Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Tata Birla is a 1996 Tamil film directed by C. Ranganathan. The film stars Parthiban, Rachana Banerjee, Goundamani and Manivannan in lead roles.

Two brothers head to Russia to help a group of priests smuggle $200 million worth of sacred relics out of the country in order to keep them out of the hands of neo-Nazis.

When architect Kam Ming-sang is accidentally shot in the head as a result of bad judgement by his police officer friend Lam Long, he survives but lapses into a deep coma.

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this man had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American citizen lives with his daughter.

Ronnie played a disillusioned former military officer, who took the job of a school security chief to investigate the mysterious death of his best friend. It turned out not to be so mysterious after all, because the school was littered with students who looked and behaved like criminals. Apparently, no one cared about them anymore and the school had been allowed to deteriorate but Ronnie was not willing to give up that easily.

Mass starvation and social disorder is the norm in the wake of the Korean War. Hwa-su works as a gofer at a local theater but dreams of owning one day a theater of his own. As an adult, Hwa-su becomes a protege of powerful businessman Sohn Jong-rok and marries his niece thus becoming an heir to Sohn's business. He takes over the Je-il Theater and re-names it Peace Theater. Achieving his childhood dream is the just the beginning for Hwa-su. He ventures into the world of filmmaking. Meanwhile, crime lord Lee Jeong-jae takes Yu Ji-gwang under his wings and partners with Gwak Young-ju to build his own political clout. But when his ardent supporter Lee Gi-boong loses the vice presidential race, Jeong-jae becomes nervous. Hwa-su, now a man with immense wealth and underworld power approaches Jeong-jae and Ji-gwang to form an uneasy alliance and enter the world of rigged elections and corrupt politics.

The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought between Filipino revolutionary forces and Americans of the 33rd Infantry Regiment in Ilocos Sur. Brigadier General Gregorio del Pilar led the Filipinos, while Major Peyton March led the Americans. The battle resulted in the death of Del Pilar, along with 51 Filipino soldiers.

Two dim-witted and over-aged Los Angeles vice officers are forced to team up with a sexy female DEA agent to take down a drug dealing ring operating out of a local high school.

Television Broadcast of Michael Jackson's HIStory Tour Live at the Ericsson Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand 1996

Christine and her friend Linda live together and get on very well - except when it comes to men. While Christine is still mourning her ex-boyfriend, Linda takes things like sex and relationships rather casually. Barbara, the third in the group, is completely different: she has been in steady hands for seven years and still believes in the one great love.

Four teenagers find a lost treasure buried by a 18th century pirate on a desert island. But they accidentally release the monster who lives inside a bottle, keeping the treasure.

Jac and Bill decide to end it all at the same time, together.

Middle manager Norman is preparing an address to senior management. When an interview with his new boss leads to an awful misunderstanding, Norman finds himself naked in the wrong office with minutes to go until his presentation.

This is the story of a young woman named Sita, who is engaged to a college professor. Rakesh, a spoilt rich brat comes across Sita one day and falls in love with her but Sita does not love him.

Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.

A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language.

A troubled city boy struggles to fit in at a small-town high school during his senior year, but a religious epiphany helps him find true acceptance.

A husband and wife and their youngest son are murdered in this true story. Their two other sons are left to cope with their loss, but the local sherrif begins to suspect that one of the brothers committed the crime, and must convince the other to help him discover the truth.

Subramani decides to solve his uncle's problem whose 2 wives are always at loggerheads. Without revealing his true identity, he poses as a doctor. Now both wives fight to marry their daughters to him.

Originally a music video for the song Extra by Ken Ishii, but it was later adapted into a 20 minute OVA. Depicts an extremely violent future world where humans and robot-aliens brutally kill each other.

This movie tells the story of a black magic practitioner (Shakti Kapoor), who before dying transfers his soul into a doll who finally gets into the hands of Karishma Kapoor's brother. This evil doll has plans of his to get into a new body before he permanently gets stuck into the doll's body. This movie is an unofficial remake of Hollywood movie Child's Play.

Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.

There is a lakhsman rekha which all brothers try to cross. And in the end.. Only the heroin is capable of crossing which certainly makes this a amazing legendary epic movie...

Three friends -- two of them into voodoo rituals -- contemplate life and a dead body in their living room.

Hideki is a freelance photographer. His wife Eiko is a beautiful woman who looks good in Japanese clothes. The person who arranged their marriage was Yumiko, a widow and secretary of Hideki's family who came from a prestigious family. In reality, Hideki is impossible. Yumiko knew this and secretly told her girlfriend Eiko to marry her. When Eiko learned of this fact, she tried to leave her house, but Yumiko stopped her, grabbed her, pushed her onto the sofa, intertwined their bodies with her, and caressed her relentlessly.

Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader attracted to whoever gave it to them. Smitten with Gregoire, Claire passes the book on to her therapist, who then falls in love with her.

A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Yuji Aoki. The script was written by Ryoichi Kimizuka of "Bayside Shakedown", and it is a comical and fast-paced work. Tatsuyuki Haibara (Masahiro Nakai), a young man who joined Naniwa's financial company, Imperial Finance, is "the best financial company in Osaka" while witnessing the sadness, thickness, and warmth of human beings who are at the mercy of money. It is impressive to follow the figure of aiming for. By arranging attractive female guests, themes that tend to be raw, such as debt and debt collection, can be made to look friendly and gorgeous. His senior who leads Haibara, Kuwata (Kaoru Kobayashi), and other astringent men are also a must-see.

In this edition of the award-winning composer series from HBO, Franz Liszt, portrayed wonderfully by Geordie Johnson, is one of Europe's finest pianists, rich and famous beyond compare, but he is frustrated by his inability to find the inspiration to compose his own music. But when Liszt takes Josy, a young violin virtuoso, under his wing, he awakens his own creativity. Features music from Carnival in Pest, The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and The Mephisto Waltz. Historically accurate and musically adept, this video is a valuable resource for music appreciation programs.

When an army general's grand children are orphaned, he is forced to adopt them. The movie follows the story of the children as they learn the reason for their parents' death and warm up to their grand father.

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Impure Blood (Serbian: Нечиста крв, Nečista krv) is a 1996 film adaptation of the Impure Blood novel written by Borisav Stanković. It is concerned with themes of Serbian south, in the reforming in late 19th century.

Set in Spain, two Japanese people, Tatsumi, a karate fighter, and Kumi, who is being chased by the mafia, meet and confront the mafia together with an old Spanish detective! Why is Kumi being chased?

Sofia meets a stranger man who hacks the computer system where she works before she has an accident. After the accident, she is the only one that remember seeing this man, so she decides to search for him.

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the premier opera house in the world, what Karajan did with the Berlin, making it one of the finest orchestras ever. So sit back and enjoy.

An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.

Using rare images of the artist filmed at work in his studio, exclusive interviews with his family and close friends, photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and unpublished artwork, this award-winning feature documentary highlights the painter’s complex creative process. Acclaimed as the definitive film portrait of the master, Balthus through the Looking-Glass was shot on Super 16 over 14 months in Switzerland, Italy, France and the Moors of England by the director of Fellini, I’m a Born Liar. (Arte)

Jade is a sixteen year old girl with all the problems a teenager faces. Moreover, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother Jesse. Jesse falls in love with Billy, a much younger man who is also divorced and has two little kids. When Billy comes to live with her mother, Jade feels really uncomfortable; and maybe she is attracted to him.

Three beautiful women find themselves unwilling subjects of an alien scientist's experiments.

A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evoke the complex inner world of maternal experience. Grethel’s tale from the fairy story Hansel and Grethel juxtaposes the personal story with a mythical exploration of freedom and individual responsibility.

Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, discover and explore the center of the Earth, a mysterious place full of dangerous electrical storms, prehistoric reptiles and swamp monsters. Based on author Jules Verne's fantasy novel, this animated adventure follows the explorers' struggles to survive and prove their findings to the rest of the world.

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.

When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.

Exploring the reputation of Stanley Kubrick by means of extracts from his work and contributions of people with whom he worked.

Danik, El Viajero Del Tiempo tells the story of an architect dude (Oscar Bonfiglio) who's very irresponsible & extremely cruel. All this dude ever does is drink heavily, smoke heavily, and be cruel to his steady (& pregnant) girlfriend (Maribel Palmer). One night after drinking heavily (as usual), the architect dude is visited by a female alien being from the future. The femalien from the future tells him that 7 years ago she used him to conceive a child and that now is the time for him to meet Danik, their 7 year old martian child. The femalien wants Danik to learn stuff from his 'father' and she wants the 'father' to learn how to be a better person from Danik. So, human father & martian son start out rough at first but then they quickly get along, they start to improve themselves, and Danik uses his powers to entertain the neighborhood children.

Lexie is a single parent father of a young girl. One day, coming home from work, he is told by her that she wants to be am Irish River Dancer. He refuses, replying laconically, 'We don't dance'. With time, her fascination grows and he begrudgingly becomes accepting of her passion, helping her out with an instructional video and then a costume. She enters a contest, and he enthusiastically applauds her performance. In the final scene, she teaches him a few steps as they move together along the shore.

The film depicted the 1994 earthquake in Uttarakhand, highlighting the suffering and socio-economic conditions, resulting in widespread mass response and a positive success for Uttarakhand cinema, despite the challenges it faced.

The ex-cop Robin kills an actor and steals his money and cocaine. And now he is supposed to find the killer together with an interpol inspector. To hide his guilt Robin goes on murdering leaving hints that lead to the actress Angel...

A Filipino kids movie directed Bey Vito

A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that only wants to party.

It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation in central London and probably more power over your country than any other leader in the western world. With the help of the present and previous incumbents, Michael Cockerell offers the first "how to" guide to the job of prime minister.

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

Musa leads an arms-dealing gang, and Rashad defects from the gang to work alone. However, Musa watches his steps to destroy him, so he records a videotape in which he confesses to the details of the arms deals that Musa is making. Rashad's wife, Wafaa, suffers from her husband's ambiguity and nervousness, and meets Salah the singer in a nightclub, and they fall in love.