduating from university, go to work in the Russian outback.Finding themselves in a completely unusual environment for them, they do their difficult task as dictated by their medical conscience. Doctors always rush to the aid of their negligent patients...

In his bed, John thinks he’s in New York in 2024. He’s a big funny liar. While he is making weapons for nothing, the others have taken their future into their own hands: they have succeeded in concentrating so much, in acquiring the gift of leaving the earth through a mental ray. Free... some are free. No one has ever been able to dominate thought, they invented the leaving, the great journey... seeking freedom" (excerpt from the film). But John, alias Patrick, never wanted to think alone. The spectator accompanies him in his comic justifications. A sexual nurse and an Irish killer who came to execute him for serious misconduct visit him. He gets attached to the killer. In an incredible violence is born a rare thing, friendship... John is immersed in music from the Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices. Patrick-John, the music, the beautiful heaps and the cathedral factories of the North collide in an invigorating self-laughter and a liberation of speech.

The story of a young man from the provinces named Bony who is seeking knowledge and experience in Jakarta. He meets a young woman from Manado, who wishes to become a singer, at the boarding house where is renting a room. Bony, Mungky and their friends at the boarding house are so busy having a good time that they forgot why they have come to Jakarta. Eventually, Bony and Mungky’s parents show up in Jakarta at around the same time. Bony and Mungky pretend that they have married, but their parents find out the truth soon enough. As a result, the two young people are separated and sent abroad to study in different places.

In 2018, a "retired" genetic scientist taps into the computer archives of a market-dominating corporation in order to document past mistakes and misguided developments. In doing so, he becomes a pawn of the corporate management, who ultimately erase his memory...

What happens after we die? How will we experience that moment? How will we see our loved ones from the other side? A soldier returns from war… but where to? To whom? And how will he be received?

A mediocre superhero discovers his powers and sort of overcomes his inferiority complex.

This short fiction film tells the story of a very unusual satellite named Zenon. Zenon is a product of the most up-to-date technology and so displays an unusual characteristic for a computer: he is conscious. Orbiting the Earth, he is in constant contact with Estelle, who is in charge of a major, planet-wide research project on water. Faced with the disturbing situation he observes, Zenon soon becomes bitter and disillusioned--to the point where he substantially alters his mission. Could Zenon's creator, the mysterious Professor Nguyen, have foretold how the mission would turn out?

Animated film from Robert Sahakyants. Political satire on the last years of Soviet Russian rule over Armenia. It makes fun of several well known Soviet leaders. Based on a popular Russian song from the 1930's

A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed here by the British actress Eileen Atkins.