Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

After learning his stepfather has throat cancer, a lazy pool hustler takes on a high-stakes contender.

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01. Jam 02. Wanna Be Startin Something 03. Human Nature 04. Smooth Criminal 05. I Just Cant Sot Loving You 06. Shes Out Of My Life 07. I Want You Back / The Love You 08. Ill Be There 09. Thriller 10. Billie Jean 11. The Way You Make Me Feel 12. Beat It 13. You Are Not Alone 14. Dangerous 15. Black Or White 16. Man In the mirror 17. Earth Song

On a supermarket shelf, a particular alarm clock keeps blaring off-hand, upsetting the staff and the customers. Eventually, it's golden frame attracts the attention of a shoplifter, who is almost caught by security because of that feature. After escaping without paying from two other stores, the thief will come face to face with a cop - also wearing a long coat similar to the thief's - and the clock will blurt up again - in the wrong pocket.

The captain Edgar and his wife, the actress Alice, live in a dead marriage, where the only thing that has grown deeper is the bitterness. Despite that they're going to celebrate their silver wedding. When their relative Kurt comes to visit from America, 25 years of bitterness suddenly flouts up to the surface.

A young French girl's obsessions about her figure and complexion, but most of all her desire to lose her virginity.

White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion.

A tabloid reporter get deep into her worst nightmare trying to get an award winning report on serial killers

Doctor Ram is about to get married to Rani. He performs an operation on Janaki, who believes that no male other than her father, brother or husband should touch her and this creates problems for Ram.

A woman who is restless in the house either lacks sexual love or true love. Even a good woman can climb a wall, depending on whether you are willing to climb it or not

A tape recorded message from a murdered girl recounts the terrifying night her and some friends found themselves stuck in the middle of a haunted cornfield.

Follow Australian politician Paul Keating's 1996 election campaign told from the perspective of Santo Cilauro who traveled in the media pool.

Sujan and Sakhi are madly in love with each other and want to spend their lives together. But Sakhi's vicious stepmother, as expected, has other plans for them.

The ‘Prison Hotel’, managed by the father of Shigeru—the leader of a bōsōzoku gang—is staffed entirely by yakuza, from the owner right down to the employees! To top it all off, the guests are a motley crew of characters, including families contemplating suicide and couples on the brink of divorce. Amidst such an abnormal daily routine, Shigeru grows as he encounters a variety of human dramas. And now, the time has finally come for Shigeru to prove himself as a man. It’s a fateful softball showdown against the Kansai yakuza. Will he hit a home run, or will he strike out?

After several years of marriage, a couple becomes parents. However, after a childless couple finds their infant boy, they take him away and try to raise him as their own son.

Dramatic tale of 7 year old Jerko who witnesses the destruction of family and village in 1991 during a Serbian attack of a peaceful Croatian village. He manages to escape and ends up in a war orphanage.

George Michael, recorded live at Three Mills Studios, London in October 1996 for MTV Unplugged, aired only once in 1997. George performs his hits in front of a live studio audience.

Russians, westerns and Hungarians live unique moments in post-89 Hungary.

Written and directed by Luiz Bolognesi, this short film tells the adventures of two homeless men on the streets of São Paulo. The film was inspired by old popular legends about the wandering of Jesus and Saint Peter around the world.

Come in under the Big Top for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Cirque du Soleil's ninth creation, which critics have described as "the most dramatic, the most esthetic and perhaps the most melancholy show in the history of this marvelous circus" (La Presse, Montreal). Full Circle shows you the making of Quidam, from its very beginnings to its triumphant finish.

Four women show you how to surf the world of live interactive computer sex. Enter online chat rooms and find wild romance with people across the country. We learn how live, real-time cybersex explores our sexual fantasies, on the internet sexual playground. Intense, stimulating safe sex encounters, taped live in cyberspace.

A judge in the Philippines strives to overcome his internal conflicts and render verdicts based solely on the evidence presented in court.

1996's “Ouch Television My Brain Hurts” is the first in a series of “TV Carnage” video collages wherein a mentally ill boy painstakingly manipulates the controls of two junked VCRs, and converts hundreds of hours of terrible television into 72 minutes of comedy gold.

A group of door-to-door salesmen are on their way to the national meeting. Sales haven't been very good this year and they are worried. Things get weird when the king of bible and gun sales says he is going to take over their turf. Let the bizarreness begin.

Masaru Aihara plans a mountain climbing trip as a company get-together. There are six participants. The weather was fine and the mood was harmonious, except for Maya Akiyama who had no presence. On the way, Aihara and Chika Kawaguchi engage in a fight under the watchful eyes of the participants. Takahashi witnesses this and is not at peace. He and Chika were having an affair, and Takahashi was in the midst of a divorce because of it. And as if he knew what was going on in Takahashi's mind, the weather collapsed...

The third part of the locally acclaimed theater play in which a drunken Serb and a drunken Croat argue over who’s the better nation.

Every day, on the streets of Canada's cities, we pass them on our way to work or school. Bums, beggars, winos, bag people we call them. But who is the person at the end of that outstretched arm? What is life on the street really like? Is there a way off the street? For six years, director Daniel Cross followed the lives of three homeless men who spent much of their time in and around a Montreal subway station. Filmed in a cinema verité style, the film is unique: it humanizes the homeless, breaking down the barrier between us and them, neither moralizing nor offering easy answers. This is a gritty, compelling look at life on the streets that moves beyond the media stereotypes to show both the humanity of the homeless and the street-toughened aspects of their existence.

Ana loses her mother after a sudden heart attack. He tries to avoid his feelings by feigning indifference. He doesn't stop doing anything he always did, until a message, left by his mother in a radio message box before she died, is accidentally deleted. Ana is forced to face reality.

A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.

NOVA accompanies famed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer and his intrepid crew on a perilous mission to repair and re-fly a B-29 bomber stranded on the Greenland icecap since 1947. In the face of incredible hardships, the team struggles to bring the old warbird back to life.

Eduardo Peña and Angel Ruiz are two Spanish actors who are on tour in Argentina. They try to achieve success there with a play that speaks of man and his passage through life, but the spectators are becoming increasingly scarce. One day his old car breaks down and they stop at Zapallares, a lost town. There, on the eve of the municipal elections, they meet an old friend, Professor Roberto Tolosa (Dario Grandinetti), critical of the construction of a new hotel and with the political class of the place and that will try to reopen a theater with the help of their fifth-year students, despite opposition from politicians.

A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences. Go West Young Man, created on an Amiga home computer, parallels their dialogue with a montage of historical moments that have influenced Western perceptions of black masculinity.

Gordon Brittas takes his staff for a military-style team-building exercise in Wales. While dealing with the rigors of the wild, they are relentlessly pursued by would-be assassins. Mr. Brittas' well-intentioned motivational skills make things worse.

The remaining members of a once-great American family succumb to addictions, selfishness and disease.

A day in the life of FIFA referee Attila Juhos, during which he presides over one of the most important Hungarian sporting events of the year: the match between BVSC and Ferencváros.

Christmas concert from Vienna

Ann Clements Conger was an ambitious journalist in the 1940's. In the 1950's she became a mother, and torn between her domestic roles and her career, she began a frightening journey into the world of hallucinations, tranquilizers and institutionalization. Diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia, she, like thousands of other American women, was committed against her will, and given electric shock therapy. Through the use of home movie footage, archival footage and dramatizations, Means of Grace raises questions about social control, definitions of madness, the nuclear family, women's roles and the Cold War. We meet her daughter, the filmmaker, as she wrestles with questions of doubt, shame, understanding and resoultion.

Documentary about Argentina's last military dictatorship and the legacy of one of the most brutal waves of repression, death and horror in Latin American history. Numerous people—historians, musicians, journalists, children of the desaparecidos (the disappeared) and others—talk candidly about how difficult it has been to uncover information about the whereabouts of the 30,000 missing men and women who were kidnapped and presumed murdered by the military. The intensely personal stories about missing relatives and the scope of the military junta's repressive policies also explain why, even now, many people resist coming to terms with Argentina's bloody past.

In Paris, men are waiting for a possible daily job in an agency. Among them, two novices Jean-Pierre and Théo. They find themselves in the suburbs to make a regular move.

Experimental video and performance meditating on militias, American fundamentalism, and the opening of the American West.

A more or less wild teenager finds herself pregnant after a brief affair with a high school student.

Minoru Kou's dinner show.

Stand-up comedy with Ray Romano, the star of TV's hit comedy series 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

CREMASTER 1 is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Matthew Barney's hometown. Two Goodyear Blimps float above the arena like the airships that often transmit live sporting events via television broadcast. Four air hostesses tend to each blimp. The only sound is soft ambient music, which suggests the hum of the engines.

Set in the early 1960's, Artie, the deranged janitor from Slaughtered Secretaries, returns to wreak havoc on a doctor and her patients. Dr. Sorens (Dawn Murphy) has taken Artie under her wing and given him a job, not believing that he killed the three secretaries five years earlier. But she's wrong and they all pay the price for her ignorance!

Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.

Two women that everything opposes, a luxury prostitute and an unemployed intellectual, meet on the landing they share. Against all odds, they become friends and one day decide to exchange their lives...

A sports film about a promising footballer supported by his brother. It's a tribute to East Bengal.