Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find his grandson, who has been living in an orphanage for eleven years and whose existence he has just learned. But the boy, named Martineau, is suspicious of the police since he has been unjustly accused of shoplifting. He runs away when the two uniforms in charge of taking him back to his grandfather's house appear. He manages to find lodging with an old lady, a kleptomaniac at times, then with a theater prop master who is persecuted by his fiancée and finally with a lonely veterinarian.

Based on three classic Norwegian folk tales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe: The Little Boys Who Met the Trolls in Hedal Forest, Three Lemons and The Twelve Wild Ducks.

In order to shoot his first film, Alex decides to follow his agent's advice. Carrying his ambitious script, Alex arrives in Athens planning to meet an eccentric producer, but a couple of gangsters confuses him with "the man" they have been waiting from Berlin.

A comedy about a woman so infatuated with her French professor that she kidnaps him. Her romantic illusions are quickly shattered.

After a job turns bloody, a group of criminals hide out and wait for their boss. Betrayals and double crosses unfold continuously around them.

8mm film by Sho Fujiwara. A black-and-white cinemasco movie starring Sion Sono. It's a work that has an underground and nostalgic odor. It gets shorter with each screening. BUN-CHAN SEX!

Kosaku is staying with his older brother Koichi and his wife. This year is his third year of prep school entrance exams. In his sad youth, going back and forth between prep school and his study room every day, he had only one purpose in life. That was to peek into his older brother and his wife's bedroom... As he peeks from the storeroom next door, he begins to want to embrace his sister-in-law Misako, even though it's absolutely forbidden...

S.P.Parshuram is an action oriented movie in which, Parshuram (Chiranjeevi) is a police official who is very rash and is willing to arrest his own family for the sake of the law. Harish, his brother, is caught in a blue film gang, and Sridevi, a common thief, almost becomes a victim but manages to escape. Because she is a witness, she is later assaulted and becomes blind. Rest of the movie is about how Parshuram recues his family from gangsters.

A Russian writer who left the fatherland fifteen years ago comes with his wife for three days to Moscow...

A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own life.

Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927.
 Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.

Drama based on the life and thought of Spinoza, who was born in sixteenth century Amsterdam to a family of Jewish refugees from Portugal. He lived in an age of turmoil, when the Dutch Republic and the English Commonwealth had polarised the entire continent. His scepticism enraged the Jewish elders and led to his excommunication.

Valentine's Day puts the Chipmunks in the "mood for love." Under Cupid's spell, they start acting a little goofier than usual in this hilarious volume filled with romance, mischief and fun songs like "Love Potion #9." It's one video kids are sure to love, any day of the year!

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

On Christmas Eve, Santa is accidentally knocked off his sleigh and arrives unexpectedly in Tom's fireplace. Dizzy and confused, Santa is unable to deliver any presents, so Tom and his monster pals step in to help.

Kittu always bets for money with Chandram. Once there bet is that Kittu makes Bhavani, Jhansi and Jogeshwari Devi fall for him and he agrees to that.

Shozo and Miyo are intertwined. With her sister Chiyo's approval, Miyo spends half of each week living with Chiyo's husband, Shozo. Meanwhile, Shozo's friend Satoru, who has a crush on Chiyo, an actress, comes to tell her he is leaving for Africa, a place he has always dreamed of visiting, and they part ways. However, Chiyo sees Satoru still in Japan...

After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently got an offer from the French consul to a mission in Pondicherry, India to teach her skills to Indians. She can only do this if she gets her high-school diploma, something she neglected to do earlier. The idea of this new post motivates her to rectify her youthful omission, and she goes back to school in Montparnasse. Just before classes are to start, her current boyfriend's condescending ways prove too much for her, and she breaks up with him, reacting to that by getting drunk. Thus, when she has to take the subway to school on the first day, being unfamiliar with the route and somewhat the worse for wear, she gets lost. Fortunately, she meets an elderly man, a retired musician for the Paris Opera, who is headed for the very same destination. The two form a relationship of mutual encouragement and support.

In the small town called Amerigua where most things are controlled by the influential Colonel Banderas, the people are preparing themselves for the annual beauty contest. At the same time the revolutionist Evaristo returns after twenty years of exile in Nicaragua. He now seeks revenge aswell as his childhood friend Maria...

Dono, Kasino and Indro lose their pants while they are defecating in a public toilet at an entertainment spot. As a last resort to cover up his embarrassment, Dono steals the pants of the man in the stall next to him. As it turns out, this man is the father of three young women that Dono, Kasino and Indro start going out with. The story, which is little more than a bunch of skits wrapped up together, starts from here.

All the laughs in half the time, with Korean-American comedian Margaret Cho.

Behind the headlines... Behind the laughter... there's an unforgettable story you've never heard before.

A mysterious clan of assassins versed in traditional techniques of Muay Thai Boxing took control of the empire of Siam. Enslaved and humiliated, the people must rebel to preserve their freedom. A war with bare hands is preparing for peace. Freedom after their fists, certain death after the battle: only the mystical power of Muay Thai warriors will ensure their victory!

Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

Twenty years after having talked about death, the world and their problems in "El desencanto", the Panero brothers reflect about their actual situation at the moment and what has happened since the last movie.

Regarding the misery of government employees, it was the coercion of the landlord and the like, and they insisted on giving a moral message in every part. They only expressed a sense of humor.

The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life film.

Four children and their ailing grandfather try to save sea turtles from poachers.

This film is about Japanese women, escape, glamour and dreams. The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously successful spectacular where the all-women cast create fantasies of erotic love and sensitive men. It is also a world for young girls desperate to do something different with their lives. In return for living a highly disciplined and reclusive existence, they will be adored and envied by many thousands of Japanese women. They will look, act and behave like young men while having no real men in their lives. Dream Girls explores the nature of sexual identity and the contradictory tensions that face young women in Japan today.

Federico Fellini died on October 31, 1993. In the following days, his funeral chapel was set up in Cinecittà's historic Studio 5, often used by the maestro as a film set. Sergio Zavoli shot footage of his funeral, which he later edited together with archive material. The film also documents the reactions to Federico Fellini's death and funeral.

Violent death of a loan shark investigated by diligent policeman.

Krishnamurthy gives a pregnant lady a lift in his car and keeps her at his home. After the woman delivers a baby, he goes to fetch some water for her but when he returns, he finds the woman dead.

One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once fought demon armies, her emancipated and apathetic friend wanders through life between sex contacts with older men and fear of falling into a boring bourgeois existence. The different futures of the two soon lead to tensions.

Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as possible.

Bhetalam hides stolen gold in a cemetery and before dying, he confesses his sin to a group of travellers. Each individual tries to beat the other in the race to find the fortune.

Lives of four siblings were going largely as determined by their grandfather. Things take a drastic turn when he ask the youngest of the four to choose priesthood.

Haridas, the sole breadwinner of his family, leads a happy life. However, problems brew in his life when he marries a girl with a different lifestyle.

Sing-along songs from the Busytown characters, featuring new songs "Stop, Look and Listen" and "At the Library."

Krishna Kurup, a family man, is presumed dead after an accident. However, his sons, after coming to know that their father is still alive, force him to go into hiding to file an insurance claim.

Twins Bambi and Bobby (Roderick Paulate) are separated from birth. Their mother Mameng (Nanette Inventor), unconscious from childbearing, is found by an old woman who takes one infant Bambi, who grows up to be a gay running a beauty parlor. Bobby grows up with his biological mother and becomes a tough guy getting involved with a crime syndicate now hunting him for taking away a damning microfilm. But the syndicate always mistakes Bambi for Bobby and has taken him captive.

Flore is a passionate politician. She is in love but under constant stress, dealing with issues on being black in a more and more aggressive society – Sweden in the early nineties. Soon it will be too much for her.

Pushed into prostitution by her nefarious aunt, Phượng must navigate the politics of Saigon high-end brothels as its most sought-after call girl while fighting to remain with the love of her life.

Short drama about a seventeen year-old girl, the lifeguard she fancies, and her older sister who he fancies.

Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.

From Boston to Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Brazil, South Africa, Tasmania, Uruguay and then back, Bill Pinkney became the first African-American to sail solo around the world -- a journey chronicled in this Bill Cosby-narrated documentary. Communicating with schoolchildren in Boston and Chicago throughout his adventure, Pinkney offers inspiration through his story of commitment, courage, education and perseverance on the high seas.

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring four of the country's best Asian American actors, AMERICAN SONS is a challenging exploration of how prejudice, bigotry and violence twists and demeans individual lives.

A married woman is unhappy about everybody in her life: husband, children, married lover, psychiatrist.

In a world where security is fleeting and momentary... Dorothy has a safe spot... the middle of an empty swimming pool. Suddenly a team intent on training appears and a drama of epic proportions ensues.

Set in Harlem in 1947, this film is the story of Grandpa Kansas and his jazz band that set out to become world famous only to be thwarted by jealousy and envy - leaving behind shattered dreams and deep regrets. Though made at NYU, this film was produced under Walt Disney / Hollywood Pictures Discretionary Fund Program, and has won the top prize in multiple film competitions by respected institutions, including The Black American Cinema Society, Black Filmmaker Hall of Fame, and the Atlanta / Image Film Festival.

The story takes place in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the great detective Sherlock Holmes (played by Fan Eilly) and his assistant Watson (played by Xu Zhongquan) came to China to play together and stayed at the Xianlai Inn.

William Benton, a rich British landowner and cattle baron was murdered, creating one of the most bizarre and sensational international scandals in history. Thomas Canning, an inexperienced photo journalist from London, is sent to Mexico seeking fame and glory but eventually he reaches the camp of Pancho Villa to be told several conflicting versions of Benton's murder.

A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him step down from the rollercoaster in order to make the right decisions.

The computer disc held all the answers and all the dangers. Drake, an everyday man suddenly faces unknown dangers from everywhere - all after the disc. Who can he trust? The man in the black suit? The girl next door who just moved in

Native Americans clash with the Canadian government as they struggle for independence in this factual Canadian drama set in Quebec during the summer of 1990. Eddie Laroche, a rebellious native leader spawned a national crises when he and his supporters declared the independence of Aki territory in a far-flung area of northern Quebec. He refused to negotiate without the presences of television cameras to record his people's plight. Jean Fontaine was the reporter assigned to the story and much of the film is told from his viewpoint. To reach Laroche's land, negotiators, government officials, and the film crew had to travel by boat. Fontaine is initially cynical and reluctant to do the story, but after he spends time on the boat interviewing it's passengers, his cynicism has dissolves and he realizes he is faced with the presentations of a terribly complex situation. His dilemma provides a main focus for the film.

Acclaimed Dutch choreographer Jiri Kylian presents this dance interpretation of the classic Japanese folk tale of the Moon Princess, who descends to Earth hoping to bring peace, but whose beauty instead triggers jealousy and war.

A 1994 Filipino romantic drama starring Geneva Cruz and Jomari Yllana.