Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Taiwanese erotic film

An encounter with a traveller changes the life of an ill-fated barrister who is on his way to meet his girlfriend's parents.

A young police inspector dreams of being accepted by a wealthy bourgeois couple.

A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love.

A screenwriter tries to survive his immediate ruin. His latest script seems to be the only solution.

Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml. (1934)

Over 70 percent of people on Earth believe in miracles. Evidence shown through actual footage and eyewitness accounts, seem to prove that miracle are real.

Timmy gets a case of the itchy polka dots on the day of the Flossmore Valley Fair. It's up to Mr. Wisdom to read Timmy a medieval story about the origins of the childhood disease.

A scheming secretary uses black magic and voodoo to try to murder her lawyer boss so she can get her hands on the woman’s boyfriend. There are living vines, a bathtub drowning and a quicksand bog in this shot-on-video W.A.V.E. production.

An innocent Coptic citizen who was unjustly arrested by a corrupt officer,is sent to jail, until an honorable officer is transferred to the prison as a punishment for rejecting corruption. He discovers the truth about the innocent Coptic, and tries to communicate with the officials to save him.

A night in the life of a clown prostitute as he shares cocktails, balloons and his thoughts with a client who is more than he bargained for.

Priyam is a 1996 Tamil film directed by N. Pandian. The film stars Arunkumar, Manthra, Prakash Raj and Vadivelu in lead roles.

A gullible man faces strange situations on his quest fo find an elephant in order to keep a promise he made with a little girl.

Philip is a misfit at his new school. When he is bullied, his mother decides to sort out things between him and his schoolmates, because his father unable to do so, as he is currently doing time in prison.

Abbas is an interior architect living in Hurghada. He gets into a quarrel with Ismat, the owner of the villa which Ahmed is working on, that ends with her causing him a permanent disability. When he decides to sue her, her mother Zohira convinces her to marry him.

The movie is about the troubles of a group of people living in the same neighborhood. Ihsan has turned in upon himself by the death of his lover and he is waiting for the day when he will die in the mansion where he lives. Fatma sometimes goes to help Ihsan, and she can’t stand against her husband who abuses her daughter. Gulizar lives in the same neighborhood, and she has also become obsessed with her virginity. Gül is also accidentally pregnant and cheated on by her husband. She is also preoccupied with her own problems. The story of these five people struggling with their own problems will intersect around a murder case.

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.

A fascinating documentary that reveals the enigmatic real-life story of India’s most famous transsexual, the fabulous Aida Banaji. Director Wadia explores the politics of gender and boldly challenges perceptions of race, culture, and social morality.

In a small town where everyone knows everybody else, independent researcher Vesna is investigating the death of the director of the local radio station. Although the director evidently committed suicide, Vesna, who has uncovered evidence of a conspiracy, is convinced that he was murdered. When several of the people she has spoken to about the matter find out that the director (Milan) was Vesna's father, they become even more withdrawn about the matter. Will Vesna succeed in unraveling the mystery--despite the many warnings that she should stop trying to uncover the truth?

An old rocker starts a tour in the south of France, hitting the road in his old truck with two young men who are his opening act. Along the way, he stops to pick up hitchhikers...

A woman possessed by the spirit of a traffic accident victim.

A sterile abusive husband beats the shit out of his wife and gets drunk but she cheats on him with his best friend who isn't any better but at least he doesn't beat the shit out of her or yell at her.

A director accepted to inquire about a mysterious coat stolen in Peru during the XVIth century. Who wove this coat? Why do those that touch it disappear? With the help of an archeologist, he retraces the itinerary of the mysterious garment: ripped off a mummy by a conquistador, brought back to Barcelona and confiscated by the clergy, taken by the French when Napoleon's troops ransacked the city, hidden on a French farm, the coat finally arrived in Berlin in 1945 in the suitcase of a fleeing SS officer...

A granola-cruncher, too Earth-conscious to swat away a fly that lands on his cheek, bicycles to the countryside. He aims to celebrate the titular creature's mating season and protect its path across a country road. Unfortunately, other humans driving by aren't quite so respectful of nature’s dignity or his. Ari Gold co-wrote and co-directed with Jamie Babbit.

This short television work stages two performers reading excerpts from the Swedish Government’s Cultural Commission report (SOU 1995:84). Using largely unaltered bureaucratic language, the piece transforms the official text into a restrained satire of cultural policy and administration.

Five friends united by a secret, the ghost of a dead woman who has apparently committed suicide and the search for the truth by a friend who is searching for her own identity.

Viennese curator Dr. Martin Geiger has achieved honor and prestige in his career and has just been appointed Hofrat. In his private life, however, he is not so successful and still mourns the loss of his former holiday sweetheart. One day, the student Mariandl visits him. She is involved in the restoration of Countess Chiari's castle, who is supporting her art studies. When Martin looks through her portfolio of pictures, he unexpectedly sees a picture of her mother – Marianne, his holiday sweetheart. He is confused by the idea of ​​suddenly becoming a father, but does not want to reveal anything to his daughter before speaking to Marianne. The resolute, single winegrower reacts very coolly to the reunion. She thinks Martin is a playboy and holds a grudge against him for leaving her with the child.

In a rush to escape from the policemen arresting his boss, Mario disguised himself as an Arab man and gets to meet Teresa, a woman who is waiting for an Arab prince whom she is set to marry.

MI5 operative Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov, who has approached MI5 claiming that he has highly classified information that he wishes to sell to pay for a triple heart bypass.

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Five misbegotten but witty kids try to survive their cold-heart community and find their hero in the person of Captain Juan, a funny but dedicated cop.

A woman pits herself against her husband and his Ku Klux Klan member friends when she learns that they are planning an attack against her black maid and her husband.

Kyoko is the wife of Yasuo, a useless husband who is only interested in sex and pachinko, and she works hard alone to run the supermarket that her parents left her. This story is about Kyoko's "successful business with little arms." The young wife she challenges is the lively and freshly picked 20-year-old Noguchi Yuka. She has a slender body, but the more you hold her, the more she gets into her element. This cute gal puts her body on the line and gets into a big fight on the futon! Who will be the one to jump over the young wife's slim legs in the end?

Desperate to find the perfect man, friends throw a party and invite all the eligible guys they know.

Feluda is called to Gosaipur by Jiban Mallick, the son of the local Zamindar Shyamlal Mallick to investigate a threat of his father's life. Everyone in the village knows that father and the son are at loggerheads. Shyamlal is also an eccentric who eschews anything modern. Then, instead of Syamlal, his son Jiban Mallick is killed and the wealth of Mallick's looted. Oddly though, the dead body of Jiban Mallick vanishes, only to reappear again. Feluda works this out with a mixture of investigating skills and deception.

Containing gore, snuff movies, zombies, the Mafia and the supernatural, this was one of the most notorious "solo para adultos" direct-to-video releases in Mexico during the 90s.

Tulpanmysteriet (or "Peter & Fredde på uppdrag i Holland") is the first of two films that Peter Settman and Fredde Granberg have made for Stena Line and the Netherlands Tourist Board. From 1996.

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

There is jealousy brewing in the toy chest. A new toy has taken all of the little boy's attention. When Pino the Toy decides to run away the others become worried he might never return. Will the other toys be able to find their friend and save the day?

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series.

Utterly astounding, iridescent sand animation from Aleksandra Korejwo based around Bizet's Carmen.

It is an ordinary afternoon for young Mabo Keïta, at home, in Burkina Faso (West Africa). While his parents are taking a nap, he reads a schoolbook on the front porch when a stranger - an elderly man carrying his own hammock - appears for an unexpected visit. It turns out that the old man is a griot, a West African musician/entertainer whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies. The position of a griot is a time-honored one and passed down from father to son for many generations.

After the death of his twin brother, a teen drug dealer decides to seek revenge against all those who have wronged him in the neighborhood.

Short tribute to Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, better known by his stage name "Bola de Nieve", a successful Cuban singer, composer and pianist.

This blue rose will tell you what my heart has known for a long time... Slovak production of the famous operetta by Gejza Dusík and Pavel Braxatoris. Marseille. Engineer Lenoir futilely fends off journalists interested in his latest invention. It is not yet finished, but already foreign countries are interested in it, and even foreign secret services are getting their teeth into it. But Lenoir needs to finish his "death pill" in peace. So he hires the police to protect him. He plans to finish the job on the cruise yacht of a Kanuche factory worker, which the police prefect himself recommends as the perfect disguise. But the true purpose of the engineer's "trip" is overheard by a sensationalist reporter, Philippe Plafeau, who sneaks onto the boat disguised as a lifeguard. But he's not the only one. The other lifeguards are actually undercover police officers. Lenoir's new butler is also not who he says he is, nor is the suitor of Lenoir's daughter, Count Dubois...

Lisa's life changes dramatically when she discovers she is seropositive.